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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson. I am your personal yard boy.
We are talking about yard ning. Let's see here, who
do we want to start off with? Okay, let's start
off with mister Joe Strecker. The cup of Joe. Our
jacket is probably shut and leave if you want me to.

(00:55):
I can get this at home. No you can't, yo,
I can, Oh you can, I can't. Tracker Executive producer. Finally,
what's going on in our website? Because see I don't
say his lawn or landscape anymore. There's just nothing going
on there. Whatever is minimal. That's what's going on in
this Absolutely. I am going to ask him about his
lawn though our website at Ron Wilson online dot com,

(01:16):
facebook page, The Answer I Know and Facebook page in
the Garden with Ron Wilson. Good morning, sir. How's it
going good in you? It's going to be a great
day today. You know why why it's supposed to get thunderstorms.
I was thinking of you because the pretty good storms
coming through this sect. Well we had well, we had
the ones in the morning which were great, and we're
supposed to have more in the afternoon, which was supposed

(01:38):
to be just as lightning filled. So let's go ahead
and just for you, just for you, I McDonald's just
loving it. You'll probably stop at McDonald's maybe on the
way home. Maybe we don't have to get a couple
sausage britos. Now, can I ask you a question?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Why is it when when when someone says, can you
ask me a question? You're going to ask me a question?
Just ask me No. If you said no, I wouldn't
ask you. It's funny when you tell people no, they
continue to ask you that's your question? No, can you
tell me I just said no? Anyway, go ahead. Having
to pay an extra fifty cents or a dollar for
an egg sandwich or something like that because of the

(02:24):
egg prices, does that no? Is that news? Not really?
I mean we all know what's going on. I can't
believe that the still makes It's like I would expect
to pay more if even if they have eggs available
on the market, they do price raise. They do price
hikes all the time and no one notices. Yeah, but

(02:45):
I mean right now, with the with the bird flu
at all, that there's it's under It's understandable why we
would or why we don't have any eggs. But it's
news because of what's happening, you know, because of what's happening,
which I still think is kind of boga such and
such a restaurant. Now, I was going to be a
charging search ar, you know whatever, an extra dollar for
your h shrambled eggs. In this way, people can get

(03:08):
upset and write something on Facebook, so I would expect
them to. But two years ago, when there was no
quote unquote egg shortage, and you know, McDonald's raised the
price of their sandwich from you know, we'll just say
a dollar to a dollar twenty five, no one, no
one noticed. Yeah, there was no Facebook outrage. I just

(03:28):
cracks me. I can the bird flew is a major issue. Yeah,
the price of eggs obviously is going to skyrock. And
I don't it's just the way it is. We don't
have any eggs. Yeah, I don't know why take it
off and that I have noid No, no, no, But you
just open up yourself for a lot of emails. Well
we're talking about going, Well, I'm just saying, no, I
didn't I understand the issue. I'm just saying, what what

(03:48):
you know? I would expect to pay more money because
there's no eggs out there. Yeah, it's supplying demand, that's
basically exactly. Yes, hopefully will get this straight and hopefully,
I'm pretty sure we'll get it fixed. That's a tough one, Oh,
it might be. But the thing good about that is
it only takes about five six months for a chick
hens to start laying eggs. So here you go. That's

(04:09):
second generation coming around here, so it shouldn't be too long.
I hope hopefully we'll get five dollars eggs by May.
And it came up because you were going to McDonald's
getting something on the way home. Yes, So where are
you gonna ask me about my wand?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Did you do a primo? I haven't done anything. I
haven't even got my lawnmower out of the shed yet.
That's all I needed to know. So are you starting
to green up in spots? Yeah? I'll tell you what.
The backyard got tore up. This winner from the dogs

(04:45):
going in and out. My goodness, they tore up the backyard.
Tore up is in just running on it from running
from running on it. But because of all the snow
we had, you couldn't really see it right, But now
that the snow's gone, my neighbors where they drag their
garbage cans out, use the same path all the time.

(05:08):
You get have a nice steil when they did that
all the way along going across there, oh, instead of
breaking it up kind of you know, going out different
directions or whatever. So it happens, but it'll come back,
I'm sure, well because it's uh, it's a nice it's
a line that's always come back. So yeah, have you
ever done the primo? I mean we've talked about primos forever.

(05:30):
Uh maybe when I maybe my first couple of years
living there, when I cared Yeah all right, then when
we redid your front yard. Yeah yeah, because I had
a reputation. Yeah you did, now at all know whatever.
But he's got a nice banana tree. I do, Hey,

(05:50):
yes I do. Yes, I do have a nice banana tree.
Yes you do. Just keep you kidding up. Every year, yep,
it comes back every year, that nice little some pups too.
Don't forget Northern Wonder, Northern Wonder, because your neighbors gonna
get asking you what kind is that? Joe, and I say,
it's a banana tree. It's a banana tree Northern wonder

(06:10):
So who do you have service yet? Get the lawnmower
service yet. I'm still working on it. Get the blade sharping.
I still working on it, Still working on it, okay,
just making sure, all right? Do you take it somewhere
or mobile? Well, we used to have a lot more
place up the street, but they went out of business,
so I'm gonna have to find somewhere, m unless you

(06:33):
know somebody that knows how to do it. There are
some mobile services out there, I know. Yeah, they also
need the expensive but they also need the service. My
my snowflower, my snowblower. Because we couldn't get to work
the share put it away for the summer. Well, we
couldn't get to work, the share wouldn't turn over. So
something's going on in there that's not good. I know.
We did of course that the snow too, the time

(06:56):
when we actually had eleven inches of snow and we
needed the snow thrower. That's what it doesn't. But you
know last year when we just had dustings, you know,
didn't need it, didn't she used them any one, but
what it worked. What's the other one called the snow joe?
Snow Joe yep, Why did I forget that? Yeah? I
did remember that. That's what you remember. So snow Choe.

(07:21):
Do we have any guests on today's show? We do.
Barbie Bletcher's gonna be with us this morning.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Right.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
We've kind of been putting this one off for the
last three or four weeks, kind of going week to
week because you don't know about be Diarrhya. Yeah, there's
a tremendous be loss out there and they well I'm
not going to spoil it, but she's going to talk
about that. We've been waiting to see if they've been
able to figure out exactly what's going on. But it's
a pretty major surprise that isn't hit the news a

(07:47):
little bit more than it has, if any at all.
But the honey prices would have to go up for
it to be a big concern. Well, and you know,
with all the disasters, a lot of folks don't think
about that either. When the tornadoes and the hurricanes come
through and the flooding and all that stuff. Hoo, could
all the bees that get wiped out during that as well,
plus whatever's going on out there right now? So anyway,
serious situation looking at the honey bees and we'll find

(08:09):
out barbe where we stand at this stage. Also another
great book. And you know, you and I used to
talk about getting one of those arrow gardens all the time.
We wish they would have sent us one. Of course,
now they've got so many different kinds of arrow gardens.
It's crazy. But indoor gardening, and I'm not talking about
just growing house buys, So I'm talking about growing your
own food indoors coming really popular. And the equipment they

(08:31):
have out there today is crazy. I mean, you can
just grow stuff inside all the time. Well, somebody wrote
a book about it, Kim Roman did. It's a great
book on how to garden indoors and grow your own
food year round. And she addresses that, and arrow gardens
happens to be one of the things in the book
that she talks about for growing like herbs and things
like that as well. So we'll talk to her about
I grow your own food year round without even going outside.

(08:54):
Very cool, Yeah, very cool. I think that's a major
trend that's coming along. In another five years, everybody will
have some kind of every house will be equipped with
an indoor. And they heard it here first twenty years
ago with Ron Wilson A long time ago. I first
saw that herb garden and somebody's in that kitchen things,
so yeah, yeah, and then uh yeah, we're still waiting
for the Arrow Garden. It's on its way. Post office

(09:17):
is taking its time. So anyway, Kim Roman will be
with us in the It's it's it's a fun book
and cool. You know, if you want to just stay
inside and grow your own food, you can do it.
It's Buggy Joe back. Buggy Joe is not back yet. Okay,
let's just stop that there. I sent him an email
this week and said, you know, I've gotten several of
your fans last in the last couple of years, asking

(09:39):
two of them, when's Buggy Joe three? When's Buggy Joe
coming back on me? You? And who who's the third?
A doctor? Z gotcha? Yeah, so garden eighty three. Wait
at the end of the day, we're out there yet.
So so we got Sally and you got and I go, yeah,

(10:01):
we have Gary and of course you and then Danny
in between in between. So the website run Wilson Online
dot com Facebook page in the garden with Ron Wilson.
You like how I changed the graphic last week. By
the ways, you know, it's Dan's birthday this weekend. I
know it's I'm getting to that. Oh okay, sorry, did
you notice I changed the graphic on the Facebook chat room?

(10:23):
I did not. Wow, someone's on the Facebook page a lot. Yeah,
I just I'm not goodness, I'm not on Facebook except
for that that that particular. Okay if you say so,
but it's yeah, it's uh. I I just tried to
change it up a little bit. And you know, we've
had the same graphic for gosh, I long know how

(10:44):
many years, five years, six years, a long time, So
just kind of changing things up a little bit. But
that chat room is up and running and going. And
the the now I can't speak now the website, which
is run will online dot com. Hands Let's see, we
have the world's smallest park. That's pretty cool. It's a

(11:07):
stump pretty much with a little bricks around it, but
there are regulations to make it an official park and
then you have to have a bench and all that stuff,
and yeah, it's kind of interesting. It's a bench with
like a little bit of grass around it when bricks
around it, and yeah, there you go. It's kind of cool.

(11:28):
So check it out the world's smallest park. And it's
in Japan, but if it was, but if it was
in America, that's probably got like a ten billion dollar
grant or to make that thing. And Gary Bachman has
a he sent us a video this week about setting
up a garden tower. Kind of goes along with the

(11:50):
kind of goes along with the book. Yeah, so the
kind of a little by the way he saluted, uh
having the brew dog at the end, and yeah, n A,
I actually hadn't bought one of those, Yeah, because I've
yet to find an n A that tastes good. Yeah. Uh,

(12:10):
it's okay if you're gonna have it, if you get
if you want to drink an a beer, you might
as well just drink water. Yep, so far anyway, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
Or just bourbon.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
There you go. That's that's that's definitely not any beer.
Rita's already for Saint Patrick's Day, her timely her recipe
of the week is corned beef. Even the picture looks great, Yeah,
it looks really dive into that, Rita, Rita Rita's recipe
of the week. It's right there on the website, and
the very timely plan of the week has something to

(12:46):
do with Saint Patrick's Day as well. Shamrocks, green shamrocks.
They're out there right now. Whoever sells plants usually have
a whole bunch of them, maroon ones and the green ones,
and if you want to learn more about them and
the problems that you can get into. Sometimes is it
really a shamrock or not? Probably not, But anyway you
can learn more about that. What our little article there,
nice little tip sheet all about shamrocks from Ron Wilson. Yeah,

(13:10):
so that's the website. And I just want to say
happy birthday to Daniel. Yes he is what thirty thirty
years old something like that. He's thirty one. No, he's
a little older than that, and he's proud of it.
He'll tell you. Yeah, it's happy birthday, Daniel. I'll be
working for you Sunday so you can party all night tonight,

(13:31):
party old old. Yeah. So congratulations on making it another
trip around the sun. There you go. By the way,
Speaking of which, were you up? What was that Thursday night? Yes?
I was? Did you what did you get in here?

Speaker 2 (13:44):
I was?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, I was, I was working and about three thirty
ish or so, the news guy came in and said, hey,
the eclipse is happening. So I ran outside real fast,
watched the watched it go to one percent, and then
came back in, kept on working. I didn't know. It's
pretty cool though I didn't see it. It's pretty cool though.

(14:07):
I'm sure it was. They happened like twenty twenty two
something like that. It wasn't too long, you know something.
And there's supposed to be another one this year. Oh yeah, yeah,
this was the full blood moon. This is the blood moon. Yes,
so they ended up being read when it was false
and done. Sounds pretty cool. Yeah, so excellent. All right,

(14:28):
we're done. We got it on out, all right. Joe Strecker,
executive producer. If you like what you see on our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page. In the Garden
with Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker had everything to do with it.
Something in there you don't like. Things should be changed
you're not sure about. Don't blame Joe, doctor Z. That's
blamed doctor Z. In Washington, d C. Garden eighty three
maybe if he's got that thing started yet. But the

(14:50):
garden or the Vest Garden, well, I know he's got
the vest but going that was around the back, bowser
on the back and still the rocket in the pot.
Still a single man. Mm hmmm, I don't know. Talk.
Maybe I need to go to Washington. Maybe we both
should just have a little road trip, maybe check to

(15:11):
find out, get to get the real answer. Yeah, you
have something could record with. I'm sure we can find
you the record. I had an interview with the doctor
Z Yeah, and taking take her back to Cincinnati with us. Yeah,
thank you, Joseph. All right, I'm a say trip home.

(15:32):
Talk to you next week. ALRIGHTY eight hundred eight two
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Rolling through York, Nebraska thirty eight degrees cloudy.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Sky Wow thirty eight degrees, cloudy skies, any wind.

Speaker 7 (18:55):
Uh they got a uh wind warning out here for
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I stop watching those clips. The moon always gets in
the way, you know. But but you know a funny

(19:16):
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beat gives milk? You may want to share this with Barbie.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
All right, I'll share with Barbie what what kind of
bee gives milk? Booby Dan is just shaking his head.
I don't know. That's it. That's a that's a good one.
We'll ask Barbie. As a matter of fact, you'll be
coming up at the top of the hour talking about

(19:46):
the b situation out there. And you know, we always
find out, you know, coming out of the winter time.
You know, how do we do? How do you overwinner?
Looking across the country?

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (19:55):
And I think there's some be losses going on out there,
and like I say, I'm surprised we have learn more
about it. But uh, we'll will at the top of
the hour talking with Barbie bletch you or Queen Bee.
And at the bottom of the hour, great book, how
to garden indoors. How to grow your own food year
round indoors. Kim Roman's going to join us with that
one as well, and of course taking your calls at

(20:17):
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Com talking to you Yardening at eight hundred eight two three

(22:39):
eight two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boyd. You know, when you get to
this time of the year, mental part of March, all
of a sudden things start to just happen. And I
sat down there this morning and I have so many
things that I printed out and notes and all this stuff.
You know, you can't get through it all. So obviously
we'll take your calls first, try to answer all your questions,

(23:00):
slip in some tips in between, and of course have
our guests coming up in the next hour as well.
So again, and if we can't get to you, you know,
if you try calling it or whatever. I don't forget
to email me. I'm getting hammerd with emails right now,
but I do my best to get back to as
many as I can. I try to do them all,
but sometimes I just can't. Some of them are so
deeply the answer, I just can't. I can't do it

(23:24):
out at the time. But anyway, I'm being honest, but
I try to answer as many as I can. So
we'll try to keep you updated as best we can
as we go through the spring season. But it definitely
has sprung, and I know what officially springs next week
with the astrological spring. We're already in the meteorological spring.
But yeah, things start going in. There's so many things

(23:45):
you want to share, it's crazy. Anyway, back to the
guarding phone nights, we shall go to love one we
go Dave. Good morning, Hey Ron, Dave. I'm great. How
about yourself?

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Not too bad. I'm sure you get a lot of emails,
but I'm the guy that often sends you a picture
of my rain gauge because I'm right down the road
from your store and we always can kind of compare
how much rain we You don't think i'll have to
do that this week?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Really, Hey, listen, I have a small dog wood tree
in the back of my house. It's in a very
very shady area, and it's just it's also on a hill,
a lot of mud sliding down, it's kind of getting
up around the roots. It's just not a good place

(24:34):
for it, and I want to move it. And I
really didn't think about it till this the weather started breaking,
and I don't know if this is a good time.
We're going to wait back till fall again. What's your thought?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
No, You're gonna have to get on it right away.
I'm looking at this long term weather and we are
warming quickly, and you know, we still got nighttime temps.
I'm looking next week into the forties and whatever. But
it's warm and quickly. The salt temps are not coming up.
And when you get warm, soil temps and the air
attempts and things start to pop. So I would get
on it as soon as you can. Obviously you're probably

(25:06):
not gonna be able to do anything today or tomorrow,
but after we get through this weather front here, I'd
be on it as soon as possible. Is that one
that came up by itself? Or did you plan it there?

Speaker 4 (25:17):
I think the previous owner did. Okay, the way it's
where it's placed and whatnot, and I think you know,
I'm kind of an early bird. I don't know if
I can beat the rain or not. It's it's pretty small.
It's like it might be eight feet or so. Okay,
I just hope I can get enough of the roots,
you know.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, you know, if you look at the trunk diameter,
you know, six twelve inches off the ground, and you know,
for every inch trunk diameter, you're looking for about a
twelve inch root ball. So you know, if that's three inch,
every inch is twelve inches twelve inches. Yeah, so you know,
if you're looking at two inch trunk diameter, you'd be
looking at least a twenty four to thirty inch rootball.

(25:57):
That would be that would be the minimum that a
nurse we would put on that if they were going
out and digging it from their fields.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yeah. I think it's about where I'm at, actually, right
right around right around two inches.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
So start at about go out about fifteen to eighteen
inches out and just go with that squarespace and go
straight down. See what you hit at that point. You
may be able to come in a little bit more
after that to make it, you know, something you can handle,
and if it does fall apart and sometimes they do.
Just make sure you get it over, get it back
in the ground, get the soil settled back in around it,
watered in well, and you'll probably have to stake it

(26:31):
for the first year to get you know, get settled
back in again, especially if the root ball does fall apart,
and that does happen, Dave So, but that shouldn't mean
anything as far as you know your success of moving
it now. Obviously you always take a risk.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
But any I'm sure I'll see maybe what just at
a little die back or anything other than root stimulator,
I should add.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Nope, not necessarily, and you know, the root stimulator helps.
I think the big key is, you know, has taken
as many roots as you can getting it replanted just
like it was where it was, you know, depth wise
and all and again watering becomes the key. Soaking it
in really well, making sure it has good even moisture
as you're going, you know, going through the spring season,
good mulching on the top to help keep the moisture

(27:15):
even in there and keep those roots cool. The root
stimulus just a little additive to you. But I think
the watering and the proper transplanting that's going to be
the key and then the root stimus is kind of
a icing on the cake.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
And then one last question, a little too early to
get the prene out or are we getting really close
to that?

Speaker 1 (27:34):
You're getting close to that in the landscape beds, you know,
I'm usually really late on that, you know. Right now.
My concern is if you're doing it for the lawns,
you know, watching those soil temps. As a matter of fact,
I always check it on Saturday morning in our area
and in Mason this morning the soil temp was I
got right here fifty nine degrees. So it's coming up.

(27:56):
It's coming up quickly, so you know it's i'd say
that next week or so you probably want to start
to think about those pre emergent herbicides.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yep, good stuff. Well, Ron, appreciate what you do for
the community. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Thank you. Dave. Always a pleasure getting your emails and
comparing on our rainfall in our backyards as well. So yeah,
and I know exactly what he's talking about. So but again, yeah,
good And there's a good point. Pre emerging herbicides one
of the top of my lists here. You know, we
watch the soil temperatures because when when we start getting
into fifty five degrees soil temperatures, air and soil temperatures

(28:31):
combined together consistently seeing right about fifty five degrees plus,
that's when crabgrass and other weeds seeds start to think
about germinating and growing. So when that approaches us, or
we get right to that point, that's typically what we
want to have our herb side, our pre emergent herbsides
in place. The other factor, if you don't have a

(28:51):
soil thermometer or you don't go to greencast online dot
com and look at the soil temps, watch the forsythia. Typically,
when forsythia pop out, the soil temperatures have been consistent
enough in air temperatures to make them bloom, and in
our area they're not. And I looked at them the
other day and I don't think they were even close.
So and that doesn't always work out that way, but

(29:13):
and again it could be you know, we could be
at fifty nine today and by Monday be back down
into the upper forties, lower fifties, So it's going to
be all over the boarder. You just have to keep
watching that. And the consistency is where we start looking.
As a matter of fact, get my notes here. The
five day consistency of this past week average was in
the low fifties. So even though we're up at about

(29:35):
fifty nine in our area, the five day average was
down in the low fifties. So we're still okay. I
don't panic, you know, not getting crazy, but I start
to watch this now on a more consistent basis to
see where we are. But fifty five degrees consistently, that's
when these weed seeds will start to think about germinating.

(29:56):
They don't all do it at the same time, but
they'll start. And if even if you're a little bit late,
you may miss a few of the early ones, early
on ones, but you'll catch them, uh, you know, catch
the rest of them as you as you put it down. Now,
I try to stretch it out as long as I
can to put it down so it'll last longer. And
that's again for both the lawn and for the landscape beds.

(30:17):
And if you're doing it in the landscape beds, remember
this was tip number two to go along with this
right now. I always get the question, is it too
early to mults? Can I get out there? Most do
whatever I don't do any mulch refreshing, adding to or
whatever till later into the summer season. And the reason
I don't is gonna be doing some planting, gonna be

(30:37):
disturbing this the mulch. A lot of times, I don't
have to add any more mult to it anyway, And
I want the soils to be able to warm up
and dry out coming out of the wintertime, you know,
so that they're you know a lot of times if
you come in reason being is if I come in
here with a lot of mulch early on, it may
keep the soil temperatures colder. And it does, it's proven

(30:59):
the research that have shown that, and hold the moisture in.
So I fluff up the multus. What I suggest to folks,
fluff it up. The existing mulch is there. Take a
leaf brake, just go through and fluff it up. The
garden weasels. You know, the garden weasels are still out there.
If you've got one hanging up in the attic or whatever,
get it out. That's one thing that's good for it.

(31:19):
Roll it into mulch beds. It really helps to fluff
those up. But fluff the malt up right now. It
frections up the look and in many cases you find
out that you might not have to add any mult
at all. One to three inches deep, that's all you're
looking for, And I'm always tendencing have a tency to
go toward the one to two inches rather than the
three inches, which would be around larger trees and shrubs

(31:40):
in a general landscape bed. But again, fluff up your
mulch first, and I think you'll find it. It looks nice.
Evens it all out, and then do whatever you need
to do. And then once you are settled in on
your mulch, then you can come back and put the
pre emergent overside in your landscape beds to stop those
wheats from coming up, all right, And so the question

(32:02):
then comes up, when you would I put that on
top of the mulch or do I need to pull
the mulch back and put it on top of the soil. Well,
if your budget allowed, both would be a great way
to go. Typically that doesn't work that way. You already
got the moult there, not going to pull all that
out and put pre pre merger down, put the mulch back,
put pre emersion on that. So do the pre immersion

(32:23):
on top of your mulch. That's the best way for
you to go. And when you're done putting it down,
make sure you water it in. That is the key.
You water that in. And then once you water it
in and it dissolves and it forms like a barrier. Right,
So it's a wee barrier that's there, invisible barrier. If
you go in there and you dig or you add
more mult or whatever, you break the barrier. So you

(32:44):
have to come back and reapply your pre emerged herb sides.
But again, uh, there are different pre emerged herb sides
for the lawn that are different from the landscape, that
are different from the vegetable garden. So make sure you
always read the label pro diamine. It's in the fertilom
All seasons for the lawn cannot be used in the
landscape or the vegetable garden, and you stay away from

(33:05):
those when you're putting that down. Dimension which can be
used in the lawn can also be used in the landscape.
And then of course preene has preen that can be
used boats in the vegetable garden landscape, and then the
corn meal can be using all of them, but read
the labels so you know that you're using the right
one for the situation that you have. As far as
applying pre emerged over sides, and again watch those soil attempts.

(33:29):
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My lips are stuck together this morning. Welcome back. You're
in the garden with Ron Wilson again, that tot free
number eight hundred eight two three eight two five five,
talking about the soil temperatures, pre emerged, herbicide applications, weed
starting to germinate, and looking at the long range forecast,
looking at the daytime tempts of fifty degrees or higher

(35:57):
over the next seven eight days. But if you look
at the nighttime temperatures and Ron rothis are certified arbursts
and hobby meteoradges. Send me a text to take a
look at the nights. And he's right. We're looking at
Sunday night. They're talking into the thirties forty two, forty four,
thirty three, thirty seven forty. That's what brings it right
back down again, so you lose the temperatures warm during

(36:20):
the day, cold, cooler at nighttime. So that should hold
it again into the lower fifties. Upper forties come, you know,
with some of those. So we're still should be in
pretty good shape next week before we start getting into
that fifty five degree consistent soil temperatures. Talking about yarding
again at eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five do forget coming up the top of the hour,

(36:41):
Barbie Bletcher, we talking about the bees. What's going on
out there? I don't know. I hope she's got some
answers for us. Bottom of the hour. Our book of
the day to day How to Garden indoors and grow
your own food year round. It's a really cool book
on growing food indoors, plants that produce food for you indoors,
all the different ways that are available for you to

(37:02):
do that. You can stay inside, never have to go outside,
you know, And that may be the way it's going
to be some way down the road. Just remember I
said that several years ago about the herb gardens and
all I becoming a standard in your kitchens. This may
be maybe something we looking at it in the future here,
not our generations, but you know, way down the road
just growing everything inside and not everything but a lot

(37:24):
of your greens and vegetables and things like that. But
a great book on how to do that. Great tips
in there as well, and we'll talk to Kim Roman
about that. But sharing right now the gardening tips and
of course talking to you at eight hundred and eight
two three eight two five five. The other thing that
comes up right now is pruning. All right, so I'm
out there, I want to you know, the weather starting
to break. I'm looking at my plants. Some things are

(37:46):
overgrown over the sidewalk, you know, I see them, some
brown on our evergreens. After coming out of the winter.
You know, when can I prune? What do I do?
Et cetera, et cetera. It just remember this, you know,
your whole branch removal. So last fall, you're out there
and you're mowing the grass and the lower branches on
some of your trees are hitting you in the head.
You want to limb those up, take some of those

(38:07):
lower branches off. You could do that technically anytime during
the year, for the most part, do it anytime during
the year. But when it comes to you know, reshaping
the plant, cutting it back, rejuvenation, whatever it may be.
You know, it depends on the type of plant. Technically,
technically you can do it all of them in the springtime,
late winter and early spring. But the problem is if

(38:30):
they are a spring flowering plant and you cut them
back now all right before they flower, you lost all
your flowers. So why not let them flower first and
then cut them back. So keep that, you know, as
a general rule of thumb. If the flowers are concerned
to you, and this is a big overgrown plant, but
I'd love to see the flowers, I fit flowers in

(38:52):
the springtime, prune it after it's finished flowering. Now, if
the flowers don't mean anything to you're like, no, I
want to get this thing cut back and let it
put all energy into regrowing. Great, do it now, cut
it back, sacrifice the flowers, and let the plant put
all the energy into regrowing. That's fine. But you know,
if it flowers in the summer, mid to late June

(39:13):
and through the rest of the year, then that means
it flowers on new growth. Therefore you would cut it
back now, forcing out new growth. And that's where you
get your flowers, and sometimes that's where the hydrangea pruning
comes in starts to get a little confusing, because it's like, well,
does my hydrangia flower on new growth old growth? And
there are selections out there that do it both ways.

(39:36):
So you've got to know what hydrasy you have and
what type of growth it flowers on as far as
when you prune those, all right, And if it gets
it does get confusing. And if you're not sure, email me.
I have a tip sheet on when to prune those
different types of hydrangeas, so it doesn't confuse you. Now.

(39:57):
The other thing to kind of confuse you sometimes is
that the macro fylo types, which we try to leave
alone because the buds are on last year's growth, all right.
Some of the newer selections also flower on new growth
as well, but most of those buds are on last
year's as we leave them alone. But at the end
of the winter, and you know a little bit in

(40:18):
the springtime, all of a sudden we start to realize
that many of those branches have died back over the winter.
You have to get rid of them. They're dead, doesn't matter,
you don't do anything wrong, gott to get rid of
the dead wood, and you wind up still not having
any flowers. But that was mother nature, not you. But again,
if it gets very confusing, so you know again, let
me know and I can get you that tip sheet.
When it comes to evergreens, you want to prune the

(40:39):
evergreens before the new growth starts to come out. Now,
over the next couple three four weeks, get those cut back,
putting off the new growth off of that died out
over the wintertime from boxwood, cleaning those up. Japanese used
junipers whatever they be looking at arbor vidi right now,
I'm seeing some pictures of folks are sitting and saying,
got these little flags they call them flags tips here

(41:00):
and there the arborvidy that died over the winter. Take
your pruders out there. Clip that stuff out of there
right now, get rid of it. Clip it all out
so all you have is green. Now, let's watch the
plant and if we get any more brown, we may
have an issue. If we don't get any more brown,
we could be okay. That could be a little left
over as ron rothis puts it goes of the drought past.

(41:21):
So you clip it all out and next thing you know,
all the new growth is coming out and you're good
to go. So you can do that. You want to
do that right now. But again, if you ever have
questions on the pruning and you're not really sure, check
with your local independent garden center. Email me. I'll get
back to you as quickly as I can, or call
our show and we'll try to help you out as
far as timing on win the right types of pruder.

(41:42):
By the way, exceptions to the rule fruit trees when
it comes to flowering. Fruit trees are obviously done in
late winter before they flower the springtime because you want
to thin them out, get the shaping done before all
that happens, so they're kind of an exception to the rule.
Before we take a break, Dick and Dayton, good morning,
Good morning, I am good. Are you listening to the
Red Legs?

Speaker 7 (42:03):
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
I played a lot of music this week, Oh you did? Yeah? Yeah,
back to the Strubbers and I met some people down
at the hub that boyd. They welcomed me in open
arms and it was really nice. I talked to Jimmy,
he's a big Red fan, and it was kind of nice.
You know.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Good. Well, I guess spring is sprung, and so is
the music playing. Yeah, yeah, I'm just going all right.
Always a pleasure, Dick, have a good one. Keep playing
that music. Bye bye, take care. All right, we're gonna
take a quick break. When we come back, Barbie Bletcher,
the Queen Bee, will be with us. We'll talk about
those bees and what's going on out there. Barbie Arley

(42:42):
is full of great b information. Bottom of the hour.
The book is called How to Garden Indoors and Grow
your Own Food year round indoors. It's a really cool book.
Kim Roman, the Arthur author, will be with us as well,
talking about how you can do that. Then after that
we opened the phone lines. Back open you at eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Don't forget
our website. We have a plan of the week is Shamrock.

(43:06):
We have the Southern Garden with one of his tists.
Rita's recipe is a great for Saint Patty's Day corn
beef and the box Tree Moff quarantines expanded. We'll talk
more about that in the next hour as well. It's
all happening here in the garden with Ron Wilson.

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Not gardening questions. Ron has the answers at one eight
hundred eighty two three Talk You're in the Garden with
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