December 6, 2025 • 43 mins
In this hour of In the Garden with Ron Wilson, Ron shares tips on how to care for your yard during the winter months. He discusses the benefits of snow as a natural insulator and how it can help protect plants from extreme temperatures. Ron also talks about the importance of planting spring-flowering bulbs, such as tulips and daffodils, and offers advice on how to store them if you can't plant them in the ground. He also warns listeners about a scam involving multicolored hostas and the dangers of buying seeds online without verifying their legitimacy.
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Our total free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yarding as we move our
way through this month of December. Got a week under
our belt already looking down the road. Man, we're only
talking to it and a half weeks until Christmas? Can
you believe that? Right around the corner? And uh timing
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wise boy out tell you what you know if you
were kind of at the end there trying to get
things finished up out in the yard in our area
at least right now in many other areas around our state, well,
we've been kind of put on hold. Cold weather moved in, snow,
moved in a little bit of icing as well. But
it's been, it's snowed, we've got jeez. I think we
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were in our area recorded at about just under five
inches of snow, and so we'll take it. It's all right.
And I think the thing you have to remember about
the snow. And I know a lot of folks panic
and I get emails about the snow's coming. What do
I do to protect my plants? Blah blah blah. The
only things that you would do to protect against snow
cover and snow coming down would be evergreens that it
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may build up on, like you get up in northern
states where they really get hammered with a lot of snow.
They'll take a lot of evergreens that are very flexible,
very you know, the branches are thin, and they may
weigh them down and actually snap the branches. We'll take
those and tie them up, actually take some twine around them,
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time up like kind of like what you see with
your Christmas tree when you buy a cut Christmas tree
and they put it through that baler and tie it up.
They'll do that sometimes even put burlap around the outside
of it to keep keep the snow from wading down
the branches and causing damages from that. Now we don't
have to do that, but there are times where we'll
get a heavy snow like that that five inches, and
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if it's a wet snow, this was a this was
a dryer snow. It was easily broomed off your sidewalks
and all easily shoveled off. But in that case, temperatures
right around freezing, it's easy to go out there with
a soft broom, a wheat broom or corn broom or whatever.
Soft room and in an upward sweeping motion, not you know,
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and be gentle, but in an upward sweeping motion just
kind of sweep those branches and dislodge that light snow
off and lighting them back up again. And it's pretty
easy to do. And I got a couple in our
there's a wooded area our yard, the turfed area, and
then there's a wooded area. And right in front of
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the wooded area, thirty years ago, I planted four or
five Japanese us And I did that because and there's
a farm fence behind it. I did that because I
wanted one an evergreen screen. It's right where you look
out our back door, right there in front of the
of the woods. I wanted that. I wanted the evergreen
for the birds and the wildlife to use as it grew.
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So they were plants that I never really sheared or
trimmed much except during the holiday season. And I love
using Japanese yew or taxes branches for your evergreens for
the holidays, for the porch pots, for making swags, for
even using indoors. Those needles hold up great. They probably
hold up I think the longest of all the evergreens
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that you can get out there. But I grew them
for that purpose, so it was a multipurpose reason, and
it was and I don't do a lot of pruning
accepted holiday season, so the branch is kind of come
out there longer and you will catch a lot of
that snow. So I watched that one, and I will
go out and kind of broom it a little bit
just to knock some of that off. Have a weeping
hemlock and by the deck of a specimen weeping hemlock
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that can be a little bit touchy and can catch
the snow. So I'll kind of broom that lightly just
to dislodge the snow. But otherwise that's about all I do,
unless it's a really serious situation. But that's all we do,
so you know, otherwise you're pretty much good to go.
So you know, for us, I think my point being
was when you get snow like that, you know, do
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you have to do anything?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
As a matter of fact, think about snow is a
great insulator because snow is what around thirty to thirty
two degrees. So if the temperatures get colder than that
and get down below that, well, well you've got this
blanket on top of the ground that's actually keeping everything
below it fairly warm compared to what the air temperatures
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are above that. So snow cover is a great insulator
for all your plants now and again as it melts,
it obviously waters the plants as well. But you know, uh,
that's a that's a uh. I look at snow as
besides possibly weighting things down, and I watched that as
being a great insulator and a great way to water
our plants somewhere down the road when it starts to melt,
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and so you get the insulation. I like the looks,
and you get the watering later on. Now, some folks
will say, well, you know, I uh, up around my
house foundation, I don't get much snow there because a
little bit overhanging all. Can I take the snow off
the sidewalk and throw it back onto the plants. No,
don't do that, especially if you put some kind of
a de icing product down. Obviously you don't want to
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throw that back around your plants. But what I will do,
like around our decked area, is I will when as
I'm shoveling to clear that off. And we have a
miniature docs and so she has to have the area
cleared off so she can get outside out to the yard.
But I will put that some of that snow around
the base of plants. I won't put it on the plant,
but around the base. I will do that sometimes, but
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I'll be cautious about doing that as well. But again,
it's a great insulator, so welcome it. Besides the fact
you have to drive in it or shovel or do whatever,
but it actually is a good thing from Mother Nature
to help protect your plants over the winter. So now
you have still some container plants out there. We talked
about this last week, container plants sitting out there that
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you were hoping to get planted before the end of
the year. Remember what I said about the snow insulating
the ground below, Well, there's a real good chance that
ground below may not be frozen yet, and so a
lot of times landscape crews will continue planting in situations
like we have right now up until the holidays, up
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until Christmas or even later. If the ground's not frozen,
even if it's just lightly frozen at the very top,
you can still dig in plant, so, you know, scraping
the snow back a little bit, you might find the
ground still pliable, still easy to work, still can dig it,
and you can still plan. So yes, you can still
do that and get them into the ground, get them
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planted in and guess what, you still want to water
them in when you're done, Hook up that garden hose
because I know you don't have it hooked up to
the foster right now, right, you don't have it hooked up.
But hook it back up, give them a good water
and good soaking in and you could be good, good
to go for the rest of the winter season. So
it still can be planted. You still can get things planning.
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You find that surprise bag of tulip and daffodil balls
that you bought the garden center and you forgot to
plan them. Oh, man, are you in trouble right? Your
wife bought those maybe or you or your spouse bought those,
wanted you to plan them, and you forgot all about it.
Well you still can. As a matter of fact, that
that was one of the big questions was I must
have gotten ten or twelve emails this week saying, hey,
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run bought some balls back in the fall, earlier in
the fall to plan outside, and I just realized that
they're still in our garage and I haven't done anything it.
What should I do? The stage I storm away or whatever. No,
don't storm away. That's not going to do you any good.
Those bulbs have to be planted in some form or fashion.
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What is that form or fashion? Well, if you can
get outside and still plant, if you have one of
those power planners with the augur makes it a piece
of cake for you. You know, you can just pull
that snowback and just go right in there and start
drilling and get those planet and again water them in
a little bit of ballfood around them, but get a
planet outside, get it done before the end of the year.
If there's some reason you cannot still get those bulbs
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planted in the ground before the end of the year,
you have another option. What is that option? Well, i'll
tell you after the break, and we'll tell you about
our website at Ron Wilson online dot com, and we'll
be talking to Steven Missouri eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five. Here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (11:38):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Before we talk about those bulbs to Missouri,
we go, Steve, good morning.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Hello Rod.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I'm rolling through Aurora, Nebraska. Forty five degrees, cloudy skies,
any snow, no snow. Thank goodness. I laugh that back
in Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Good for you, oh my, Well, be safe out there.
What can we do for you this morning?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Well, I just picked up a load of potatoes up
there in Idaho, and I got a little titbit of
information for one of the fellows there at the dock
and about potatoes, and he said, do you know why
potatoes never get lost?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I do not know why they get lost or don't get.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Lost, because because they always take the same root home.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Thanks for the nice little warm up there, Dan, Would
you like that one?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
That wasn't bad. I had my hand on the dump button.
I don't know about you, me too. I didn't know
where that one was gonna go. Uh, but that was good, Steve.
I appreciate that, And be safe out there while you're
driving with that load of potatoes. Boy, with the weather's
been and that's we're talking about the weather all around.
It's been kind of nasty. I wouldn't want to be
out there with the semis. I don't know those guys
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do that with a semis. Tough enough with the regular
carbet with semis kind of crazy. But talking about the
weather as that has moved in before the end of
the season, trying to get things done, get things planted.
We can still plant as long as you can work
into the soil. But what about those spring flowering bulbs.
If you cannot get them planted, and again all you
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do is pull snowback, get your power planter out, attach
it to your drill drill holes, get them in the ground.
A little bit of baldfood. I love Aspomas bulb tone.
It's probably one of the best ones out there for you.
It's got a little bit of bone meal in it
like the old timers like. But it's just a good
old natural bulb food for you. But get those planning,
get them watered in. But if you cannot do that,
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don't think you can store them and do something with
them next year. Doesn't work that way. You've got to
do something with them now. So either get them planted
in the ground, or you find some empty containers and
you can go to your local nursery. If you don't
have any, maybe get some of their used smaller pots
eight inch pots, ten inch, twelve inch pots. Fill those
up with potting mix and plant them in those pots
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and plant them basically like you would plant it outside,
but plant them a little bit tighter. And you know
what's interesting is when you see spring flowering bulbs in
the springtime, plant it in containers that you can buy,
and then when they're done flower, you can actually plant
them back in the ground. They're never planted as deep
as they would be normally, all right, and they're usually
a little bit closer to each other because we're looking
for a nice little mass planting. So you can do
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it however you want to, but I useally plant them
a little bit closer, not quite as deep. Again, use
the bullb tone in that soil, get them planted, water
them in well, and then just put those in an
unheated garage or an unheated shed, or down in a
window well or in a cold frame where they can
experience the cold weather, not the extremes because of the
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fact that they're above ground, but experience that cold weather
because they have to have the cold weather to flower.
Next spring. Okay, that's why you plant them in the fall,
put them in in the containers, expose them to the
cold temperatures over the winter time. They unea A garage
is great. Uneeded sheds a great. Like I said, window wells,
cold frames. You can even dig trenches in your landscape beds,
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sticking pot and all down in the beds. Mault around
the top of them and just kind of flag it
so you know where they are and leave those in there. Now,
if you've got tulips that critters like to eat and
they're in containers, put chicken wire, poultry fencing, something over
the top so that they can't get in there, and
pull those out, because that'd be a piece of cake
to dig those out of those containers. Daffodils, a lot
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of the minor bulbs you don't have to worry about,
but the tulip bulbs. You would protect all of those,
and then in the springtime they'll start to pop up
as the weather starts to warm, just like they would
if they were in the ground. You take those container
and all clean off the container and you can use
them on the patio, on a table and the house
for table. You can give them away for gifts. You
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can do whatever. Throw them in the container, water them
is needed, let them grow, let them flower all right,
let them flower when they're done flowering deadhead, and let
them continue to grow in that container until the foliage
starts to turn yellow. And then once that foliage starts
to turn yellow, you pull those out of the pot,
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separate them out, and then plant them in the garden
as you would have done in the fall. But now
we're talking later in the spring season because we've let
them grow six weeks or so after they finish flowering
in the containers, out bear rudom, cut off the folds
in the top, plant them like you normally would. Again,
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i'd put a little bullfood around the watermen. Well, they'll
sit there all summer, all fall, all winter, and then
come up for you the following spring and start the
regular cycle of growing. So you know, if you find
those mystery bulbs in that mystery bag and it's late
and you don't know what to do with them and
you can't get them in the ground, you actually, and
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I'm kind of doing this for the guys. If this
happened to you and you were supposed to plant them
and you didn't You actually can become a hero one
or two ways, sneaking outside and getting a planet anyway,
and just don't say anything about it because you can
still plant them or planning them up in those containers
and then doing that and then next spring is kind
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of like, what did you do with my balls? Just
wait and see. You'll just wait and see. I got
a little surprise for you. And then when they start
to grow in the springtime, you bring all those out.
He got all these great bulbs of spring flowering bulbs
that you can put anywhere. And you had now become
a hero because we were able to We were able
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to enjoy those anywhere in the house, around whatever it
may be, and then get planted and enjoy them in
the garden the following spring. You have now become the
hero rather than mister forgetful forgetting to put those in
the ground. So a couple of options there for you.
But the do keep that in mind. It does work.
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But again, excuse me again. You can't store those over
the winter time. They must be planted. And one last
thing I was talking about being cool. If if they
were in the garage all this time, that's great because
they've been exposed to the cooler temperatures up until this point.
That's a great thing. If they were in the basement
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or whatever, not such a good thing. But get them out,
get them into the cold air, and then you're good
to go. So keep that in mind. Please again, remember
if you can't get things planted, same thing. Excuse me,
get them in the garage, unheated garage, unheated shed, window, well,
cold frame, heal them in, water them well, put the
plants away for the winter, mulch over the top and
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kind of right, excuse me, right out the winter and
then next spring, pull those pots out of the ground
and I'm gonna make it and uh and get those
in the ground. Uh and start your planning process. And
it's pretty easy. But that's what happens when the weather
changes this time of the year and you kind of
get caught. I'm shorthanded with you know, with a few
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things out and didn't get done yet. So there are
ways to take care of it. Don't panic. We'll take
care of it. And again, if you have questions about
what to do with plants that you still haven't gotten planted,
give us a call eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five email me. I can also help you
out that way as far as what to do there,
so keep that in mind. Our website is Ron Wilson
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a couple Joe this morning. Joe again taking that three
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vacation at the end of the year. And good for him.
I'm here, same for Danny Gleeson. So good for you guys.
Don't let it go by, make sure you use it up.
So it's me talking about the website. And when we
take a break here we come back, I'll explain to
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we had some website problems or whatever. But we'll walk
you through it. Dick from Dayton to hang on. We're
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Speaker 1 (22:01):
Talking to your yardening at eight hundred eight two three,
eight two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boy, moving our way through this twenty
twenty five just a few weeks left. Can you believe
that already looking forward to twenty twenty six, starting to
see some a lot of reports over the last two
or three weeks of new plants that are coming along
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that we're taking a look at for growing. And you know,
again some of these new plants that you may read
about over the wintertime, you know they I think sometimes
they promote these too quickly. They put the promotion out
about them, but then you come to find out, you know,
folks like us that are growers nurseries that want to
grow them for our garden centers, for retail and wholesale whatever,
come to find out there's only a limited amount available
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for you. So it takes a couple three years to
get that build up high enough that everybody can start
to grow them and make them available for everybody out there.
But I think one of the treasure you're going to
see for twenty twenty six, obviously because of the big
celebration the United States of America, will be improved varieties
of reds, whites, and blues in the annuals and perennials,
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but mostly in the annuals for planting colorful you know, red,
white and blue planters and one of the two of
the reds that are coming up and I think are
really outstanding. And we again the numbers are limited, but
we were able we and I know other nurses were
able to as well get a few of these to
try to grow. Anyway, are you familiar with the seedum Angelina?
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Angelina has the evergreen type needle type foliage and it's
a golden yellow, tough, durable perennial comes back every year
using it in containers, using in the ground a nice
bright yellow. Well, they've now taken that and had some
sports off of that and they now have an Angelina.
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I think a sun sparkler is the series of different colors.
I think they even have some pinks and blues and whatever.
But they have developed a red Angelita seedum and uh
and and this thing and I had again, they're starting
to promote it a little bit, leak it out on
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some of the gardening magazine, some of the emails. So
I had some folks asking about it this week. Are
you guys going to grow this we are. We have
a limited amount, but we're gonna work. We will know
they'll the pop. You know, it'll again over time, we'll
get more and more of them. But it's a really
nice kind of a purpoly red, but it's a really
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nice color. But it's red Angelina seedum angelina and it's
absolutely gorgeous. That's one that you're going to see out there.
That's brand new. In the other one which we talked
about last year, and again the numbers are light yet,
but it will be available. And that's the Hydrangea and
the other hydrangea that is the macrophila, which means it
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flowers on old and new growth. All right, this one,
this particular one does it's called Centennial Ruby for the
centennial and it's a again combination of reds and maroons
and it's a pretty nice show. So you get that
behind those the dark green leaves and it's a really
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nice show. But it's called Centennial ruby big Leafhydranda hydrandri
Macrofila centennial ruby. So again, if you want to check
with your local independent garden center, local nurseries to see
if they're gonna have that. In twenty twenty six, I
would check. And the other one is the uh red
Angelina seedum uh and I think that's the sun Sparkler series,
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if I'm not mistaken. But again, and I'm already starting
to see some nursery starting to put together their lists
of annuals for their customers in the reds and the
whites and the blues, not just for the Fourth of July,
but for all year. Next year of course that we
celebrate our birthday, so that'll be a pretty cool So
be sure and watch for those as they come along.
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And again just remember a lot of these things. Numbers
may not be as big the first year or two,
but it does come on for you. Eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. Talking about yardening, and
speaking of which were these new plants. I got a
text from my brother in law yesterday out in Kansas,
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Kansas City area and they were looking at on some
of the catalogs online and they sent me a picture
of and I've talked about that. I talked about this
in the last this past spring of hostas with all
these multiple colors like pinks and yellows and purples and
blues and even the same colors on the same you know,
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multiple colors on the same planet. I'm talking fluorescent colors
of these of these hostas. And if you you know,
the question is is this for real? Are you again?
Are you growing these? Uh? Are are they when it
can get available? Is it mail order only? Well, here's
the kicker when you see something like that. First of all,
they stand out like a sore thumb. I mean, these
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plants and I'm looking at a picture of the one
he sent me right now. The blues and the purples
and the oranges and yellows and all are vibrant colors.
I'm talking like spray painted colors. That just doesn't happen
in many plants, all right. Secondly, it's kind of hard
to I don't know I've ever seen a plant they
have all these different colors on the same plant. Each
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leaf has a different color. Just doesn't happen that way.
And thirdly, when you see these things on the internet
and they're out there all over with these multicolored hostas,
it's always by seed, not by the plant. So for
twenty bucks or whatever, you get two hundred hosta seeds
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for you to grow and take it from there and
even show the succession coming out green and growing all
gear and then finally turning these colors. Well, two things.
One is I don't as far as I know, as
far as anybody I know in this industry, as far
as professionals in the industry, these are not available. These
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don't grow like that. These colors are not out there.
And most folks don't grow hosta from seed. They're all
by division. They go in there and they take the clump,
separate it out, and that's how hostaves are propagated. And
that's how you get the same hosta, the same looking
leaf with all of the crop is by by root division. Okay,
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so that's how they do that, not from seed. From seed,
you can get all kinds of different things. So and
it's hard to grow from seed. Hostas are a really
tough one to grow from seed, all right, So keep
that in mind. But these things are I guess I
look at it, and you know the old saying about
you know, if it's too good to be true, it's
too good to be true. They're not. It's not true.
That's what these are. It's an AI generated plant. Nice job,
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really colorful. And how they get by with this and
and and the websites are legit in the whole nine yards.
I have no idea, but uh, he said, is this
for real? Or is this BS? And my wife even
picked up on it and said, we're fired right back
and said it's BS. I said, whoa, how do you
know that? But anyway, it's uh, it is, it's it's uh,
(29:19):
it's not for real. It's a who axe, it's a hoax,
and uh, don't be taken in by that. And again
my comment back to him was, if those were available,
don't you think every garden center would be growing those
and that would be all you would grow because everybody
like that, they think those are the greatest thing in
the world. So again, when you're online and you're looking,
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consider the source, consider what you're looking at, and if
you're not for sure if it's something that's for real
or not, email me or go to your local independent
garden center and talk to the professionals and show them
the picture and say is list legit or not? And
take it from there. And I think you know with
AI and I use you know now, I work with
(30:00):
AI researching things to get sources and other information, but
I always check it, check the sources where it came from.
You know, it can be helpful, but in situations like that,
it can create things that it's just unbelievable. And that's
one of them. And you know there's somebody out there
that's going to take your money for it, and it's
a scam. So be cautious as we go through the
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through the gardening season, especially with all the gardening things
that are gonna be out there over the winter time,
trying to get them to get you to buy their
plants or seeds or whatever. If you're not sure if
it's legit, check with me, check with the local independent
garden center, and let's put our heads together and figure
out whether it is or whether it isn't before we
take a break. Dick from Dayton, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I am great? How about yourself?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
That pretty good? That today is a big day.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It's a really big day. All kinds of old rivalries
going at each other in college football. You got Ohio State,
Ohio State in Indiana, both them undefeated. What's going to
happen there? I don't know. It could be up in
the air. Obviously I'm root for Ohio State, but the
Indiana's playing pretty.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Tough, pretty tough, pretty tough so we'll see play Buffalo tomorrow.
I think they got a chance tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I think they got a chance. Got you got your
you got your quarterback back. So there you go. The
defense can do what they need to do. Maybe we
do have a chance.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Maybe we do. But this is the one I've been
so yeah, I didn't. I think I was their guest
this morning. I've been playing a little bit with Debbie's group,
the Star City Dulsworth. We had a nice party and
then we had a big crowd at the bluegrass thing.
There was probably we had eighteen people playing the other day. Wow,
(31:47):
yesterday was good.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Now get when we get into the holidays, Dick, do
you do a little bit of holiday music?
Speaker 6 (31:53):
A lot of holiday music?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Good lot?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Debbie has a special Christmas show. Now we spend half
an hour playing about ten Christmas song They're pretty I
like them on the string instruments.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You know you don't, but you don't get to sing a.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Little bit, a little bit, you know, little dead.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Now, what is your favorite Christmas song to play on
your mandolin or your ukulele or whatever you happen to
be playing.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
Rocking around the Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Rocking around the Christmas Tree.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
That's a good song. I like that one. Yeah, that's
you get the crowd up and dancing.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Yeah. Yeah, it's been pretty nice. And I wish my
cousin Cleveland, she had a birthday and she wants to
maybe come down this year and see me. Bring the boys,
because you know, they're a part of the family I
was in. But yeah, I've been doing pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
You know good. We'll keep it up and I look
forward to talking to you next Saturday. Okay, all right,
Tackler bye bye. Tick from Dayton. Right there, ladies and gentlemen.
By the way, we take a break, we come back
top of the hour. Sure, got our guests coming up.
First of all, we're going to talk to Laura Cuncle.
Laura is the executive director of America in Bloom. Yeah.
They're going to be celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary and
(33:11):
the twenty twenty six of growing Vibrant Communities. And we've
had them on our show before, and I'll tell you
what their programs are outstanding. If you want to get
your community involved in making it more colorful, well, let
her explain everything that they do. They have the programs
for you, plus they judge all of these and they
have contests and you can win things and old nine yards.
(33:32):
But it's American Bloom. You can check their website America
in bloom dot org. We'll talk to her at the
top of the hour. Bottom of the hour, our wild
Winged Wonder will be with us Monica Bruce Baker from
Wildbirds Unlimited, talking about what we should be doing for
our birdies, wild birdies as we go into the winter season.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two fivey five. That's
our number here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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We are talking yardening at eight hundred and eighty two
three eight two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boy. Don't forget. Our website is Ron
Wilson online dot com. Our planet of the week this
week is Christmas cactus Christmas cactus. I love Christmas cactus.
You know, besides the pon Setia, the Christmas cactus is
is the punt Setia, which was our plan of the
(35:50):
week last week. Probably the second most recognizable holiday plant
that's out there, obviously the cut Christmas tree, the live
Christmas tree would be the first, and I put on
Setia next, and I put the Christmas cactus as third,
although Amarillis is coming in right there with it as
well as it continues to grow in popularity too. But
I'll tell you Christmas cactus so easy to grow. And yes,
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there are Thanksgiving cactus that typically flower earlier, three or
four weeks earlier around Thanksgiving. There's the Christmas cactus, and
there's the Easter cactus that flowers later in the late
winter early spring, and usually it typically right around Easter.
They all three look a little different if you look
at the foliage, and they all three are actually different species,
(36:35):
two of them the same genus, and all three of
them are different in some aspect, but pretty interesting plant.
But my point being is, you know, once theeds are
done flowering for the holiday season, they're so easy to grow.
I mean, these are really easy houseplans to grow all
three of them. And then of course you get the
bonus of the flowering around the holiday season or depending
(36:57):
on what it is. And by the way, if you
still can't all the difference between yours and looking at
the foliage, and it usually is pretty pretty evident Thanksgiving
cactus if the flowers has yellow pollen. Christmas cactus when
it flowers has pink pollen, and then the Easter cactus
has more of a purple pink pollen, So the pollen
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is actually different. So you can take a look at
the flower and know it's a little bit difference. But
the biggest thing is right now is if you buy
a Christmas cactus at a place that sells holiday plants,
you know the transition going from where it was to
your house can sometimes cause some of those buds to
start to drought. Flower buds start to drop a little bit.
(37:40):
Don't panic, don't over water, soca dry, soca dry, that
type of watering, and remember they're not a cactus, so
you do what you do. Water these water, let it
dry out, water, let it dry out, but just keep
it a medium light, bright light, but medium light, nothing
direct away from the doors and away from the heat vents,
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just like the pont setia, and they actually do better
in cooler temperatures. As a matter of fact, if you've
had a hard time getting any of these to flower,
remember they are short day plants, so as the days
get shorter, that helps to trigger them to flower. Just
like the pont Setia. All right, Letting them go a
little bit more in the drier side through the fall
before they flower sometimes will help them set up the
(38:24):
flower buds a little bit. And Third, and I think
this is the key. They love cooler temperatures late summer,
early fall. So if you can expose them to fifteen
to fifty five degree nighttime temperatures for a couple of weeks,
that really helps to set up those flower buds. So
keep that in mind as you're growing these cactus. A
lot of folks that have them that know and they
(38:46):
don't like warmer temperatures, and when they're inside they actually
flower better and do better at less than seventy degrees,
So keep that in mind. But I'll tell you this
is another one of those plants, like I talk about
amarillis after the holidays, going out and scarfing those up
and growing those over the wintertime for wintercolor. Christmas cactus
are the same way. Easy plant to grow, great house plant,
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great in a hanging basket, great in a container. Scarf
those things up there, done flowering, that's okay, growing for
next year. And the thing about Christmas cactus also, it's
amazing how many folks we'll take some of those pieces
like pads. Take them in and root them. They're very
easy to root and share those with a family member.
(39:26):
So the family members all have Christmas cactus from the
same plant. Kint them an airloom plant and pass it along.
Pass it a long plant that you can share with
other people as well. But anyway, tips about that is
on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com. Same
thing with the ponsetia, same thing with your cut Christmas tree.
And Rita's recipe for some reason, did not make it
(39:46):
up there this week. It's her famous peppermint bark and
it's nearly easy for you to make. It's expensive to buy.
We'll make sure Joe gets out up there next week,
and if you want it this weekend, just send me
an email and I will get that back to you
on Monday. Don and Columbus, good morning. Hey, Hey, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
You Oh fine? So I hate to see I hate
to see you go to the dark side using AI.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Well, you know, the think of it is, I haven't
set up so that if I ask a question and
it gives me a summary. Also to the right hand side,
it gives me the four to five sources that it
pulled it from and many times it's the issue extension,
cornell or whatever, so I can actually look at that
and compare the notes. I don't always use it, but
there are times where it can save you a little
(40:35):
bit of time. But you gotta check it to make
sure the facts are right.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
I'm just opposed to AI because I used to before.
But it's apparently, you know, the CEOs of the companies
privately say like, yeah, those are twenty percent chance that
lifestyle humanity.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
That's that's not that Yeah, No, I get it, I
get it.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
But no I am we have a little I have
a little tip. We got a new kitten this year,
and you know, like all the new kittens, he loves
to climb on trees and plants, and the monster was
basically his cat towel, and so he hates bananas. Apparently
this is common for cats. They some of them hate
bananas and citrus and other flavors. Well, get those little
(41:20):
air fashioners you hang on your car wheel view mirror, right,
let's get those, and we hung them all on the monster,
and you know he's just like, oh, I don't like
that smell and stays off of it. It looks a
little tacky honestly, but it's Christmas time, so it kind
of a you know, wokes, I guess.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah, see it looks got the ornaments on there, and
you're ready to go. Yeah, I think the citrus, you're right.
Even outside, if you could take lemon peels and scatter
them in the landscape bed sometimes that helps to keep
cats out of the beds. So you're right, that's a
great tip citrus. I've never heard of the bananas, but
it's worth a try. But those particular smells a lot
(41:56):
of times cats do not like and we'll stay away
from them. And that's a good tip for this time
of the years we go into the winter with all
the house plants out there. If you are a cat owner,
All right, quick break, we come back. Coming up the
top of the hour, we're gonna talk about America in Bloom.
Laura Kunkle, the executive director, is going to join us
at the bottom of the hour our wild winged wonder
Monica Brubaker talking about those wild birds and what you
(42:17):
should be doing this time of the year as we
get into the winter season. Don't forget our website, Ron
Wilson online dot com Facebook page. In the Garden with
Ron Wilson. Check that out as well. After the break,
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Speaker 3 (42:44):
Green, Tom or not Ron can help at one eight
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Our total free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yarding as we move our
way through this month of December. Got a week under
our belt already looking down the road. Man, we're only
talking to it and a half weeks until Christmas? Can
you believe that? Right around the corner? And uh timing
(00:58):
wise boy out tell you what you know if you
were kind of at the end there trying to get
things finished up out in the yard in our area
at least right now in many other areas around our state, well,
we've been kind of put on hold. Cold weather moved in, snow,
moved in a little bit of icing as well. But
it's been, it's snowed, we've got jeez. I think we
(01:19):
were in our area recorded at about just under five
inches of snow, and so we'll take it. It's all right.
And I think the thing you have to remember about
the snow. And I know a lot of folks panic
and I get emails about the snow's coming. What do
I do to protect my plants? Blah blah blah. The
only things that you would do to protect against snow
cover and snow coming down would be evergreens that it
(01:40):
may build up on, like you get up in northern
states where they really get hammered with a lot of snow.
They'll take a lot of evergreens that are very flexible,
very you know, the branches are thin, and they may
weigh them down and actually snap the branches. We'll take
those and tie them up, actually take some twine around them,
(02:00):
time up like kind of like what you see with
your Christmas tree when you buy a cut Christmas tree
and they put it through that baler and tie it up.
They'll do that sometimes even put burlap around the outside
of it to keep keep the snow from wading down
the branches and causing damages from that. Now we don't
have to do that, but there are times where we'll
get a heavy snow like that that five inches, and
(02:22):
if it's a wet snow, this was a this was
a dryer snow. It was easily broomed off your sidewalks
and all easily shoveled off. But in that case, temperatures
right around freezing, it's easy to go out there with
a soft broom, a wheat broom or corn broom or whatever.
Soft room and in an upward sweeping motion, not you know,
(02:46):
and be gentle, but in an upward sweeping motion just
kind of sweep those branches and dislodge that light snow
off and lighting them back up again. And it's pretty
easy to do. And I got a couple in our
there's a wooded area our yard, the turfed area, and
then there's a wooded area. And right in front of
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the wooded area, thirty years ago, I planted four or
five Japanese us And I did that because and there's
a farm fence behind it. I did that because I
wanted one an evergreen screen. It's right where you look
out our back door, right there in front of the
of the woods. I wanted that. I wanted the evergreen
for the birds and the wildlife to use as it grew.
(03:29):
So they were plants that I never really sheared or
trimmed much except during the holiday season. And I love
using Japanese yew or taxes branches for your evergreens for
the holidays, for the porch pots, for making swags, for
even using indoors. Those needles hold up great. They probably
hold up I think the longest of all the evergreens
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that you can get out there. But I grew them
for that purpose, so it was a multipurpose reason, and
it was and I don't do a lot of pruning
accepted holiday season, so the branch is kind of come
out there longer and you will catch a lot of
that snow. So I watched that one, and I will
go out and kind of broom it a little bit
just to knock some of that off. Have a weeping
hemlock and by the deck of a specimen weeping hemlock
(04:13):
that can be a little bit touchy and can catch
the snow. So I'll kind of broom that lightly just
to dislodge the snow. But otherwise that's about all I do,
unless it's a really serious situation. But that's all we do,
so you know, otherwise you're pretty much good to go.
So you know, for us, I think my point being
was when you get snow like that, you know, do
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you have to do anything?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
As a matter of fact, think about snow is a
great insulator because snow is what around thirty to thirty
two degrees. So if the temperatures get colder than that
and get down below that, well, well you've got this
blanket on top of the ground that's actually keeping everything
below it fairly warm compared to what the air temperatures
(04:56):
are above that. So snow cover is a great insulator
for all your plants now and again as it melts,
it obviously waters the plants as well. But you know, uh,
that's a that's a uh. I look at snow as
besides possibly weighting things down, and I watched that as
being a great insulator and a great way to water
our plants somewhere down the road when it starts to melt,
(05:20):
and so you get the insulation. I like the looks,
and you get the watering later on. Now, some folks
will say, well, you know, I uh, up around my
house foundation, I don't get much snow there because a
little bit overhanging all. Can I take the snow off
the sidewalk and throw it back onto the plants. No,
don't do that, especially if you put some kind of
a de icing product down. Obviously you don't want to
(05:43):
throw that back around your plants. But what I will do,
like around our decked area, is I will when as
I'm shoveling to clear that off. And we have a
miniature docs and so she has to have the area
cleared off so she can get outside out to the yard.
But I will put that some of that snow around
the base of plants. I won't put it on the plant,
but around the base. I will do that sometimes, but
(06:05):
I'll be cautious about doing that as well. But again,
it's a great insulator, so welcome it. Besides the fact
you have to drive in it or shovel or do whatever,
but it actually is a good thing from Mother Nature
to help protect your plants over the winter. So now
you have still some container plants out there. We talked
about this last week, container plants sitting out there that
(06:26):
you were hoping to get planted before the end of
the year. Remember what I said about the snow insulating
the ground below, Well, there's a real good chance that
ground below may not be frozen yet, and so a
lot of times landscape crews will continue planting in situations
like we have right now up until the holidays, up
(06:46):
until Christmas or even later. If the ground's not frozen,
even if it's just lightly frozen at the very top,
you can still dig in plant, so, you know, scraping
the snow back a little bit, you might find the
ground still pliable, still easy to work, still can dig it,
and you can still plan. So yes, you can still
do that and get them into the ground, get them
(07:06):
planted in and guess what, you still want to water
them in when you're done, Hook up that garden hose
because I know you don't have it hooked up to
the foster right now, right, you don't have it hooked up.
But hook it back up, give them a good water
and good soaking in and you could be good, good
to go for the rest of the winter season. So
it still can be planted. You still can get things planning.
(07:27):
You find that surprise bag of tulip and daffodil balls
that you bought the garden center and you forgot to
plan them. Oh, man, are you in trouble right? Your
wife bought those maybe or you or your spouse bought those,
wanted you to plan them, and you forgot all about it.
Well you still can. As a matter of fact, that
that was one of the big questions was I must
have gotten ten or twelve emails this week saying, hey,
(07:49):
run bought some balls back in the fall, earlier in
the fall to plan outside, and I just realized that
they're still in our garage and I haven't done anything it.
What should I do? The stage I storm away or whatever. No,
don't storm away. That's not going to do you any good.
Those bulbs have to be planted in some form or fashion.
(08:10):
What is that form or fashion? Well, if you can
get outside and still plant, if you have one of
those power planners with the augur makes it a piece
of cake for you. You know, you can just pull
that snowback and just go right in there and start
drilling and get those planet and again water them in
a little bit of ballfood around them, but get a
planet outside, get it done before the end of the year.
If there's some reason you cannot still get those bulbs
(08:34):
planted in the ground before the end of the year,
you have another option. What is that option? Well, i'll
tell you after the break, and we'll tell you about
our website at Ron Wilson online dot com, and we'll
be talking to Steven Missouri eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five. Here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (11:38):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Before we talk about those bulbs to Missouri,
we go, Steve, good morning.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Hello Rod.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I'm rolling through Aurora, Nebraska. Forty five degrees, cloudy skies,
any snow, no snow. Thank goodness. I laugh that back
in Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Good for you, oh my, Well, be safe out there.
What can we do for you this morning?
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Well, I just picked up a load of potatoes up
there in Idaho, and I got a little titbit of
information for one of the fellows there at the dock
and about potatoes, and he said, do you know why
potatoes never get lost?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I do not know why they get lost or don't get.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Lost, because because they always take the same root home.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Thanks for the nice little warm up there, Dan, Would
you like that one?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
That wasn't bad. I had my hand on the dump button.
I don't know about you, me too. I didn't know
where that one was gonna go. Uh, but that was good, Steve.
I appreciate that, And be safe out there while you're
driving with that load of potatoes. Boy, with the weather's
been and that's we're talking about the weather all around.
It's been kind of nasty. I wouldn't want to be
out there with the semis. I don't know those guys
(13:00):
do that with a semis. Tough enough with the regular
carbet with semis kind of crazy. But talking about the
weather as that has moved in before the end of
the season, trying to get things done, get things planted.
We can still plant as long as you can work
into the soil. But what about those spring flowering bulbs.
If you cannot get them planted, and again all you
(13:20):
do is pull snowback, get your power planter out, attach
it to your drill drill holes, get them in the ground.
A little bit of baldfood. I love Aspomas bulb tone.
It's probably one of the best ones out there for you.
It's got a little bit of bone meal in it
like the old timers like. But it's just a good
old natural bulb food for you. But get those planning,
get them watered in. But if you cannot do that,
(13:41):
don't think you can store them and do something with
them next year. Doesn't work that way. You've got to
do something with them now. So either get them planted
in the ground, or you find some empty containers and
you can go to your local nursery. If you don't
have any, maybe get some of their used smaller pots
eight inch pots, ten inch, twelve inch pots. Fill those
up with potting mix and plant them in those pots
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and plant them basically like you would plant it outside,
but plant them a little bit tighter. And you know
what's interesting is when you see spring flowering bulbs in
the springtime, plant it in containers that you can buy,
and then when they're done flower, you can actually plant
them back in the ground. They're never planted as deep
as they would be normally, all right, and they're usually
a little bit closer to each other because we're looking
for a nice little mass planting. So you can do
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it however you want to, but I useally plant them
a little bit closer, not quite as deep. Again, use
the bullb tone in that soil, get them planted, water
them in well, and then just put those in an
unheated garage or an unheated shed, or down in a
window well or in a cold frame where they can
experience the cold weather, not the extremes because of the
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fact that they're above ground, but experience that cold weather
because they have to have the cold weather to flower.
Next spring. Okay, that's why you plant them in the fall,
put them in in the containers, expose them to the
cold temperatures over the winter time. They unea A garage
is great. Uneeded sheds a great. Like I said, window wells,
cold frames. You can even dig trenches in your landscape beds,
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sticking pot and all down in the beds. Mault around
the top of them and just kind of flag it
so you know where they are and leave those in there. Now,
if you've got tulips that critters like to eat and
they're in containers, put chicken wire, poultry fencing, something over
the top so that they can't get in there, and
pull those out, because that'd be a piece of cake
to dig those out of those containers. Daffodils, a lot
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of the minor bulbs you don't have to worry about,
but the tulip bulbs. You would protect all of those,
and then in the springtime they'll start to pop up
as the weather starts to warm, just like they would
if they were in the ground. You take those container
and all clean off the container and you can use
them on the patio, on a table and the house
for table. You can give them away for gifts. You
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can do whatever. Throw them in the container, water them
is needed, let them grow, let them flower all right,
let them flower when they're done flowering deadhead, and let
them continue to grow in that container until the foliage
starts to turn yellow. And then once that foliage starts
to turn yellow, you pull those out of the pot,
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separate them out, and then plant them in the garden
as you would have done in the fall. But now
we're talking later in the spring season because we've let
them grow six weeks or so after they finish flowering
in the containers, out bear rudom, cut off the folds
in the top, plant them like you normally would. Again,
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i'd put a little bullfood around the watermen. Well, they'll
sit there all summer, all fall, all winter, and then
come up for you the following spring and start the
regular cycle of growing. So you know, if you find
those mystery bulbs in that mystery bag and it's late
and you don't know what to do with them and
you can't get them in the ground, you actually, and
(16:59):
I'm kind of doing this for the guys. If this
happened to you and you were supposed to plant them
and you didn't You actually can become a hero one
or two ways, sneaking outside and getting a planet anyway,
and just don't say anything about it because you can
still plant them or planning them up in those containers
and then doing that and then next spring is kind
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of like, what did you do with my balls? Just
wait and see. You'll just wait and see. I got
a little surprise for you. And then when they start
to grow in the springtime, you bring all those out.
He got all these great bulbs of spring flowering bulbs
that you can put anywhere. And you had now become
a hero because we were able to We were able
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to enjoy those anywhere in the house, around whatever it
may be, and then get planted and enjoy them in
the garden the following spring. You have now become the
hero rather than mister forgetful forgetting to put those in
the ground. So a couple of options there for you.
But the do keep that in mind. It does work.
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But again, excuse me again. You can't store those over
the winter time. They must be planted. And one last
thing I was talking about being cool. If if they
were in the garage all this time, that's great because
they've been exposed to the cooler temperatures up until this point.
That's a great thing. If they were in the basement
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or whatever, not such a good thing. But get them out,
get them into the cold air, and then you're good
to go. So keep that in mind. Please again, remember
if you can't get things planted, same thing. Excuse me,
get them in the garage, unheated garage, unheated shed, window, well,
cold frame, heal them in, water them well, put the
plants away for the winter, mulch over the top and
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kind of right, excuse me, right out the winter and
then next spring, pull those pots out of the ground
and I'm gonna make it and uh and get those
in the ground. Uh and start your planning process. And
it's pretty easy. But that's what happens when the weather
changes this time of the year and you kind of
get caught. I'm shorthanded with you know, with a few
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things out and didn't get done yet. So there are
ways to take care of it. Don't panic. We'll take
care of it. And again, if you have questions about
what to do with plants that you still haven't gotten planted,
give us a call eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five email me. I can also help you
out that way as far as what to do there,
so keep that in mind. Our website is Ron Wilson
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online dot com, The Joe Strucker. Of course we have
a couple Joe this morning. Joe again taking that three
day weekend which he tries to use up all that
vacation at the end of the year. And good for him.
I'm here, same for Danny Gleeson. So good for you guys.
Don't let it go by, make sure you use it up.
So it's me talking about the website. And when we
take a break here we come back, I'll explain to
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you what our plan of the week is. Read his recipes.
Some of the things didn't get updated this week, you know,
we had some website problems or whatever. But we'll walk
you through it. Dick from Dayton to hang on. We're
going to be to you after the break again. Hundred
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Talking to your yardening at eight hundred eight two three,
eight two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boy, moving our way through this twenty
twenty five just a few weeks left. Can you believe
that already looking forward to twenty twenty six, starting to
see some a lot of reports over the last two
or three weeks of new plants that are coming along
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that we're taking a look at for growing. And you know,
again some of these new plants that you may read
about over the wintertime, you know they I think sometimes
they promote these too quickly. They put the promotion out
about them, but then you come to find out, you know,
folks like us that are growers nurseries that want to
grow them for our garden centers, for retail and wholesale whatever,
come to find out there's only a limited amount available
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for you. So it takes a couple three years to
get that build up high enough that everybody can start
to grow them and make them available for everybody out there.
But I think one of the treasure you're going to
see for twenty twenty six, obviously because of the big
celebration the United States of America, will be improved varieties
of reds, whites, and blues in the annuals and perennials,
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but mostly in the annuals for planting colorful you know, red,
white and blue planters and one of the two of
the reds that are coming up and I think are
really outstanding. And we again the numbers are limited, but
we were able we and I know other nurses were
able to as well get a few of these to
try to grow. Anyway, are you familiar with the seedum Angelina?
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Angelina has the evergreen type needle type foliage and it's
a golden yellow, tough, durable perennial comes back every year
using it in containers, using in the ground a nice
bright yellow. Well, they've now taken that and had some
sports off of that and they now have an Angelina.
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I think a sun sparkler is the series of different colors.
I think they even have some pinks and blues and whatever.
But they have developed a red Angelita seedum and uh
and and this thing and I had again, they're starting
to promote it a little bit, leak it out on
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some of the gardening magazine, some of the emails. So
I had some folks asking about it this week. Are
you guys going to grow this we are. We have
a limited amount, but we're gonna work. We will know
they'll the pop. You know, it'll again over time, we'll
get more and more of them. But it's a really
nice kind of a purpoly red, but it's a really
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nice color. But it's red Angelina seedum angelina and it's
absolutely gorgeous. That's one that you're going to see out there.
That's brand new. In the other one which we talked
about last year, and again the numbers are light yet,
but it will be available. And that's the Hydrangea and
the other hydrangea that is the macrophila, which means it
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flowers on old and new growth. All right, this one,
this particular one does it's called Centennial Ruby for the
centennial and it's a again combination of reds and maroons
and it's a pretty nice show. So you get that
behind those the dark green leaves and it's a really
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nice show. But it's called Centennial ruby big Leafhydranda hydrandri
Macrofila centennial ruby. So again, if you want to check
with your local independent garden center, local nurseries to see
if they're gonna have that. In twenty twenty six, I
would check. And the other one is the uh red
Angelina seedum uh and I think that's the sun Sparkler series,
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if I'm not mistaken. But again, and I'm already starting
to see some nursery starting to put together their lists
of annuals for their customers in the reds and the
whites and the blues, not just for the Fourth of July,
but for all year. Next year of course that we
celebrate our birthday, so that'll be a pretty cool So
be sure and watch for those as they come along.
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And again just remember a lot of these things. Numbers
may not be as big the first year or two,
but it does come on for you. Eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. Talking about yardening, and
speaking of which were these new plants. I got a
text from my brother in law yesterday out in Kansas,
(26:23):
Kansas City area and they were looking at on some
of the catalogs online and they sent me a picture
of and I've talked about that. I talked about this
in the last this past spring of hostas with all
these multiple colors like pinks and yellows and purples and
blues and even the same colors on the same you know,
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multiple colors on the same planet. I'm talking fluorescent colors
of these of these hostas. And if you you know,
the question is is this for real? Are you again?
Are you growing these? Uh? Are are they when it
can get available? Is it mail order only? Well, here's
the kicker when you see something like that. First of all,
they stand out like a sore thumb. I mean, these
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plants and I'm looking at a picture of the one
he sent me right now. The blues and the purples
and the oranges and yellows and all are vibrant colors.
I'm talking like spray painted colors. That just doesn't happen
in many plants, all right. Secondly, it's kind of hard
to I don't know I've ever seen a plant they
have all these different colors on the same plant. Each
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leaf has a different color. Just doesn't happen that way.
And thirdly, when you see these things on the internet
and they're out there all over with these multicolored hostas,
it's always by seed, not by the plant. So for
twenty bucks or whatever, you get two hundred hosta seeds
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for you to grow and take it from there and
even show the succession coming out green and growing all
gear and then finally turning these colors. Well, two things.
One is I don't as far as I know, as
far as anybody I know in this industry, as far
as professionals in the industry, these are not available. These
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don't grow like that. These colors are not out there.
And most folks don't grow hosta from seed. They're all
by division. They go in there and they take the clump,
separate it out, and that's how hostaves are propagated. And
that's how you get the same hosta, the same looking
leaf with all of the crop is by by root division. Okay,
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so that's how they do that, not from seed. From seed,
you can get all kinds of different things. So and
it's hard to grow from seed. Hostas are a really
tough one to grow from seed, all right, So keep
that in mind. But these things are I guess I
look at it, and you know the old saying about
you know, if it's too good to be true, it's
too good to be true. They're not. It's not true.
That's what these are. It's an AI generated plant. Nice job,
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really colorful. And how they get by with this and
and and the websites are legit in the whole nine yards.
I have no idea, but uh, he said, is this
for real? Or is this BS? And my wife even
picked up on it and said, we're fired right back
and said it's BS. I said, whoa, how do you
know that? But anyway, it's uh, it is, it's it's uh,
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it's not for real. It's a who axe, it's a hoax,
and uh, don't be taken in by that. And again
my comment back to him was, if those were available,
don't you think every garden center would be growing those
and that would be all you would grow because everybody
like that, they think those are the greatest thing in
the world. So again, when you're online and you're looking,
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consider the source, consider what you're looking at, and if
you're not for sure if it's something that's for real
or not, email me or go to your local independent
garden center and talk to the professionals and show them
the picture and say is list legit or not? And
take it from there. And I think you know with
AI and I use you know now, I work with
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AI researching things to get sources and other information, but
I always check it, check the sources where it came from.
You know, it can be helpful, but in situations like that,
it can create things that it's just unbelievable. And that's
one of them. And you know there's somebody out there
that's going to take your money for it, and it's
a scam. So be cautious as we go through the
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through the gardening season, especially with all the gardening things
that are gonna be out there over the winter time,
trying to get them to get you to buy their
plants or seeds or whatever. If you're not sure if
it's legit, check with me, check with the local independent
garden center, and let's put our heads together and figure
out whether it is or whether it isn't before we
take a break. Dick from Dayton, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I am great? How about yourself?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
That pretty good? That today is a big day.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
It's a really big day. All kinds of old rivalries
going at each other in college football. You got Ohio State,
Ohio State in Indiana, both them undefeated. What's going to
happen there? I don't know. It could be up in
the air. Obviously I'm root for Ohio State, but the
Indiana's playing pretty.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Tough, pretty tough, pretty tough so we'll see play Buffalo tomorrow.
I think they got a chance tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I think they got a chance. Got you got your
you got your quarterback back. So there you go. The
defense can do what they need to do. Maybe we
do have a chance.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Maybe we do. But this is the one I've been
so yeah, I didn't. I think I was their guest
this morning. I've been playing a little bit with Debbie's group,
the Star City Dulsworth. We had a nice party and
then we had a big crowd at the bluegrass thing.
There was probably we had eighteen people playing the other day. Wow,
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yesterday was good.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Now get when we get into the holidays, Dick, do
you do a little bit of holiday music?
Speaker 6 (31:53):
A lot of holiday music?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Good lot?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Debbie has a special Christmas show. Now we spend half
an hour playing about ten Christmas song They're pretty I
like them on the string instruments.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You know you don't, but you don't get to sing a.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Little bit, a little bit, you know, little dead.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Now, what is your favorite Christmas song to play on
your mandolin or your ukulele or whatever you happen to
be playing.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
Rocking around the Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Rocking around the Christmas Tree.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
That's a good song. I like that one. Yeah, that's
you get the crowd up and dancing.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Yeah. Yeah, it's been pretty nice. And I wish my
cousin Cleveland, she had a birthday and she wants to
maybe come down this year and see me. Bring the boys,
because you know, they're a part of the family I
was in. But yeah, I've been doing pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
You know good. We'll keep it up and I look
forward to talking to you next Saturday. Okay, all right,
Tackler bye bye. Tick from Dayton. Right there, ladies and gentlemen.
By the way, we take a break, we come back
top of the hour. Sure, got our guests coming up.
First of all, we're going to talk to Laura Cuncle.
Laura is the executive director of America in Bloom. Yeah.
They're going to be celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary and
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the twenty twenty six of growing Vibrant Communities. And we've
had them on our show before, and I'll tell you
what their programs are outstanding. If you want to get
your community involved in making it more colorful, well, let
her explain everything that they do. They have the programs
for you, plus they judge all of these and they
have contests and you can win things and old nine yards.
(33:32):
But it's American Bloom. You can check their website America
in bloom dot org. We'll talk to her at the
top of the hour. Bottom of the hour, our wild
Winged Wonder will be with us Monica Bruce Baker from
Wildbirds Unlimited, talking about what we should be doing for
our birdies, wild birdies as we go into the winter season.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two fivey five. That's
our number here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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We are talking yardening at eight hundred and eighty two
three eight two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boy. Don't forget. Our website is Ron
Wilson online dot com. Our planet of the week this
week is Christmas cactus Christmas cactus. I love Christmas cactus.
You know, besides the pon Setia, the Christmas cactus is
is the punt Setia, which was our plan of the
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week last week. Probably the second most recognizable holiday plant
that's out there, obviously the cut Christmas tree, the live
Christmas tree would be the first, and I put on
Setia next, and I put the Christmas cactus as third,
although Amarillis is coming in right there with it as
well as it continues to grow in popularity too. But
I'll tell you Christmas cactus so easy to grow. And yes,
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there are Thanksgiving cactus that typically flower earlier, three or
four weeks earlier around Thanksgiving. There's the Christmas cactus, and
there's the Easter cactus that flowers later in the late
winter early spring, and usually it typically right around Easter.
They all three look a little different if you look
at the foliage, and they all three are actually different species,
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two of them the same genus, and all three of
them are different in some aspect, but pretty interesting plant.
But my point being is, you know, once theeds are
done flowering for the holiday season, they're so easy to grow.
I mean, these are really easy houseplans to grow all
three of them. And then of course you get the
bonus of the flowering around the holiday season or depending
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on what it is. And by the way, if you
still can't all the difference between yours and looking at
the foliage, and it usually is pretty pretty evident Thanksgiving
cactus if the flowers has yellow pollen. Christmas cactus when
it flowers has pink pollen, and then the Easter cactus
has more of a purple pink pollen, So the pollen
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is actually different. So you can take a look at
the flower and know it's a little bit difference. But
the biggest thing is right now is if you buy
a Christmas cactus at a place that sells holiday plants,
you know the transition going from where it was to
your house can sometimes cause some of those buds to
start to drought. Flower buds start to drop a little bit.
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Don't panic, don't over water, soca dry, soca dry, that
type of watering, and remember they're not a cactus, so
you do what you do. Water these water, let it
dry out, water, let it dry out, but just keep
it a medium light, bright light, but medium light, nothing
direct away from the doors and away from the heat vents,
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just like the pont setia, and they actually do better
in cooler temperatures. As a matter of fact, if you've
had a hard time getting any of these to flower,
remember they are short day plants, so as the days
get shorter, that helps to trigger them to flower. Just
like the pont Setia. All right, Letting them go a
little bit more in the drier side through the fall
before they flower sometimes will help them set up the
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flower buds a little bit. And Third, and I think
this is the key. They love cooler temperatures late summer,
early fall. So if you can expose them to fifteen
to fifty five degree nighttime temperatures for a couple of weeks,
that really helps to set up those flower buds. So
keep that in mind as you're growing these cactus. A
lot of folks that have them that know and they
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don't like warmer temperatures, and when they're inside they actually
flower better and do better at less than seventy degrees,
So keep that in mind. But I'll tell you this
is another one of those plants, like I talk about
amarillis after the holidays, going out and scarfing those up
and growing those over the wintertime for wintercolor. Christmas cactus
are the same way. Easy plant to grow, great house plant,
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great in a hanging basket, great in a container. Scarf
those things up there, done flowering, that's okay, growing for
next year. And the thing about Christmas cactus also, it's
amazing how many folks we'll take some of those pieces
like pads. Take them in and root them. They're very
easy to root and share those with a family member.
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So the family members all have Christmas cactus from the
same plant. Kint them an airloom plant and pass it along.
Pass it a long plant that you can share with
other people as well. But anyway, tips about that is
on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com. Same
thing with the ponsetia, same thing with your cut Christmas tree.
And Rita's recipe for some reason, did not make it
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up there this week. It's her famous peppermint bark and
it's nearly easy for you to make. It's expensive to buy.
We'll make sure Joe gets out up there next week,
and if you want it this weekend, just send me
an email and I will get that back to you
on Monday. Don and Columbus, good morning. Hey, Hey, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
You Oh fine? So I hate to see I hate
to see you go to the dark side using AI.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Well, you know, the think of it is, I haven't
set up so that if I ask a question and
it gives me a summary. Also to the right hand side,
it gives me the four to five sources that it
pulled it from and many times it's the issue extension,
cornell or whatever, so I can actually look at that
and compare the notes. I don't always use it, but
there are times where it can save you a little
(40:35):
bit of time. But you gotta check it to make
sure the facts are right.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
I'm just opposed to AI because I used to before.
But it's apparently, you know, the CEOs of the companies
privately say like, yeah, those are twenty percent chance that
lifestyle humanity.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
That's that's not that Yeah, No, I get it, I
get it.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
But no I am we have a little I have
a little tip. We got a new kitten this year,
and you know, like all the new kittens, he loves
to climb on trees and plants, and the monster was
basically his cat towel, and so he hates bananas. Apparently
this is common for cats. They some of them hate
bananas and citrus and other flavors. Well, get those little
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air fashioners you hang on your car wheel view mirror, right,
let's get those, and we hung them all on the monster,
and you know he's just like, oh, I don't like
that smell and stays off of it. It looks a
little tacky honestly, but it's Christmas time, so it kind
of a you know, wokes, I guess.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah, see it looks got the ornaments on there, and
you're ready to go. Yeah, I think the citrus, you're right.
Even outside, if you could take lemon peels and scatter
them in the landscape bed sometimes that helps to keep
cats out of the beds. So you're right, that's a
great tip citrus. I've never heard of the bananas, but
it's worth a try. But those particular smells a lot
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of times cats do not like and we'll stay away
from them. And that's a good tip for this time
of the years we go into the winter with all
the house plants out there. If you are a cat owner,
All right, quick break, we come back. Coming up the
top of the hour, we're gonna talk about America in Bloom.
Laura Kunkle, the executive director, is going to join us
at the bottom of the hour our wild winged wonder
Monica Brubaker talking about those wild birds and what you
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