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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I am Ron Wilson on this Memorial Day weekend. I
hope you got a lot of plan for this weekend,
including working in the yard. And let's kick it off
with somebody who I know has no plans of working
in his yard. He'll be just kind of chilling out
this weekend, mister Joe Shrecker, our executive producer, finding what's
going on? Well, never mind about that, but our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page in the garden
with Ron Wilson. You had a great weekend off last weekend. Oh,
(01:00):
it was a great weekend off. And then you're here
this morning and then you're off today and tomorrow, but
you're working on Memorial Yes, I work Memorial Day here
in the morning and then you're off the rest of
the day. Get off at nine and I'll be home
and by the time by ten people wake up, I'll
already put in my day and you'll be snoring. Yep,
that's the goal. That's the definitely the goal. So yeah,
(01:21):
I ever wake up when you're snoring and the dogs
are like staring at you, like.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
No talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I have fallen asleep and the recliner with our little
docks and sitting next to me, and I'll kind of
wake up and look and she's like looking at and
You're like, what are you doing? I'm assuming that's what.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Was going on. No, No, my dog's My dogs sleep
next to me and in the uh, Hans likes to borrow.
That's Thoughtson's doctors. She does too.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Usually all snuggle down all you see hers their head sometimes.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, we did have a little adventure in our backyard.
Uh oh, Hans caught a bunny. Oh and baby bunny
or a bunny bunny didn't make it. It was a
baby bunny bunny didn't make it. And then he was
running around the yard with it in his mouth like
he just one uh one uh or something. Yeah, and
(02:18):
it was. It was. It was kind of but the
girls weren't there. The girls went there, they had probably
a PTSD if they.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Because they would have been screaming and crying and you
feel sad for him, but well, Bethanie would have been
I don't know about Grace, but Bethanye would have been like,
well maybe Grace too.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, it was, it was kind of. It was kind
of well because I let him out and they ran
out and they ran out to the back and I
saw there was a bunny in the back. And I
don't know why the bunny didn't go through the fence
because there's holes. It's it's a chain link fence, and
he got in. Yeah, and when the dogs chased, uh,
(03:00):
they like chased him around the yard and he got
to the front where the gate is. And well, because
Hans likes to burrow, I put rocks so that way
the can't burrow under the fence and that's where he
got caught. Because the hole that was that's there is
covered up there anymore. So yeah, so yeah, Hans caught them,
(03:25):
and then you know, we have I had to throw
a bundy away.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I get it. It wasn't screaming, was it. I didn't
hear him scream. I know, I've heard when when when
they caught him, when they caught a buddy last year,
and I heard him scream, and I ran out there
say drop it, drop it, drop it, and then they
dropped it. The bunny ran away. That one survived, but yeah,
I was was, yeah, that that gets you. And then uh,
(03:50):
and then I don't know if I told you about this.
But two weeks ago, we had a a nest, a
bird's nest in our porch light, and I let the
dogs out, and I didn't think anything of it, like
I usually do. All of a sudden, the birds were
going nuts. You could hear the birds just chirping and
chirping away and chirping away. And I look outside and
(04:15):
Buster and Hans are like looking around in the grass
and all the birds are perched on the fence around them,
like surrounding them, like watching, and they're just squawking and
squawking and squawking. I'm like, so there's something going on
out there. So I walked out there, and I guess
the baby bird was learning how to fly, and it's
in the yard and was trying to and they didn't
(04:38):
buy it or kill it, but the birds just like
looking at them, just like chirping and screaming, and they're
just kind of like looking at the bird. And I shoe,
you know, I shoe the dogs away, and the dogs
are going inside, and I grab the piece of cardboard
and kind of shoveled the bird and put it on
the fence where a kind of perched on the fence.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So I say a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Doctor Doolole pack words back out again.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
See Joe, hope not because we don't need any grouse
near my house.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Pheasant wasn't a peasant. Was a grouse grouse some kind
of hybrid pheasant or something.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It was. It was some mutant peasant. And then the
house will start showing up. But yeah, yeah, I just
need someone to mue there you go. Now it's it's
it's getting mode. The the guy that helped me, helped
(05:35):
me mow the lawn. Now that now I'm kind of
all recovered from surgery.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
He's continuing on. No, it's his last week was last week.
So that's our turn. I thought you were going to
just say, yeah, we're just gonna let him keep doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I thought about it, but it got expensive, so you know,
we decided it's time to tell him. Hey, So so yeah,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Never got that electric more yet, did you?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
She Steel has one though.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I am looking at him, and there there's some good
deals on them right now too. I saw one. I
saw one, a Craftsman uh electric one for two hundred
and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'm sure the batteries are gotten better.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Almost pulled the trigger. So yeah, it's coming.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's see a steel commercial.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's just that they're too they're the cutting thing. It's
too small. Still got to make a twenty four twenty
six inch one right now, the only ones I've seen
here eighteen twenty inches m or they got to make.
They got to make electric ones like the standing ones
that they get the landscape right on. Yeah, well they
(06:48):
can do it for cars. I guess they could do
it for those.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, charge them overnight and that next day.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Call.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm gonna call Elon. I'm gonna say, ask him to
get them on that. Text him real fast. Hey, buddy, Yeah,
you call him, buddy, or I just called. I just
call yeah, yeah, yeah, we're close. I just sent him
a text, so he's a he'll get right on that. Yeah. So, anyway,
(07:15):
who do we have on this show today?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Rita? She's been with us every week, ye talking about
I don't know whatever we're gonna talk. I do know
what it is, but I'm not gonna give it away.
She's got her. The week has your recipe in an
herber of the week.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And the erber of the week is posted, so if
you can't wait, you can click on that and where
is that that's on our website.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right, Yeah, I think it's Ron Wilson online dot com
if I'm not mistaken, if you haven't changed it in
the Facebook page in the garden with Ron Wilson in.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
The chat room, should be up and run and.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And then after her, Barbie Butcher, Barbie Butcher the Queen Bee.
We're gonna find out have they found anything out about
those millions of bees that were lost over the wintertime?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
They lost they just went. We disappeared.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Style was like call me collapses or I thought they
was like they couldn't find them missing. They haven't found them.
They don't know where they went. They died and went somewhere.
And let's see what else.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
She's gonna talk about swarms right now, getting a lot
of swarms and what to do. Also, they were talking
about when you see bees fly like in a hole
in the side of your house and come back out.
If you leave that alone, it's not a good thing,
and how to how to approach that because if they
build a nest inside your wall, you got a real
(08:28):
major redo. You have to cut your wall out and
all that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You mean, you mean you just don't squirt some cock
in that.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, you just don't. Yeah, so we'll talk about what
to do with those and swarms and what happened to
the millions and millions of bees that were lost this winter.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Wow, And and of course Garry Sullivan and of course
buckets Joe Box exactly. And Rita's recipe this week is
broccoli salad. Do you like broccoli broccoli salad? Do you
like extra bacon?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Sure? And grapes and grapes. Yes, love broccoli salad.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I do too, so yeah, small pieces of broccoli though,
oh yeah, you can't have a little bit. You can't
have big trees. No, I like to be like the
broccoli in it. But give me those little pieces of broccolis.
Don't be cheap and you're not cheap but lazy and
not break it up into smaller pieces.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Or get broccolis.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, oh I love that on that Yeah, broil I love,
but yeah, I love all the oil broil. That's was crispy.
I love broccoli salad. Actually, we had broccoli yesterday on
the grill. Really, Oh, I love it on the grill.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
We grolled it and put some blaze on it. I'm
not a big grash person. Put on put some on
a gro slice. Man that put them on a grill. Okay,
I'll come to you. You will like them and your
mom and dim. I'll do that one next time I'm
invited to your house. You're gonna grill if you have
invited in my house. Maybe okay, maybe maybe not? Maybe
(09:53):
maybe not. Uh. The plant of the week is you
had some just some Memorial Day plants. I don't. One
is what is the plan of the week. Well, the
plane of the week is levisticum, a fishing fish and all.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Which is lovage the Rodney dangerfield of herbs.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Which is the herb that tastes like celery. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Even yesterday I'm explaining to somebody had to pick a
couple of tall stems us here bite the ends off
of this. They loved it, the citrus uh celery flavor.
And I said blow through it and they were like,
oh strong. I said, yeah, and use it for your
bloody mary. It's way under used perennial. Nice, do you
have one? I thought I gave you a luvage a
long time ago.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I don't have any.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Probably gotta whack down with a weed whapper.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It disappeared when someone.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, okay, so anyway, lovage, and then you have your picks.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I have my Memorial Day planners. Yes, you do red
white and blue planners for a Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You're looking for red, white and blue flowers. Did his
homework and listed a bunch of different flowers that come
in reds, whites, and blues. So he's done your homework.
You just take that list, go to the guard center.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Say I want Joe's red white and blue annuals for
Memorial Day planners. Your watch and look at you go,
who Joe? Who? What?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But in all serious Memorial Days, people would treat it
as like a day to go out and have a barbecue.
But the real point of Memorial Day is to remember
that in fact, that we're able to do that, remember
those people that did that, that sacrifice the weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Exactly that, so gay they're also you can go out
and barbecue and party and swim in the pools.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Ye, So pop a cold one for for all the people.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That died, slam it and give a toast there you go,
So all righty, that's it. That's it for me, all right.
Joe Strecker, Executive producer, producer. If you like what you
see on our website, Ron Wilson Online dot com facebook
page In the Garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Strucker had
everything to do with it. Something on there you don't like,
you don't you question you're not sure should be on there?
(12:08):
Don't blame Joe doctor Z Who doctor doctor z Z?
Where does he live in Washington, d C. He's got
a garden number eighty three eighty three? Does he still
cruise around on that? On that? Don't tell me?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Bows are still on the back.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
However, is he gonna get kicked off?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
However? The side car might be filling up.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The side car has been attached. It has been attached
all those years that we've begining, all these years. He
finally took our advice.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yep. And I don't know if she said yes or
no yet because we don't we don't know. Maybe we'll
tell you next week or she said yesterday. But the
rocks in the pocket in the pocket anymore. It wasn't
a hot dog actually at the at the.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Washington he went to the ballgame, came away maybe engaged.
Maybe maybe we'll tease may me next week.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
We'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I'll let you know next week, doctor Z TikTok, TikTok
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Welcome back here in the gardens. Rod Wilson again that
toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Talking about yarding on this Memorial Day weekend
to Delaware. We go right off the bat talking to Pat. Pat,
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Good morning, Ron. I enjoyed your story about the rabbit.
We just got back from Nylands, Roatan, Honduras. It's off
the coast. We're down there, were diving and down there
they have all I believe it's called a wat two
sea and it's kind of a looks like it's short hair,
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got the body of a rabbit, and but the now
snout of, you know, almost like a rat. We called
them jack rats, but I was watching them this past
trip and I'm calling them jack of squirrels now because
they eat like nuts and berries. And I was watching
(17:32):
this one forge for nuts and it got one and
went over and buried it. It was burying them for
a later days. Really call them jackets squirrels. They're funny
to watch.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What they're called two seas.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I believe that's what they call them, is a wat
two sea. They got like yeah, they got like a
short brown hair, and you know they're but they're son
like big like a rabbit. But they and they cut
the body of a rabbit, but don't like the head
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of a rat or squirrel.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Interesting, but they were but they were collecting nuts and
then burying them.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yeah they would, yeah yeah, and they'll eat berries and
nuts and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Interesting huh.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, Yeah, they're they're fun animal to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
They aren't on the menu anywhere down there, right.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
No, no, people leave them alone. Now there is there
is a type of school down there that they do
eat because the things only feed off stuff like mangoes
and bananas. And they said they taste really good.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So it's all fruit that eats. I guess that would
translate into pretty uh pretty sweet meat.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I guess yeah, yeah, So I don't know. It's kind of.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Interesting yet interesting story. I appreciate you sharing.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That with us.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Okay, I have grave we can.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Hey, thanks you too. Yeah, I've never heard of it before,
but I'll definitely check it out. I love seeing some
of those animals in other countries that do weird things
like that, especially like the squirrel. It only eats bananas
and mangoes or whatever. And if they do eat it,
that does kind of translate right with the eating the fruits,
and that I see where the meat would be a
little bit tasty. I guess, I don't know it's I
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don't know, I guess it would anyway, talk taking your
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we go into the break here. I you know, I'm
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not one for home remedies as far as concoctions that
we mix up ourselves and then use them for sprays
or fertilizers or whatever it may be. You know, there's
so many times and you go on the Inner that
you know, I thought it was bad twenty years ago.
You go on there today and there are so many
recipes of things to do that are on that you
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just and you know it is so and so on
the gardener from whatever or blah blah from whatever or
and you know, how do you know? You know if
this stuff's legit or not. And of course my answer
is don't try it, don't use it, because you never know.
And I've never been one for promoting it except in
a couple There are a couple exceptions, one of which
(20:29):
is using baking soda to take care of moss. And
I'll tell you more about that we take the break.
But someone made up their own in sectorcitle soap last
week and gave me a little story about it, and
I'll share that with you as well. And taking your
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Three talking to the yardening at eight hundred eight two
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Speaker 2 (23:13):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. Don't forget
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in the garden with Ron Wilson before we went into
the break talking about homemade concoctions that we use in
the yards and gardens, and of course with a high
and well I don't blame me, I but the on
the internet, and you know there's so many Now you
(23:35):
have the opportunity anybody can go on there and put whatever,
and you know, homemade remedies for a lot of things
out there. I just I'm just pretty much the thumbs down.
If you want to try it, it's up to you.
You it's your garden, your plants, do whatever. I'm not
a big one one of them that I've always recommended
if you're interested in if you have moss in the lawn,
(23:57):
moss on the patio, on the bricks or whatever, and
you're looking for just a natural way to get rid
of it, a small box of baking soda, two gallons
of lukewarm water to warm water, mix it all together,
make sure it dissolves, because it's hard to get a
dissolved that's why we use the warm water and spray
that on and that'll eat that off in a couple
of days and keeps it off for about four to
(24:18):
six weeks. Unless you change the environment and it's okay,
and it's you know, eco friendly in the whole nine yards.
And that's one that I will recommend, and it does
it does work, you know. And you've seen some out
there for some of the leaf diseases using baking soda
and horticultural oil. Again, if you don't get those those
(24:39):
ratios correct, there's a good chance you could burn plays,
so bottom line, and you know, and there's feeding with
molasses and things like that, and that's been going on
for a long time. But again it's I just you know,
I am not a big one for that because you
never know what's going to happen if you mix it
right or whatever products you buy.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Oh oh, I have one more that I do recommend
beer in the pie pan for slugs. It is still
one of the most effective ways to take care of them.
But it's just pouring beer in a pie pan or
a tuna can or whatever it may be. But as
someone says something about how aphans galore in course right now,
a couple things here on this tip. One is new
foliage coming out on plants right now, annuals, perennials, vegetables,
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trees and shrubs. Aphans love that they're a sucking insect.
I think there's over five thousand different species of aphens
around the world. Last year it was the Year of
the Aphens. I've never seen so many aphens in all
my life, and many different types, and they're different colors
and sizes and shapes. But the bottom line is they're
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a sucking insect and they get on that new growth
it's tender, they pierce that, and it's a sucking insect.
And if you have a few athens on there, and
they'll get on the bottom of the leaves too, you
get a few on there, typically not an issue. Sometimes
they're on there and you don't even know they're on there,
and it doesn't do any of the plant. Sometimes their
plant starts to lose colors, or the ends start to
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wilt down, or they're deformed, or they start to turn brown,
or actually start to die in annuals and perennials. Sometimes
if the populations are high enough, and I've seen them
on burning bush. They love burning bush. Don't get on
burning bush and just absolutely deform the ends of a branch,
and really that does recover over time. Most folks go
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in and prone it out and throw it away. This
is a great way to get rid of them, but
very very common. They're out there all over the place,
and a good hosting of water, strong stream of water
can knock them off fairly easily and reduce the populations
to a point where you don't have any issues. Running
your fingers, you know, hanging onto the branch, running your
finger across and just smashing them takes care of them.
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Lady bug larvae love them. They feed all over there.
Several insects that love feeding on aphans. Now you'll see
ants a lot of times. When you see a lot
of aphis, the ants are actually grazing them like cattle.
They they eat them the honeydew if it suck in
the juice and they push it right out the back end.
And the ants love that. They'll actually move their eggs
around and put them on different plants and actually protect
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them from other insects so that they have this harvest.
But anyway, right now big time for aphids, and so
there's lots of sprays on the market that are available.
Hosing them off works great, but like kneem oil, dietamaceous earth,
horticultural oil, insecticidal soap, lots of all you know, all natural,
(27:32):
more eco friendly insecticides. It could be used if you
need to use and insecticide. And always lead the read
the label. Even though it's all natural, it's still an
insecticide so pesticide, so make sure you read the label
and follow the instructions. But so many times when that
insecticidal soap comes up, everybody's like, well, I just make
my own. I just take a little bit of detergent,
(27:54):
a little bit of ivory or don or whatever it
may be, and put it in a gallon of water
and mix it all up to spray it on and
it's good to go. And that has worked for people.
Insecticidal soap that you buy at a local garden center
that is commercially made as insecticidal soap are fatty acids
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from soaps, but they are researched, formulated and manufactured to
be the right formula. The right percentage is to not
intentionally cause problems on your plants. Depending on what type
of soap you use and how much you put in
your mix, can do some pretty serious damages on your plants.
(28:35):
And so I had someone last week that talked about
having aphans all over something. I forget what it was,
and so they just got some dawn I think it
was done or one of those I don't know, and
made up their own concoction and sprayed to get rid
of the aphens. And I said, well, I hope it
doesn't causing problems on your plants, and they're like, well,
that's on the internet. Everybody does makes their own secticidal soap,
so I know. But the problem is with some of
(28:56):
those if you don't get again the ratio right soap
to water, if they have perfumes and them, can cause
problems with the plants, if they have degreasers in them,
can cause issues with your plants, things like that. So
that's why I never recommend making your own rather than
versus buying it in the garden center that's specifically formulated
(29:16):
for spraying on plants. And kind of laughed about it
and whatever. Well guess what talk to him about three
days later, and sure enough what they had sprayed it
on was now turning brown, and unfortunately the ratio that
they had sprayed didn't work. It worked. I took care
of the aphans and it took care of their plants
at the same time. So I'm not a big one
(29:39):
for that. And you're going to see that all the
time on the internet. I'm telling you, if you try
to do that, you're on your own as far as
with me, because I besides the baking soda, the beer
in a PieP, and there aren't many other things like
that that I recommend, because there's too much of a
chance of messing up or not using the right form whatever.
And you're going to mess with your plants insecticidal soaps
(30:01):
that you buy in the garden center. I realize it's
a lot more expensive than mixing up a couple drops
of the whatever and it's some water and spraying it on,
but it is formulated specifically to not harm your plants,
So do keep that in mind. And by the way,
aphids are out like crazy right now, so you know,
if you're seeing plants that are starting to struggle a
little bit, leaves are deformed, wilding over, et cetera, et cetera,
(30:24):
take a look on the stems, take a look at
the underside of the leaves. You're probably gonna see aphans.
Try hosing them off, Try smearing them off, Try taking
your fingers and smashing them.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Leave them.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
If there's not too many, leave them alone. Let the
ladybugs larvae, take care of them. And by the way,
ladybug larvae look like little bit of alligators sometimes depending
on what phase they're in. But leave those alone. Let
them do that. And if you have to spray, look
at the commercially made insecticidal soaps, horticultural oils, nim max,
nim oil, dietamaceous earth, many things listed like that that
(30:58):
are all natural that you and used to go after
those silly, little sucking aphens. All right, and it's remember
it's not the answer are causing problems, it's the aphens.
Before we take a break, let's go to Dayton Talk
with Dick from Dayton.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
Good morning, Hey, happy Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Hey do you have anybody in the family that unfortunately
was lost in the service or whatever?
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, well no, no, they My dad was
in the Navy, Uncle Tony Army Chuck. Now they survived,
and my cousin was he was in the Air Force,
Gil Gary was in the I Forgot Marines. Yeah, it
was good. And I remember coming home doing dad was younger.
(31:41):
That's where Benny taught me and and my uncle Tony,
and then I have a cousin in It was from Laria.
He he plays down and he was from Malaria. He
plays in down in Texas and he calls me all
the time. Tony and his mom had she was a
she had thirteen sisters and thirteen and they used to
(32:03):
come and play there in the park, dear in Lorraine,
which was so cool. Yeah, I'm missing up, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
So you guys, have you guys playing this weekend?
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Maybe maybe?
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Maybe?
Speaker 9 (32:18):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I hope I figured you'd you'd be a booked for
like Memorial Day to play, you know, something like that.
Speaker 9 (32:24):
You know some of the yeah yeah boy little group.
The other day Yuka Leiley was good screening Benders. Oh
it's just good. It's just good.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
But I uh, hey, I haven't been following or the
Red's doing any good. I haven't been following them too much.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
That they aren't.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
They're they They just get you excited one one or
two and then they play somebody like Pittsburgh and lose
them all.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
So did they win yesterday?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I don't know. I'm looking at Danny doesn't know either.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
So Hampy Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Well, I have a great weekend, Dick, and we will
talk to you next Saturday. Okay, thank you, all right,
take care, all right, quick break, we come back. Phone
lines are open for you at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Coming up. At the top
of the hour, Rito Hikenfeld will be with us. We'll
talk about the herb of the week, and of.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Course Dick is still listening. By the way, the red's
lost thirteen to six. Yikes, yeah, Dick is still listening.
There you go, there you go, thirteen to six.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Talk about her great recipe, which is broccoli salad, and
then of course the herb of the week, we'll talk
with her about that as well. And then at the
bottom of the hour, we're gonna talk with Barbie Bletcher,
our Queen Bee. Get an update on those bees. You know,
we still haven't heard a whole lot about you know,
we had lost millions of bees coming out of the
winter this year. What happened if they figured that out?
(33:47):
That one out yet? Talking about swarming bees, what do
you do? And you ever see those bees like in
the side of your house all of a sudden this
time of the year, start to see one go in
and then come back out, kind of experimenting with those
small holes that may be in the more or side
of your home. Is that a good thing or a
bad thing?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And what you should do?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Barbie Blecher's got the answers coming up in our next
hour in between you and me talking yardening at eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Here in
the garden with Ron.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
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Speaker 2 (34:37):
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Speaker 1 (36:11):
We're talking the yard day at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five, and it is Memorial Weekend,
and it's an early Memorial Weekend, you know, I mean
we we're back next Saturday, and it's May. It's kind
of unusual. Mother's Day was late, Memorial Weekend was early.
And now you know, you've only got a two week
gap between Mother's Day and Memorial Day, which has been
(36:33):
interesting in the garden centers because usually Mother's Day, if
it's early, a Memorial Day later in the season, you
almost have the whole month in between. Uh, and you know,
this year, it's only been a two week gap in there,
so it's been kind of different the way that's worked out.
But nevertheless, well there's been okay, kind of cool. As
a matter of fact, really cool this week in our area,
and I had to watch the soil tempts. I think
(36:54):
they got down just at fifty degrees, which is pretty
darn cool this time of the year. But I'll come
right back up again, so we're we're good. Didn't see
any frosts or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
The cooler. If the cool.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Weather stays with us and the soil stay really wet,
that can be an issue sometimes for some of the
annuals and perennials. Cool wet feet like that early in
the springtime can be tough. But I think we're gonna
be okay. I think we're gonna get through. Are going
to start to warm up again next week, so we'll see.
But I see rain moving back in again, so crazy
(37:28):
may no doubt about it. Eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five to Heartwell we go, Eric, Good morning.
Speaker 12 (37:36):
How are you Ron?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I'm doing great yourself.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I'm good.
Speaker 12 (37:40):
I've listened to you for a long time, so I'm
glad that I could talk to you.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 12 (37:47):
So I have like two smaller arborvid's. They've probably been
planted in the last three four years, and they both
have some like damage on the back side of them,
like like browning. I don't see any bag I don't
see any bagworm or any any visible insects. But what's
(38:08):
my like first kind of go to, you know what
do I? And they kind of look they have that
it's like a dusty look. They don't like look real
vibrant and green. They almost look a little off color,
like like like like they need washed almost, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah, have they had any color at all this spring?
A darker color?
Speaker 10 (38:31):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Not really have you did you see that kind of
disappear in the fall. And the reason I'm asking Eric
is that arbravidy I love, and it's the hot plant
right now when it comes to evergreens and our I mean,
everybody's planning arbravity for screening and they do.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
A great job.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
The one thing about arbravidy that's that's you've got to
really stick with them. And it's true with all evergreens,
but arbravide even more so the first two or three
or four years we get into any kind of drought situation,
hot and dry, you've got to stick with it, watering
even the ones that have been planted for a while,
and if they weren't watered a lot last fall, especially
(39:08):
going into the winter, and you know that really takes
its toll, and then you come out of the winter
and then all of a sudden you start to see
the colors not there anymore on that backside. Could be
the side away from where watering would have reached the plant,
so one side of it starts to to or if
it's at the side where the wind hits it a lot,
(39:29):
if it doesn't have good moisture in the needles, then
the wind over the wintertime dries those out and the
next thing you know, those drop off. So you know,
could they have been stressed. That's what it sounds like
to me, more than likely a lack of moisture. And
I don't know what you're doing as far as irrigating
or watering or whatever, but I've just seen so much
of this over the last two or three years after
(39:51):
the dry spells, especially, and it's with other evergreens as well,
but especially with the yarbroviding because they're planting so many
of them out there. I'll tell you what you can
do is take a couple of pictures of them the
back the bad side the good overall up close, send
them to me email. I mean, you can send them
to me at the Ron Wilson at iHeartMedia dot com
(40:11):
and I'll take a quick look at them and see
if I can detect anything else and give you my
opinion on that color. But in the meantime, what you
might want to try doing is is in any branches
that are totally brown, nothing on them at this stage,
no new growth, And are you seeing any new growth
come out on these at this point?
Speaker 10 (40:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (40:30):
I think so. I mean it's just slow. I I like,
they're right up against the house. They're like, they're not
the green giants. They're not green giants. They're like more
of a columnber.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
That's the one.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
So that even explains that in the backside where it's
turning brown is the side against the house.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, So you got both the shading back there and
the dryness back there. You put the two of those
together and it happens every time. And that's the point
being is I would you get a garden hose out
just flush them out really well, strong stream of water,
blow everything out of them, really flush them off.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Well.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
When you're doing that, it also waters them at the
same time, if branches are totally dead and you're not
seeing anything coming out on them at this stage, somewhere
down the road you get the hand pruterers out, you
start to clean them out a little bit, uh, you know,
to get that dead stuff out of there and try
to encourage more. But do send me, send me a
couple of pictures. Off, I'll take a quick look. I
can blow them up on the screen and and give
(41:25):
you an assessment that way and tell you what I
would do. But I can get I mean, what you
describe to me now is more than likely that's what
that is. Especially on the backside shade, lack of moisture,
they turn brown.
Speaker 12 (41:39):
Okay, all right, well thanks, have a good Memorial today.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Hey, Eric, have a great weekend. And uh, and again,
send me those pictures. Let me take a look at
it and we'll try to figure everything out for you.
All right, we'll take a quick uh no, we're not
going to take a quick break though. But the lights
just went out everywhere, but the radio state on, which
is always amazes me, got about a minute a half go.
So let's go to Charlotte John Good morning.
Speaker 13 (42:03):
Good morning, Ron. This the question we bought a raised
bed planner. It's on legs and I've got it up
on my raised deck about ten feet off the ground.
And we planted two tomato plants and basil, and the
plants really thrived. I bought high quality soil and I
think some commonere and we mixed it in and it
(42:26):
did great. And then all of a sudden it got
hit by blight. I guess it was blake. The leaves
started turning black, and it's full of the two plants
are full of tomatoes, but there's hardly any leaves left.
I trimmed off all the bad ones and I've been
spraying it with knee oil, but I can't imagine what happened.
I'm really disappointed.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Well, you know, and again not seeing the leaves that
chances are that's what it was. I've already seen in
our area here in southern Ohio. I've already seen some
sceptorial leaf spot in a little bit of early blight
all ready on some of the early tomatoes. So the
weather has been just right for that to show up.
But more than likely that's what it was, some type
of a leaf diseases. The tomatoes still look good, you.
Speaker 13 (43:12):
Know, they do In fact, I've got a couple ripening now,
and every night I before going to bed, I've been
spraying it with kneem oil. And are those tomato is
gonna be okay to yeah?
Speaker 9 (43:23):
Eat?
Speaker 1 (43:24):
And in most cases, yeah they are. And a lot
of times with those leaf diseases, the plant looks like heck,
but the tomatoes are able to pull through. If you
see things starting to change a little bit. As far
as they don't look like good, pick them off, let
them ripen on the window sill. But my other point
is this, you know you still have time to plant
a second round. So what you may want to do
is take a look at those, maybe harvest what you
(43:46):
can over the next week or two or so, uh
and get those off of there, get those pulled out.
You don't have to do anything in the soil, do
anything else. Get out to your local garden center, grab
yourself a couple more tomatoes and get those replanted in
those and then you'll have your later crop as we
go to the summer season. So you still have time
to replace as well. But more than likely it was
some type of a leaf disease coming up next. Rita
(44:09):
Hikenfeld here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
Not gardening questions.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
Ron has the answers and one eight hundred and eighty
two three talk.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
You are in the garden with Ron Wilson.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I am Ron Wilson on this Memorial Day weekend. I
hope you got a lot of plan for this weekend,
including working in the yard. And let's kick it off
with somebody who I know has no plans of working
in his yard. He'll be just kind of chilling out
this weekend, mister Joe Shrecker, our executive producer, finding what's
going on? Well, never mind about that, but our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page in the garden
with Ron Wilson. You had a great weekend off last weekend. Oh,
(01:00):
it was a great weekend off. And then you're here
this morning and then you're off today and tomorrow, but
you're working on Memorial Yes, I work Memorial Day here
in the morning and then you're off the rest of
the day. Get off at nine and I'll be home
and by the time by ten people wake up, I'll
already put in my day and you'll be snoring. Yep,
that's the goal. That's the definitely the goal. So yeah,
(01:21):
I ever wake up when you're snoring and the dogs
are like staring at you, like.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
No talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I have fallen asleep and the recliner with our little
docks and sitting next to me, and I'll kind of
wake up and look and she's like looking at and
You're like, what are you doing? I'm assuming that's what.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Was going on. No, No, my dog's My dogs sleep
next to me and in the uh, Hans likes to borrow.
That's Thoughtson's doctors. She does too.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Usually all snuggle down all you see hers their head sometimes.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, we did have a little adventure in our backyard.
Uh oh, Hans caught a bunny. Oh and baby bunny
or a bunny bunny didn't make it. It was a
baby bunny bunny didn't make it. And then he was
running around the yard with it in his mouth like
he just one uh one uh or something. Yeah, and
(02:18):
it was. It was. It was kind of but the
girls weren't there. The girls went there, they had probably
a PTSD if they.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Because they would have been screaming and crying and you
feel sad for him, but well, Bethanie would have been
I don't know about Grace, but Bethanye would have been like,
well maybe Grace too.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, it was, it was kind of. It was kind
of well because I let him out and they ran
out and they ran out to the back and I
saw there was a bunny in the back. And I
don't know why the bunny didn't go through the fence
because there's holes. It's it's a chain link fence, and
he got in. Yeah, and when the dogs chased, uh,
(03:00):
they like chased him around the yard and he got
to the front where the gate is. And well, because
Hans likes to burrow, I put rocks so that way
the can't burrow under the fence and that's where he
got caught. Because the hole that was that's there is
covered up there anymore. So yeah, so yeah, Hans caught them,
(03:25):
and then you know, we have I had to throw
a bundy away.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I get it. It wasn't screaming, was it. I didn't
hear him scream. I know, I've heard when when when
they caught him, when they caught a buddy last year,
and I heard him scream, and I ran out there
say drop it, drop it, drop it, and then they
dropped it. The bunny ran away. That one survived, but yeah,
I was was, yeah, that that gets you. And then uh,
(03:50):
and then I don't know if I told you about this.
But two weeks ago, we had a a nest, a
bird's nest in our porch light, and I let the
dogs out, and I didn't think anything of it, like
I usually do. All of a sudden, the birds were
going nuts. You could hear the birds just chirping and
chirping away and chirping away. And I look outside and
(04:15):
Buster and Hans are like looking around in the grass
and all the birds are perched on the fence around them,
like surrounding them, like watching, and they're just squawking and
squawking and squawking. I'm like, so there's something going on
out there. So I walked out there, and I guess
the baby bird was learning how to fly, and it's
in the yard and was trying to and they didn't
(04:38):
buy it or kill it, but the birds just like
looking at them, just like chirping and screaming, and they're
just kind of like looking at the bird. And I shoe,
you know, I shoe the dogs away, and the dogs
are going inside, and I grab the piece of cardboard
and kind of shoveled the bird and put it on
the fence where a kind of perched on the fence.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So I say a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Doctor Doolole pack words back out again.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
See Joe, hope not because we don't need any grouse
near my house.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Pheasant wasn't a peasant. Was a grouse grouse some kind
of hybrid pheasant or something.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It was. It was some mutant peasant. And then the
house will start showing up. But yeah, yeah, I just
need someone to mue there you go. Now it's it's
it's getting mode. The the guy that helped me, helped
(05:35):
me mow the lawn. Now that now I'm kind of
all recovered from surgery.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
He's continuing on. No, it's his last week was last week.
So that's our turn. I thought you were going to
just say, yeah, we're just gonna let him keep doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I thought about it, but it got expensive, so you know,
we decided it's time to tell him. Hey, So so yeah,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Never got that electric more yet, did you?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
She Steel has one though.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I am looking at him, and there there's some good
deals on them right now too. I saw one. I
saw one, a Craftsman uh electric one for two hundred
and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'm sure the batteries are gotten better.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Almost pulled the trigger. So yeah, it's coming.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's see a steel commercial.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
It's just that they're too they're the cutting thing. It's
too small. Still got to make a twenty four twenty
six inch one right now, the only ones I've seen
here eighteen twenty inches m or they got to make.
They got to make electric ones like the standing ones
that they get the landscape right on. Yeah, well they
(06:48):
can do it for cars. I guess they could do
it for those.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, charge them overnight and that next day.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Call.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm gonna call Elon. I'm gonna say, ask him to
get them on that. Text him real fast. Hey, buddy, Yeah,
you call him, buddy, or I just called. I just
call yeah, yeah, yeah, we're close. I just sent him
a text, so he's a he'll get right on that. Yeah. So, anyway,
(07:15):
who do we have on this show today?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Rita? She's been with us every week, ye talking about
I don't know whatever we're gonna talk. I do know
what it is, but I'm not gonna give it away.
She's got her. The week has your recipe in an
herber of the week.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And the erber of the week is posted, so if
you can't wait, you can click on that and where
is that that's on our website.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right, Yeah, I think it's Ron Wilson online dot com
if I'm not mistaken, if you haven't changed it in
the Facebook page in the garden with Ron Wilson in.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
The chat room, should be up and run and.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And then after her, Barbie Butcher, Barbie Butcher the Queen Bee.
We're gonna find out have they found anything out about
those millions of bees that were lost over the wintertime?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
They lost they just went. We disappeared.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Style was like call me collapses or I thought they
was like they couldn't find them missing. They haven't found them.
They don't know where they went. They died and went somewhere.
And let's see what else.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
She's gonna talk about swarms right now, getting a lot
of swarms and what to do. Also, they were talking
about when you see bees fly like in a hole
in the side of your house and come back out.
If you leave that alone, it's not a good thing,
and how to how to approach that because if they
build a nest inside your wall, you got a real
(08:28):
major redo. You have to cut your wall out and
all that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You mean, you mean you just don't squirt some cock
in that.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, you just don't. Yeah, so we'll talk about what
to do with those and swarms and what happened to
the millions and millions of bees that were lost this winter.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Wow, And and of course Garry Sullivan and of course
buckets Joe Box exactly. And Rita's recipe this week is
broccoli salad. Do you like broccoli broccoli salad? Do you
like extra bacon?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Sure? And grapes and grapes. Yes, love broccoli salad.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I do too, so yeah, small pieces of broccoli though,
oh yeah, you can't have a little bit. You can't
have big trees. No, I like to be like the
broccoli in it. But give me those little pieces of broccolis.
Don't be cheap and you're not cheap but lazy and
not break it up into smaller pieces.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Or get broccolis.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, oh I love that on that Yeah, broil I love,
but yeah, I love all the oil broil. That's was crispy.
I love broccoli salad. Actually, we had broccoli yesterday on
the grill. Really, Oh, I love it on the grill.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
We grolled it and put some blaze on it. I'm
not a big grash person. Put on put some on
a gro slice. Man that put them on a grill. Okay,
I'll come to you. You will like them and your
mom and dim. I'll do that one next time I'm
invited to your house. You're gonna grill if you have
invited in my house. Maybe okay, maybe maybe not? Maybe
(09:53):
maybe not. Uh. The plant of the week is you
had some just some Memorial Day plants. I don't. One
is what is the plan of the week. Well, the
plane of the week is levisticum, a fishing fish and all.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Which is lovage the Rodney dangerfield of herbs.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Which is the herb that tastes like celery. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Even yesterday I'm explaining to somebody had to pick a
couple of tall stems us here bite the ends off
of this. They loved it, the citrus uh celery flavor.
And I said blow through it and they were like,
oh strong. I said, yeah, and use it for your
bloody mary. It's way under used perennial. Nice, do you
have one? I thought I gave you a luvage a
long time ago.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I don't have any.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Probably gotta whack down with a weed whapper.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It disappeared when someone.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, okay, so anyway, lovage, and then you have your picks.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I have my Memorial Day planners. Yes, you do red
white and blue planners for a Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You're looking for red, white and blue flowers. Did his
homework and listed a bunch of different flowers that come
in reds, whites, and blues. So he's done your homework.
You just take that list, go to the guard center.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Say I want Joe's red white and blue annuals for
Memorial Day planners. Your watch and look at you go,
who Joe? Who? What?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But in all serious Memorial Days, people would treat it
as like a day to go out and have a barbecue.
But the real point of Memorial Day is to remember
that in fact, that we're able to do that, remember
those people that did that, that sacrifice the weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Exactly that, so gay they're also you can go out
and barbecue and party and swim in the pools.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Ye, So pop a cold one for for all the people.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
That died, slam it and give a toast there you go,
So all righty, that's it. That's it for me, all right.
Joe Strecker, Executive producer, producer. If you like what you
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Don't blame Joe doctor Z Who doctor doctor z Z?
Where does he live in Washington, d C. He's got
a garden number eighty three eighty three? Does he still
cruise around on that? On that? Don't tell me?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Bows are still on the back.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
However, is he gonna get kicked off?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
However? The side car might be filling up.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The side car has been attached. It has been attached
all those years that we've begining, all these years. He
finally took our advice.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yep. And I don't know if she said yes or
no yet because we don't we don't know. Maybe we'll
tell you next week or she said yesterday. But the
rocks in the pocket in the pocket anymore. It wasn't
a hot dog actually at the at the.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Washington he went to the ballgame, came away maybe engaged.
Maybe maybe we'll tease may me next week.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
We'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I'll let you know next week, doctor Z TikTok, TikTok
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Welcome back here in the gardens. Rod Wilson again that
toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Talking about yarding on this Memorial Day weekend
to Delaware. We go right off the bat talking to Pat. Pat,
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Good morning, Ron. I enjoyed your story about the rabbit.
We just got back from Nylands, Roatan, Honduras. It's off
the coast. We're down there, were diving and down there
they have all I believe it's called a wat two
sea and it's kind of a looks like it's short hair,
(17:09):
got the body of a rabbit, and but the now
snout of, you know, almost like a rat. We called
them jack rats, but I was watching them this past
trip and I'm calling them jack of squirrels now because
they eat like nuts and berries. And I was watching
(17:32):
this one forge for nuts and it got one and
went over and buried it. It was burying them for
a later days. Really call them jackets squirrels. They're funny
to watch.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What they're called two seas.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I believe that's what they call them, is a wat
two sea. They got like yeah, they got like a
short brown hair, and you know they're but they're son
like big like a rabbit. But they and they cut
the body of a rabbit, but don't like the head
(18:08):
of a rat or squirrel.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Interesting, but they were but they were collecting nuts and
then burying them.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yeah they would, yeah yeah, and they'll eat berries and
nuts and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Interesting huh.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah, Yeah, they're they're fun animal to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
They aren't on the menu anywhere down there, right.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
No, no, people leave them alone. Now there is there
is a type of school down there that they do
eat because the things only feed off stuff like mangoes
and bananas. And they said they taste really good.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So it's all fruit that eats. I guess that would
translate into pretty uh pretty sweet meat.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I guess yeah, yeah, So I don't know. It's kind of.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Interesting yet interesting story. I appreciate you sharing.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That with us.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Okay, I have grave we can.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Hey, thanks you too. Yeah, I've never heard of it before,
but I'll definitely check it out. I love seeing some
of those animals in other countries that do weird things
like that, especially like the squirrel. It only eats bananas
and mangoes or whatever. And if they do eat it,
that does kind of translate right with the eating the fruits,
and that I see where the meat would be a
little bit tasty. I guess, I don't know it's I
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don't know, I guess it would anyway, talk taking your
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we go into the break here. I you know, I'm
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not one for home remedies as far as concoctions that
we mix up ourselves and then use them for sprays
or fertilizers or whatever it may be. You know, there's
so many times and you go on the Inner that
you know, I thought it was bad twenty years ago.
You go on there today and there are so many
recipes of things to do that are on that you
(20:08):
just and you know it is so and so on
the gardener from whatever or blah blah from whatever or
and you know, how do you know? You know if
this stuff's legit or not. And of course my answer
is don't try it, don't use it, because you never know.
And I've never been one for promoting it except in
a couple There are a couple exceptions, one of which
(20:29):
is using baking soda to take care of moss. And
I'll tell you more about that we take the break.
But someone made up their own in sectorcitle soap last
week and gave me a little story about it, and
I'll share that with you as well. And taking your
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Three talking to the yardening at eight hundred eight two
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Good morning.
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I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. Don't forget
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in the garden with Ron Wilson before we went into
the break talking about homemade concoctions that we use in
the yards and gardens, and of course with a high
and well I don't blame me, I but the on
the internet, and you know there's so many Now you
(23:35):
have the opportunity anybody can go on there and put whatever,
and you know, homemade remedies for a lot of things
out there. I just I'm just pretty much the thumbs down.
If you want to try it, it's up to you.
You it's your garden, your plants, do whatever. I'm not
a big one one of them that I've always recommended
if you're interested in if you have moss in the lawn,
(23:57):
moss on the patio, on the bricks or whatever, and
you're looking for just a natural way to get rid
of it, a small box of baking soda, two gallons
of lukewarm water to warm water, mix it all together,
make sure it dissolves, because it's hard to get a
dissolved that's why we use the warm water and spray
that on and that'll eat that off in a couple
of days and keeps it off for about four to
(24:18):
six weeks. Unless you change the environment and it's okay,
and it's you know, eco friendly in the whole nine yards.
And that's one that I will recommend, and it does
it does work, you know. And you've seen some out
there for some of the leaf diseases using baking soda
and horticultural oil. Again, if you don't get those those
(24:39):
ratios correct, there's a good chance you could burn plays,
so bottom line, and you know, and there's feeding with
molasses and things like that, and that's been going on
for a long time. But again it's I just you know,
I am not a big one for that because you
never know what's going to happen if you mix it
right or whatever products you buy.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Oh oh, I have one more that I do recommend
beer in the pie pan for slugs. It is still
one of the most effective ways to take care of them.
But it's just pouring beer in a pie pan or
a tuna can or whatever it may be. But as
someone says something about how aphans galore in course right now,
a couple things here on this tip. One is new
foliage coming out on plants right now, annuals, perennials, vegetables,
(25:24):
trees and shrubs. Aphans love that they're a sucking insect.
I think there's over five thousand different species of aphens
around the world. Last year it was the Year of
the Aphens. I've never seen so many aphens in all
my life, and many different types, and they're different colors
and sizes and shapes. But the bottom line is they're
(25:44):
a sucking insect and they get on that new growth
it's tender, they pierce that, and it's a sucking insect.
And if you have a few athens on there, and
they'll get on the bottom of the leaves too, you
get a few on there, typically not an issue. Sometimes
they're on there and you don't even know they're on there,
and it doesn't do any of the plant. Sometimes their
plant starts to lose colors, or the ends start to
(26:06):
wilt down, or they're deformed, or they start to turn brown,
or actually start to die in annuals and perennials. Sometimes
if the populations are high enough, and I've seen them
on burning bush. They love burning bush. Don't get on
burning bush and just absolutely deform the ends of a branch,
and really that does recover over time. Most folks go
(26:26):
in and prone it out and throw it away. This
is a great way to get rid of them, but
very very common. They're out there all over the place,
and a good hosting of water, strong stream of water
can knock them off fairly easily and reduce the populations
to a point where you don't have any issues. Running
your fingers, you know, hanging onto the branch, running your
finger across and just smashing them takes care of them.
(26:48):
Lady bug larvae love them. They feed all over there.
Several insects that love feeding on aphans. Now you'll see
ants a lot of times. When you see a lot
of aphis, the ants are actually grazing them like cattle.
They they eat them the honeydew if it suck in
the juice and they push it right out the back end.
And the ants love that. They'll actually move their eggs
around and put them on different plants and actually protect
(27:10):
them from other insects so that they have this harvest.
But anyway, right now big time for aphids, and so
there's lots of sprays on the market that are available.
Hosing them off works great, but like kneem oil, dietamaceous earth,
horticultural oil, insecticidal soap, lots of all you know, all natural,
(27:32):
more eco friendly insecticides. It could be used if you
need to use and insecticide. And always lead the read
the label. Even though it's all natural, it's still an
insecticide so pesticide, so make sure you read the label
and follow the instructions. But so many times when that
insecticidal soap comes up, everybody's like, well, I just make
my own. I just take a little bit of detergent,
(27:54):
a little bit of ivory or don or whatever it
may be, and put it in a gallon of water
and mix it all up to spray it on and
it's good to go. And that has worked for people.
Insecticidal soap that you buy at a local garden center
that is commercially made as insecticidal soap are fatty acids
(28:14):
from soaps, but they are researched, formulated and manufactured to
be the right formula. The right percentage is to not
intentionally cause problems on your plants. Depending on what type
of soap you use and how much you put in
your mix, can do some pretty serious damages on your plants.
(28:35):
And so I had someone last week that talked about
having aphans all over something. I forget what it was,
and so they just got some dawn I think it
was done or one of those I don't know, and
made up their own concoction and sprayed to get rid
of the aphens. And I said, well, I hope it
doesn't causing problems on your plants, and they're like, well,
that's on the internet. Everybody does makes their own secticidal soap,
so I know. But the problem is with some of
(28:56):
those if you don't get again the ratio right soap
to water, if they have perfumes and them, can cause
problems with the plants, if they have degreasers in them,
can cause issues with your plants, things like that. So
that's why I never recommend making your own rather than
versus buying it in the garden center that's specifically formulated
(29:16):
for spraying on plants. And kind of laughed about it
and whatever. Well guess what talk to him about three
days later, and sure enough what they had sprayed it
on was now turning brown, and unfortunately the ratio that
they had sprayed didn't work. It worked. I took care
of the aphans and it took care of their plants
at the same time. So I'm not a big one
(29:39):
for that. And you're going to see that all the
time on the internet. I'm telling you, if you try
to do that, you're on your own as far as
with me, because I besides the baking soda, the beer
in a PieP, and there aren't many other things like
that that I recommend, because there's too much of a
chance of messing up or not using the right form whatever.
And you're going to mess with your plants insecticidal soaps
(30:01):
that you buy in the garden center. I realize it's
a lot more expensive than mixing up a couple drops
of the whatever and it's some water and spraying it on,
but it is formulated specifically to not harm your plants,
So do keep that in mind. And by the way,
aphids are out like crazy right now, so you know,
if you're seeing plants that are starting to struggle a
little bit, leaves are deformed, wilding over, et cetera, et cetera,
(30:24):
take a look on the stems, take a look at
the underside of the leaves. You're probably gonna see aphans.
Try hosing them off, Try smearing them off, Try taking
your fingers and smashing them.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Leave them.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
If there's not too many, leave them alone. Let the
ladybugs larvae, take care of them. And by the way,
ladybug larvae look like little bit of alligators sometimes depending
on what phase they're in. But leave those alone. Let
them do that. And if you have to spray, look
at the commercially made insecticidal soaps, horticultural oils, nim max,
nim oil, dietamaceous earth, many things listed like that that
(30:58):
are all natural that you and used to go after
those silly, little sucking aphens. All right, and it's remember
it's not the answer are causing problems, it's the aphens.
Before we take a break, let's go to Dayton Talk
with Dick from Dayton.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
Good morning, Hey, happy Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Hey do you have anybody in the family that unfortunately
was lost in the service or whatever?
Speaker 10 (31:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, well no, no, they My dad was
in the Navy, Uncle Tony Army Chuck. Now they survived,
and my cousin was he was in the Air Force,
Gil Gary was in the I Forgot Marines. Yeah, it
was good. And I remember coming home doing dad was younger.
(31:41):
That's where Benny taught me and and my uncle Tony,
and then I have a cousin in It was from Laria.
He he plays down and he was from Malaria. He
plays in down in Texas and he calls me all
the time. Tony and his mom had she was a
she had thirteen sisters and thirteen and they used to
(32:03):
come and play there in the park, dear in Lorraine,
which was so cool. Yeah, I'm missing up, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
So you guys, have you guys playing this weekend?
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (32:15):
Maybe maybe?
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Maybe?
Speaker 9 (32:18):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I hope I figured you'd you'd be a booked for
like Memorial Day to play, you know, something like that.
Speaker 9 (32:24):
You know some of the yeah yeah boy little group.
The other day Yuka Leiley was good screening Benders. Oh
it's just good. It's just good.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
But I uh, hey, I haven't been following or the
Red's doing any good. I haven't been following them too much.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
That they aren't.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
They're they They just get you excited one one or
two and then they play somebody like Pittsburgh and lose
them all.
Speaker 9 (32:50):
So did they win yesterday?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I don't know. I'm looking at Danny doesn't know either.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
So Hampy Memorial Day.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Well, I have a great weekend, Dick, and we will
talk to you next Saturday. Okay, thank you, all right,
take care, all right, quick break, we come back. Phone
lines are open for you at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Coming up. At the top
of the hour, Rito Hikenfeld will be with us. We'll
talk about the herb of the week, and of.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Course Dick is still listening. By the way, the red's
lost thirteen to six. Yikes, yeah, Dick is still listening.
There you go, there you go, thirteen to six.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Talk about her great recipe, which is broccoli salad, and
then of course the herb of the week, we'll talk
with her about that as well. And then at the
bottom of the hour, we're gonna talk with Barbie Bletcher,
our Queen Bee. Get an update on those bees. You know,
we still haven't heard a whole lot about you know,
we had lost millions of bees coming out of the
winter this year. What happened if they figured that out?
(33:47):
That one out yet? Talking about swarming bees, what do
you do? And you ever see those bees like in
the side of your house all of a sudden this
time of the year, start to see one go in
and then come back out, kind of experimenting with those
small holes that may be in the more or side
of your home. Is that a good thing or a
bad thing?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And what you should do?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Barbie Blecher's got the answers coming up in our next
hour in between you and me talking yardening at eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Here in
the garden with Ron.
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Wilson, Landscaping Ladiesier with your personal yard boy.
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Hi everyone.
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Speaker 1 (36:11):
We're talking the yard day at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five, and it is Memorial Weekend,
and it's an early Memorial Weekend, you know, I mean
we we're back next Saturday, and it's May. It's kind
of unusual. Mother's Day was late, Memorial Weekend was early.
And now you know, you've only got a two week
gap between Mother's Day and Memorial Day, which has been
(36:33):
interesting in the garden centers because usually Mother's Day, if
it's early, a Memorial Day later in the season, you
almost have the whole month in between. Uh, and you know,
this year, it's only been a two week gap in there,
so it's been kind of different the way that's worked out.
But nevertheless, well there's been okay, kind of cool. As
a matter of fact, really cool this week in our area,
and I had to watch the soil tempts. I think
(36:54):
they got down just at fifty degrees, which is pretty
darn cool this time of the year. But I'll come
right back up again, so we're we're good. Didn't see
any frosts or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
The cooler. If the cool.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Weather stays with us and the soil stay really wet,
that can be an issue sometimes for some of the
annuals and perennials. Cool wet feet like that early in
the springtime can be tough. But I think we're gonna
be okay. I think we're gonna get through. Are going
to start to warm up again next week, so we'll see.
But I see rain moving back in again, so crazy
(37:28):
may no doubt about it. Eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five to Heartwell we go, Eric, Good morning.
Speaker 12 (37:36):
How are you Ron?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I'm doing great yourself.
Speaker 12 (37:39):
I'm good.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I'm good.
Speaker 12 (37:40):
I've listened to you for a long time, so I'm
glad that I could talk to you.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 12 (37:47):
So I have like two smaller arborvid's. They've probably been
planted in the last three four years, and they both
have some like damage on the back side of them,
like like browning. I don't see any bag I don't
see any bagworm or any any visible insects. But what's
(38:08):
my like first kind of go to, you know what
do I? And they kind of look they have that
it's like a dusty look. They don't like look real
vibrant and green. They almost look a little off color,
like like like like they need washed almost, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah, have they had any color at all this spring?
A darker color?
Speaker 10 (38:31):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Not really have you did you see that kind of
disappear in the fall. And the reason I'm asking Eric
is that arbravidy I love, and it's the hot plant
right now when it comes to evergreens and our I mean,
everybody's planning arbravity for screening and they do.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
A great job.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
The one thing about arbravidy that's that's you've got to
really stick with them. And it's true with all evergreens,
but arbravide even more so the first two or three
or four years we get into any kind of drought situation,
hot and dry, you've got to stick with it, watering
even the ones that have been planted for a while,
and if they weren't watered a lot last fall, especially
(39:08):
going into the winter, and you know that really takes
its toll, and then you come out of the winter
and then all of a sudden you start to see
the colors not there anymore on that backside. Could be
the side away from where watering would have reached the plant,
so one side of it starts to to or if
it's at the side where the wind hits it a lot,
(39:29):
if it doesn't have good moisture in the needles, then
the wind over the wintertime dries those out and the
next thing you know, those drop off. So you know,
could they have been stressed. That's what it sounds like
to me, more than likely a lack of moisture. And
I don't know what you're doing as far as irrigating
or watering or whatever, but I've just seen so much
of this over the last two or three years after
(39:51):
the dry spells, especially, and it's with other evergreens as well,
but especially with the yarbroviding because they're planting so many
of them out there. I'll tell you what you can
do is take a couple of pictures of them the
back the bad side the good overall up close, send
them to me email. I mean, you can send them
to me at the Ron Wilson at iHeartMedia dot com
(40:11):
and I'll take a quick look at them and see
if I can detect anything else and give you my
opinion on that color. But in the meantime, what you
might want to try doing is is in any branches
that are totally brown, nothing on them at this stage,
no new growth, And are you seeing any new growth
come out on these at this point?
Speaker 10 (40:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (40:30):
I think so. I mean it's just slow. I I like,
they're right up against the house. They're like, they're not
the green giants. They're not green giants. They're like more
of a columnber.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
That's the one.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
So that even explains that in the backside where it's
turning brown is the side against the house.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, So you got both the shading back there and
the dryness back there. You put the two of those
together and it happens every time. And that's the point
being is I would you get a garden hose out
just flush them out really well, strong stream of water,
blow everything out of them, really flush them off.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Well.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
When you're doing that, it also waters them at the
same time, if branches are totally dead and you're not
seeing anything coming out on them at this stage, somewhere
down the road you get the hand pruterers out, you
start to clean them out a little bit, uh, you know,
to get that dead stuff out of there and try
to encourage more. But do send me, send me a
couple of pictures. Off, I'll take a quick look. I
can blow them up on the screen and and give
(41:25):
you an assessment that way and tell you what I
would do. But I can get I mean, what you
describe to me now is more than likely that's what
that is. Especially on the backside shade, lack of moisture,
they turn brown.
Speaker 12 (41:39):
Okay, all right, well thanks, have a good Memorial today.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Hey, Eric, have a great weekend. And uh, and again,
send me those pictures. Let me take a look at
it and we'll try to figure everything out for you.
All right, we'll take a quick uh no, we're not
going to take a quick break though. But the lights
just went out everywhere, but the radio state on, which
is always amazes me, got about a minute a half go.
So let's go to Charlotte John Good morning.
Speaker 13 (42:03):
Good morning, Ron. This the question we bought a raised
bed planner. It's on legs and I've got it up
on my raised deck about ten feet off the ground.
And we planted two tomato plants and basil, and the
plants really thrived. I bought high quality soil and I
think some commonere and we mixed it in and it
(42:26):
did great. And then all of a sudden it got
hit by blight. I guess it was blake. The leaves
started turning black, and it's full of the two plants
are full of tomatoes, but there's hardly any leaves left.
I trimmed off all the bad ones and I've been
spraying it with knee oil, but I can't imagine what happened.
I'm really disappointed.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Well, you know, and again not seeing the leaves that
chances are that's what it was. I've already seen in
our area here in southern Ohio. I've already seen some
sceptorial leaf spot in a little bit of early blight
all ready on some of the early tomatoes. So the
weather has been just right for that to show up.
But more than likely that's what it was, some type
of a leaf diseases. The tomatoes still look good, you.
Speaker 13 (43:12):
Know, they do In fact, I've got a couple ripening now,
and every night I before going to bed, I've been
spraying it with kneem oil. And are those tomato is
gonna be okay to yeah?
Speaker 9 (43:23):
Eat?
Speaker 1 (43:24):
And in most cases, yeah they are. And a lot
of times with those leaf diseases, the plant looks like heck,
but the tomatoes are able to pull through. If you
see things starting to change a little bit. As far
as they don't look like good, pick them off, let
them ripen on the window sill. But my other point
is this, you know you still have time to plant
a second round. So what you may want to do
is take a look at those, maybe harvest what you
(43:46):
can over the next week or two or so, uh
and get those off of there, get those pulled out.
You don't have to do anything in the soil, do
anything else. Get out to your local garden center, grab
yourself a couple more tomatoes and get those replanted in
those and then you'll have your later crop as we
go to the summer season. So you still have time
to replace as well. But more than likely it was
some type of a leaf disease coming up next. Rita
(44:09):
Hikenfeld here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
Not gardening questions.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
Ron has the answers and one eight hundred and eighty
two three talk.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
You are in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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