December 6, 2025 • 43 mins
In this hour of "In the Garden with Ron Wilson", Ron shares his expertise on gardening gifts for the holiday season. He discusses the importance of getting kids involved in gardening and highlights some great gift ideas, including books like "Raised Bed Revolution" and "The Year Round Vegetable Gardener". Ron also talks about the benefits of using a soil knife, a versatile tool that's perfect for any gardener. Additionally, he shares some fascinating stories about crows and their intelligence, and takes calls from listeners with questions about gardening and yard care.
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning, I am Ron Wilson. I
have your personal yard boy talking about yarding moving our
way through the month of December. Only two and a
half weeks left until Christmas. Gets Christmas shopping done yet,
let me tell you something. Everybody, it seems like anymore,
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as and more and more we're going involved with working outside, gardening,
house plants, whatever may be, loves a gift from or
for the garden, and there are so many great things
out there. Gardener's Supply Catalog, Gardener's Edge Catalog, am Leonard,
so many great out there. Go to your locally owned
independent garden stores. They're set up for a gardening gifts
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for you as well. Gift cards from your locally owned
independent garden center for next spring possibility. Go online. You
can order Ammarillis bobs and haven't shipped out to your
friends or whatever. But there's so many things that are
available for the garden that it's crazy. Books gardening like
doctor Alan Armitach has all of his books on sale
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right now Alan Armeny's dot net, including his latest one,
Common Sense Gardening. But I love that one and the
other book that I love and I give for gifts
all the time is all about the naked ladies and
Forget Me nots the story behind how plants got their names.
Great little reading book, whether you're a gardener or not,
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just to learn how plants get their names. But so
many things available that have to do with plants, gardening,
house plants, whatever it may be, that make excellent gardening
tools or gardening gifts. And I'll tell you a gardening
tool that works really well, and that's a soil knife.
And you may you can google soil knife Hoary Corey's
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h O ri I Ko ri I either one of those.
You'll see all the different ones that are out there.
The one that I use, I'm not sponsored by them,
but I'll tell you the one I use is from
am Leonard, and I think their retail catalog is a
Gardener's Edge, But that's the one I use, But there
are many of them out there. I don't think you
can break the one I use. It's crazy, but a
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soil knife is an excellent It looks like a gardener
survival knife, and that makes such a great gardening gift
because you can use it for everything, digging out continu
lants and containers, digging for bulbs, transplanting, weeding, whatever may be.
It's got a serrated side on one side for cutting roots,
a sharp side on the other side. I mean it's
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got the planting depths, got the handle. Like I said,
I don't think you could break them solid. It comes
with a sheath so you can keep it in the
sheath or you don't get hurt. But every time I
take a soil knife to a garden club or garden
class or whatever it may be, and if somebody's there
doesn't know about them, they always want them because it's phenomenal.
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And those that have never had one but get one
then are saying, like, you know, I wish. I don't
know what I do without my soil knife. As a
matter of fact, I was cleaning up a couple of
weeks ago some of our containers that they had the
cannas and bananas and red red bananas and sees in
it and things like that, pretty heavily rooted ruella's that
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are hard to get out of those containers sometimes and
just took that soil knife, went right around the outside,
cut those roots, pop those bad right out of there
and into the compost you went, uh, just makes it
so darn easy for you. But anyway, soil Knife is
a great gift. And of course all the great books
that we've talked about on our show for all these
many years. I think still I think books are still
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a great thing. I know you can go online and
read a lot of things, but I still like having
that book in my hand if you if you are
interested in doing maybe you're getting started with raised bed gardening,
or you may be interested in extending your gardens. Two
books that I've talked about for years and years and
years and highly recommended. One is called Raised Bed Revolution
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by Tera Nola, and we had terror on many years
ago when she first wrote this book. It's outstanding. The
different types of soil, of the planners excuse me that
she has in there are phenomenal. The projects, the examples,
how to plant them, soil mix unreal. This is the
best book, I think when it comes to a reference
book for building raised beds called a Raised Bed Revolution
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by Tara Nolan. And again, if you don't remember these,
email me and I'll get back to you. An associate
of Tara's there's three of them that work together gardeners
in different areas of the country, but they work together
have a website together. Savvy Gardening is Nicki Jabbor and
Nicki has been on with us as well, and she
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wrote the book The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, and then
she wrote a book called Growing Undercover and how she
extends her seasons spring and fall and winter using grow cover,
straw bales, things like that. Another great book for growing
and extending your season, especially if you do raised beds.
Take it to the extreme and extend your season with
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raised beds. So those are just two of the many
books that we have talked about over the years that
are also great holiday gifts. Raised bed Revolution, Growing Undercover,
Nicki Jabbar for that one, and Tara Nolan for the
Raised Beds. Again, so many great gardening books out there, phenomenal,
you know. But again, if you're looking for something for
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somebody and you know they do any something, little something
with plants, there are so many things available for you
to buy for folks that do that, or if they
aren't involved with plants. There's a lot of kids out
there involved grow lights, things that they can do to
get the started indoors, outdoors, whatever. But you know, again,
getting somebody else involved that's never done anything as far
as gardening is a great thing to do, including those kids,
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including the kids. And I want to throw something at you.
Don't laugh when I say this, but it can be
a lot of fun. And that's chia pets. Chia pets
can be a lot of fun for kids and very
easy to do. And once you grow that first chia pet,
and they have all these characters anymore that are really
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cool that you can get from Star Wars and all
kinds of things. But anyway, you know that chia that
is it. Now. The chia seeds that they give you
with the chia pet is not graded for human consumption,
but you can buy chia seeds that you put in
your cereal and all of that that are really good
for you. But you can also use that seed to
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grow your chia, harvest the greens and actually eat that
off of your chia pet. But chia pets are a
really easy way to do that. Growing microgreens in the house,
growing herbs in the house on a windowsill. Such an
easy way to get kids involved with gardening. It's crazy.
Also going to kidsgardening dot org, great website with all
kinds of ideas for you. And again, if you're looking
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to donate, get little extra money. And again I have
nothing to do with these associations on the fact I
promote them because they do such a great job. Katie's Crops,
you know, Katie's been on our show since she was
in the fourth grade and now she's like twenty six.
Has Katie's Crops putting gardens across the United States. Oh
my gosh. Go to her website and it's with ks
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katiescrops dot com and look at what she's doing is phenomenal.
And Kidsgardening dot org websites for getting kids involved with
guarding phenomenal. Yeah, there you go. But you know, again,
get kids involved with guarding. Speaking of which, the Bonnie
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Plant free cabbage plants, all right, they give free cabbage
plants to third grade classes no matter where you live
in the United States. It's free. If you're a third
grade teacher, principal, know, somebody have a kid in the
third grade, you can apply to have that class sent
for free from Bonnie Plants. Cabbage plants, they're the mammoth cabbages.
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And that's how Katie get started doing all this for
free and they ship them depending on when the planting
time is in your particular region. Go to Bonnie Plants.
You can google Bonnie Plants Free Cabbage Program third Grade whatever.
It'll bring it up for you and apply for that
absolutely free. And what a great way to get kids
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involved with gardening. Again, keep that one in mind for
you as well. And I want to put a shout
out to a program that was put together in Europe
and also they did some of these in Canada called
Bulbs for Kids. Bulbs for Kids. They gave away to
two thousand and sixty individual classes, now not to each kid,
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but to each class. They gave these bulb Kids away
and wound up all these classes planted one point two
million flower bulbs this fall in the Netherlands, Germany, England, France,
Canada and Sweden. And you know was sponsored by bulb
Growers and all. And this Bulbs for Kids eyeball the
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promotional organization of Royal Anthos and their goal is to
promote the use of flower bulbs, buldflowers and potted bulbs
internationally for kids to get involved with gardening and planting these.
And then there's a contest where your class planet all
these take a picture of it in the springtime and
there's a chance to win the prizes and things like that. Again,
one of the great ways of getting kids involved with
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gardening called Bulbs for Kids, gave away one point two
million flower bulbs to classes in Netherlands, Germany, England, France,
Canada and Sweden to get those kids involved with gardening.
What an absolute great way to get them started. One
last thing, We'll take a break and pat hang on,
I'll get you out right after the break. The National
Gardening Bureau NGB dot org always have their Plants of
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the Year. They're having a People's Choice Green Thumb Award
and you can go to their website and they have
a new annuals, new perennials, new gardening tools. You read
about them, look at them and vote on which one
you like the best. It's really cool. It's a great
way to see some of these new products that are
coming along and then you vote as well. Go to
the website NNGB dot org, pretty easy, NGB dot or
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and it's the twenty twenty six Green Thumb Award competition
and vote for the plants and the the products that
are on there. And I think they're giving away some
prizes and things like that as well. But again another
great thing for you to do now that we're getting
into the winter season. But jump on this one right away.
NGB dot org gardening gifts at Christmas and get the
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kids involved with gardening as well. Quick break, we come back,
Pat from Delaware. You're coming up next. Phone lines are
open for you at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (14:12):
Welcome back, talking to yarding at eight hundred and eight
two three eight two five five to Delaware we go, Pat,
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Good morning Ron.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
You don't have too much snow on the ground up there.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But not too much.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Well, we got a dusting, but it's been freezing rain
every night, so I'd rather have the snow.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
To say, I'll take the snow.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Yeah, you mentioned the soil knives, and I followed your
advice years ago and I did pick up a M
Leonard And what I would recommend is also getting the
one that has the clip on leather sheet mm hmm
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that way, And that's when I got When you move
around doing things, it's you don't have your handful holding something,
you know, and then the soil knife. So it may
cost a little bit more, but it's well worth it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, and it doesn't put a hole in your in
your back pocket like I have. Yeah, I do those
things that are sharp, Yeah, they will. And I always
have the handheld, those little dram pruners, and I put
those in there, and that's got a sheath, but I
don't use it. I put them both in my pocket
and then I have holes in my pocket and then
I yell at myself. But you know, that's what can
(15:38):
I say? Now, you know what, Pat, you can also
take that the next step further. They have one it's
a combo. If you look on your catalog, that's got
the soil knife in the front of the sheath and
a pair of hand pruners in the back of that sheath.
So you've got your pruners and your soil knife all
in the same sheath. And that's a pretty combo. Yeah.
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And it's a really nice pair of pruners.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
And one other thing you were talking about how you
like clothes.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Out where I live, it's funny because we do have
hawks and there's a pretty good grouping of smaller wrens
and when the hawks will show up, they start going nuts,
and then the clothes show up and start dive bombing
the hawk and chases chases it off because the hawk
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wants to eat the smaller wrens in the clothes are
going like, no, get out of our territories.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Isn't that amazing? I don't and you may not have
caught this at one of the shows. I don't know,
probably about a month and a half ago, two months ago,
talking about we had an eagle. We have more and
more eagles showing up in our area. And I had
an eagle that actually came in our backyard. And this
eagle just out of nowhere and I saw him go
by the window. This thing was huge, came down, swept down,
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went back up into the trees behind our house, came around,
landing on the roof, and went back over the trees.
And then all of a sudden, as I'm watching this
this eagle, I hear this these crows in the background
and there were probably ten or twelve of them coming
across the field and then they went after that eagle.
That eagle was huge, and there were ten or twelve
of them just picking at his butt all the way
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across the field. You know, We're all around the back
of them, screaming and screaming and screaming and chase that
eagle off and I never did see him stop, and
he kept going. And You're just like, you got to
be kidding me.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
But I think crowser you're watching, it's like you're watching
a World War team maybe yeah, with a dog fight.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well now, I guess that's why they call him a
murder of crows, right, yeah, so there you go. But
I think crows are out that they're phenomenal. I think there.
I love watching crows. They're bigger than I think most
people think, and they are smartest. Heck, there's no doubt
about it.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Yeah, all right, Patty, Well you'all have a great weekend,
and thank you for and then join your show for
fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I appreciate that, pat appreciate you calling in and listening
to our show as well. Have a good weekend, all right,
take care. Yeah, and I do I think the crows
that's phenomenal. And my dad taught me how to My
dad could call crows and when I was a kid,
he taught me how to do that and I can
still do. I haven't done it in a long time.
I did it a couple of years ago and it
still worked. But he taught me how to do that.
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And you can call them up and just sit still
and watch them do their thing. But they're just to me,
they're just amazing birds. By the way, talking about we're
talking about kids and getting kids involved, and of course
that backyard bird counts another way to get kids involved
with gardening in a roundabout way. Of course, bird feeders
are as well, and they're still from Wildbird's Unlimited or
a piece of cake. They are so easy to do.
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One other thing and we'll talk about this maybe in
their next week's show or following show, but getting kids
involved with gardening over the wintertime, growing plants from kitchen scraps,
and you know, we've talked about this for years, but
it's so easy to do. And of course it doesn't
have to be the kids. It could be you too
if you just want to do something that is a
little bit of fun. But there's so many of the
kitchen scraps, especially greens and root crops that we use
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when we're cooking, that if you save the inn, save
a little bit of the rooted part or whatever the tops.
You can replant those avocado seeds, pineapples, and I have
done the pineapple from the pineapple top to actually flowering
and setting fruit, which is kind of hard to do.
But we'll talk about how to do that as well.
But that's another thing that you can keep in mind
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as we get into the wintertime is growing plants from
kitchen scraps. Right quick break, we come back. We're taking
O taking your calls. Eight hundred eight two three two
five five website Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page.
In the Garden with Ron Wilson. It's all happening here
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Talking to you aready get eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five again our website run Wilson online
dot com. We've got our plan of the week. Last
week was the Ponsetia. Great history behind that. And you
know what's interesting about the pon Setia and you all
know the story. It's been told a bazillion times, but
it was named after Robert Joel point Set, which I
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think was ambassador to Mexico, and they really didn't like him,
but he was He was into plants, kind of a botanist,
a minor politics as major, I guess, and found just
you know, saw the Ponsetia down there, brought some back
to the United States, gave them to a horticultural friend
of his who propagated a few. Next thing you know,
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they're handing them out to friends, and the next thing
you know, it's become next to the cut Christmas tree,
the most popular Christmas plan out there. And the folks
at Ecki Ponseti, a ranch in California, are the ones
that really brought that to the forefront. But think about that,
brought a few plants back, experimental with them, like them
at the holidays, other people saw them. Next thing you know,
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you got this great plant. And by the way, the
plants saut of as again myth busting here is not
deathly toxic to humans slash cats and dogs, all right.
The Ohio State University did research on this many many
years ago, and you had to eat four hundred, four
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hundred leaves. A kid would to get sick, and they're bitter.
He wouldn't want to eat one anyway, but would be
bitter and would just get them sick. And I think
the SSPCA has taken that off their list also, and
not being deathly toxic to cats and dogs. Now if
it's an older dog that's sick or an older cat
that's sick, could make them sicker, but they've taken that
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off their list as well, so again they're not definitely toxic.
If you're concerned about it, set it up on the
on the shelf so the pets can't get to it,
but it is at one time it was the most
popular potted plant grown in the world, where more poont
Seti has grown in containers than any other plant in
the entire world. Was kind of interesting also, real quick,
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and we'll go back to the gardening phone lines. If
you have a tree rose that's planted in the ground,
a lot of folks I discover are don't understand that
those are not really that hardy over the winter time.
You have to protect those over the winter, even though
it may be a knockout rose or a hardy rose
on the top, those are very subject to dying out
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over the wintertime. And there are several ways to protect it.
If it's in a container, it's great this moving inside
an unheated garage, bring it back out in the springtime.
Otherwise you either have to build a cage around it
and insulate it, or dig half of the roots system,
lean it over to the ground, peg it down, covered
with mulch, and over winter it that way. I have
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a tip sheet on how to take care of tree
roses for winter care. If you'd like it, I will
email it to you. Also, same thing with not the
same thing, but with tree hydrangeas that are again on
the tree hydradja on the top. Winter protection. Got to
make sure they're steaked, make sure they're sturdy. I personally
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will take the flowers off of them because I don't
if I'm in an area where you gets snow and
ice is definitely because those can cause those branches to break,
So I usually will take those off then do the
pruning in the springtime. Again, if you want a tip
sheet on protecting and growing the tree hydradja, I have
a tip sheet for that. Just email me and I
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will send eat one of those back to you to
help you take care of those over the winter season
and during the growing season as well. To the gardening
phone lines. We shall go to Tennessee. Jeremiah, good morning.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Good morning, thanks for taking my call. Man, y'all got
the cruier show Man. I've learned so much from y'all.
Was unbelievable. But the reason I called heard y'all talking
about earlier about those crows that were attacking that eagle.
And I used to do a lot of hunting and
trapping for a living, and I seen some amazing things
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that I wished I could have got on a video camera.
But anyway, I was sitting in the bottom next to
Ruby Lee Swamp watching the sixty acre field, waiting for
the deer come out, and I heard crows squawking, and
I looked up and I watched this until they flew
completely out of sight. These two crows would elevate over
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the top of this redtail hawk and then dive bomb
him and hit him in his back. He'd lose elevation
until he could catch his wingspan again and rise back up,
and by the time he could get back up and
that they'd hit him again. These crows were trying to
kill that redtail hawk, and I never seen anything like
it before. It's crazy because that redtail hawk was three
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times a side as of both of them put together,
you know what I mean. And then another thing I
seen that I thought was amazing. This shows you how
smart crows are. I accidentally stumbled around the bend in
another field one day, and this crow didn't realize I
was there, so I kept my eyes squint in case
he looked up at me. He wouldn't see the whites
of my eyes. And I was watching he was on
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the ground. I was trying to figure out what you're doing.
He had a stick in one foot and he would
pull it through his beak, and then he was poking
into in a hole in the ground, and then he
pulled it back out and running through his beak again,
and I realized what he was doing. Then he was
putting saliva on that stick, and the ants were sticking
to that thing, and he was pulling them up and
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eating them asks off the stick and then poking it
back in the hole and getting more of them.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Isn't that something? They're smart? I tell you what, that's amazing.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
So I just wanted to share that way you and
tell you thank you for your programs.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Hey, Jeremiah, I appreciate that I appreciate the stalking about
the cross of light crows forever. And as you know,
I think they're outstanding. I know a lot of people don't,
but I just it's a that verd is. I love
watching them, just like he just said, Alan in Ohio,
good morning.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Hey, I got a problem in my backyard. I got
like this moss, you know, like the kind of that
forest juice and bottom like a moss, and I can't
get rid of it. Just keeps growing. If I spray
it with like round up or whatever, it just comes back.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Right.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
I just need to trying to figure out how to
get rid of it because I can't get grass seat
to grow there because it like chokes it out.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Is it? Is it a shady area?
Speaker 8 (28:40):
Yeah? I got some trees there and then I got
woods behind.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Me, all right, and so so what you look at,
you know, And and the bottom line is this. You
can spray it with. There are commercial moss killers. You
can spray it with round up or kills all. You
can spray it as easy as baking soda in warm
water will burn it off and keep it off for
about six or eight weeks. But unless you change the environment,
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it'll always come back so and it doesn't choke out
the grass. It just grows where grass doesn't want to grow.
So what your goal is is now is you know
you could never kill it out, just change the environment
and make it go away. By changing the environment several things.
One is, if it's really shady, if you can limb
up the trees a little bit, get a little more
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sunlight and a little more airflow in that area. That's
number one. That'll that'll help you out. Now I'm ascill
growing full sun, but that'll help you in that aspect.
Number two, core air rate the area, go through and
core air rate it, open it up because compaction it
moss loves compaction. Open it back up, and then reslice
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seed and reseed that area. And then use a fertilizer
on a regular basis, a lawn food, and you'll find
that the high nitrogen will also help to keep the
moss from growing and of course help encourage the grass
from growing. And then look at a type of grass
that you know does best in a shadier area. Now,
grass doesn't like to grow in shade, but if you
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can do that, change the environment. Look at either creeping
red fescue or the turf type tall rescues. If you
can't get either one of those to go to grow there,
you're not going to get any grass to grow. But
changing the environment has to be done or you can
just keep killing it and killing it and killing it.
But it's just going to keep coming back and coming
back and coming back.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
Okay, Now, the areating schedule that like every year, yeah,
like every other year, every other year. I'll try to
do it every other year. I do the core area
eighty one year. Then the next year, I'll take a
roller and roll the yard.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Don't roll the yard because or at least not that area,
because now you're you're you're combating what you just did.
The core aeration opens up the soil, rolling the lawn
packs it back down again. So you know, I would
I would try to stay away from the roller unless
it's absolutely necessary and just do the core aerating on
a regular base.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And I think you'll find doing that changing the environment.
Grass will grow, Moss eventually will not grow or not
grow as much.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Okay, cool, Okay, thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You're welcome. Welcome, Alan, appreciate the call, appreciate listening to
our show quick Break, We come back guess who's up next.
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Speaker 1 (33:00):
Back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. Time for
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Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Did you see it? Did you see it, mister Wilson,
mister Sullivan, did you see it?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Mister Sullivan, Yes, sir. It's getting more negative responses on
the Internet than any color choice ever in the history
of doing this.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
What are we talking about, ladies and gentlemen. We're talking
about Pantones color of the Year, finally finally released this
week after everybody else has released all their different colors,
and this one count and they don't count, and this
one ain't even close. Everybody else's all. Although although Gary,
it makes sense to me. The folks at Garden Media
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that always picks their color of the year, and they've
been closed sometimes and off sometimes. Twenty twenty six Garden
Trends report actually had faded pedal, Oh okay, which is
faded out a cloud dancer. This year it is cloud dancer.
Most people would look at that and say it's white. Yeah,
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well it's a hue of white. I guess you could
say off white. And of course they've got their whole
explanation behind the whole thing. It says it offers promise
of clarity.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Well that would be white.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
It's interesting though, really, and I know you notice because
we've talked about it too, is pantones color of the ear.
Everybody thinks that's like pink colors, and obviously it is
a paint color, But that's not where all their research
goes from comes from, right, I mean, it's the fashion industry,
furniture industry, pain industry. And when you think about it,
(35:10):
because I was shocked, just like you were and probably
everybody else, like the color of the year is off white, yeah,
And because usually it's the other way, they made a
Tangerina's color the year come on, and then it would
go on to explain, well, you could always use this
for an accent. Well, blah blah blah blah blah, but really,
what are you seeing in houses, interiors and X tiers
(35:33):
now is white and black. We were talking about this
three months ago, remember.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
You brought up the thing about the black, especially in
the exterior, and then we are seeing it more on
walls and ceilings and stuff inside, and that you are right.
Ever since you said that, its like, oh, there's a
house all sudden it's black.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah. I mean I've seen them where I'll be driving
through a neighborhood. I hold it that house was never
white and now the brick is now white.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah, trumps it out black.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
And it's got to be. So I do think that
is probably relevant, that color. So I think we're always
expecting a color that just wows you, you know, that
you just look at and you go like, God, I
really love that color. Or a lot of times we
look at and say who the periwinkle, probably about four
(36:26):
years ago or so, and I was like, well, I
don't want that in my house. Well maybe it came
from the furniture industry, and it was of I don't know,
a lamp or something, you know, I mean maybe we're
seeing in clothing and scarves and it became kind of
the color of the year. So I don't know. But anyway,
(36:46):
cloud dancer.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Folks, white folks are looking to step back, and I'm
not so sure.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
It's not very exciting. It's not a color that's going
to wow you. But I think it's a really relevant
color on where we're at right now.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But sure, while the internet, yeah, wow, all kinds of
mud on this one. I know.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I had to regain my h control of my feet
after that. It's like, whoa sit down, let's think about this.
Why didn't? And then I'm really the more I thought
about it, I'm thinking, like, it really does kind of
make sense. That's really where a lot of things have
been going, is away from the real rich color and
going to more coolish colors, lighter colors, and then houses
(37:29):
with the white and then the black trimmed offset it.
So it kind of makes sense to me, black friend,
and I'm loving it. But have I ever said what
he pick a color of the ear? Yes, they finally
got it right.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
No, but there's been a couple of them that were okay,
some of the real like the grays, and it's like this,
I look at that way, like I really like gray
kind of falls into that same category to me. Yeah yeah,
but yeah, so as I saw that, I think I
got to notice, like Tuesday, yeah, yeah, same, fronted it
out and said, oh wait, I get to talk to
Gary Saturday about that.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Well, you know when they used to do the Pantone
Color of the Year's it was the end of August,
beginning of September, oh clockwork every year, and you and
I talked about this, and then everybody started doing one.
Every paint manufacturer had their color of the year. Then
we got the color of the month and and then
it's like I quit, I don't care, And I kind
(38:24):
of forgot about it till we talked about it two
weeks ago, and I said, you, did you ever see
a Color of the Year from Pantone this year? You know,
I haven't. I haven't when I opened up the email,
Oh about time.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, And I think we kind of said the same
thing last year, and I think they're smart. I think
we both concluded that everybody else is doing this, so
get it out of the system. Do all your things,
and then Pantone is going to come along at the
end and say this is the color, the color of
the year.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
And it is I mean history of Pantone with color
in all fields, even architecturally. You know, with PMS numbers
for every shade and color, you can imagine they keep
track to that. I mean, you can trademark that. So
they're the experts. And if they say that's the color.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Of the ear, who might argue that's right?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Cloud Dancer, Cloud Dancer, I wan't go paint my house,
Cloud Dancer, I.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Can see doing the walls.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Cloud Dancer, I want to see missus Sullivan's reaction when
you do that.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Well, that's the only reaction that counts.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yes, Gary, is our house supposed to look like that? Gary?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Why is that wall blue? But Gary will paint it
back to his other color. Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You know you could do that. You could do paint
color of the year every year, like in your basement,
like a piece of the wall. That would be cool,
and so every year you'd have so when you went
down there, you'd see all the different colors from twenty
years back.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Did you see the article that Pantuons sent you where
they had the last twenty five years of color of
the Years. I don't know if it was the same
email that you got that I got.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
No, I didn't see that, but it was.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
It had after it announced it and had had the
color and the name and everything and talked a little
bit about it, and then they had the the last
twenty five years of the color of the year. It
was pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I bet no they I had the I see here
and now I had the link.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Oh, okay, I click, I just print.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I just printed out the opening thing.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Okay, it's pretty interesting. There's some wildish color there, But
I like last year wasn't last year the moca cocoa
or something.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It was.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I kind of like that. I thought there was a
very soothing darkness.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
There's been a few of those. You and I are
more on the earthy color. Yeah, I think so, there's
been a few of them. We both like said that. Yeah,
I could, I could apply that.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Yeah, there's always room for a little color. There's a
little room for a little white also.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Uh, probably more than yeah, yeah, I mean now, like
I said anything else, probably.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Seventy eighty years ago, a lot of houses were white
with black trim kind of went away, and now we're
seeing all out of it again. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
And I never noticed it to you said, that, is
that right? Well, I didn't really pay attention to it.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
I started noticing it. Actually. My first tip off on
it was when my daughter tore her house down right,
should have the foundation, and she was telling me she's
buying black windows. I'm going you do what? Yeah, And
I started doing all this looking into that, and that
was right at the beginning. I mean, that's probably been
eight years ago, and I'm like, oh, okay, yeah I could.
(41:29):
I could kind of see it. And she's got a
a nice little southern home in Charlotte and it's a
white brick and she's got black door, black windows. And
that was kind of when I got my eyes open
to it. And that was pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
I'll dad was wrong.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Well I'm done right now.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Well you weren't wrong, but you just.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
I was just saying, that's unique. And then I remember
even talking to other window makers, is black getting into
your you know category line? And it's like, oh yeah, yeah,
we're definitely getting pressure for that.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
So what are we talking about today?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Flout Dancer, Go figure, Go go fall pipe or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
All right, Gary Sullivan coming up next to up. He's
not find out why he's not complain do whatever, Go
those websites, Gary Sullivan online dot com. Have a great weekend, SIRT,
have a great show. Thanks all of our colors, Thanks
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Speaker 7 (42:37):
Landscaping ladies here with your personal yard boy. He's hitting
the garden and he's Ron Wilson.
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning, I am Ron Wilson. I
have your personal yard boy talking about yarding moving our
way through the month of December. Only two and a
half weeks left until Christmas. Gets Christmas shopping done yet,
let me tell you something. Everybody, it seems like anymore,
(00:58):
as and more and more we're going involved with working outside, gardening,
house plants, whatever may be, loves a gift from or
for the garden, and there are so many great things
out there. Gardener's Supply Catalog, Gardener's Edge Catalog, am Leonard,
so many great out there. Go to your locally owned
independent garden stores. They're set up for a gardening gifts
(01:21):
for you as well. Gift cards from your locally owned
independent garden center for next spring possibility. Go online. You
can order Ammarillis bobs and haven't shipped out to your
friends or whatever. But there's so many things that are
available for the garden that it's crazy. Books gardening like
doctor Alan Armitach has all of his books on sale
(01:44):
right now Alan Armeny's dot net, including his latest one,
Common Sense Gardening. But I love that one and the
other book that I love and I give for gifts
all the time is all about the naked ladies and
Forget Me nots the story behind how plants got their names.
Great little reading book, whether you're a gardener or not,
(02:05):
just to learn how plants get their names. But so
many things available that have to do with plants, gardening,
house plants, whatever it may be, that make excellent gardening
tools or gardening gifts. And I'll tell you a gardening
tool that works really well, and that's a soil knife.
And you may you can google soil knife Hoary Corey's
(02:27):
h O ri I Ko ri I either one of those.
You'll see all the different ones that are out there.
The one that I use, I'm not sponsored by them,
but I'll tell you the one I use is from
am Leonard, and I think their retail catalog is a
Gardener's Edge, But that's the one I use, But there
are many of them out there. I don't think you
can break the one I use. It's crazy, but a
(02:50):
soil knife is an excellent It looks like a gardener
survival knife, and that makes such a great gardening gift
because you can use it for everything, digging out continu
lants and containers, digging for bulbs, transplanting, weeding, whatever may be.
It's got a serrated side on one side for cutting roots,
a sharp side on the other side. I mean it's
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got the planting depths, got the handle. Like I said,
I don't think you could break them solid. It comes
with a sheath so you can keep it in the
sheath or you don't get hurt. But every time I
take a soil knife to a garden club or garden
class or whatever it may be, and if somebody's there
doesn't know about them, they always want them because it's phenomenal.
(03:31):
And those that have never had one but get one
then are saying, like, you know, I wish. I don't
know what I do without my soil knife. As a
matter of fact, I was cleaning up a couple of
weeks ago some of our containers that they had the
cannas and bananas and red red bananas and sees in
it and things like that, pretty heavily rooted ruella's that
(03:52):
are hard to get out of those containers sometimes and
just took that soil knife, went right around the outside,
cut those roots, pop those bad right out of there
and into the compost you went, uh, just makes it
so darn easy for you. But anyway, soil Knife is
a great gift. And of course all the great books
that we've talked about on our show for all these
many years. I think still I think books are still
(04:16):
a great thing. I know you can go online and
read a lot of things, but I still like having
that book in my hand if you if you are
interested in doing maybe you're getting started with raised bed gardening,
or you may be interested in extending your gardens. Two
books that I've talked about for years and years and
years and highly recommended. One is called Raised Bed Revolution
(04:38):
by Tera Nola, and we had terror on many years
ago when she first wrote this book. It's outstanding. The
different types of soil, of the planners excuse me that
she has in there are phenomenal. The projects, the examples,
how to plant them, soil mix unreal. This is the
best book, I think when it comes to a reference
book for building raised beds called a Raised Bed Revolution
(05:02):
by Tara Nolan. And again, if you don't remember these,
email me and I'll get back to you. An associate
of Tara's there's three of them that work together gardeners
in different areas of the country, but they work together
have a website together. Savvy Gardening is Nicki Jabbor and
Nicki has been on with us as well, and she
(05:22):
wrote the book The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, and then
she wrote a book called Growing Undercover and how she
extends her seasons spring and fall and winter using grow cover,
straw bales, things like that. Another great book for growing
and extending your season, especially if you do raised beds.
Take it to the extreme and extend your season with
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raised beds. So those are just two of the many
books that we have talked about over the years that
are also great holiday gifts. Raised bed Revolution, Growing Undercover,
Nicki Jabbar for that one, and Tara Nolan for the
Raised Beds. Again, so many great gardening books out there, phenomenal,
you know. But again, if you're looking for something for
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somebody and you know they do any something, little something
with plants, there are so many things available for you
to buy for folks that do that, or if they
aren't involved with plants. There's a lot of kids out
there involved grow lights, things that they can do to
get the started indoors, outdoors, whatever. But you know, again,
getting somebody else involved that's never done anything as far
as gardening is a great thing to do, including those kids,
(06:31):
including the kids. And I want to throw something at you.
Don't laugh when I say this, but it can be
a lot of fun. And that's chia pets. Chia pets
can be a lot of fun for kids and very
easy to do. And once you grow that first chia pet,
and they have all these characters anymore that are really
(06:52):
cool that you can get from Star Wars and all
kinds of things. But anyway, you know that chia that
is it. Now. The chia seeds that they give you
with the chia pet is not graded for human consumption,
but you can buy chia seeds that you put in
your cereal and all of that that are really good
for you. But you can also use that seed to
(07:14):
grow your chia, harvest the greens and actually eat that
off of your chia pet. But chia pets are a
really easy way to do that. Growing microgreens in the house,
growing herbs in the house on a windowsill. Such an
easy way to get kids involved with gardening. It's crazy.
Also going to kidsgardening dot org, great website with all
kinds of ideas for you. And again, if you're looking
(07:35):
to donate, get little extra money. And again I have
nothing to do with these associations on the fact I
promote them because they do such a great job. Katie's Crops,
you know, Katie's been on our show since she was
in the fourth grade and now she's like twenty six.
Has Katie's Crops putting gardens across the United States. Oh
my gosh. Go to her website and it's with ks
(07:56):
katiescrops dot com and look at what she's doing is phenomenal.
And Kidsgardening dot org websites for getting kids involved with
guarding phenomenal. Yeah, there you go. But you know, again,
get kids involved with guarding. Speaking of which, the Bonnie
(08:18):
Plant free cabbage plants, all right, they give free cabbage
plants to third grade classes no matter where you live
in the United States. It's free. If you're a third
grade teacher, principal, know, somebody have a kid in the
third grade, you can apply to have that class sent
for free from Bonnie Plants. Cabbage plants, they're the mammoth cabbages.
(08:42):
And that's how Katie get started doing all this for
free and they ship them depending on when the planting
time is in your particular region. Go to Bonnie Plants.
You can google Bonnie Plants Free Cabbage Program third Grade whatever.
It'll bring it up for you and apply for that
absolutely free. And what a great way to get kids
(09:03):
involved with gardening. Again, keep that one in mind for
you as well. And I want to put a shout
out to a program that was put together in Europe
and also they did some of these in Canada called
Bulbs for Kids. Bulbs for Kids. They gave away to
two thousand and sixty individual classes, now not to each kid,
(09:25):
but to each class. They gave these bulb Kids away
and wound up all these classes planted one point two
million flower bulbs this fall in the Netherlands, Germany, England, France,
Canada and Sweden. And you know was sponsored by bulb
Growers and all. And this Bulbs for Kids eyeball the
(09:50):
promotional organization of Royal Anthos and their goal is to
promote the use of flower bulbs, buldflowers and potted bulbs
internationally for kids to get involved with gardening and planting these.
And then there's a contest where your class planet all
these take a picture of it in the springtime and
there's a chance to win the prizes and things like that. Again,
one of the great ways of getting kids involved with
(10:11):
gardening called Bulbs for Kids, gave away one point two
million flower bulbs to classes in Netherlands, Germany, England, France,
Canada and Sweden to get those kids involved with gardening.
What an absolute great way to get them started. One
last thing, We'll take a break and pat hang on,
I'll get you out right after the break. The National
Gardening Bureau NGB dot org always have their Plants of
(10:35):
the Year. They're having a People's Choice Green Thumb Award
and you can go to their website and they have
a new annuals, new perennials, new gardening tools. You read
about them, look at them and vote on which one
you like the best. It's really cool. It's a great
way to see some of these new products that are
coming along and then you vote as well. Go to
the website NNGB dot org, pretty easy, NGB dot or
(11:00):
and it's the twenty twenty six Green Thumb Award competition
and vote for the plants and the the products that
are on there. And I think they're giving away some
prizes and things like that as well. But again another
great thing for you to do now that we're getting
into the winter season. But jump on this one right away.
NGB dot org gardening gifts at Christmas and get the
(11:21):
kids involved with gardening as well. Quick break, we come back,
Pat from Delaware. You're coming up next. Phone lines are
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Speaker 1 (14:12):
Welcome back, talking to yarding at eight hundred and eight
two three eight two five five to Delaware we go, Pat,
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Good morning Ron.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
You don't have too much snow on the ground up there.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But not too much.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Well, we got a dusting, but it's been freezing rain
every night, so I'd rather have the snow.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
To say, I'll take the snow.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Yeah, you mentioned the soil knives, and I followed your
advice years ago and I did pick up a M
Leonard And what I would recommend is also getting the
one that has the clip on leather sheet mm hmm
(15:00):
that way, And that's when I got When you move
around doing things, it's you don't have your handful holding something,
you know, and then the soil knife. So it may
cost a little bit more, but it's well worth it.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, and it doesn't put a hole in your in
your back pocket like I have. Yeah, I do those
things that are sharp, Yeah, they will. And I always
have the handheld, those little dram pruners, and I put
those in there, and that's got a sheath, but I
don't use it. I put them both in my pocket
and then I have holes in my pocket and then
I yell at myself. But you know, that's what can
(15:38):
I say? Now, you know what, Pat, you can also
take that the next step further. They have one it's
a combo. If you look on your catalog, that's got
the soil knife in the front of the sheath and
a pair of hand pruners in the back of that sheath.
So you've got your pruners and your soil knife all
in the same sheath. And that's a pretty combo. Yeah.
(16:01):
And it's a really nice pair of pruners.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
And one other thing you were talking about how you
like clothes.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Out where I live, it's funny because we do have
hawks and there's a pretty good grouping of smaller wrens
and when the hawks will show up, they start going nuts,
and then the clothes show up and start dive bombing
the hawk and chases chases it off because the hawk
(16:39):
wants to eat the smaller wrens in the clothes are
going like, no, get out of our territories.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Isn't that amazing? I don't and you may not have
caught this at one of the shows. I don't know,
probably about a month and a half ago, two months ago,
talking about we had an eagle. We have more and
more eagles showing up in our area. And I had
an eagle that actually came in our backyard. And this
eagle just out of nowhere and I saw him go
by the window. This thing was huge, came down, swept down,
(17:08):
went back up into the trees behind our house, came around,
landing on the roof, and went back over the trees.
And then all of a sudden, as I'm watching this
this eagle, I hear this these crows in the background
and there were probably ten or twelve of them coming
across the field and then they went after that eagle.
That eagle was huge, and there were ten or twelve
of them just picking at his butt all the way
(17:30):
across the field. You know, We're all around the back
of them, screaming and screaming and screaming and chase that
eagle off and I never did see him stop, and
he kept going. And You're just like, you got to
be kidding me.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
But I think crowser you're watching, it's like you're watching
a World War team maybe yeah, with a dog fight.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well now, I guess that's why they call him a
murder of crows, right, yeah, so there you go. But
I think crows are out that they're phenomenal. I think there.
I love watching crows. They're bigger than I think most
people think, and they are smartest. Heck, there's no doubt
about it.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Yeah, all right, Patty, Well you'all have a great weekend,
and thank you for and then join your show for
fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I appreciate that, pat appreciate you calling in and listening
to our show as well. Have a good weekend, all right,
take care. Yeah, and I do I think the crows
that's phenomenal. And my dad taught me how to My
dad could call crows and when I was a kid,
he taught me how to do that and I can
still do. I haven't done it in a long time.
I did it a couple of years ago and it
still worked. But he taught me how to do that.
(18:42):
And you can call them up and just sit still
and watch them do their thing. But they're just to me,
they're just amazing birds. By the way, talking about we're
talking about kids and getting kids involved, and of course
that backyard bird counts another way to get kids involved
with gardening in a roundabout way. Of course, bird feeders
are as well, and they're still from Wildbird's Unlimited or
a piece of cake. They are so easy to do.
(19:04):
One other thing and we'll talk about this maybe in
their next week's show or following show, but getting kids
involved with gardening over the wintertime, growing plants from kitchen scraps,
and you know, we've talked about this for years, but
it's so easy to do. And of course it doesn't
have to be the kids. It could be you too
if you just want to do something that is a
little bit of fun. But there's so many of the
kitchen scraps, especially greens and root crops that we use
(19:28):
when we're cooking, that if you save the inn, save
a little bit of the rooted part or whatever the tops.
You can replant those avocado seeds, pineapples, and I have
done the pineapple from the pineapple top to actually flowering
and setting fruit, which is kind of hard to do.
But we'll talk about how to do that as well.
But that's another thing that you can keep in mind
(19:50):
as we get into the wintertime is growing plants from
kitchen scraps. Right quick break, we come back. We're taking
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Speaker 1 (22:06):
Talking to you aready get eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five again our website run Wilson online
dot com. We've got our plan of the week. Last
week was the Ponsetia. Great history behind that. And you
know what's interesting about the pon Setia and you all
know the story. It's been told a bazillion times, but
it was named after Robert Joel point Set, which I
(22:28):
think was ambassador to Mexico, and they really didn't like him,
but he was He was into plants, kind of a botanist,
a minor politics as major, I guess, and found just
you know, saw the Ponsetia down there, brought some back
to the United States, gave them to a horticultural friend
of his who propagated a few. Next thing you know,
(22:48):
they're handing them out to friends, and the next thing
you know, it's become next to the cut Christmas tree,
the most popular Christmas plan out there. And the folks
at Ecki Ponseti, a ranch in California, are the ones
that really brought that to the forefront. But think about that,
brought a few plants back, experimental with them, like them
at the holidays, other people saw them. Next thing you know,
(23:10):
you got this great plant. And by the way, the
plants saut of as again myth busting here is not
deathly toxic to humans slash cats and dogs, all right.
The Ohio State University did research on this many many
years ago, and you had to eat four hundred, four
(23:31):
hundred leaves. A kid would to get sick, and they're bitter.
He wouldn't want to eat one anyway, but would be
bitter and would just get them sick. And I think
the SSPCA has taken that off their list also, and
not being deathly toxic to cats and dogs. Now if
it's an older dog that's sick or an older cat
that's sick, could make them sicker, but they've taken that
(23:53):
off their list as well, so again they're not definitely toxic.
If you're concerned about it, set it up on the
on the shelf so the pets can't get to it,
but it is at one time it was the most
popular potted plant grown in the world, where more poont
Seti has grown in containers than any other plant in
the entire world. Was kind of interesting also, real quick,
(24:15):
and we'll go back to the gardening phone lines. If
you have a tree rose that's planted in the ground,
a lot of folks I discover are don't understand that
those are not really that hardy over the winter time.
You have to protect those over the winter, even though
it may be a knockout rose or a hardy rose
on the top, those are very subject to dying out
(24:35):
over the wintertime. And there are several ways to protect it.
If it's in a container, it's great this moving inside
an unheated garage, bring it back out in the springtime.
Otherwise you either have to build a cage around it
and insulate it, or dig half of the roots system,
lean it over to the ground, peg it down, covered
with mulch, and over winter it that way. I have
(24:55):
a tip sheet on how to take care of tree
roses for winter care. If you'd like it, I will
email it to you. Also, same thing with not the
same thing, but with tree hydrangeas that are again on
the tree hydradja on the top. Winter protection. Got to
make sure they're steaked, make sure they're sturdy. I personally
(25:16):
will take the flowers off of them because I don't
if I'm in an area where you gets snow and
ice is definitely because those can cause those branches to break,
So I usually will take those off then do the
pruning in the springtime. Again, if you want a tip
sheet on protecting and growing the tree hydradja, I have
a tip sheet for that. Just email me and I
(25:36):
will send eat one of those back to you to
help you take care of those over the winter season
and during the growing season as well. To the gardening
phone lines. We shall go to Tennessee. Jeremiah, good morning.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Good morning, thanks for taking my call. Man, y'all got
the cruier show Man. I've learned so much from y'all.
Was unbelievable. But the reason I called heard y'all talking
about earlier about those crows that were attacking that eagle.
And I used to do a lot of hunting and
trapping for a living, and I seen some amazing things
(26:14):
that I wished I could have got on a video camera.
But anyway, I was sitting in the bottom next to
Ruby Lee Swamp watching the sixty acre field, waiting for
the deer come out, and I heard crows squawking, and
I looked up and I watched this until they flew
completely out of sight. These two crows would elevate over
(26:35):
the top of this redtail hawk and then dive bomb
him and hit him in his back. He'd lose elevation
until he could catch his wingspan again and rise back up,
and by the time he could get back up and
that they'd hit him again. These crows were trying to
kill that redtail hawk, and I never seen anything like
it before. It's crazy because that redtail hawk was three
(26:59):
times a side as of both of them put together,
you know what I mean. And then another thing I
seen that I thought was amazing. This shows you how
smart crows are. I accidentally stumbled around the bend in
another field one day, and this crow didn't realize I
was there, so I kept my eyes squint in case
he looked up at me. He wouldn't see the whites
of my eyes. And I was watching he was on
(27:20):
the ground. I was trying to figure out what you're doing.
He had a stick in one foot and he would
pull it through his beak, and then he was poking
into in a hole in the ground, and then he
pulled it back out and running through his beak again,
and I realized what he was doing. Then he was
putting saliva on that stick, and the ants were sticking
to that thing, and he was pulling them up and
(27:42):
eating them asks off the stick and then poking it
back in the hole and getting more of them.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Isn't that something? They're smart? I tell you what, that's amazing.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
So I just wanted to share that way you and
tell you thank you for your programs.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Hey, Jeremiah, I appreciate that I appreciate the stalking about
the cross of light crows forever. And as you know,
I think they're outstanding. I know a lot of people don't,
but I just it's a that verd is. I love
watching them, just like he just said, Alan in Ohio,
good morning.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
Hey, I got a problem in my backyard. I got
like this moss, you know, like the kind of that
forest juice and bottom like a moss, and I can't
get rid of it. Just keeps growing. If I spray
it with like round up or whatever, it just comes back.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Right.
Speaker 8 (28:32):
I just need to trying to figure out how to
get rid of it because I can't get grass seat
to grow there because it like chokes it out.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Is it? Is it a shady area?
Speaker 8 (28:40):
Yeah? I got some trees there and then I got
woods behind.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Me, all right, and so so what you look at,
you know, And and the bottom line is this. You
can spray it with. There are commercial moss killers. You
can spray it with round up or kills all. You
can spray it as easy as baking soda in warm
water will burn it off and keep it off for
about six or eight weeks. But unless you change the environment,
(29:06):
it'll always come back so and it doesn't choke out
the grass. It just grows where grass doesn't want to grow.
So what your goal is is now is you know
you could never kill it out, just change the environment
and make it go away. By changing the environment several things.
One is, if it's really shady, if you can limb
up the trees a little bit, get a little more
(29:27):
sunlight and a little more airflow in that area. That's
number one. That'll that'll help you out. Now I'm ascill
growing full sun, but that'll help you in that aspect.
Number two, core air rate the area, go through and
core air rate it, open it up because compaction it
moss loves compaction. Open it back up, and then reslice
(29:47):
seed and reseed that area. And then use a fertilizer
on a regular basis, a lawn food, and you'll find
that the high nitrogen will also help to keep the
moss from growing and of course help encourage the grass
from growing. And then look at a type of grass
that you know does best in a shadier area. Now,
grass doesn't like to grow in shade, but if you
(30:09):
can do that, change the environment. Look at either creeping
red fescue or the turf type tall rescues. If you
can't get either one of those to go to grow there,
you're not going to get any grass to grow. But
changing the environment has to be done or you can
just keep killing it and killing it and killing it.
But it's just going to keep coming back and coming
back and coming back.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
Okay, Now, the areating schedule that like every year, yeah,
like every other year, every other year. I'll try to
do it every other year. I do the core area
eighty one year. Then the next year, I'll take a
roller and roll the yard.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Don't roll the yard because or at least not that area,
because now you're you're you're combating what you just did.
The core aeration opens up the soil, rolling the lawn
packs it back down again. So you know, I would
I would try to stay away from the roller unless
it's absolutely necessary and just do the core aerating on
a regular base.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And I think you'll find doing that changing the environment.
Grass will grow, Moss eventually will not grow or not
grow as much.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Okay, cool, Okay, thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You're welcome. Welcome, Alan, appreciate the call, appreciate listening to
our show quick Break, We come back guess who's up next.
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Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Did you see it? Did you see it, mister Wilson,
mister Sullivan, did you see it?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Mister Sullivan, Yes, sir. It's getting more negative responses on
the Internet than any color choice ever in the history
of doing this.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
What are we talking about, ladies and gentlemen. We're talking
about Pantones color of the Year, finally finally released this
week after everybody else has released all their different colors,
and this one count and they don't count, and this
one ain't even close. Everybody else's all. Although although Gary,
it makes sense to me. The folks at Garden Media
(34:06):
that always picks their color of the year, and they've
been closed sometimes and off sometimes. Twenty twenty six Garden
Trends report actually had faded pedal, Oh okay, which is
faded out a cloud dancer. This year it is cloud dancer.
Most people would look at that and say it's white. Yeah,
(34:28):
well it's a hue of white. I guess you could
say off white. And of course they've got their whole
explanation behind the whole thing. It says it offers promise
of clarity.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Well that would be white.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
It's interesting though, really, and I know you notice because
we've talked about it too, is pantones color of the ear.
Everybody thinks that's like pink colors, and obviously it is
a paint color, But that's not where all their research
goes from comes from, right, I mean, it's the fashion industry,
furniture industry, pain industry. And when you think about it,
(35:10):
because I was shocked, just like you were and probably
everybody else, like the color of the year is off white, yeah,
And because usually it's the other way, they made a
Tangerina's color the year come on, and then it would
go on to explain, well, you could always use this
for an accent. Well, blah blah blah blah blah, but really,
what are you seeing in houses, interiors and X tiers
(35:33):
now is white and black. We were talking about this
three months ago, remember.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
You brought up the thing about the black, especially in
the exterior, and then we are seeing it more on
walls and ceilings and stuff inside, and that you are right.
Ever since you said that, its like, oh, there's a
house all sudden it's black.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah. I mean I've seen them where I'll be driving
through a neighborhood. I hold it that house was never
white and now the brick is now white.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah, trumps it out black.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
And it's got to be. So I do think that
is probably relevant, that color. So I think we're always
expecting a color that just wows you, you know, that
you just look at and you go like, God, I
really love that color. Or a lot of times we
look at and say who the periwinkle, probably about four
(36:26):
years ago or so, and I was like, well, I
don't want that in my house. Well maybe it came
from the furniture industry, and it was of I don't know,
a lamp or something, you know, I mean maybe we're
seeing in clothing and scarves and it became kind of
the color of the year. So I don't know. But anyway,
(36:46):
cloud dancer.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Folks, white folks are looking to step back, and I'm
not so sure.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
It's not very exciting. It's not a color that's going
to wow you. But I think it's a really relevant
color on where we're at right now.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But sure, while the internet, yeah, wow, all kinds of
mud on this one. I know.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I had to regain my h control of my feet
after that. It's like, whoa sit down, let's think about this.
Why didn't? And then I'm really the more I thought
about it, I'm thinking, like, it really does kind of
make sense. That's really where a lot of things have
been going, is away from the real rich color and
going to more coolish colors, lighter colors, and then houses
(37:29):
with the white and then the black trimmed offset it.
So it kind of makes sense to me, black friend,
and I'm loving it. But have I ever said what
he pick a color of the ear? Yes, they finally
got it right.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
No, but there's been a couple of them that were okay,
some of the real like the grays, and it's like this,
I look at that way, like I really like gray
kind of falls into that same category to me. Yeah yeah,
but yeah, so as I saw that, I think I
got to notice, like Tuesday, yeah, yeah, same, fronted it
out and said, oh wait, I get to talk to
Gary Saturday about that.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Well, you know when they used to do the Pantone
Color of the Year's it was the end of August,
beginning of September, oh clockwork every year, and you and
I talked about this, and then everybody started doing one.
Every paint manufacturer had their color of the year. Then
we got the color of the month and and then
it's like I quit, I don't care, And I kind
(38:24):
of forgot about it till we talked about it two
weeks ago, and I said, you, did you ever see
a Color of the Year from Pantone this year? You know,
I haven't. I haven't when I opened up the email,
Oh about time.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, And I think we kind of said the same
thing last year, and I think they're smart. I think
we both concluded that everybody else is doing this, so
get it out of the system. Do all your things,
and then Pantone is going to come along at the
end and say this is the color, the color of
the year.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
And it is I mean history of Pantone with color
in all fields, even architecturally. You know, with PMS numbers
for every shade and color, you can imagine they keep
track to that. I mean, you can trademark that. So
they're the experts. And if they say that's the color.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Of the ear, who might argue that's right?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Cloud Dancer, Cloud Dancer, I wan't go paint my house,
Cloud Dancer, I.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Can see doing the walls.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Cloud Dancer, I want to see missus Sullivan's reaction when
you do that.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Well, that's the only reaction that counts.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yes, Gary, is our house supposed to look like that? Gary?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Why is that wall blue? But Gary will paint it
back to his other color. Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You know you could do that. You could do paint
color of the year every year, like in your basement,
like a piece of the wall. That would be cool,
and so every year you'd have so when you went
down there, you'd see all the different colors from twenty
years back.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Did you see the article that Pantuons sent you where
they had the last twenty five years of color of
the Years. I don't know if it was the same
email that you got that I got.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
No, I didn't see that, but it was.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
It had after it announced it and had had the
color and the name and everything and talked a little
bit about it, and then they had the the last
twenty five years of the color of the year. It
was pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I bet no they I had the I see here
and now I had the link.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Oh, okay, I click, I just print.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I just printed out the opening thing.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Okay, it's pretty interesting. There's some wildish color there, But
I like last year wasn't last year the moca cocoa
or something.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
It was.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I kind of like that. I thought there was a
very soothing darkness.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
There's been a few of those. You and I are
more on the earthy color. Yeah, I think so, there's
been a few of them. We both like said that. Yeah,
I could, I could apply that.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Yeah, there's always room for a little color. There's a
little room for a little white also.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Uh, probably more than yeah, yeah, I mean now, like
I said anything else, probably.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Seventy eighty years ago, a lot of houses were white
with black trim kind of went away, and now we're
seeing all out of it again. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
And I never noticed it to you said, that, is
that right? Well, I didn't really pay attention to it.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
I started noticing it. Actually. My first tip off on
it was when my daughter tore her house down right,
should have the foundation, and she was telling me she's
buying black windows. I'm going you do what? Yeah, And
I started doing all this looking into that, and that
was right at the beginning. I mean, that's probably been
eight years ago, and I'm like, oh, okay, yeah I could.
(41:29):
I could kind of see it. And she's got a
a nice little southern home in Charlotte and it's a
white brick and she's got black door, black windows. And
that was kind of when I got my eyes open
to it. And that was pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
I'll dad was wrong.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Well I'm done right now.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Well you weren't wrong, but you just.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
I was just saying, that's unique. And then I remember
even talking to other window makers, is black getting into
your you know category line? And it's like, oh yeah, yeah,
we're definitely getting pressure for that.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
So what are we talking about today?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Flout Dancer, Go figure, Go go fall pipe or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
All right, Gary Sullivan coming up next to up. He's
not find out why he's not complain do whatever, Go
those websites, Gary Sullivan online dot com. Have a great weekend, SIRT,
have a great show. Thanks all of our colors, Thanks
our sponsors. Thanks of course with Danny Glease and our producer.
Without Danny, none of the stuff would happen. I'll do
yourself a fever. We still got time to plant a
tree or two. Three. He planning those native plants. Hamper
(42:31):
your worms, Get the kids involved with gardening. Have a
great weekend. Go box see it.
Speaker 7 (42:37):
Landscaping ladies here with your personal yard boy. He's hitting
the garden and he's Ron Wilson.
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