January 4, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning, Happy New Year twenty twenty
five is here. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
We're talking about yarding. All fired up and excited to
look forward to that new gardening season twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You know this this time of the year, I can
when you're in the greenhouse business, nurse a retail business
in late late in the year January, December, November, December,
early January, and usually by now you better have all
your lists together. But putting our list together of all
the things we're going to grow annual wise and perennials,
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you know, for the new season. And it's so exciting
to sit down and just been a day or two
looking through all of the new selections of tomatoes and
peppers and new vegetables and Asian greens that are coming along,
and new annuals that just look absolutely spectacular, that hopefully
have been trialed and that we'll do well in our area.
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But we usually do a pretty good job picking through those,
but you know, growing what we've been doing to try
and true, and then adding to those as we go along.
And it's always a lot of fun just to see
all these new plants. You get excited, you can't wait
to give them a try, or in some cases we've
given them a try and now can't wait to get
them out there so other folks can give them a
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try as well. So it's an exciting time seeing all
these new lists. As a matter of fact, one of
the things that we're working on, which I think has
become as far as gardening trends, and Joe and I
were talking about this in the first hour. You know
what trends looking at twenty twenty five, and you know,
smaller space gardening becomes more and more popular. A lot
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of folks, you know, downsizing smaller yards or their home.
They just don't have a big backyard or a lot
of property to garden. So you're looking at different ways
to do smaller gardening or indoor gardening, and so looking
at that, can I grow fruits and vegetables in a
smaller spot that's really productive enough to make it worthwhile
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for me to do this?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And you can.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And it's amazing how many over the years, how many
of the plant breeders have been working on dwarf or
miniature growing tomatoes and peppers and beans and peas and
broccoli and cauliflower and cabbage that stay small that can
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be grown in containers, and it can also be grown
indoors or out. And obviously if they're indoors, you have
to have really good lighting, really good lighting, including grow lights.
But a lot of folks are doing that. As a
matter of fact, I think I predicted several years ago
that somewhere down the road when new homes are being
built and kitchens are being installed, and of course kitchens
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are getting larger and larger all the time because that's
where everybody hangs out and likes the you know, cook
and all that, you're gonna see these growing units like
arrow gardens and that type of thing as a part
of your kitchen. So a part of the kitchen countertop
is probably going to be some type of hydroponic gardening
system that you know, you can grow herbs, maybe some
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dwarf tomatoes, dwarf peppers, whatever, but probably mostly herbs and greens,
including microgreens, so that you know you've always got fresh
greens and things like that right in herbs, right at
your fingertips in the kitchen. And obviously they would have
a grow light over the top and all of that,
and it's already available. It's out there. It's nothing new,
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but I think we're going to see this more and more.
But point being developing more plants that stay smaller but
are high producers. And you think way back ten years ago,
there've always been these little dwarf tomatoes that you could buy,
you know, in a growing a five six inch pot,
they get about ten inches high, produce a lot of tomatoes,
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maybe a one shot deal, mostly determinant, and then they're
done and it's fun and you can do it indoors.
But now they're working on varieties that are not determinant
that they will continue to grow and flower off of
these smaller plants, so you get longer production. So you know,
over the last month or so, I've been going through
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all the different selections that I could find that are
true what I would consider dwarf vegetables, and it's amazing
what's out there, and I'm looking so forward to growing
these this year, some of which we have grown, some
of which we haven't. But there's even a cabbage and
a broccoli and a cauliflower that is just a single stem,
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several leaves and a small head right in the middle
of it that you can grow like in a six
inch pot and get a small head of broccoli or
cauliflower or cabbage that just kills me. Peas that only
get the twenty four inches tall put a little trellis
in a pot. Beans, and of course the moscati bean
has been out there for a while, which is a
container grown bean, but there are some that stay in smaller,
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more dwarf than that. And of course the tomatoes and peppers,
there's a whole bunch of them out there. So looking
forward to that and experimenting, because I've always been a
huge container gardner, experimenting with these new selections that are
now being developed and bred for good production, more extended production.
So it's worth doing them both indoors and outdoors. These
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are like, uh, you know, mighty powerhouse little plants, and uh,
I think I think it's okay to call them dwarfs,
but that's where that's what they are, and they stay smaller.
So looking forward to that, looking forward to all kinds
of and again this every year there's a there's a
trade show in Columbus, Ohio called Cultivate, and that's where
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a lot of the plant breeders come and like proven
winters and and ROV and all these these places come
together and show a lot of their new plants that
have been bred and are developed for upcoming years. And
every year it's just spectacular what you see out there.
And and again these dwarf vegetable plants have been a
part of that program, so I look forward to that.
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And it's been fun doing some research and finding the
different ones out there and whatever. So it's been fun.
Now if you are you know, we got through the
holiday season, you got through New Year's. If you are
catalog lists, garden seed, garden catalogs, plant catalogs and you
haven't gotten any yet, you may have to go online
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because obviously printed catalogs are becoming somewhat of a premium
anymore because of the costs. And I get it and
a lot of once you go onto their websites and
then download it and print it out yourself or or
look at it online, and I understand it totally. But
if you're not sure where to go to find all
these great catalogs that are out there, I have a
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one stop shop for free garden seed catalogs and plant
catalogs that you can go to it has all the links,
take it all the different links where to go, or
you can mail or you can email them and try
to get to get them to mail you their catalog
right and it's a one link. They did this last
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year and they're doing it again this year and it's
absolutely a great service to all the gardeners.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So what is it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I'm not gonna tell you till after the break. Take
a quick break, we come back, we'll talk more about
where you can get this entire list of seed catalogs
and just be bombarded with all kinds of gardening inspiration
for twenty twenty five. Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
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Speaker 3 (11:38):
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Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yardening at eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, Happy twenty
twenty five. I'm excited. I can't wait and you know
what this is gonna fly by? You know we're here. Here,
we are the first weekend in January. This month's gonna
fly right on. Bias, days are getting longer. Just think
about this. Days are already starting to get longer. So
every day is a little longer and a little longer.
Got a few winter blasts, we're gonna have to deal
(12:02):
with the cold weather. We'll get through all of that.
And then the next thing, you know, it's Groundhog Day
early February, right, and then it's Valentine's Day, and usually
around Valentine's Day, home and garden shows start and we're
back at it again, and spring is around the corner,
and we're growing things inside and getting ready and work
in the garden, in the whole nine yards.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So it happens. And then my birthday in March.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And of course, yeah, we build up to Dan's birthday
in March, and then once we go past Dan's birthday,
everything just flies from there. Correct, And we'll give you
about it. Yeah, we'll give you about a three week
warning before Dan's birthday, so you'll be able to send
all the cards and gift cards and the gift certificates
and all that to Dan. I wish them happy birthday.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Well, you can give you the address.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, we'll tell you where to mail it in the
whole night. You did get a few last year, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I did you?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, so pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
By the way, we from our station in Marion, Ohio too.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We want to welcome new aphil to our gardening network
across the country. We're out now in Eugene, Oregon. Eugene, Oregon,
KU g N five ninety News Talk five ninety ku
g N. Welcome aboard. Of course, it's very very early
in the morning out there. Uh, so you know we
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have some over folks that stay up later or don't
go to bed at nighttime. I guess, uh listening to us.
But welcome the board, and we look forward to hearing
from folks in Eugene keeping us updated.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
What's absolutely welcome.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, what's happening in your area? By the way, what's
interesting about Oregon if you've never been there before. Oregon,
so you know it is one of the largest states
for supplying nursery plants to the United States and other
areas as well. Huge nurseries in Oregon. They have I
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think all the different heartiness zones are in the state
of org. Of you of Oregon from z own five A,
I think, you know, I think from yeah, five A
through maybe ten A down to the very southwestern part
they actually get a ten A. So there go from
five A to ten A. The further you get in
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from the shoreline moving into the United States, you know,
the more it becomes like our climate at six A,
six b's and a little bit of five's. But right
along that coastline and where the Eugene area is, they're
more in A seven, eight, nine, and actually in the
southern part a ten. But nevertheless, we welcome them aboard.
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And again it's ku g N five ninety news Talk
and we welcome you as a part of our gardening network.
Before we went into the break, we're talking about the
seed catalogs. Love them. I look at them as a
great source of inspiration when it comes to, you know,
getting through the winter season and taking a look again.
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I use your localand dependent garden center. Our use your
lokaland dependa garden center as far as your source for
for seeds and plants and things like that. But if
you can't find what you're looking for there, then you
go mail order. But check your local independent garden centers first,
but I look at them as a great reference. I
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look at them as a great inspiration, uh and really
can't get you going. And some of them have the
information in them is phenomenal. I still think Johnny's Seeds.
Johnny's Seeds, I think is still the catalog itself is
so full of great information. And in the very middle
they do a lot of microgreens. The seeds that you
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can buy. It's amazing what you can grow as a
micro green, all right, and it's it's it's phenomenal. But
be sure and check them out. It's a Johnny Seeds.
I would put that on my list. And another one
that I would put on my list, which I always
look forward to every year because it's it's an old
fashioned gardening seed catalog that they still it's a it's
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an illustrated garden guide. Our h shumways have you done?
And they've got the rh shumway his picture from way
back and geez, I don't know where that's from the
early nineteen hundreds. But they still do their catalog even
though it's updated. You know, it's all current plants and
things like that, current products that are in there. It's
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their one hundred and fifty fifth year shows you how
long ago that was. But it's all illustrated, no pictures,
all artists drawings, illustrations, the typing, the font it's a
really cool.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's a lot of fun. It takes your way back.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I love getting this one and just reading through it
and looking at all the great things they do in there.
But there's no pictures. Besides, they are all illustrated like
they used to do way back when with most of
the gardening catalogs.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
But it's R H. Shumway.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
So I said before the break, there is if you're
not sure where to go to get your gardening seed
catalogs plant catalogs that are free, I have a one
stop shop for you. All right, are you ready? It's
very simple. You know, the Farmer's Almanac. It's their website
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Almanac dot com. Go to almanac dot com, forward slash
content forward slash garden seed Catalogs and they have a
listing of over forty five different seed catalogs and online
plant sources and all the links are there. You can
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go right to their website and download their catalogs, or
you can request the catalog either way, they're all on there,
all of my favorites are in here. I always get Burpie.
I always get Totally Tomato, Pepper Joe. I like some
ways see because it's the old fashioned catalog. That thing
is worth it. You got to get that one just
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to see it. Johnny's Catalog at Johnny's Seed Catalog I
actually sometimes carried around with me. Is a for a reference,
but absolutely wonderful. And again the Burpie one, I always
put that on the top. Territorial seed is great. I
look at Tomato Growers Supply. Tomato Growers Supply is a
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great one as well. And then after the listing of
all of these different seed catalogs and plant catalogs, then
they have free online gardening guides. So the next chapter,
the next at the end of the thing, all of
these links for you to go and they're recommended, you know,
through them with all the great links. And in course
you can sign up for their website as well. But
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again I think that's outstanding. It's a one stop shop.
And again check it out. It's at almanac dot com.
Forward slash content forward slash Garden seed Catalogs and it
has every catalog you could ever imagine, more than enough
information for you to to work with, so be sure
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and check it out. Got about a minute a half
to go. Robert and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Good morning, Hey Ron, good morning, Happy new year. Congratulations
on your upcoming retirement. I think that's awesome. I too,
I too am approaching that in a few months and
as a result of that joined my wife as a
part of the Longwood Gardens team. Oh my part time gig.
(19:34):
It's pretty awesome. Lucky you, it's it's it's a great
way to spend your day. Two questions for you. Number one,
as you managed to go and check out anything about
Longwood's reimagine with the new conservatory, you should check it
out online. It's pretty awesome at longwood dot org. Second question,
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we took an ash down in our front yard that
was the victimized bash boors over a year ago. Number one,
can I plant in the spring as should that area
be cleaned enough? And number two have you heard of
a polome tree? And do you think that would work
in our zone? They grow with the gardens.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
As in polome tree is in a Polonia tom and
Tosa the Royal I'm sorry, yeah, Polonia, Yeah, I have
as a matter of fact, and are running out of time, Robert,
listen after the break, just keep listening to the show.
We come back from the break, I'll address that for you.
We'll talk more about the Royal Princess Tree uh and
give you a little bit more information about that coming
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up in the next half hour. Ron rothis will join
us our hobby meteorologist and a certified master arbust as well.
Here in the Garden with Ron wilsone.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
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Speaker 1 (23:00):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson, as
I promise, it's time for a bifurcation of segments. It's
time for weather. It's the weather and in the trees
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our registered consulting arbors, our amateur Mediorologist, I say, board
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the arbor doctor himself, mister.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Ron Rothas right, I love it just for you.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Danny said, that was a nice little storm I had, wasn't.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It, Yes, yes, it was. So let's let's get started.
First of all, would you like to have it?
Speaker 7 (24:01):
I just said what I said, that was a nice
little storm.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Now that it's over, Now that it's over.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Yeah, those who had a few, you know what about
a half a day or so of light rain and
then it's gone. And I'm just talking about your new
affiliate Eugene, Oregon, where the storm has already gone through.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Oh it's all got yesterday.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh did they see I'm trying.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
I'm trying to have entire audience into account here.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Eleven different planting zones in Oregon.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
That's crazy, kind of a I looked it up this
morning because I've admittedly never been to Eugene, Oregon. I
love to go to the Pacific northwestern time. I've never
been out there. But they said they have a kind
of a Mediterranean or semi a Mediterranean climate west of
the Cascade Mountains and about fifty miles inlands from the coast.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, Eugene is a Zone A B and they said
in the summer it's pretty hot and dry. So but yeah,
all the different you can find, all the different zones
within one state. I think that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Yeah, yeah, they're they're winter weather advisories for the mountains
just east of Eugene today, so but yeah, lots of
climate zones out there.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
All right. First of all, would you like to have
a mayonnaise bath? No, Actually that didn't sound good to me.
The Duke Bowl Duke's Mayo Bowl and the guy the
coach got slathered with mayo.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I like it, but I don't think i'd want to
be dumped on with it.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
I mean, yeah, the Testita Fiesta Bowl to be you know,
have Testita's dumped over your head might not be so bad.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
A different story, Yeah, maybe not Mayo baby not. Secondly,
we were talking uh uh I can't think of it,
remember his name anyway? Uh, trying to blank Pennsylvania And
they replace a tree that they took out this year.
They're going to replace it in the spring. And he
had brought up and we went into the break, so
I told him we talk about this when he came
out of the break replacing it. I want to know
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if I'd ever heard of a polonia tom and tosa
obviously the Royal Princess tree.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Have you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I'm trying to think I know where two of them
are in our area. Do you see those very often
around here.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
I've seen a number of them. I mean, I'm not
going to say they're numerous in our area. The thing
about polonia is it is it's from China, right, and
it's on just about every invasive species list. Yeah, it's
really on the do not plant list in most areas,
and in areas where it does a little bit better,
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it would be you know, it's not real hardy. In Cincinnati,
I can die back sometimes, but in areas like around
Philadelphia and up and down the East Coast where it
stays a little bit warmer, it can be that much
more invasive because the cold doesn't knock it back. So
I would not recommend that tree. There's so many burner trees. Yes,
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it's a fast grower, Yes it gets beautiful lilac colored flowers,
but it is an invasive species. It does readily seed,
and it's just not something that's that's recommended.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, it's it's a beautiful tree. And you know, way
back when when you used to have like the newspaper
and you would always you know, the Sunday that insert
you'd always have a full page add in that thing
for the fastest growing, beautiful spring flowering your late spring
flowering royal princess tree. You know, polonia and all this
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great stuff. And again I've seen two or three of them.
Joe used to have a box, used to have a
neighbor that had one. It was huge, and I don't
think it's there anymore. But the flower was gorgeous. But
they seed like crazy, and like you said, you get
further south out of our zone, it just popped up
from seed everywhere. So it's very invasive. So an answer
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to the question was asking whether or not the plant
one we both obviously agree no, don't plant that tree.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Do you know what I would actually say, is you
know your plant of the week this week, the or
tree of the week this week, the exclamation plane tree.
It doesn't get the flowers, but it would be an
excellent choice instead of a plumia tree. Probably gets a
similar size, if not a little bit taller, and grows fast.
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I mean, if you're looking at fast growth, exclamation plane
tree is just a really fast grower. I actually had
a client a few years ago who had two ailing
sugar maple trees called me up to see if they
could be saved. They had Gennaderman infections at the base
and we did a few things, but there's really not
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much you can do with with trees that are in
that state. And eventually they're actually in a strip in
a sidewalk and the street there were city trees. And
so he finally relented and let the city cut them down.
And he didn't want to wait for the city to
replant them. So we went ahead and UH with a
permit from the city, I went ahead and planted exclamation
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plane trees. And then these sugar maples that had been
taken down were probably close to forty feet tall. And
I kid you not, within six years, those exclamation plane
trees were as tall as the uh as the sugar
maples had been taken down. They hadn't filled out as
much yet, you know, six years, right, but they were
reaching probably thirty five forty feet. After six or seven years,
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they were putting on several feet a year. I mean,
it was. It was astounding, right, he was. He was
quite glad that he had eventually relented and let them
cut down the whole ailing trees. Sure, that's a great tree.
The only the only drawback, you know, is it doesn't
get flowers that are noticeable, and it doesn't it doesn't
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have very good fall color. Now it's kind of been
a stand one, fastest growth and good shade. It's it's fantastic, kind.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Of a faded out yellow ee, I mean, does give
you a little bit of yellow, a little bit of
gold there, but not nothing spectacular.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
We've got to see.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
And I imagine you know, you know, spring or fall
color can vary from year to year. I mentioned some
years it could be decent, but it's it's certainly not
a tree that jumps to the top of my mind
when it comes to you know, wonderful fall color, right,
but for just about every other attribute, it's a fantastic tree.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So be sure and check it out. It's on our
website at Ron Wilson online dot com. And we're going
to really be pushing a lot of plants of the week,
a lot of trees over the wintertime, trying to get
more focused there before we talk about the weather. On
one last thing, I was reading some trends the other
day for twenty twenty five, and of course, you know,
talking about planting more trees, et cetera, et cetera. But
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they brought up a point in this article that you've
been pushing for several years now as a certified mastorburst.
You've been pushing for a long time, and I think
it deserves more and more tension all the time. And
that is not only planting and growing new trees. And
I saw that too. Don't just plant a tree, grow
a tree. So if you're in a planet, make sure
you grow it as well. But the point being is
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is to take care of our existing trees existing tree
health care.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Well absolutely, I mean that, you know, we have all
these things with you know, climate change and things like that.
Want to plant you know, a million trees or trillion
trees or something like that. A lot of these mass
planting schemes have seventy percent failure rates, and I've seen
statistics where you know, it can take two hundred and
fifty plus saplings to even begin to approach the environmental
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benefits of a mature tree. So if you cut down
a mature tree, you don't just plant two hundred and
fifty trees to replace the environmental benefits of that one tree.
But with a seventy percent failure rate, in some cases
probably less than that, you know, in her limous landscapes,
but you probably have to plant you know, five hundred
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thousand trees to equal the environmental benefits that one tree.
So you know, mature trees have very, very major benefits
in so many ways, you know, carbon sequestration, oxygen production,
cooling effect to the atmosphere, plus a lot of studies
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that have clearly shown health benefits both physical and mental
health from having greenery and trees around, so even reduced
crime rates. So I mean, the benefits of having those
mature trees are fantastic, and for for younger trees, because
I'm not against planting younger trees, I don't want to
run that way for it, but but we've got to
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do it correctly. There's so many trees that are being
stuck in the ground. You know, the landscapers don't even
or hummers don't even take the burlap off the root ball.
Many times the root flare is buried in the root ball.
And if you don't take the burlap at least off
the top of the ball and excavate that root ball
and find the root flare, you know that tree is
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going to be buried. Even if it's on a mound,
if it's four inches deep in the root ball, it's
still buried at the top of the mound, and so
you want to you know, dig down in that root ball,
find the root flair, have that at the surface. You
want to you look at the form of the tree.
You want one nice leader going up to the middle.
If the tree is dividing into into very tight co
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dominant stems when it's young, it's very easy to prien
some of those off. So I mean, you know, we
call that young tree training. It's kind of like children.
You know, you don't just you know, have a three
year old and let them do whatever the heck they want.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You know, you've got.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
To stare them in the right direction and do some
correction and things like that. And the same thing is
true with the tree. And if you want a really nice, dependable,
long lived tree that doesn't have is not prone to
broken branches and broken limbs and things like that, you
need to start taking care of it when it's young.
Make sure it's planted correctly. You know, these trees are
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planted incorrectly or have these bad branching angles. You know,
you get ten twenty years down the line, you've invested,
you know, one or two decades in a tree, and
all of a sudden, the storm comes to and half
of it falls apart. All of a sudden one year,
it starts to decline and an arburst like me comes
out and starts digging around the base and finds all
these girdling roots and says, well, you know, you spend
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fifteen extra minutes at planning time and corrected that we
want to be dealing with this right now, and now
the tree is either not savable or we're going to
have to salvage what we can, so, you know, taking
that extra time, especially when the tree is young, and
like you said, growing the tree, you know, making sure
that we do everything correctly is just so important.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yep, and again and again at the beginning was also
maintaining your existing trees. Don't you just think there's there.
They're rooted in, they can take care of themselves. They
need they need someone to keep an eye on them
as well. That's why it's always good to find a
certified arborus in your area. Haven't come out and look
at your mature trees and then they become the patients
(35:14):
of that particular arborist, just like the arbor doc does
as well. His uh Ron rothais with us this morning.
His website arbordoctor dot com. We're gonna take a break.
We come back. We're gonna talk about this big winter
storm that's headed. It's coming across right now and headed
our way. Here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (37:35):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson, and
I said, it's a bifurcation of segments. First segment in
the tree, second segment, whether it's the weather. Because he
is our weather predicted ice snow, Ron roths arbor doc
(38:00):
his website arbordoctor dot com. Learn about trees, learn about
the weather. So you've got to be just jumping up
and down. You've got to be shaken and nervous and
excited because we got the big one coming to addis tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
I love we always have. But when I when I
was young, you little, you know, I love snow, and
my dad would say, just wait till you get older
and you have to drive in it, you'll hate it. Well,
I just turned sixty. I still love snow, so very happy.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
What you're sixty.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
I just turned sixty. Yes, sir, you know what's I
haven't gotten my presence from you yet either, so I'm
still waiting for that.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Well, you know what, totally, I'm being totally honest with you, Ron,
and I've known you for a long time. I would
have never guessed that you're sixty years old. I just
said you turned fifty.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
I would have said forty.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
Cataract surgery later this week.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Oh, good luck.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
That's that's a lot of funs actually fun and gets
see the fireworks and all that, and getting the new lenses. Huh,
I'm going to get the lenses to and all that.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
We're officially old.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Now good, all right? So what's what is going to happen?
I mean, you know, we've heard about it for the
last three days now that this big storm and the
course in our area, and we're located on the Ohio
River Valley south southwestern Ohio. Things seem to break go north,
go south, We miss it, we get it. What are
you seeing?
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Well, the there's still some some opportunity for some moigal
room in the track of this storm, but it looks
like it's basically taking a bullseye on the Cincinnati area.
And when I say a bullseye. That means the heaviest
band of precipitation is going to be pretty close to
the Cincinnati metro area. And I said specifically say precipitation
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and not necessarily snow, because because there are some temperature
issues in the atmospheric profile and things like that. So
some areas are going to get predominantly snow, some areas
are going to get a mix of snow and sleet.
Some are going to get a mix of snow and
sleet and freezing rain. Areas you know, well south of
Cincinnati are going to get you know, potentially you know,
(40:13):
mainly freezing rain. You're gonna have to get all the
way down near the Tennessee border before you get into
areas that have you know, more rain than you know
and more above freezing temperatures. So we're going to be
well within you know, the freezing zone, you know, the
the Cincinnati area and central Ohio Valley. And this storm
extends all the way from the Central Plains, Kansas area,
(40:37):
and Missouri across to the mid Atlantic, where winter storm
watches have not been issued for the from Maryland, my
sister laws in Dunkirk, Maryland, the Washington DC area. I
think Baltimore is included in that. So so it's an
expansive storm headed right across the Cincinnati area. Right now,
(40:58):
it looks like we're going to starts seeing snow probably
about midday on Sunday. It could be late morning till
be early afternoon. Could have several inches by evening. Then
it gets complicated because a tongue of warm air comes
in in the upper atmosphere. It's probably going to melt
some of the snow and turn it into either freezing
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rain or sleep more likely sleep in the Cincinnati area.
Freezing rain to the south, and then on Monday it
turns back to snow in some areas. Could get several
inches of additional snow on Monday, so that the total
accumulations are going to be probably in the four to
eight or five to nine inch area in the Cincinnati
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area could be there's gonna be a sharp cut off
to the north, so the Dayton area is probably going
to get three to six inches. They could get a
little bit more or less. To the south of Cincinnati,
it's going to be more freezing rain and sleet. They
could get a decent ice storm in some areas, but
the big thing to remember, especially for people at the
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shovel or plow snow or things, is if the snow
turns to sleep as opposed to freezing rain. Sleep is
basically snow without air pockets, so you have the same
weight that you have with snow. So if you get
an inch of sleet, it's roughly equivalent. I would argue
about ten inches of snow from a standpoint of somebody
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who has to plow it or shovel it or things
like that. So this is going to be a really
impactful storm because you know, even though not everything is
going to be snow, the weight and what's going to
have to be plowed off of parking lots and driveways
is going to be huge, and it's going to take
a while. You know, people that live on streets, they
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tend to be slow to get to your street to
do any plowing or anything. You could be stuck for
a while. Because this is going to be followed by
some very cold Arctic air. And whenever you have a dense,
a thick snow cover on the ground, it's like putting
ice cubes in a glass of water. It cools the
atmosphere down. When the ground's bare you have heat that
(43:13):
radiates into the atmosphere. When the ground's covered with snow,
you don't have that, and so on a clear night
with deep snow cover, it can drop ten fifteen degrees
colder than it might if you didn't have that snow cover.
So we're looking at a good chance that below zero
temperatures this week after all this snowfalls, and then more
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cold coming in the following week, and you could have
more cold weather then. So this is not a short
term thing. It looks like it could warm up a
little bit, maybe the third week of the month, but
even then it remains to be seen how much. And
then it's actually looking like there's going to be another
surge of Arctic air and cold weather as we get
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to the end of January in the first week or
two of February. So this is going to be one
of those winters that we haven't seen in quite a while.
I saw one National Weather Service side I think it
was Birmingham, Alabama, that was actually comparing this weather pattern
to January nineteen seventy seven. So this is a serious
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weather pattern that we're in right now. This isn't just
one of those little snows that We've been getting where
it snows a little bit and then it melts the
next day and it's back up to fifty degrees. That's
not what's going to happen. So I would expect an
impactful storm. It's going to be very heavy to shovel,
very heavy to plow. It might take a while. There
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could be some ice accumulation on trees to the south
of Cincinnati, a little bit in Cincinnati, but not a
lot in the way of accumulation on ice accumulation on trees,
and then extended snow cover and very cold air temperature,
so some of those marginal plants like blue atlas cedars
and cherry laurels.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
You heard it from the Man, the myth, the legend,
Ron roths again. His website is arbordoctor dot com. Thank you,
sir for the great information.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
Hey go buck, go bucks. Be safe.
Speaker 4 (45:12):
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Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning, Happy New Year twenty twenty
five is here. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
We're talking about yarding. All fired up and excited to
look forward to that new gardening season twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You know this this time of the year, I can
when you're in the greenhouse business, nurse a retail business
in late late in the year January, December, November, December,
early January, and usually by now you better have all
your lists together. But putting our list together of all
the things we're going to grow annual wise and perennials,
(01:16):
you know, for the new season. And it's so exciting
to sit down and just been a day or two
looking through all of the new selections of tomatoes and
peppers and new vegetables and Asian greens that are coming along,
and new annuals that just look absolutely spectacular, that hopefully
have been trialed and that we'll do well in our area.
(01:37):
But we usually do a pretty good job picking through those,
but you know, growing what we've been doing to try
and true, and then adding to those as we go along.
And it's always a lot of fun just to see
all these new plants. You get excited, you can't wait
to give them a try, or in some cases we've
given them a try and now can't wait to get
them out there so other folks can give them a
(01:58):
try as well. So it's an exciting time seeing all
these new lists. As a matter of fact, one of
the things that we're working on, which I think has
become as far as gardening trends, and Joe and I
were talking about this in the first hour. You know
what trends looking at twenty twenty five, and you know,
smaller space gardening becomes more and more popular. A lot
(02:23):
of folks, you know, downsizing smaller yards or their home.
They just don't have a big backyard or a lot
of property to garden. So you're looking at different ways
to do smaller gardening or indoor gardening, and so looking
at that, can I grow fruits and vegetables in a
smaller spot that's really productive enough to make it worthwhile
(02:45):
for me to do this?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And you can.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
And it's amazing how many over the years, how many
of the plant breeders have been working on dwarf or
miniature growing tomatoes and peppers and beans and peas and
broccoli and cauliflower and cabbage that stay small that can
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be grown in containers, and it can also be grown
indoors or out. And obviously if they're indoors, you have
to have really good lighting, really good lighting, including grow lights.
But a lot of folks are doing that. As a
matter of fact, I think I predicted several years ago
that somewhere down the road when new homes are being
built and kitchens are being installed, and of course kitchens
(03:32):
are getting larger and larger all the time because that's
where everybody hangs out and likes the you know, cook
and all that, you're gonna see these growing units like
arrow gardens and that type of thing as a part
of your kitchen. So a part of the kitchen countertop
is probably going to be some type of hydroponic gardening
system that you know, you can grow herbs, maybe some
(03:55):
dwarf tomatoes, dwarf peppers, whatever, but probably mostly herbs and greens,
including microgreens, so that you know you've always got fresh
greens and things like that right in herbs, right at
your fingertips in the kitchen. And obviously they would have
a grow light over the top and all of that,
and it's already available. It's out there. It's nothing new,
(04:17):
but I think we're going to see this more and more.
But point being developing more plants that stay smaller but
are high producers. And you think way back ten years ago,
there've always been these little dwarf tomatoes that you could buy,
you know, in a growing a five six inch pot,
they get about ten inches high, produce a lot of tomatoes,
(04:39):
maybe a one shot deal, mostly determinant, and then they're
done and it's fun and you can do it indoors.
But now they're working on varieties that are not determinant
that they will continue to grow and flower off of
these smaller plants, so you get longer production. So you know,
over the last month or so, I've been going through
(05:01):
all the different selections that I could find that are
true what I would consider dwarf vegetables, and it's amazing
what's out there, and I'm looking so forward to growing
these this year, some of which we have grown, some
of which we haven't. But there's even a cabbage and
a broccoli and a cauliflower that is just a single stem,
(05:26):
several leaves and a small head right in the middle
of it that you can grow like in a six
inch pot and get a small head of broccoli or
cauliflower or cabbage that just kills me. Peas that only
get the twenty four inches tall put a little trellis
in a pot. Beans, and of course the moscati bean
has been out there for a while, which is a
container grown bean, but there are some that stay in smaller,
(05:50):
more dwarf than that. And of course the tomatoes and peppers,
there's a whole bunch of them out there. So looking
forward to that and experimenting, because I've always been a
huge container gardner, experimenting with these new selections that are
now being developed and bred for good production, more extended production.
So it's worth doing them both indoors and outdoors. These
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are like, uh, you know, mighty powerhouse little plants, and uh,
I think I think it's okay to call them dwarfs,
but that's where that's what they are, and they stay smaller.
So looking forward to that, looking forward to all kinds
of and again this every year there's a there's a
trade show in Columbus, Ohio called Cultivate, and that's where
(06:34):
a lot of the plant breeders come and like proven
winters and and ROV and all these these places come
together and show a lot of their new plants that
have been bred and are developed for upcoming years. And
every year it's just spectacular what you see out there.
And and again these dwarf vegetable plants have been a
part of that program, so I look forward to that.
(06:55):
And it's been fun doing some research and finding the
different ones out there and whatever. So it's been fun.
Now if you are you know, we got through the
holiday season, you got through New Year's. If you are
catalog lists, garden seed, garden catalogs, plant catalogs and you
haven't gotten any yet, you may have to go online
(07:18):
because obviously printed catalogs are becoming somewhat of a premium
anymore because of the costs. And I get it and
a lot of once you go onto their websites and
then download it and print it out yourself or or
look at it online, and I understand it totally. But
if you're not sure where to go to find all
these great catalogs that are out there, I have a
(07:39):
one stop shop for free garden seed catalogs and plant
catalogs that you can go to it has all the links,
take it all the different links where to go, or
you can mail or you can email them and try
to get to get them to mail you their catalog
right and it's a one link. They did this last
(08:00):
year and they're doing it again this year and it's
absolutely a great service to all the gardeners.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So what is it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I'm not gonna tell you till after the break. Take
a quick break, we come back, we'll talk more about
where you can get this entire list of seed catalogs
and just be bombarded with all kinds of gardening inspiration
for twenty twenty five. Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
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Speaker 4 (08:25):
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Yardening at eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, Happy twenty
twenty five. I'm excited. I can't wait and you know
what this is gonna fly by? You know we're here. Here,
we are the first weekend in January. This month's gonna
fly right on. Bias, days are getting longer. Just think
about this. Days are already starting to get longer. So
every day is a little longer and a little longer.
Got a few winter blasts, we're gonna have to deal
(12:02):
with the cold weather. We'll get through all of that.
And then the next thing, you know, it's Groundhog Day
early February, right, and then it's Valentine's Day, and usually
around Valentine's Day, home and garden shows start and we're
back at it again, and spring is around the corner,
and we're growing things inside and getting ready and work
in the garden, in the whole nine yards.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So it happens. And then my birthday in March.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And of course, yeah, we build up to Dan's birthday
in March, and then once we go past Dan's birthday,
everything just flies from there. Correct, And we'll give you
about it. Yeah, we'll give you about a three week
warning before Dan's birthday, so you'll be able to send
all the cards and gift cards and the gift certificates
and all that to Dan. I wish them happy birthday.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Well, you can give you the address.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, we'll tell you where to mail it in the
whole night. You did get a few last year, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I did you?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, so pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
By the way, we from our station in Marion, Ohio too.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We want to welcome new aphil to our gardening network
across the country. We're out now in Eugene, Oregon. Eugene, Oregon,
KU g N five ninety News Talk five ninety ku
g N. Welcome aboard. Of course, it's very very early
in the morning out there. Uh, so you know we
(13:18):
have some over folks that stay up later or don't
go to bed at nighttime. I guess, uh listening to us.
But welcome the board, and we look forward to hearing
from folks in Eugene keeping us updated.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
What's absolutely welcome.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, what's happening in your area? By the way, what's
interesting about Oregon if you've never been there before. Oregon,
so you know it is one of the largest states
for supplying nursery plants to the United States and other
areas as well. Huge nurseries in Oregon. They have I
(13:53):
think all the different heartiness zones are in the state
of org. Of you of Oregon from z own five A,
I think, you know, I think from yeah, five A
through maybe ten A down to the very southwestern part
they actually get a ten A. So there go from
five A to ten A. The further you get in
(14:14):
from the shoreline moving into the United States, you know,
the more it becomes like our climate at six A,
six b's and a little bit of five's. But right
along that coastline and where the Eugene area is, they're
more in A seven, eight, nine, and actually in the
southern part a ten. But nevertheless, we welcome them aboard.
(14:35):
And again it's ku g N five ninety news Talk
and we welcome you as a part of our gardening network.
Before we went into the break, we're talking about the
seed catalogs. Love them. I look at them as a
great source of inspiration when it comes to, you know,
getting through the winter season and taking a look again.
(14:56):
I use your localand dependent garden center. Our use your
lokaland dependa garden center as far as your source for
for seeds and plants and things like that. But if
you can't find what you're looking for there, then you
go mail order. But check your local independent garden centers first,
but I look at them as a great reference. I
(15:18):
look at them as a great inspiration, uh and really
can't get you going. And some of them have the
information in them is phenomenal. I still think Johnny's Seeds.
Johnny's Seeds, I think is still the catalog itself is
so full of great information. And in the very middle
they do a lot of microgreens. The seeds that you
(15:41):
can buy. It's amazing what you can grow as a
micro green, all right, and it's it's it's phenomenal. But
be sure and check them out. It's a Johnny Seeds.
I would put that on my list. And another one
that I would put on my list, which I always
look forward to every year because it's it's an old
fashioned gardening seed catalog that they still it's a it's
(16:05):
an illustrated garden guide. Our h shumways have you done?
And they've got the rh shumway his picture from way
back and geez, I don't know where that's from the
early nineteen hundreds. But they still do their catalog even
though it's updated. You know, it's all current plants and
things like that, current products that are in there. It's
(16:26):
their one hundred and fifty fifth year shows you how
long ago that was. But it's all illustrated, no pictures,
all artists drawings, illustrations, the typing, the font it's a
really cool.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's a lot of fun. It takes your way back.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I love getting this one and just reading through it
and looking at all the great things they do in there.
But there's no pictures. Besides, they are all illustrated like
they used to do way back when with most of
the gardening catalogs.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
But it's R H. Shumway.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
So I said before the break, there is if you're
not sure where to go to get your gardening seed
catalogs plant catalogs that are free, I have a one
stop shop for you. All right, are you ready? It's
very simple. You know, the Farmer's Almanac. It's their website
(17:21):
Almanac dot com. Go to almanac dot com, forward slash
content forward slash garden seed Catalogs and they have a
listing of over forty five different seed catalogs and online
plant sources and all the links are there. You can
(17:43):
go right to their website and download their catalogs, or
you can request the catalog either way, they're all on there,
all of my favorites are in here. I always get Burpie.
I always get Totally Tomato, Pepper Joe. I like some
ways see because it's the old fashioned catalog. That thing
is worth it. You got to get that one just
(18:04):
to see it. Johnny's Catalog at Johnny's Seed Catalog I
actually sometimes carried around with me. Is a for a reference,
but absolutely wonderful. And again the Burpie one, I always
put that on the top. Territorial seed is great. I
look at Tomato Growers Supply. Tomato Growers Supply is a
(18:27):
great one as well. And then after the listing of
all of these different seed catalogs and plant catalogs, then
they have free online gardening guides. So the next chapter,
the next at the end of the thing, all of
these links for you to go and they're recommended, you know,
through them with all the great links. And in course
you can sign up for their website as well. But
(18:48):
again I think that's outstanding. It's a one stop shop.
And again check it out. It's at almanac dot com.
Forward slash content forward slash Garden seed Catalogs and it
has every catalog you could ever imagine, more than enough
information for you to to work with, so be sure
(19:10):
and check it out. Got about a minute a half
to go. Robert and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Good morning, Hey Ron, good morning, Happy new year. Congratulations
on your upcoming retirement. I think that's awesome. I too,
I too am approaching that in a few months and
as a result of that joined my wife as a
part of the Longwood Gardens team. Oh my part time gig.
(19:34):
It's pretty awesome. Lucky you, it's it's it's a great
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out online. It's pretty awesome at longwood dot org. Second question,
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we took an ash down in our front yard that
was the victimized bash boors over a year ago. Number one,
can I plant in the spring as should that area
be cleaned enough? And number two have you heard of
a polome tree? And do you think that would work
in our zone? They grow with the gardens.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
As in polome tree is in a Polonia tom and
Tosa the Royal I'm sorry, yeah, Polonia, Yeah, I have
as a matter of fact, and are running out of time, Robert,
listen after the break, just keep listening to the show.
We come back from the break, I'll address that for you.
We'll talk more about the Royal Princess Tree uh and
give you a little bit more information about that coming
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Speaker 1 (23:00):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson, as
I promise, it's time for a bifurcation of segments. It's
time for weather. It's the weather and in the trees
with our prognosticate tour of the pronoxhors, our weather Predictor extraordinaire,
our registered consulting arbors, our amateur Mediorologist, I say, board
certified Master Arborist, Ladies and gentlemen. His website arbordoctor dot com,
(23:21):
the arbor doctor himself, mister.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Ron Rothas right, I love it just for you.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Danny said, that was a nice little storm I had, wasn't.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
It, Yes, yes, it was. So let's let's get started.
First of all, would you like to have it?
Speaker 7 (24:01):
I just said what I said, that was a nice
little storm.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Now that it's over, Now that it's over.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Yeah, those who had a few, you know what about
a half a day or so of light rain and
then it's gone. And I'm just talking about your new
affiliate Eugene, Oregon, where the storm has already gone through.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Oh it's all got yesterday.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh did they see I'm trying.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
I'm trying to have entire audience into account here.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Eleven different planting zones in Oregon.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
That's crazy, kind of a I looked it up this
morning because I've admittedly never been to Eugene, Oregon. I
love to go to the Pacific northwestern time. I've never
been out there. But they said they have a kind
of a Mediterranean or semi a Mediterranean climate west of
the Cascade Mountains and about fifty miles inlands from the coast.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, Eugene is a Zone A B and they said
in the summer it's pretty hot and dry. So but yeah,
all the different you can find, all the different zones
within one state. I think that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Yeah, yeah, they're they're winter weather advisories for the mountains
just east of Eugene today, so but yeah, lots of
climate zones out there.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
All right. First of all, would you like to have
a mayonnaise bath? No, Actually that didn't sound good to me.
The Duke Bowl Duke's Mayo Bowl and the guy the
coach got slathered with mayo.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I like it, but I don't think i'd want to
be dumped on with it.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
I mean, yeah, the Testita Fiesta Bowl to be you know,
have Testita's dumped over your head might not be so bad.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
A different story, Yeah, maybe not Mayo baby not. Secondly,
we were talking uh uh I can't think of it,
remember his name anyway? Uh, trying to blank Pennsylvania And
they replace a tree that they took out this year.
They're going to replace it in the spring. And he
had brought up and we went into the break, so
I told him we talk about this when he came
out of the break replacing it. I want to know
(26:09):
if I'd ever heard of a polonia tom and tosa
obviously the Royal Princess tree.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Have you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I'm trying to think I know where two of them
are in our area. Do you see those very often
around here.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
I've seen a number of them. I mean, I'm not
going to say they're numerous in our area. The thing
about polonia is it is it's from China, right, and
it's on just about every invasive species list. Yeah, it's
really on the do not plant list in most areas,
and in areas where it does a little bit better,
(26:47):
it would be you know, it's not real hardy. In Cincinnati,
I can die back sometimes, but in areas like around
Philadelphia and up and down the East Coast where it
stays a little bit warmer, it can be that much
more invasive because the cold doesn't knock it back. So
I would not recommend that tree. There's so many burner trees. Yes,
(27:11):
it's a fast grower, Yes it gets beautiful lilac colored flowers,
but it is an invasive species. It does readily seed,
and it's just not something that's that's recommended.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, it's it's a beautiful tree. And you know, way
back when when you used to have like the newspaper
and you would always you know, the Sunday that insert
you'd always have a full page add in that thing
for the fastest growing, beautiful spring flowering your late spring
flowering royal princess tree. You know, polonia and all this
(27:44):
great stuff. And again I've seen two or three of them.
Joe used to have a box, used to have a
neighbor that had one. It was huge, and I don't
think it's there anymore. But the flower was gorgeous. But
they seed like crazy, and like you said, you get
further south out of our zone, it just popped up
from seed everywhere. So it's very invasive. So an answer
(28:04):
to the question was asking whether or not the plant
one we both obviously agree no, don't plant that tree.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Do you know what I would actually say, is you
know your plant of the week this week, the or
tree of the week this week, the exclamation plane tree.
It doesn't get the flowers, but it would be an
excellent choice instead of a plumia tree. Probably gets a
similar size, if not a little bit taller, and grows fast.
(28:35):
I mean, if you're looking at fast growth, exclamation plane
tree is just a really fast grower. I actually had
a client a few years ago who had two ailing
sugar maple trees called me up to see if they
could be saved. They had Gennaderman infections at the base
and we did a few things, but there's really not
(28:55):
much you can do with with trees that are in
that state. And eventually they're actually in a strip in
a sidewalk and the street there were city trees. And
so he finally relented and let the city cut them down.
And he didn't want to wait for the city to
replant them. So we went ahead and UH with a
permit from the city, I went ahead and planted exclamation
(29:17):
plane trees. And then these sugar maples that had been
taken down were probably close to forty feet tall. And
I kid you not, within six years, those exclamation plane
trees were as tall as the uh as the sugar
maples had been taken down. They hadn't filled out as
much yet, you know, six years, right, but they were
reaching probably thirty five forty feet. After six or seven years,
(29:38):
they were putting on several feet a year. I mean,
it was. It was astounding, right, he was. He was
quite glad that he had eventually relented and let them
cut down the whole ailing trees. Sure, that's a great tree.
The only the only drawback, you know, is it doesn't
get flowers that are noticeable, and it doesn't it doesn't
(30:00):
have very good fall color. Now it's kind of been
a stand one, fastest growth and good shade. It's it's fantastic, kind.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Of a faded out yellow ee, I mean, does give
you a little bit of yellow, a little bit of
gold there, but not nothing spectacular.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
We've got to see.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
And I imagine you know, you know, spring or fall
color can vary from year to year. I mentioned some
years it could be decent, but it's it's certainly not
a tree that jumps to the top of my mind
when it comes to you know, wonderful fall color, right,
but for just about every other attribute, it's a fantastic tree.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So be sure and check it out. It's on our
website at Ron Wilson online dot com. And we're going
to really be pushing a lot of plants of the week,
a lot of trees over the wintertime, trying to get
more focused there before we talk about the weather. On
one last thing, I was reading some trends the other
day for twenty twenty five, and of course, you know,
talking about planting more trees, et cetera, et cetera. But
(30:54):
they brought up a point in this article that you've
been pushing for several years now as a certified mastorburst.
You've been pushing for a long time, and I think
it deserves more and more tension all the time. And
that is not only planting and growing new trees. And
I saw that too. Don't just plant a tree, grow
a tree. So if you're in a planet, make sure
you grow it as well. But the point being is
(31:16):
is to take care of our existing trees existing tree
health care.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Well absolutely, I mean that, you know, we have all
these things with you know, climate change and things like that.
Want to plant you know, a million trees or trillion
trees or something like that. A lot of these mass
planting schemes have seventy percent failure rates, and I've seen
statistics where you know, it can take two hundred and
fifty plus saplings to even begin to approach the environmental
(31:46):
benefits of a mature tree. So if you cut down
a mature tree, you don't just plant two hundred and
fifty trees to replace the environmental benefits of that one tree.
But with a seventy percent failure rate, in some cases
probably less than that, you know, in her limous landscapes,
but you probably have to plant you know, five hundred
(32:07):
thousand trees to equal the environmental benefits that one tree.
So you know, mature trees have very, very major benefits
in so many ways, you know, carbon sequestration, oxygen production,
cooling effect to the atmosphere, plus a lot of studies
(32:27):
that have clearly shown health benefits both physical and mental
health from having greenery and trees around, so even reduced
crime rates. So I mean, the benefits of having those
mature trees are fantastic, and for for younger trees, because
I'm not against planting younger trees, I don't want to
run that way for it, but but we've got to
(32:50):
do it correctly. There's so many trees that are being
stuck in the ground. You know, the landscapers don't even
or hummers don't even take the burlap off the root ball.
Many times the root flare is buried in the root ball.
And if you don't take the burlap at least off
the top of the ball and excavate that root ball
and find the root flare, you know that tree is
(33:11):
going to be buried. Even if it's on a mound,
if it's four inches deep in the root ball, it's
still buried at the top of the mound, and so
you want to you know, dig down in that root ball,
find the root flair, have that at the surface. You
want to you look at the form of the tree.
You want one nice leader going up to the middle.
If the tree is dividing into into very tight co
(33:31):
dominant stems when it's young, it's very easy to prien
some of those off. So I mean, you know, we
call that young tree training. It's kind of like children.
You know, you don't just you know, have a three
year old and let them do whatever the heck they want.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You know, you've got.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
To stare them in the right direction and do some
correction and things like that. And the same thing is
true with the tree. And if you want a really nice, dependable,
long lived tree that doesn't have is not prone to
broken branches and broken limbs and things like that, you
need to start taking care of it when it's young.
Make sure it's planted correctly. You know, these trees are
(34:09):
planted incorrectly or have these bad branching angles. You know,
you get ten twenty years down the line, you've invested,
you know, one or two decades in a tree, and
all of a sudden, the storm comes to and half
of it falls apart. All of a sudden one year,
it starts to decline and an arburst like me comes
out and starts digging around the base and finds all
these girdling roots and says, well, you know, you spend
(34:32):
fifteen extra minutes at planning time and corrected that we
want to be dealing with this right now, and now
the tree is either not savable or we're going to
have to salvage what we can, so, you know, taking
that extra time, especially when the tree is young, and
like you said, growing the tree, you know, making sure
that we do everything correctly is just so important.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yep, and again and again at the beginning was also
maintaining your existing trees. Don't you just think there's there.
They're rooted in, they can take care of themselves. They
need they need someone to keep an eye on them
as well. That's why it's always good to find a
certified arborus in your area. Haven't come out and look
at your mature trees and then they become the patients
(35:14):
of that particular arborist, just like the arbor doc does
as well. His uh Ron rothais with us this morning.
His website arbordoctor dot com. We're gonna take a break.
We come back. We're gonna talk about this big winter
storm that's headed. It's coming across right now and headed
our way. Here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (37:35):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson, and
I said, it's a bifurcation of segments. First segment in
the tree, second segment, whether it's the weather. Because he
is our weather predicted ice snow, Ron roths arbor doc
(38:00):
his website arbordoctor dot com. Learn about trees, learn about
the weather. So you've got to be just jumping up
and down. You've got to be shaken and nervous and
excited because we got the big one coming to addis tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
I love we always have. But when I when I
was young, you little, you know, I love snow, and
my dad would say, just wait till you get older
and you have to drive in it, you'll hate it. Well,
I just turned sixty. I still love snow, so very happy.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
What you're sixty.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
I just turned sixty. Yes, sir, you know what's I
haven't gotten my presence from you yet either, so I'm
still waiting for that.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Well, you know what, totally, I'm being totally honest with you, Ron,
and I've known you for a long time. I would
have never guessed that you're sixty years old. I just
said you turned fifty.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
I would have said forty.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
Cataract surgery later this week.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Oh, good luck.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
That's that's a lot of funs actually fun and gets
see the fireworks and all that, and getting the new lenses. Huh,
I'm going to get the lenses to and all that.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
We're officially old.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Now good, all right? So what's what is going to happen?
I mean, you know, we've heard about it for the
last three days now that this big storm and the
course in our area, and we're located on the Ohio
River Valley south southwestern Ohio. Things seem to break go north,
go south, We miss it, we get it. What are
you seeing?
Speaker 7 (39:31):
Well, the there's still some some opportunity for some moigal
room in the track of this storm, but it looks
like it's basically taking a bullseye on the Cincinnati area.
And when I say a bullseye. That means the heaviest
band of precipitation is going to be pretty close to
the Cincinnati metro area. And I said specifically say precipitation
(39:52):
and not necessarily snow, because because there are some temperature
issues in the atmospheric profile and things like that. So
some areas are going to get predominantly snow, some areas
are going to get a mix of snow and sleet.
Some are going to get a mix of snow and
sleet and freezing rain. Areas you know, well south of
Cincinnati are going to get you know, potentially you know,
(40:13):
mainly freezing rain. You're gonna have to get all the
way down near the Tennessee border before you get into
areas that have you know, more rain than you know
and more above freezing temperatures. So we're going to be
well within you know, the freezing zone, you know, the
the Cincinnati area and central Ohio Valley. And this storm
extends all the way from the Central Plains, Kansas area,
(40:37):
and Missouri across to the mid Atlantic, where winter storm
watches have not been issued for the from Maryland, my
sister laws in Dunkirk, Maryland, the Washington DC area. I
think Baltimore is included in that. So so it's an
expansive storm headed right across the Cincinnati area. Right now,
(40:58):
it looks like we're going to starts seeing snow probably
about midday on Sunday. It could be late morning till
be early afternoon. Could have several inches by evening. Then
it gets complicated because a tongue of warm air comes
in in the upper atmosphere. It's probably going to melt
some of the snow and turn it into either freezing
(41:20):
rain or sleep more likely sleep in the Cincinnati area.
Freezing rain to the south, and then on Monday it
turns back to snow in some areas. Could get several
inches of additional snow on Monday, so that the total
accumulations are going to be probably in the four to
eight or five to nine inch area in the Cincinnati
(41:42):
area could be there's gonna be a sharp cut off
to the north, so the Dayton area is probably going
to get three to six inches. They could get a
little bit more or less. To the south of Cincinnati,
it's going to be more freezing rain and sleet. They
could get a decent ice storm in some areas, but
the big thing to remember, especially for people at the
(42:03):
shovel or plow snow or things, is if the snow
turns to sleep as opposed to freezing rain. Sleep is
basically snow without air pockets, so you have the same
weight that you have with snow. So if you get
an inch of sleet, it's roughly equivalent. I would argue
about ten inches of snow from a standpoint of somebody
(42:26):
who has to plow it or shovel it or things
like that. So this is going to be a really
impactful storm because you know, even though not everything is
going to be snow, the weight and what's going to
have to be plowed off of parking lots and driveways
is going to be huge, and it's going to take
a while. You know, people that live on streets, they
(42:51):
tend to be slow to get to your street to
do any plowing or anything. You could be stuck for
a while. Because this is going to be followed by
some very cold Arctic air. And whenever you have a dense,
a thick snow cover on the ground, it's like putting
ice cubes in a glass of water. It cools the
atmosphere down. When the ground's bare you have heat that
(43:13):
radiates into the atmosphere. When the ground's covered with snow,
you don't have that, and so on a clear night
with deep snow cover, it can drop ten fifteen degrees
colder than it might if you didn't have that snow cover.
So we're looking at a good chance that below zero
temperatures this week after all this snowfalls, and then more
(43:36):
cold coming in the following week, and you could have
more cold weather then. So this is not a short
term thing. It looks like it could warm up a
little bit, maybe the third week of the month, but
even then it remains to be seen how much. And
then it's actually looking like there's going to be another
surge of Arctic air and cold weather as we get
(43:56):
to the end of January in the first week or
two of February. So this is going to be one
of those winters that we haven't seen in quite a while.
I saw one National Weather Service side I think it
was Birmingham, Alabama, that was actually comparing this weather pattern
to January nineteen seventy seven. So this is a serious
(44:17):
weather pattern that we're in right now. This isn't just
one of those little snows that We've been getting where
it snows a little bit and then it melts the
next day and it's back up to fifty degrees. That's
not what's going to happen. So I would expect an
impactful storm. It's going to be very heavy to shovel,
very heavy to plow. It might take a while. There
(44:37):
could be some ice accumulation on trees to the south
of Cincinnati, a little bit in Cincinnati, but not a
lot in the way of accumulation on ice accumulation on trees,
and then extended snow cover and very cold air temperature,
so some of those marginal plants like blue atlas cedars
and cherry laurels.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
You heard it from the Man, the myth, the legend,
Ron roths again. His website is arbordoctor dot com. Thank you,
sir for the great information.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
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