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Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. We're talking about yarning, saying goodbye the
month of March and hello April right around the corner,
starts next week. And you look at it like March
is gonna go out like a lamb. Maybe, uh, sadly possibly,
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I'm I mean, we got some heavy rains and possible
storms moving through, but as far as colder weather, no,
And you know, it has been an up and down.
We've had some probably some of the heaviest for us
this month that I think I have ever seen. In
the morning, it's been crazy. And a couple of areas
had some pretty heavy fog that came along with that
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as well. But ots ups and downs there, rains in
and out, and I think that's one thing that when
we get into the fall season and springs a great
time to plant, there's no doubt about it. But we
talk about fall being the you know, one of the
best times for planting, especially trees and shrubs and evergreens
and pretty much all the landscaping plants, woody the hardy
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woodies and things like that. The reason for that is
if you look at the weather in the fall. There's
many reasons, but one of which, if you look at
the weather in the fall, it's typically a lot more
consistent as it continues to you know, emmer is staying
warmer a little bit longer, so it gives us a
little longer planting season, but not the ups and downs
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and the ins and outs that spring can bring. And
you never know. And you know, like last year, I
think we got off to a great early spring and
then kind of little cooler weather moved in and we
got back into it again. You know, it can be
all over the board, and sometimes you can get the
weather can kind of hold you up. Next thing, you know,
you're past prime planting or whatever. It can be dates
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in the springtime I'm talking about, and you know you
wind up getting late or whatever. But the point being
is keep that in mind now. Again, like I said,
spring is a great time for planting. As a matter
of fact, obviously, spring is the biggest season for all
the garden centers, for everybody getting out and planting whatever
it may be, annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, old nine yards.
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But keep fall in mind as well, and think about this.
If you've got a lot of trees and shrubs, maybe
you're putting up a new screen, planting new planting around
the patio, maybe you're increasing the pollinator gardens of the
perennial gardens, whatever it may be. Had you done a
lot of that in the fall, when the weather was
pretty decent, you wouldn't be worried about that right now.
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So it's you know, you can kind of sit back
and enjoy and do other projects out there. So point
being is spring is an excellent time. It's a great
time to get out and plant, no doubt about it.
And it is the busiest time of all of the
year for all the garden centers rightfully. So we're coming
out of winter going into the spring, things come into flour.
You're it's inspired to get out, you want to plant
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and do whatever you need to do as we come
out of the winter season. I get it. But it's
also when you look at all that and you scramble
trying to get things done in between the weather patterns
and all of that, how fall can help you out
as well. So as you're looking long term and maybe
you've got projects that spring and things you're going to
do later on for planting and all think about how
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you know why fall is such a great time for
planting as well. Get it done in the fall, sit
back and enjoy your fruits of labor in the springtime
as the weather goes up and down and does whatever
it's going to do. But nevertheless, it is spring, and
I am excited because we have a lot of things
going on. I'm looking right now and I was talking
about the frost, some of the heaviest frosts I've seen
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in a long time. In the morning, warm days. We
had some pretty heavy showers moved through good moisture in
the ground for the most part, I think, from what
I can tell, we'll have ron rothis on in our
next hour. Find out where we stand as far as
the rainfall and weather, and what's he seeing over the
next two or three weeks as we move into the
month of April. So you know, the typical thing. But
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I'll tell you it's it's now. With the warmer weather
we've gotten just over the last couple days, and I
think yesterday in our area we actually peaked at eighty degrees.
It didn't feel like eighty degrees. I didn't think now.
Lots of wind made it feel eighty feel very nice. Yeah,
and it was cooler. I was going to say in
the low to mid seventies, mid seventies maybe, but it
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was eighty degrees. And it's amazing what that will do
when you start now having warmer night temperatures and days
that get into the seventies and eighties. Have you checked
your soil temperatures lately if you haven't, Just two days
ago we were in the forties, all right, in the forties.
Check it. At this morning, after yesterday's eighty degree day,
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we're at fifty nine degrees and the soil tempts the
last twenty four hours we've been as high as sixty one,
and the whole week, five day average came out just
under fifty degrees. So it's amazing what And of course
when that happens, everything just starts to explode. And from
this point forward you can expect to see everything's starting
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to explode, as far as flowering, leafing out, et cetera.
Set of the grass growing, the weeds growing. It's gonna happen,
you know, and there's no looking back at this point,
and you know what good it would do you anyway,
But but it's gonna happen. But I look at those
soil temperatures. I look at the way and again we'll
get run in here to talk about the next two
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or three weeks. We're there, and if you have been
watching the soil temperatures and kind of using that as
a judge, we're putting down your pre emergent herbicides in
the lawn. We've been able to stretch it out. Just
think of this. We've you know, if you've stuck with it,
able to stretch it out through pretty much the entire
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month of March. Now's the time to go ahead and
have at it. All right, I'm not going to take
to hold off anymore. Let's do it. Let's get the
pre emergent down. Remember those need to be watered in now.
If you've got rain showers coming through and then they're
talking about some pretty heavy rainfall here, possibly tonight and tomorrow,
I think. But if that's the case, usually I don't
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put it down before that because you don't know how
bad it's going to be. But if you can catch
that before a nice light shower would be great, because
it is important once you put that down and I
like the granular forms versus the water soluble or the
liquid form, but you can use either one, but either
way they have to be watered in to form that barrier.
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But if you can catch it right before a little
rain shower would be great. I mean a day or two,
and that way, it's a couple of days sitting there
starting to break down with the moisture that's already in
the ground. A little shower comes through waters it in
breaks them down, forms the barrier. You're good to go,
and it's very important. If you don't do that, you
might not get the action that you needed as far
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as that pre emergence stopping those weed seats from coming up.
And remember we've been doing this on purpose because you've
been watching for it to be consistently fifty five degrees
and up in our soil temperatures. That's when crabgrass and
other weeds will start to think about germinating. All do
it in the same day, they'll do it over several months,
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but that's when they start thinking about germinating. So we
want to have our pre emergent over size in place.
So answer is today, Eric is to go ahead. If
you haven't done it yet get your pre emergence in play,
have those rady goos. So if you can do it
this weekend depending on the weather, or early next week sometime,
let's get it, get it down, get it in place,
get it watered in, and move forward. At this stage,
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if you want to add a fertilizer to that, you can.
You will find them combined together pre emerged herbsides plus
a lawn food fertiloms all seasons, has both of them
for you. It's pro diamine, I think is the is
the pre emergent plus the lawn food. If you need
a feeding. Remember if you don't think your lawn needs
a feeding, and it looks pretty darn good, you did
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the two feedings in the fall. You think you're okay,
you don't have to feed right now, But you can't
put down that pre emerged orverside by itself. That is
available for you in the local independent garden centers and
dimension per diamine. They'll they'll show you, but they'll have
those individually. If you don't want to put down the fertilizer,
so that is available for you as well. And if
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you do that and then you want to feed, maybe
a little bit later on another three or four weeks
down the road. Feel free to do that with like
the fard Lom's law, food plus iron would be a
great one to add, you know, mid spring, to carry
you through the rest of the spring season and through
the summer as well until we get into the fall.
So anyway, watching those sole temperatures I think has been
a great thing. But at this stage in the game,
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I'm telling you have at it. When it comes to
the pre emergent oversides, let's get them in place. We're there.
But it was nice riding it out until the first
of April. Now we get to you know, if it
will last ninety days, you got April, May and June.
If it lasts one hundred and twenty days, he got
it into July. If it lasts longer than that, he
got it into August because we were able to stretch
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it out just a little bit. One last thing, core
aer ration. A lot of folks asking about core aer
ration in the springtime. Is it better to do it
in the spring or versus the fall? Not necessarily. Your
core oration can be done about any time when the
lawn is actively growing. Fall probably the most common time,
but it can be done in the spring. But if
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you put a pre emergent down and you've got the
barrier in place, and then you come back and core
air rate after you've got the barrier in place, what
happens The core aerrator breaks the barrier punches holes in it,
so you would have to come back and reapply lightly
some pre emerged overside watered end to recreate that barrier.
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So if you're going to core air rate, sometimes better
to try to core air rate before you pre emerge,
or just hold off and core air rate in the
fall rather than doing it in the spring. Grass eating
as well, you know, remember the pre emerged and oversides
won't allow the grass seed to come up unless you
use Scott's step one for newly seated lawns. Otherwise all
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the rest of them will stop your grass seed from
coming up. So that's a decision you have to make
too there if you need to do any seating or whatever.
And I'm looking around right now seeing a lot of
lawns that have really greened up, looking pretty good. But
when you look close, a lot of individual holes some
bare areas in there that you may need to do
a little seating to kind of fill those in a
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little bit. And remember try to use the same seed
or a compatible seed for what you already have in
the lawn. And again you're gonna have to not use
the pre emergent oversight unless you use Scott Step one
for newly seated lawns this spring. All right, quick break,
we come back. Phone lines are uping for you. And
by the way, Joe is off today. That's why we
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today taking the day off. Slacker. What can I say?
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Talking to you arding at eight hundred eight two three
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Personal yard boy. Don't forget our website. It's Ron Wilson
online dot com. Uh and if you look on there
this week couple good postings. One is uh from Buggy
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would be back this weekend, maybe next weekend. Well we're waiting.
They had some family things to do and some traveling
to do, so we'll see. Anyway, talking about your bamboo
furniture may come with an unexpected surprise. Talking about some
beetles that may show up in your bamboo furniture that
they've seen some reports of. So check that out. I
think you'll you'll be interested in that. Also, the Asian
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longhorned beetle uh, you know, detected in several areas in
the United States. Uh. When this thing shows up, and
all areas where this has been detected, someone homeowner whatever
produce grower. I think the in our area was an orchard.
Had a gentleally had an orchard and found them in
his orchard. But Asian longhorn beetle whenever this shows up,
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has to be eradicated. They you know, they don't just
mess around. They go in quarantine the area and start
eradicating by taking down trees that are heavily infested treating trunks.
I mean, they do the whole nine yards until they
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in county south western Ohio, south central Ohio, this showed
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up several years ago, and it's taken that they've been
working on it this long, and every so often they
release another square footy or square mile area and I
think they just released a five mile area that has
now been declared Asian longhorn beetle free. And you can
learn more about the Asian longhorn beetle what to look for,
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because again your eyes become the eyes of the Department
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are unusual that you've never seen before, and report them,
you know, to actually capture them, kill them, put them
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it and find out what it is. And in many times,
in cases are several cases you know it's nothing. But
in some cases you know it's a natural nothing we
do about it, or we can treat. But in some
instances has been something like this non native Asian longhorn beetle.
So it's very important that you keep an eye open
for these. But learn more about that one because when
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it shows up, we have to eradicate it. We do'll
mess around. They go in and clear it out to
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on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com shows
you what it looks like, what to look for, and
then you can take it from there. Also this time
of the year, great tips sheet there about frost cracks
and trees. All of a sudden, you come out after
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the winter springtime, you're looking at your trees and they've
got this huge crack in the bark or even the
side of the tree, the trunk of the tree, typically
on the south southwest side of the tree, and most
of the time that's where they are caused by fluctuations
of cold temperatures, warm temperatures, sun hitting that the cells
contracting too quickly expanding, et cetera, et cetera, and it'll
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crack and nothing you can do about that, besides for
smaller trees, and it really happens a lot on thin
skin the trees, thin bark trees actually wrapping the tree,
or putting a tree trunk protector around it to keep
that sun off of that to keep it a little
more temperature controlled through the winter time. But nevertheless, when
you have these frost cracks, there's anything you can do
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about it at this stage besides let the tree seal
itself back over, so you keep an eye on it.
If any bark starts to become loose not attached. Sometimes
insects like to get underneath that and use it as
a height out to lay their eggs or whatever. You
want to just kind of remove all of that as
it's sealing itself over. But over time they will seal
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back over. May take two or three years or whatever,
but they do seal back over. But they've got an
example on this one from a sycamore tree that's pretty
good sized diameter, and the cracking that thing is probably
one of the deepest cracks I think I've ever seen.
But again, learn more about it, and you may see
that show up in your some of your smaller trees.
Usually as they get larger, you don't worry it doesn't
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happen as much, But then bark the smaller trunk trees,
it happened no doubt about it. Rita's recipe rid His's
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she used dandelion and forcythia jelly, and I have tasted
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both of those and they are outstanding. She makes both
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I love growing figs and containers. Of course, they've got
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Chicago hardy, which is hardy to the zone six. There's
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or whatever and then bringing it in the house over
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called fig noomenal. It's a dwarf fig. I saw this
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We're talking ard at eight hundred eight two three eight
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that out as well. To Ohio we go, Greg, good morning,
good morning, good morning. How were I am? Great?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
In yourself?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm doing good, Thank you, thank you. Hey. I've got
a really bumpy rough yard. Are I get it treated?
It's pretty mature. But and I've heard people pros and
cons about rolling or what what's the other option to
take care of that?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well, I think that the first thing, yeah, we got
to do is take a look at it and find
out what's what's causing the bumpiness. You know, different do
you know, do you have a fescue lawn by the way, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Live in Wayne County.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I'm not sure, okay, because sometimes.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I think it's bluegrass, but not entirely.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Sure, okay, And that's good because sometimes depending on the
type of grass you get, if you get into some
of the fescues, and if you have a lot of
water running across and they grow like in a clump form,
sometimes you get the water that starts to work around
the size of those clumps, and the next thing you know,
the clump is causing the bumpinginess along with the soil
just slightly roading underneath it. And then you got this
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up and down a bumpy you know, due to both situations.
And in a case like that, it actually is a
matter of coming back in and either Sometimes folks have
taken like a slice seater and just sliced it and
then slightly you know, just to kind of break that
soil up and then lightly top dressed with the top
soil and you know, kind of rake that in very
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lightly reced over top of that and smooth it back
out again. I am one when it comes to the
to the rolling if it is, if it's a heaving
of the soil that's causing the problem, I'm not one
for doing it. And if you need to do it,
or you insist on doing it, because a lot of
times it doesn't work, and to be honest with you,
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if you go out there again, depending on what's causing
the bumpiness, the rollers that we typically have behind the
back of a tractor aren't heavy enough to really roll
that down, and and sometimes it almost needs the real
small ones that you actually ride on to get any
kind of a really good action as far as you know,
truly leveling it out. And then I've always asked folks
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do me a favor if you, by chance go through
when you roll the lawn, promise that you'll come back
after that and core air rate and open that back
up again, because all you're doing is compacting the soil down,
which is not what you want. But some folks will
do that anyway. So if you can get by without
the rolling, and the moisture levels have to be just right,
and the weight that the roller has to be just right,
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and again determining what is causing the bumpiness all play
in the factors. Otherwise, it's typically coming back in kind
of breaking that whether it's core aerating or slice seating
using a slice seater or thatcher type of machine, and
then lightly raking that back out with a little bit
of top soil and leveling it back out. That's usually
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it's a lot more work, but that's usually the best
way to do it. You know. Even even excessive earthworms
in your soil, nightcrawlers in that can cause it to
be very bumpy, and I've seen that happen over the
years also, And because they push up out of those
out of the soil, they'll push their soil back up
out of that and then it causes these ups and downs,
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and I've seen them just to Greek havoc on lawns
and where the populations were extremely high. So that's why
I say, Greg, it's you know, if you can get
out there and try to determine what you think is
the issue, you know, get down and look and then
and then go from there and make a decision. But
bottom line is greg if you do roll it and
it does work for you, great, I hope it does.
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But make sure you come back and core air rate
and open that back up again so that it doesn't
stay compacted.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
What was the you said, A thatcher or a slice seedar?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
A slice seedar? Yeah, a slit seedar, slice seedar. It's
it's like you would you use that when you want
to seed down in through existing vegetation, through an existing lawn.
It stanned out, but you know you want to get
the seed with a good seed soil contact. This thing
looks like a lawnmower on steroids, has a big hopper
on the top. It has cutting blades down below and
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you set them however deep you want them to cut
into the into the soil, but they actually cut grooves
and then they drop the seed and the seed falls
into the groove. So you get good seed soil contact
through existing vegetation. Well, doing that helps to cut that
soil and sometimes just kind of rake it because you
loosened it up actually helps to redistribute. And it's just
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like core a rating. Same way you pull the plugs out.
Now you get the plugs up on top of the soil,
you break those up and scatter them around. Sometimes that
can help fill in or really slightly depressed areas in.
Other Wise I was gonna see otherwise, you know, you
bring back a little top soil and a really good
shredded top soil and very lightly rake that in as well.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And again, what time you spring or fall?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Hey, you know the best time not so you don't
have to deal with the weeds, would be in the fall.
But you know, if you don't want to weight that out,
then you get on it in the springtime and do
it and get it, get it taken care of, and
hopefully you'll, you know, you'll, you'll, you'll taken care of.
So it's one of those things that you know, if
you got to get it done and it's really bad,
I'd get on it as soon as you can. Otherwise
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I'd hold off and do it in September.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'll do it September. And uh, the product that you
that that kills all is that a that's a is
that for good for crawdgraph and stuff?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Well, the kills all kills everything. The weed free zone,
which is the lawn weed killer that you would use
for in the lawns, and that's called the weed free zone.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
All right, great, good talking with you. Appreciate the call.
Listen to the show, all right, good luck with everything
before we take a break. Dick from Dayton, Good morning,
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I am great? How about yourself?
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Well? I thought the Reds looked pretty good there, you know,
all the way they ate. But why why in the
ninth did we have to lose that game?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I why do we have to lose on opening day?
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Yeah, that's what I Yeah, but looked pretty good though.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Hey we got a long way to go, right, Yeah,
there's gonna be more losses than that opening day loss,
and hopefully there's not too many. But I think you're right.
I think with that new coach and uh and all,
I think looks pretty good.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
I met a friend of mine, well they were lady
was in the car Steve and uh, I think it's
Julia and they're from Hebron And they listened to you
and Jerry Jeff please sent me a card and said
thank you Dick for being a fan. You know, we
appreciate you, you know, And they listened to both they
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love your show and that the morning show. So and
I told him, and she says, hey, Dick, she says,
how was the fan base? I told her? And Dave,
you know, one of my friend Dave. He wants to
know how my prediction? I said, how many I thought
they'd win this year?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You know, I mean, did you say that? I think
you told us that last week. I wrote it down somewhere.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, we'll take that, no doubt about it. You ever
get down in the games?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Do you ever make it down for any of the games?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
I used to? I used to. But you know, it's
been nice since Dave and Jeffy. They've been taking me
down to Jerry Jaff Oh that's yeah. I'm at Mike
Alvin and Radio Rich and all the all the callers,
you know, the the I heart Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Sure, that's that's a good time. Good for you.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Yeah, but I want to meet you guys sometime too.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I don't know, Dan and I are starting to question
that because you don't. You seem to be avoiding us.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
No, No, I better show up.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
He'll show up. I will will, God, I will, Okay,
we we know you will. I trust you.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
God, bless you guys.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
All right, Dick, good talking with you every weekend. Bye bye,
bye bye quick break, We come back, Pat hang on,
you're coming up next. Phone lines are open for you
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and eight two three eight two five five. Good morning,
I Ron Wilson, your personally yard boy. Lots of things
going on out there. Is spring has sprung, and the
temperatures are starting to rise, and so are the soil temperatures.
And when both of those come together and they're both
going up at a rapid rate, man, everything on top
just absolutely explodes. So keep watching those you know we're
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at that point, But just keep your eyes open now
because things are gonna just be flying by as they
come into flower. Hopefully it stays cool enough, those flowers
will last a little longer. When it gets hot, flowers
don't last as long. When it stays cooler, they last
a longer period of time. So hopefully we'll find that
little groove in the middle there to keep our spring,
very colorful. As long as we can to Delaware, we
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go Pat, good morning.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Hope you're doing.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Well, yes sir, and yourself.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Good hope your rats are gonna do good this year.
Yeah yeah, or if you're pulling for the Guardians or whatever,
but okay, we'll never mind. I slept on that bomb,
that dog bomb. Now as far as the ripple was
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in the yard, I kind of chuckle on that, and
that's would have broken your heart. I had a hundred
plus year old chestnut tree that had been dead for
a couple of years. I finally had it took down
and anything had to have been forty two inches at
the base. Wow, it was a big one. And but
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then also had a what was a former Christmas tree
that we planted probably about eighteen years ago in one
of the tropical storms and jeopardized routes now five years ago,
and it finally went. So had that removed, and I've
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got where they had to get in and you know,
remove that stuff. I've got rivets and trenches in my
yard of probably about the top eight inches is really
good soil. And what I've found over the years is
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that it will settle out during the summer. If it
stays moist, if you've got clay, it's gonna be hard.
But from what I've experienced terrors, you know, you don't
need to necessarily jump on it. You know, if you've
got like a workable soil at the top, it'll level
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out over the summer. With some decent precipitation.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, you're right through precipitation gravity. Uh, you know. Next thing,
you know that that has started to go back down
again where you've got some where the tractor tires or
whatever went through that kind of pushed it up, you
know what. And the other thing I've seen, and again
a key there is obviously a nice soil, clay soil,
heavy clay soil sometimes not as easy to work with,
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but actually taking like a spading fork, pitchfork something like
that and just going down in that and just kind
of moving it a little bit and you know, you
don't tear up the sod. The grass continues to grow.
You kind of open that and shift it a little bit,
and sometimes that will help it out as well. But
you're right, if you can stick with it, hang with it.
A lot of times they will, you know, depending on
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how deep it is. Correct themselves. If the soil is workable,
good moisture and gravity, you're you know that it will
sometimes over the time settle down for you and fill
back in without doing anything.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
I've had areas where trenches have been made and you
know they're filling darring. You know that will knock your
teeth out when you hit those. But the you know,
the big zero turnower, and that's when you hook up
the tiller to the little john here and go out
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and level it up and receive it and start back over.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yep, yep, no doubt about it. And use and use
a good shredded top soil when you do that. I've
had folks that go out there and buy the bag
top soil or bagged potting soil thinking they're doing, you know,
really good, and that stuff is not a filler. And
you got to always have to remind folks that is
not a filler. That is a soil amendment, but not
a filler. You've got to use regular shredded native soil
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if you actually need to go back in and fill
those over again. But good tips, Pat, I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Okay, well, you stay good this weekend, stay dry. We
got rain coming our way.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yes we do, no doubt about it. Good talking to you,
appreciate you listening to our show. And he's right. And again,
you know, depending on what and that's why I was
saying with the earlier, got to determine what the issues are,
what's causing that, and sometimes they and level themselves, and
sometimes they don't. And if you don't, then there are
ways to get in there and try to save as
much as the turf as you can, but it'll usually
wind up doing a little bit of overseting just to
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try to help fill in a little bit here and
there as well. You'd also mentioned where color earlier talking
about crab grass and weeds. Of course, don't forget now
if you haven't done it yet. Pre Emergent herbicide stopped
us crab grass and other weeds from germinating those annual
weeds that come up from seeds every spring. Make sure
you do that. I had I had gotten a bazillion
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emails over the last two weeks about winter annuals. And
this gets folks very confused because it's like, where did
what are these? Am I too late, you know, and
you're putting down pre emergent because I've got all these
different types of weeds filling in the bear areas or
in my landscape beds, and they are winter annuals. So
if are you too late with the pre emergent, technically
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you are, but we're not talking about the summer annual
weeds like like crabgrass in those We're talking about winter
annual weeds. And these all started to germinate and grow
in the fall. So the pre emerged herb side has
actually applied in early and sometime in September early fall
to stop those weed seeds from growing over the fall season.
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Chick weed, hen bit, purple dead nettle, harry, bittercress, bedstraw,
all of those are all winter annuals, and so their
goal is they germinate in the fall, hang out very
small over the wintertime. We're little bit of guys. As
soon as the snow and everything goes away and the
sautempeatures start to warm, they all explode, grow like a
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weed flower set seeds, throw them out there and then
they're done and they start to turn yellow and mush
out and their cycle is over. So if you're having
these right now, as a matter of fact, I pictures
of some folks have landscape beds and said, you know,
I've been dealing with these for the last two or
three years. My neighbors don't have any. Why do I
have them? And that's kind of hard to explain. Why
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you have them? I don't know. But the kicker is
most of the pictures that I was seeing they were
getting ready to flower or in flower, and that's the
worst things. You can't let these things flower because if
they set seeds, now you're dealing with more seeds. So
the goal is to get rid of them as quickly
as you can. And remember they're an annual, so if
you rake them out, they're very shallow rooted. A lot
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of times, that's all you need to do. Take a
hard rake and just rake them. They come right out
of the ground, get rid of them, or do anything
to keep them from flowering. All right, if they don't flower,
no harm, they'll die and then done deal. But then
those areas that you've been having these major issues with
these winter annuals, then remember in September, come in and
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put your pre emersion overside in those beds. Landscape beds
typically in the lawn. You just get it thicker so
you don't have any bear areas. They cannot compete with
the lawn. They can only grow in the open bear areas,
ticking the lawn back up. That's the whole goal of
doing that. But in the landscape beds and the vegetable garden,
pre emersion oversize will stop all those from coming up
in the springtime. But there are quite a few of them.
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If you go back I think two weeks maybe three
weeks on our Plant of the Week, you will notice
that I did highlight those because you know, so you
can look and see what they are. But that's how
you deal with those winter annuals. So are you too
late for pre emergence for those, yes, but rake them out,
get rid of them, don't let them flower, don't let
them go to seed. Harry bittercrest, if you've ever seen
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that before, you'll recognize it has a crest like leaf
and the flowers come up lantanas. They set. The flowers
you touch flower the seeds. You touch that, and you
hear the seeds go and they shoot out eight to
ten feet. Gary Bachman, our southern gardener, actually did when
he was in college, I believe, did a research on
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how far Harry bittercrest can throw its seeds, and they
actually put one in the middle of the greenhouse and
then put all these pots out away from it, like
ten fifteen feet out to see where these would pop
up from the harry bittergrest the parent plant, and it
was a amazing how far they would shoot those seeds. Again,
the whole goal is not letting them flour so that
they don't set seed, and then when they die, they're done.
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They're dead, they're gone. They're an annual bottom line, same
way with crabgrass, but it's a summer annual. So if
we can stop those weeds, those crabgrass seeds from coming
up and other summer annual weeds from coming up, we
don't have to deal with them. If they do come up,
and once you do kill them, they're gone. It's an annual,
done deal. So do keep that in mind again, and
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we have that on our website at run Wilson online
dot com. The other one to take a keep your
eyes open for right now is poison hemlock. Poison hemlock
looks like a fern. These little rosettes right at the
ground level look like a really soft fern growing limey
green really stand out right now. And they're growing very
actively growing right now. If you go after them early,
like right now, with a weed killer, a vegetation killer,
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knock them out before they get any size to them whatsoever.
But again watch for poison hemlock in a lot of
these bed areas as well. So it is now very
visible as we were getting more into the spring season.
Right We're going to take a quick break to come back.
Ron Rothas will be with us in our next half
hour talking about the weather, also talking about what we
should do with our trees and other things. Right now
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is what he's doing as an arborist, as he's very
very busy at this stage in the game in the
springtime and at to be a bottom of the hour.
The book is called Your Natural Garden, Caring for an
Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden by Kelly Norris. Really interesting book.
Kelly will be with us at the bottom of the hour.
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Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. We're talking about yarning, saying goodbye the
month of March and hello April right around the corner,
starts next week. And you look at it like March
is gonna go out like a lamb. Maybe, uh, sadly possibly,
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I'm I mean, we got some heavy rains and possible
storms moving through, but as far as colder weather, no,
And you know, it has been an up and down.
We've had some probably some of the heaviest for us
this month that I think I have ever seen. In
the morning, it's been crazy. And a couple of areas
had some pretty heavy fog that came along with that
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as well. But ots ups and downs there, rains in
and out, and I think that's one thing that when
we get into the fall season and springs a great
time to plant, there's no doubt about it. But we
talk about fall being the you know, one of the
best times for planting, especially trees and shrubs and evergreens
and pretty much all the landscaping plants, woody the hardy
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woodies and things like that. The reason for that is
if you look at the weather in the fall. There's
many reasons, but one of which, if you look at
the weather in the fall, it's typically a lot more
consistent as it continues to you know, emmer is staying
warmer a little bit longer, so it gives us a
little longer planting season, but not the ups and downs
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and the ins and outs that spring can bring. And
you never know. And you know, like last year, I
think we got off to a great early spring and
then kind of little cooler weather moved in and we
got back into it again. You know, it can be
all over the board, and sometimes you can get the
weather can kind of hold you up. Next thing, you know,
you're past prime planting or whatever. It can be dates
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in the springtime I'm talking about, and you know you
wind up getting late or whatever. But the point being
is keep that in mind now. Again, like I said,
spring is a great time for planting. As a matter
of fact, obviously, spring is the biggest season for all
the garden centers, for everybody getting out and planting whatever
it may be, annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, old nine yards.
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But keep fall in mind as well, and think about this.
If you've got a lot of trees and shrubs, maybe
you're putting up a new screen, planting new planting around
the patio, maybe you're increasing the pollinator gardens of the
perennial gardens, whatever it may be. Had you done a
lot of that in the fall, when the weather was
pretty decent, you wouldn't be worried about that right now.
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So it's you know, you can kind of sit back
and enjoy and do other projects out there. So point
being is spring is an excellent time. It's a great
time to get out and plant, no doubt about it.
And it is the busiest time of all of the
year for all the garden centers rightfully. So we're coming
out of winter going into the spring, things come into flour.
You're it's inspired to get out, you want to plant
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and do whatever you need to do as we come
out of the winter season. I get it. But it's
also when you look at all that and you scramble
trying to get things done in between the weather patterns
and all of that, how fall can help you out
as well. So as you're looking long term and maybe
you've got projects that spring and things you're going to
do later on for planting and all think about how
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you know why fall is such a great time for
planting as well. Get it done in the fall, sit
back and enjoy your fruits of labor in the springtime
as the weather goes up and down and does whatever
it's going to do. But nevertheless, it is spring, and
I am excited because we have a lot of things
going on. I'm looking right now and I was talking
about the frost, some of the heaviest frosts I've seen
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in a long time. In the morning, warm days. We
had some pretty heavy showers moved through good moisture in
the ground for the most part, I think, from what
I can tell, we'll have ron rothis on in our
next hour. Find out where we stand as far as
the rainfall and weather, and what's he seeing over the
next two or three weeks as we move into the
month of April. So you know, the typical thing. But
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I'll tell you it's it's now. With the warmer weather
we've gotten just over the last couple days, and I
think yesterday in our area we actually peaked at eighty degrees.
It didn't feel like eighty degrees. I didn't think now.
Lots of wind made it feel eighty feel very nice. Yeah,
and it was cooler. I was going to say in
the low to mid seventies, mid seventies maybe, but it
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was eighty degrees. And it's amazing what that will do
when you start now having warmer night temperatures and days
that get into the seventies and eighties. Have you checked
your soil temperatures lately if you haven't, Just two days
ago we were in the forties, all right, in the forties.
Check it. At this morning, after yesterday's eighty degree day,
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we're at fifty nine degrees and the soil tempts the
last twenty four hours we've been as high as sixty one,
and the whole week, five day average came out just
under fifty degrees. So it's amazing what And of course
when that happens, everything just starts to explode. And from
this point forward you can expect to see everything's starting
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to explode, as far as flowering, leafing out, et cetera.
Set of the grass growing, the weeds growing. It's gonna happen,
you know, and there's no looking back at this point,
and you know what good it would do you anyway,
But but it's gonna happen. But I look at those
soil temperatures. I look at the way and again we'll
get run in here to talk about the next two
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or three weeks. We're there, and if you have been
watching the soil temperatures and kind of using that as
a judge, we're putting down your pre emergent herbicides in
the lawn. We've been able to stretch it out. Just
think of this. We've you know, if you've stuck with it,
able to stretch it out through pretty much the entire
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month of March. Now's the time to go ahead and
have at it. All right, I'm not going to take
to hold off anymore. Let's do it. Let's get the
pre emergent down. Remember those need to be watered in now.
If you've got rain showers coming through and then they're
talking about some pretty heavy rainfall here, possibly tonight and tomorrow,
I think. But if that's the case, usually I don't
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put it down before that because you don't know how
bad it's going to be. But if you can catch
that before a nice light shower would be great, because
it is important once you put that down and I
like the granular forms versus the water soluble or the
liquid form, but you can use either one, but either
way they have to be watered in to form that barrier.
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But if you can catch it right before a little
rain shower would be great. I mean a day or two,
and that way, it's a couple of days sitting there
starting to break down with the moisture that's already in
the ground. A little shower comes through waters it in
breaks them down, forms the barrier. You're good to go,
and it's very important. If you don't do that, you
might not get the action that you needed as far
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as that pre emergence stopping those weed seats from coming up.
And remember we've been doing this on purpose because you've
been watching for it to be consistently fifty five degrees
and up in our soil temperatures. That's when crabgrass and
other weeds will start to think about germinating. All do
it in the same day, they'll do it over several months,
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but that's when they start thinking about germinating. So we
want to have our pre emergent over size in place.
So answer is today, Eric is to go ahead. If
you haven't done it yet get your pre emergence in play,
have those rady goos. So if you can do it
this weekend depending on the weather, or early next week sometime,
let's get it, get it down, get it in place,
get it watered in, and move forward. At this stage,
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if you want to add a fertilizer to that, you can.
You will find them combined together pre emerged herbsides plus
a lawn food fertiloms all seasons, has both of them
for you. It's pro diamine, I think is the is
the pre emergent plus the lawn food. If you need
a feeding. Remember if you don't think your lawn needs
a feeding, and it looks pretty darn good, you did
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the two feedings in the fall. You think you're okay,
you don't have to feed right now, But you can't
put down that pre emerged orverside by itself. That is
available for you in the local independent garden centers and
dimension per diamine. They'll they'll show you, but they'll have
those individually. If you don't want to put down the fertilizer,
so that is available for you as well. And if
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you do that and then you want to feed, maybe
a little bit later on another three or four weeks
down the road. Feel free to do that with like
the fard Lom's law, food plus iron would be a
great one to add, you know, mid spring, to carry
you through the rest of the spring season and through
the summer as well until we get into the fall.
So anyway, watching those sole temperatures I think has been
a great thing. But at this stage in the game,
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I'm telling you have at it. When it comes to
the pre emergent oversides, let's get them in place. We're there.
But it was nice riding it out until the first
of April. Now we get to you know, if it
will last ninety days, you got April, May and June.
If it lasts one hundred and twenty days, he got
it into July. If it lasts longer than that, he
got it into August because we were able to stretch
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it out just a little bit. One last thing, core
aer ration. A lot of folks asking about core aer
ration in the springtime. Is it better to do it
in the spring or versus the fall? Not necessarily. Your
core oration can be done about any time when the
lawn is actively growing. Fall probably the most common time,
but it can be done in the spring. But if
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you put a pre emergent down and you've got the
barrier in place, and then you come back and core
air rate after you've got the barrier in place, what
happens The core aerrator breaks the barrier punches holes in it,
so you would have to come back and reapply lightly
some pre emerged overside watered end to recreate that barrier.
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So if you're going to core air rate, sometimes better
to try to core air rate before you pre emerge,
or just hold off and core air rate in the
fall rather than doing it in the spring. Grass eating
as well, you know, remember the pre emerged and oversides
won't allow the grass seed to come up unless you
use Scott's step one for newly seated lawns. Otherwise all
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the rest of them will stop your grass seed from
coming up. So that's a decision you have to make
too there if you need to do any seating or whatever.
And I'm looking around right now seeing a lot of
lawns that have really greened up, looking pretty good. But
when you look close, a lot of individual holes some
bare areas in there that you may need to do
a little seating to kind of fill those in a
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little bit. And remember try to use the same seed
or a compatible seed for what you already have in
the lawn. And again you're gonna have to not use
the pre emergent oversight unless you use Scott Step one
for newly seated lawns this spring. All right, quick break,
we come back. Phone lines are uping for you. And
by the way, Joe is off today. That's why we
didn't have the cup where he was. Yeah, he's out
today taking the day off. Slacker. What can I say?
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Sleep late? I don't know who knows? Yeah, you're right,
But anyway, Uh, taking your calls at eight hundred eight
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Talking to you arding at eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson
Personal yard boy. Don't forget our website. It's Ron Wilson
online dot com. Uh and if you look on there
this week couple good postings. One is uh from Buggy
Joe and all the folks at the b y g
L dot ou dot Yeah really yeah. I figured he
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would be back this weekend, maybe next weekend. Well we're waiting.
They had some family things to do and some traveling
to do, so we'll see. Anyway, talking about your bamboo
furniture may come with an unexpected surprise. Talking about some
beetles that may show up in your bamboo furniture that
they've seen some reports of. So check that out. I
think you'll you'll be interested in that. Also, the Asian
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longhorned beetle uh, you know, detected in several areas in
the United States. Uh. When this thing shows up, and
all areas where this has been detected, someone homeowner whatever
produce grower. I think the in our area was an orchard.
Had a gentleally had an orchard and found them in
his orchard. But Asian longhorn beetle whenever this shows up,
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has to be eradicated. They you know, they don't just
mess around. They go in quarantine the area and start
eradicating by taking down trees that are heavily infested treating trunks.
I mean, they do the whole nine yards until they
know that it's if totally one hundred percent clear. Well
in county south western Ohio, south central Ohio, this showed
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up several years ago, and it's taken that they've been
working on it this long, and every so often they
release another square footy or square mile area and I
think they just released a five mile area that has
now been declared Asian longhorn beetle free. And you can
learn more about the Asian longhorn beetle what to look for,
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because again your eyes become the eyes of the Department
of Agriculture for your state, for the US Department of
Agriculture to see things like this, to see insects that
are unusual that you've never seen before, and report them,
you know, to actually capture them, kill them, put them
in a ziplock bag, and then pictures or whatever, identify
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it and find out what it is. And in many times,
in cases are several cases you know it's nothing. But
in some cases you know it's a natural nothing we
do about it, or we can treat. But in some
instances has been something like this non native Asian longhorn beetle.
So it's very important that you keep an eye open
for these. But learn more about that one because when
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it shows up, we have to eradicate it. We do'll
mess around. They go in and clear it out to
make sure that it's totally gone. But you'll find out
on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com shows
you what it looks like, what to look for, and
then you can take it from there. Also this time
of the year, great tips sheet there about frost cracks
and trees. All of a sudden, you come out after
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the winter springtime, you're looking at your trees and they've
got this huge crack in the bark or even the
side of the tree, the trunk of the tree, typically
on the south southwest side of the tree, and most
of the time that's where they are caused by fluctuations
of cold temperatures, warm temperatures, sun hitting that the cells
contracting too quickly expanding, et cetera, et cetera, and it'll
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crack and nothing you can do about that, besides for
smaller trees, and it really happens a lot on thin
skin the trees, thin bark trees actually wrapping the tree,
or putting a tree trunk protector around it to keep
that sun off of that to keep it a little
more temperature controlled through the winter time. But nevertheless, when
you have these frost cracks, there's anything you can do
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about it at this stage besides let the tree seal
itself back over, so you keep an eye on it.
If any bark starts to become loose not attached. Sometimes
insects like to get underneath that and use it as
a height out to lay their eggs or whatever. You
want to just kind of remove all of that as
it's sealing itself over. But over time they will seal
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back over. May take two or three years or whatever,
but they do seal back over. But they've got an
example on this one from a sycamore tree that's pretty
good sized diameter, and the cracking that thing is probably
one of the deepest cracks I think I've ever seen.
But again, learn more about it, and you may see
that show up in your some of your smaller trees.
Usually as they get larger, you don't worry it doesn't
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happen as much, But then bark the smaller trunk trees,
it happened no doubt about it. Rita's recipe rid His's
thumbprint cookies with wild flour and fruit jellies, an old
recipe that you know has a lot of fun. Gets
a great way to get the kids involved because they
make the thumb prints in there and you fill it
in with jellies and all kinds of things. I think
she used dandelion and forcythia jelly, and I have tasted
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both of those and they are outstanding. She makes both
of those wildberry jams as well, So if you like
to make thumbprint cookies, she's got a great recipe for
you there. And then, last, but not least, our pick
of the week is a inedible. Yes, I love growing figs.
I love growing figs and containers. Of course, they've got
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Chicago hardy, which is hardy to the zone six. There's
a couple another one out there that's now showing a
zone five. I'm not familiar with it, but starting to
see hardier and hardier varieties. But here's one that is
perfect for you for growing in containers on the patio
or whatever and then bringing it in the house over
the winter because it produces two crops per year. It's
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called fig noomenal. It's a dwarf fig. I saw this
at Cultivate about I don't know, probably three or four
years ago and has proven to be very effective. But
it's a three to four feet high and wide, perfect
for containers. Self fertile great figs, low maintenance, grown in
a container. It does quite well, full sun, well drained
soils which you'll get in that container, well drained soils.
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But again are a planet. The pick of the week,
big nominal, and most of your local garden centers should
carry pig noomenal quick break Come back, Greg, You're coming
up next here in the garden. Ron Wilson.
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We're talking ard at eight hundred eight two three eight
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Wilson going on this morning, so be sure and check
that out as well. To Ohio we go, Greg, good morning,
good morning, good morning. How were I am? Great?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
In yourself?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm doing good, Thank you, thank you. Hey. I've got
a really bumpy rough yard. Are I get it treated?
It's pretty mature. But and I've heard people pros and
cons about rolling or what what's the other option to
take care of that?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Well, I think that the first thing, yeah, we got
to do is take a look at it and find
out what's what's causing the bumpiness. You know, different do
you know, do you have a fescue lawn by the way, Well, I.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Live in Wayne County.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I'm not sure, okay, because sometimes.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I think it's bluegrass, but not entirely.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Sure, okay, And that's good because sometimes depending on the
type of grass you get, if you get into some
of the fescues, and if you have a lot of
water running across and they grow like in a clump form,
sometimes you get the water that starts to work around
the size of those clumps, and the next thing you know,
the clump is causing the bumpinginess along with the soil
just slightly roading underneath it. And then you got this
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up and down a bumpy you know, due to both situations.
And in a case like that, it actually is a
matter of coming back in and either Sometimes folks have
taken like a slice seater and just sliced it and
then slightly you know, just to kind of break that
soil up and then lightly top dressed with the top
soil and you know, kind of rake that in very
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lightly reced over top of that and smooth it back
out again. I am one when it comes to the
to the rolling if it is, if it's a heaving
of the soil that's causing the problem, I'm not one
for doing it. And if you need to do it,
or you insist on doing it, because a lot of
times it doesn't work, and to be honest with you,
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if you go out there again, depending on what's causing
the bumpiness, the rollers that we typically have behind the
back of a tractor aren't heavy enough to really roll
that down, and and sometimes it almost needs the real
small ones that you actually ride on to get any
kind of a really good action as far as you know,
truly leveling it out. And then I've always asked folks
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do me a favor if you, by chance go through
when you roll the lawn, promise that you'll come back
after that and core air rate and open that back
up again, because all you're doing is compacting the soil down,
which is not what you want. But some folks will
do that anyway. So if you can get by without
the rolling, and the moisture levels have to be just right,
and the weight that the roller has to be just right,
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and again determining what is causing the bumpiness all play
in the factors. Otherwise, it's typically coming back in kind
of breaking that whether it's core aerating or slice seating
using a slice seater or thatcher type of machine, and
then lightly raking that back out with a little bit
of top soil and leveling it back out. That's usually
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it's a lot more work, but that's usually the best
way to do it. You know. Even even excessive earthworms
in your soil, nightcrawlers in that can cause it to
be very bumpy, and I've seen that happen over the
years also, And because they push up out of those
out of the soil, they'll push their soil back up
out of that and then it causes these ups and downs,
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and I've seen them just to Greek havoc on lawns
and where the populations were extremely high. So that's why
I say, Greg, it's you know, if you can get
out there and try to determine what you think is
the issue, you know, get down and look and then
and then go from there and make a decision. But
bottom line is greg if you do roll it and
it does work for you, great, I hope it does.
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But make sure you come back and core air rate
and open that back up again so that it doesn't
stay compacted.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
What was the you said, A thatcher or a slice seedar?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
A slice seedar? Yeah, a slit seedar, slice seedar. It's
it's like you would you use that when you want
to seed down in through existing vegetation, through an existing lawn.
It stanned out, but you know you want to get
the seed with a good seed soil contact. This thing
looks like a lawnmower on steroids, has a big hopper
on the top. It has cutting blades down below and
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you set them however deep you want them to cut
into the into the soil, but they actually cut grooves
and then they drop the seed and the seed falls
into the groove. So you get good seed soil contact
through existing vegetation. Well, doing that helps to cut that
soil and sometimes just kind of rake it because you
loosened it up actually helps to redistribute. And it's just
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like core a rating. Same way you pull the plugs out.
Now you get the plugs up on top of the soil,
you break those up and scatter them around. Sometimes that
can help fill in or really slightly depressed areas in.
Other Wise I was gonna see otherwise, you know, you
bring back a little top soil and a really good
shredded top soil and very lightly rake that in as well.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
And again, what time you spring or fall?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Hey, you know the best time not so you don't
have to deal with the weeds, would be in the fall.
But you know, if you don't want to weight that out,
then you get on it in the springtime and do
it and get it, get it taken care of, and
hopefully you'll, you know, you'll, you'll, you'll taken care of.
So it's one of those things that you know, if
you got to get it done and it's really bad,
I'd get on it as soon as you can. Otherwise
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I'd hold off and do it in September.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'll do it September. And uh, the product that you
that that kills all is that a that's a is
that for good for crawdgraph and stuff?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Well, the kills all kills everything. The weed free zone,
which is the lawn weed killer that you would use
for in the lawns, and that's called the weed free zone.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
All right, great, good talking with you. Appreciate the call.
Listen to the show, all right, good luck with everything
before we take a break. Dick from Dayton, Good morning,
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I am great? How about yourself?
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Well? I thought the Reds looked pretty good there, you know,
all the way they ate. But why why in the
ninth did we have to lose that game?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I why do we have to lose on opening day?
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Yeah, that's what I Yeah, but looked pretty good though.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Hey we got a long way to go, right, Yeah,
there's gonna be more losses than that opening day loss,
and hopefully there's not too many. But I think you're right.
I think with that new coach and uh and all,
I think looks pretty good.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
I met a friend of mine, well they were lady
was in the car Steve and uh, I think it's
Julia and they're from Hebron And they listened to you
and Jerry Jeff please sent me a card and said
thank you Dick for being a fan. You know, we
appreciate you, you know, And they listened to both they
(29:46):
love your show and that the morning show. So and
I told him, and she says, hey, Dick, she says,
how was the fan base? I told her? And Dave,
you know, one of my friend Dave. He wants to
know how my prediction? I said, how many I thought
they'd win this year?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
You know, I mean, did you say that? I think
you told us that last week. I wrote it down somewhere.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, we'll take that, no doubt about it. You ever
get down in the games?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Do you ever make it down for any of the games?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
I used to? I used to. But you know, it's
been nice since Dave and Jeffy. They've been taking me
down to Jerry Jaff Oh that's yeah. I'm at Mike
Alvin and Radio Rich and all the all the callers,
you know, the the I heart Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Sure, that's that's a good time. Good for you.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Yeah, but I want to meet you guys sometime too.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
I don't know, Dan and I are starting to question
that because you don't. You seem to be avoiding us.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
No, No, I better show up.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
He'll show up. I will will, God, I will, Okay,
we we know you will. I trust you.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
God, bless you guys.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
All right, Dick, good talking with you every weekend. Bye bye,
bye bye quick break, We come back, Pat hang on,
you're coming up next. Phone lines are open for you
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and eight two three eight two five five. Good morning,
I Ron Wilson, your personally yard boy. Lots of things
going on out there. Is spring has sprung, and the
temperatures are starting to rise, and so are the soil temperatures.
And when both of those come together and they're both
going up at a rapid rate, man, everything on top
just absolutely explodes. So keep watching those you know we're
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at that point, But just keep your eyes open now
because things are gonna just be flying by as they
come into flower. Hopefully it stays cool enough, those flowers
will last a little longer. When it gets hot, flowers
don't last as long. When it stays cooler, they last
a longer period of time. So hopefully we'll find that
little groove in the middle there to keep our spring,
very colorful. As long as we can to Delaware, we
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go Pat, good morning.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Hope you're doing.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Well, yes sir, and yourself.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Good hope your rats are gonna do good this year.
Yeah yeah, or if you're pulling for the Guardians or whatever,
but okay, we'll never mind. I slept on that bomb,
that dog bomb. Now as far as the ripple was
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in the yard, I kind of chuckle on that, and
that's would have broken your heart. I had a hundred
plus year old chestnut tree that had been dead for
a couple of years. I finally had it took down
and anything had to have been forty two inches at
the base. Wow, it was a big one. And but
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then also had a what was a former Christmas tree
that we planted probably about eighteen years ago in one
of the tropical storms and jeopardized routes now five years ago,
and it finally went. So had that removed, and I've
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got where they had to get in and you know,
remove that stuff. I've got rivets and trenches in my
yard of probably about the top eight inches is really
good soil. And what I've found over the years is
(35:23):
that it will settle out during the summer. If it
stays moist, if you've got clay, it's gonna be hard.
But from what I've experienced terrors, you know, you don't
need to necessarily jump on it. You know, if you've
got like a workable soil at the top, it'll level
(35:47):
out over the summer. With some decent precipitation.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, you're right through precipitation gravity. Uh, you know. Next thing,
you know that that has started to go back down
again where you've got some where the tractor tires or
whatever went through that kind of pushed it up, you
know what. And the other thing I've seen, and again
a key there is obviously a nice soil, clay soil,
heavy clay soil sometimes not as easy to work with,
(36:12):
but actually taking like a spading fork, pitchfork something like
that and just going down in that and just kind
of moving it a little bit and you know, you
don't tear up the sod. The grass continues to grow.
You kind of open that and shift it a little bit,
and sometimes that will help it out as well. But
you're right, if you can stick with it, hang with it.
A lot of times they will, you know, depending on
(36:33):
how deep it is. Correct themselves. If the soil is workable,
good moisture and gravity, you're you know that it will
sometimes over the time settle down for you and fill
back in without doing anything.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
I've had areas where trenches have been made and you
know they're filling darring. You know that will knock your
teeth out when you hit those. But the you know,
the big zero turnower, and that's when you hook up
the tiller to the little john here and go out
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and level it up and receive it and start back over.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yep, yep, no doubt about it. And use and use
a good shredded top soil when you do that. I've
had folks that go out there and buy the bag
top soil or bagged potting soil thinking they're doing, you know,
really good, and that stuff is not a filler. And
you got to always have to remind folks that is
not a filler. That is a soil amendment, but not
a filler. You've got to use regular shredded native soil
(37:37):
if you actually need to go back in and fill
those over again. But good tips, Pat, I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Okay, well, you stay good this weekend, stay dry. We
got rain coming our way.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yes we do, no doubt about it. Good talking to you,
appreciate you listening to our show. And he's right. And again,
you know, depending on what and that's why I was
saying with the earlier, got to determine what the issues are,
what's causing that, and sometimes they and level themselves, and
sometimes they don't. And if you don't, then there are
ways to get in there and try to save as
much as the turf as you can, but it'll usually
wind up doing a little bit of overseting just to
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try to help fill in a little bit here and
there as well. You'd also mentioned where color earlier talking
about crab grass and weeds. Of course, don't forget now
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weeds that come up from seeds every spring. Make sure
you do that. I had I had gotten a bazillion
(38:33):
emails over the last two weeks about winter annuals. And
this gets folks very confused because it's like, where did
what are these? Am I too late, you know, and
you're putting down pre emergent because I've got all these
different types of weeds filling in the bear areas or
in my landscape beds, and they are winter annuals. So
if are you too late with the pre emergent, technically
(38:54):
you are, but we're not talking about the summer annual
weeds like like crabgrass in those We're talking about winter
annual weeds. And these all started to germinate and grow
in the fall. So the pre emerged herb side has
actually applied in early and sometime in September early fall
to stop those weed seeds from growing over the fall season.
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Chick weed, hen bit, purple dead nettle, harry, bittercress, bedstraw,
all of those are all winter annuals, and so their
goal is they germinate in the fall, hang out very
small over the wintertime. We're little bit of guys. As
soon as the snow and everything goes away and the
sautempeatures start to warm, they all explode, grow like a
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weed flower set seeds, throw them out there and then
they're done and they start to turn yellow and mush
out and their cycle is over. So if you're having
these right now, as a matter of fact, I pictures
of some folks have landscape beds and said, you know,
I've been dealing with these for the last two or
three years. My neighbors don't have any. Why do I
have them? And that's kind of hard to explain. Why
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you have them? I don't know. But the kicker is
most of the pictures that I was seeing they were
getting ready to flower or in flower, and that's the
worst things. You can't let these things flower because if
they set seeds, now you're dealing with more seeds. So
the goal is to get rid of them as quickly
as you can. And remember they're an annual, so if
you rake them out, they're very shallow rooted. A lot
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of times, that's all you need to do. Take a
hard rake and just rake them. They come right out
of the ground, get rid of them, or do anything
to keep them from flowering. All right, if they don't flower,
no harm, they'll die and then done deal. But then
those areas that you've been having these major issues with
these winter annuals, then remember in September, come in and
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put your pre emersion overside in those beds. Landscape beds
typically in the lawn. You just get it thicker so
you don't have any bear areas. They cannot compete with
the lawn. They can only grow in the open bear areas,
ticking the lawn back up. That's the whole goal of
doing that. But in the landscape beds and the vegetable garden,
pre emersion oversize will stop all those from coming up
in the springtime. But there are quite a few of them.
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If you go back I think two weeks maybe three
weeks on our Plant of the Week, you will notice
that I did highlight those because you know, so you
can look and see what they are. But that's how
you deal with those winter annuals. So are you too
late for pre emergence for those, yes, but rake them out,
get rid of them, don't let them flower, don't let
them go to seed. Harry bittercrest, if you've ever seen
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that before, you'll recognize it has a crest like leaf
and the flowers come up lantanas. They set. The flowers
you touch flower the seeds. You touch that, and you
hear the seeds go and they shoot out eight to
ten feet. Gary Bachman, our southern gardener, actually did when
he was in college, I believe, did a research on
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how far Harry bittercrest can throw its seeds, and they
actually put one in the middle of the greenhouse and
then put all these pots out away from it, like
ten fifteen feet out to see where these would pop
up from the harry bittergrest the parent plant, and it
was a amazing how far they would shoot those seeds. Again,
the whole goal is not letting them flour so that
they don't set seed, and then when they die, they're done.
(42:09):
They're dead, they're gone. They're an annual bottom line, same
way with crabgrass, but it's a summer annual. So if
we can stop those weeds, those crabgrass seeds from coming
up and other summer annual weeds from coming up, we
don't have to deal with them. If they do come up,
and once you do kill them, they're gone. It's an annual,
done deal. So do keep that in mind again, and
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we have that on our website at run Wilson online
dot com. The other one to take a keep your
eyes open for right now is poison hemlock. Poison hemlock
looks like a fern. These little rosettes right at the
ground level look like a really soft fern growing limey
green really stand out right now. And they're growing very
actively growing right now. If you go after them early,
like right now, with a weed killer, a vegetation killer,
(42:53):
knock them out before they get any size to them whatsoever.
But again watch for poison hemlock in a lot of
these bed areas as well. So it is now very
visible as we were getting more into the spring season.
Right We're going to take a quick break to come back.
Ron Rothas will be with us in our next half
hour talking about the weather, also talking about what we
should do with our trees and other things. Right now
(43:14):
is what he's doing as an arborist, as he's very
very busy at this stage in the game in the
springtime and at to be a bottom of the hour.
The book is called Your Natural Garden, Caring for an
Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden by Kelly Norris. Really interesting book.
Kelly will be with us at the bottom of the hour.
Is all happening here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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