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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yarning last day of May.
By that month flew by in a hurry, nice and
wet and cool through the entire month. Holy shm holies,
get this.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Thing out of here here in our area.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh my gosh. It's just, you know, it's been very unusual.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
All though.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I think, way back, way back, I can remember amaze
that were a little bit cooler, you know, and kind
of rainy through the month. But we kind of gotten spoiled,
and uh, you know, the weather's kind of broken a
little bit earlier and been warmer, et cetera, et cetera. Personally,
I love the weather. I mean it's been great. As
a matter of fact, at nighttime, if you get the
windows open, you almost have to close down because it's
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gotten so cool. Uh. And you know, grass and trees
and shrubs, lots of flowering things have lasted longer. They're
growing like a weed. The lawns growing like a weed
because of the cooler temperatures and the you know, the
good rainfalls. I mean, we've had basically good moisture in
the ground I at least in my area for the
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entire month, and you know, I have people even saying,
you know, question is how often? How often should I
be mowing my grass right now? And you know the
question is you got to mow and it needs to
be moaned. If it's growing, you need to keep mowing.
And you got to look at that and say, you know,
if you're maintaining it at a three inch height three
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and a half inch height, you never want to remove
more than two thirds or a third of the grass blade.
You leave two thirds of it there, so you never
want to remove more than a third of the grass
blade each time you mow. So depending on how tall
you want to keep or maintain your lawn, that's how
you calculate when it's time to mow again. And in
many cases it may be twice a week. It has
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been that way. You may have to move once this
week and maybe twice next week, depending on how fast
it's growing. So you know, don't just go out there
and mow it twice a week. Take a look at it.
Try and you get you know, have a little yardstick
or something out there that you can measure the lawn
and look at it. And when you get to that
point where you're gonna if you want to keep it
at three inches and you want to you know, it's
got that point where you're going going to take off
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a third of the grass blade. Then that's when you
take a look at it, say if and you say, well,
I'm confused. Let's say we want to mow our ur
keep our lawn at four inches. That's pretty tall, and
I know a few people that do that too tall
for me. I'm right around three three and a half inches,
but four inches right, And we want to never remove
more than a third of the grass plade each time
we mow. So every time that reaches six inches, we
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take off two inches. That's a third of that entire
grass plade, brings it back down to the four that's
what we're looking for. So your more would be set
at four inches. And I'll tell you what. You know,
you look at some if you're using a push more,
you know, to mow at three and a half inches high,
you've got to really set that thing up to the top,
and some of them don't even reach three and a
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half inches. If you're buying a new mower, make sure
it does that that you can at least get to
three inches three and a half if possible, but some
of them don't even go that quite that high. But
that's the height that you want to set that at
it and you want to maintain it at that at
all times. So the goal is to mow it when
you're at that, removing a third of the grass plade,
to bring it back down to the height that you
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want to maintain it at, and please, by all means,
throw those grass clippings back into the turf. I'm telling you,
you know, and some folks, I the reason I'm bringing
this up. I've had this discussion I don't know four
or five times this week with folks about throwing those
grass blades back. And right now, you know, there's there's
a lot of moisture in the grass. There's a you know,
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chances are you're mowing, you know, the next morning or
whatever after a rain the day before, maybe even a
little bit of actual moisture on the blades. You be
careful when you do that. But you can mow like
that and talking about you know why I see the
blades at the top, blah blah blah. You know, just
do it. That's the way you want to do it.
You want to throw those blades back. They will work
their way back down into the to the soil. They
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break down. They're like celery, you know, they're like eighty
to ninety percent water and within that or all the
nutrients that they've taken up from the soil that's contained
in that grass blade and you throw it back into
the turf and it's like reapplying fertilizer again, all natural
and of course putting organic matter back into the soil
as well. So you know, as a part of your
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cult cultural practices to keep that turf looking the best
it can be, You're mowing practices are at the top
of the list. And you know, I've said this before.
I still remember many years ago somebody asking me, you know,
you talking about turf care and blah blah blah, all
the things you can do to it. If there was
only one thing you could do to your yard, and
this is assuming I have the right grass seed for
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the location. All right, If there was only one thing
I could do to my yard to keep it looking
the best, that it could be only one thing, what
would that be? My answer was, I didn't even have
to think about it proper mowing. That is the key,
and that's proper mowing. Hot mow it higher rather than lower,
moa as needed rather than just when you're available, and
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throwing those grass clippings back into the turf. What I've
done is I've established this lawn that's a little bit taller.
The little bit taller shades below, makes it thicker, It
makes those roots go deeper. You have fewer weeds, so
you see where I'm coming from. So I've already started
to help eliminate the wheeze by mowing a little bit higher,
not stressing the turf, I'm making it deeper those roots
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so that it makes a little bit more adaptable when
we get into dry spells, right, so you can see
all this thing coming. And then I throw those grass
clippings back into the turf, so I'm returning those nutrients
back to the soil, refeeding it and putting organic matter
back into the soil as well. So cultural practices mowing,
proper mowing is still at the top of the list.
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And of course, using a sharp mower blade every time
I'm mow. Hopefully you've sharpened that blade before we get
into the spring mowing. Hopefully you'll do it again before
we go into the summer mowing, and hopefully you'll do
it one more time going into the fall. Mowing three
times a year.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
That's not much.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's you know, the professionals do it a lot more
than that, but three times a year is not much
to ask you can do. That's that's just an addition
to all, you know, the great things that you accomplished
by mowing your grass. So anyway, the bottom line is,
with all the the rain we've had, grass growing like crazy.
Got to keep up with the mowing. It will eventually
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slow down. We're gonna get into the summer, things are
going to start to get drier, it's going to start
to get warmer, and it'll start to slow down, and
then you're back into a normal pace. And then we
probably gonna get to a point where we aren't mowing
for three or four weeks because has it rained for
three or four weeks? I don't know. I hope not,
but you know how that happens with the cycling of
the weather up and down. So anyway, that's the way
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you want to look at that lawn. But point being is,
we've had so much moisture in our area this spring,
things are just growing like crazy, lots of new growth,
lots of new needles, lots of new leaves, et cetera,
et cetera. There's gonna be a time, I'm assuming, based
on past averages, that we're finally gonna warm up, get
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into some really warm weather. And as we get into
the really warm weather with a heat, more sun, the
wind blowing, of course, more moisture being lost out of
those plants. If we don't get the type of rainfall
we're getting right now, all of a sudden, they don't
have that source of moisture anymore. And now they put
all this new growth and all these leaves and all
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that going on, and now all of a sudden, I
don't have enough moisture to support what I put out
this spring. Then what happens. Then, all of a sudden
you start to see some leaf drop and things like that.
You know, you watch River Birch go through that every June. Typically,
when we start to come out of the spring season
and going into the summer season, temperatures warming up, less
moisture in the ground, they start to shed leaves on
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the insights. Very natural because they like good even moisture
in the ground river birch. That's what they like and
their root system. If you've ever tried to plant around
a river birch is right at the top of the ground,
and we talk about all the roots being in the
top twelve to eighteen inches. Literally, they form a mat
in that top six to eight ten inches of soil.
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So it's right at the top purposely so they can
catch all the moisture that comes in. But it's also
at the very top so it dries out very quickly
as well, so it's combo of things there. So that's
why they drop leaves pretty much all summer long if
it's a dry, hot, dry summer. So I'm bringing this
up so that if we finally get to that point
and it's based on average is going to happen, there's
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a real good chance you're gonna have to you know.
The question then becomes when do I start watering? And
of course newly planted trees and shrubs right now, you
should be checking those on a regular basis, you know.
I again, I know so many folks that have planted
and not watered very much because they said, I've had
so much rainfall, I don't need to water. And then
the question is, then go check the immediate rootball of
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those new plants and come to find out it's dry
soil around, it's got moisture, but the soil in that
root buls is dry, and they need to go back
and water that root ball. So you've got to continue
to monitor those root balls on a regular basis, you know,
for the first couple three years, until they start to
get themselves rooted out. Then you monitor the soil in
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your rainfall, et cetera, et cetera. But you've got to
stick with us, especially ever broad leaf and needled evergreens
so so important. So we're gonna get We're gonna eventually
get there, and we do. We'll keep bringing it up
on our show about you know, watering and when it
gets started into proper procedure. And remember it's about an
inch of rainfall every ten days or so from mother nature.
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That's what plants want for, you know, for growing conditions.
And if she doesn't supply it, then you've got to
come back and supplement.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And we'll watch that as we go down the road.
But you know, again, it's gonna happen. I've seen it
happen before, and we're gonna get out of this really lush, cooler,
moist spring season and we're gonna get into warmer temperatures,
sunny and not so moist conditions, and plants are gonna
react to it. Then we have to react to that
to keep them as healthy as we can. No cup
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of Joe today, obviously, as I've been rambling on for
the last ten minutes. He's off this weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I just thought Joe was being quiet in there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, he's just looking at me, staring, twiddling his thumbs.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But we'll take a break, we come back. We'll take
a look at the website at Ron Wilson online dot com.
See what he's up there for us this week. Don't
forget our Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
That's going right now. A little chat going on there
as well. Be sure and check that out. Got special
guests today, Rita Hikeinfell will be with us at the
top of the hour, the bottom of the hour. Peggy
and Montgomery always had fun having Peggy in on because
(11:15):
you know, we're gonna talk about bulbs, and we're gonna
talk about one of my favorite annuals for our area,
and it is a bulb and they're called kalladiums and
it's the year of the kalladium. Absolutely one of my
absolute favorites, especially for Shaye Gardens. We'll talk about that,
and then we're gonna talk with Bill de Boor from
Woody Warehouse at the top of the following hour. They're
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giving away some trees here locally. You might want to
drive to Cincinnati next to Thursday. They're giving away some
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that at that Gary Sullivan Buggy Joe Boggs in between
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Speaker 1 (14:48):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Talking about yardening and of course the
rainfall and the changes in the weather we're going to
see here eventually. I thought would have happened sooner, but
it's going to I'm seeing the eighties and eighty five's
in our forecast for next week, but back down into
the seventies again by the end of the week, and
(15:08):
I see rain showers on there as well again. Yeah,
so we'll see. You know, we're gonna get through it eventually, anyway.
Talking about yarding eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five, don't forget our website, Ron Wilson Online dot
com and the course Facebook page in the Garden with
Ron Wilson Rita's recipe this week, and Rita will be
with us at the top of the hour. It's her
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sage pork loin. Sage pork loin now first is delicious.
Oh my gosh, the picture is unbelievable, says it all
right there. But the thing you have to remember about this,
and you know what Dan, he says, sounds delicious. Here's
two great things combined together. Two pork tenderloins about a
pound each and pershudo. Yes, yeah, so how can you
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go wrong with that? And it's the persudos wrapped around
the pork tenderloin. Then you involve you have to have
a you know, the herbs in there and the spices.
Age is going to be our main carrier here today
it would be sage and we're going to talk about
sage with the Rita as well. But again, sage and
prostudo wrapped pork tenderloin mmmmmm, every last And you can
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my plans of the week this week. Yeah, I picked hydrangees.
And the reason I picked hydrangees this week is because
most of them in our area are getting ready, are
just starting to put on their shows. As I'm looking
around right now, I don't see too many of the macrofilas,
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all right. I don't see the pinks and the blues.
I don't see too many of those starting to butt
up right now. A little bit of die back over
the winter, but we'll see. But the paniculas and the arboressence,
and the oak leaves, of course, the folios, they are
all as they are, consistent bloomers every year, really starting
to set up a tremendous show. And I tell you
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two of them that I have been so impressed with,
and these are both white flowers, all right, but I
think it's just done an outstanding job the first one.
And landscapers are loving this plant, especially for smaller areas
that you want that really good, spectacular cone shaped hydrangea
show that white that actually sticks out away from the plant.
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I mean it just stands right out in your face.
It's called Bobo, and Bobo's now been around and been
available in the landscape for probably I don't know, four
or five years, and gets about three to four feet
high and white. That's about it. In a NonStop show
of white flowers right up until the frost. They're upright,
they stick straight out. They may turn that kind of
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a pinky shoe as they start to you know, be
spent more in the season. But this one is a
true winner. It's called bobo. It's a paniculata. And I'm
telling you in containers or in the ground for a
compact plant. Three to four feed high and white hydrangia,
consistent bloomer every year. This is one to put on
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your list and in your landscape. Number two choice another hydrangia,
brand new, all right. This is an arborescent all right.
This is a smoothlya hydraanjia, so they have more of
the mophead that rounded white flower. And this is called
flowerful flower full and again more of a dwarf. Three
to four feet high and wide, very compact. The old
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arbor escins sometimes you think about them with Grandma had
them and they get really tall. They kind of fall over,
flop over, great show, but she always had to tie
them up, do whatever not with flowerful, short, compact, low maintenance,
dead had them, you know, clip those off, but otherwise
it will again give you a great show throughout the summer.
Two to three times more blooms than any of the other.
The smooth hydrangeas. It's a new one, but I've seen it.
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It does the job. It's the real deal. So our
two hydrangeas today, more compact, lots of show, Bobo and
flo powerful. Check them out at your local garden centers.
Got about a minute and a half to go before
we take a break. Kevin O'Dell, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Good morning, mister Wilson.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 8 (19:09):
I completely agree with you about the Bobo and I'm
not familiar with the other one yet. Maybe you'll have
to save one for me somewhere.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'll set it aside for.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
You, okay, I appreciate that. And the other one around
a little chirka. I learned about Annabelle a long time ago.
When you cut them back, don't cut them back all
the way. Leave twelve fifteen to eighteen inches on there,
and when they come up the next year, that's going
to support those plants and they're not going to flop this.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Much, so you leave. So what you're doing is you're
leaving some support down close to the ground, well.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Close to the ground, meaning twelve to twelve inches.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Well, yeah, twelve, twelve to fifteen inches, but from the
ground up. And then that those dry sticks stems act
as they support for the new ones that are coming
up so they don't flop. Great, that's a great tip.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Yes, sir, yep, yep, learn that a while.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That's that's why you're the man. Okay, hey, good, and.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Go to those local places. This is gonna be a
heck of a weekend.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
For it's a great weekend to plant, no doubt about
a good moisture in the ground, easy to dig right now,
weather's perfect. Get out to your local independent garden centers
and check them out. They're really they're very well stocked
still at this stage, plenty of time to plant. Eight
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We're talking yardening at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. We are talking yardening. And before we
get back into the yardening concept, let's go to Dayton, Ohio.
We're gonna surprise him. Talk to Dick from Dayton, Dick.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
Murder, Good morning, round and everybody, how are you. I've
got some breaking news.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Is breaking news.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Well, I'm going to have to after a long time,
I'm going to move over to Stony Ridge. How to
sell the house, uh and have a garage sale. But
I'm going to get to take my little animal chief
with me. But I'll be around. I've been playing a
little music, but it's probably just best because you know,
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it's been kind of lonely here and it's about time
for me to leave. And I got good Mendy and
Megant helped me. But oh, it's gonna be hard, Ron,
but I'll be okay, We'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, now it's Stony Brook, will you be able to
make new friends there?
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Yes, yes, it's it's not a nurse it's an apartment.
It's real fancy down by the ball It's close to Cincinnati,
and it's close to uh, you know, Cincinnati and Columbus.
So I'll be I'll be good because i've been playing.
Bob's been bringing me to the string Benders from and
then I'll there's a couple I might miss, but I'm
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sure I can. They're going to try to get transportation
for me.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You'll you'll work all that stuff out. You get make
the move get get all adjusted settled in, and then
you start making adjustments and right back into the routine again.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Yeah, you'll just.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You'll do fine. And then the next thing, you know,
all your neighbors are gonna want you to be playing
for them all the time.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
All the time, all the time. It's gonna be good.
I heard it's really good down there, and I could
maybe get over to the mall. It's right close to
the Dayton mall. Okay, uh, yeah, that'd be nice.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I used to work up that way, so I know exactly.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I'll be still keeping in touch
with you guys.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well, of course you're gonna keep your phone with you
so you know, yeah, we.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Know what I gotta take. Yeah, I gotta take my landlights.
You have my phone, but yeah, but I'll keep in touch.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right, Well, house, is this gonna happen.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
I'll be there probably by Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Okay, all right, good luck with the move, and you
give us an update next Saturday. Okay, I will, all right, Dick,
good luck with everything. Okay, thank you, all right, bye bye.
There you go. Good for him, and you know he's
gonna get moved in, Dan and then everybody's gonna hear
him playing music and they're gonna.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Say, everybody's gonna love being around town.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Can you schedule a couple of nights a week that
you can do a little entertainment after dinner, yeah, or maybe.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
During dinner and while they're cooking dinner.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And while they're cooking dinner. You never know. So there
you go back to the guarding phone lines. We shall
go Tennessee. Mike, good morning, Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I'm enjoyed your show. Just had a tip and this
is what I'm in the process of doing right now.
You can take a square by La Hay, Yes, sir,
cut a center out. I don't know if you've ever
heard of this, but it works. Uh, cut a hole
out of it, fill it up with dirt and pott
and sol, keep it awayet. I have grown some excellent
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watermelows at on the square.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Bla.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Hey, I'll tell you what. Strawbail gardening I think is
an outstanding way to go. It's it's easy way to go.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And once you get it wet.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, once you get that strawbail wet. And you know
how they weigh five hundred pounds because they hold so
much moisture. It makes it makes it easy to grow,
and you can put them anywhere you want. And I
think it's an outstair And I have done strawbel gardening myself.
The only thing I've not done in them would be
like a root crop like radishes or potatoes. But vining
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c no, and I didn't because it stays so wet
on the inside.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Well would rock.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, So tomatoes and peppers and vining plants like cucumbers
and melons and all of that outstanding way to grow.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And I've I'm gonna try purple tomatoes, Yes, do that.
I'm will try it to plant this year.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Good.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I don't know if it work or not.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It will, trust me. I've done them and they do it.
Oh yeah, they do a great job. So you'll love it.
But what you got to do now, Mike is keep
his post on how well it turns out.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Well, I'll tell you what else I done last year.
I took a five gallon bucket and an oil sample
tube that when I worked for Caterpillar, and I run it,
hung it up in a tree, and I took a
hypoder insulin needle and injected the water melon and I
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grew it on a pallet, and I had to keep
the water in the tree, my wide oak full of
water and injected the sugar water into the U water
melon on a pallet and it took a forklift raising. Yeah,
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I won the fire. It's about it's about maybe what
two hundred pounds something like that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
No kidding, So where does it? Where does it?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You did it like a like you're doing an infusion
or something. Correct, So you stuck a needle. Did you
do it in the vein or the one of the
vines or did you do it in the watermelon itself?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I put it in the end of it, Okay, the
butt of it right? Yeah, wow, buddy, it got it
got huge. I'm like, I had to get a Forcliff
because I got it on palette because I know.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
They'd get big for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But I won our county fire. We'll get for you
the biggest watermelon. Gross.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Well, now the question is did you eat it?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
No, no, it wasn't worth anyting.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
They went right and got the seeds.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah. Usually when you grow things like that, they're not
all that edible. No, no, but.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
They shot some seeds that come through the Cumberland Gap
where my family settled Middle Tennessee, and I went to
rack and got busted up pretty bad and come back
and I had a airtiger that told her alone says
what I could have choked her to da Oh no,
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because they've been my family for generations.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Oh no, she didn't.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Know, though. She just claimed it out in my fraezer.
That's where says, sure, So did you say what you
get back to work?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You say you had sage that you carried through and
we lost him. Yeah. But anyway, that's a strawbeil gardening.
I'm telling you. You know, it's something that's been around
a long time. As a matter of fact, somebody brought
it up to me when we first started this show
twenty three years ago, and it asked me if I
had ever heard of strawbeil gardening, and that a friend
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of hers in Alabama, Mississippi, one of the southern states,
an older gentleman there, had been doing it for years
and they had written an article about him in the
local magazine or newspaper, and she sent it to me,
and we tried to get a hold of him and
couldn't get all of the other to talk to us
about it, but did a lot of research, got as
(30:02):
much information as I could about how you know, how
you did it, and we've had a tip sheet for
twenty three years on doing strawbeil gardening. Course, there's been
a book written since then, and probably two or three
books that somebody's written about strawbel guarding. But it's an
interesting way to garden. It's an easy way. I think.
One of the things that for strawbeil guarding that comes
in handy is that if you have a garden that
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you get into a soil situation where you may have
a soil borne disease or whatever, and you need to
just let it set for a year or two before
you come back and start replanning again. You could take
strawbales and create you know, just go right down the
roads where you would have normally planted and set those
right on top of the ground in the garden and
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do like he said, and you seize them and you weather.
Then let them get them out of early in like
in February, let them other nature rain on them. You're
gonna pour some fertilizer in there. You're gonna get some
nutrients going. Just like container gardening, there's no nutrients in there,
so you feed them a little bit, get that thing
fired up, get it cooking. And if you've ever dealt
with a wet straw bill, you know they do. They
weigh five hundred pounds. So you put them in place,
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let them sit there, and you can grow in a
straw bail. If they're wire tied, you can probably get
pulled a couple of years out of them with no
problem string tides. Sometimes the strings are done by the
end of the season, so put steaks at the end
of the bail and hold it together. Point being is,
you can garden in those bales for a couple of years.
So while you're letting that garden sit, you know, without
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growing anything in it at all, to do whatever reason
to get the disease out or whatever it may be,
you're growing on top of it in the straw bales.
And then after a two year period, those straw bales
are really starting to decompose, not so good for growing
in anymore. So now you take those loose, chop them
all up, with them more or whatever, and till them
back into the garden where they were sitting. And you know,
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do that like in the fall, and then in the
springtime you've added organic matter, you've tilled, and your garden.
Your garden is ready to go. Are sitting still for
a couple of years to get rid of the diseases
or whatever happened to be in the soil. It works
quite nicely to do that. But I've had folks that
have sent me pictures of taking wood and making little
boxes around them and putting them along their driveway or
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on a patio or wherever, and growing in the straw bale.
And it does work, There's no doubt about it. I found.
Once you get them good and wet, you don't have
to water quite as often. But you know, you have
to stick with it till the plants get rooted in.
But I've done tomatoes, peppers to vining. Almost all the
vining plants no root crops. Although I have read some
folks that have did potatoes, I'm sure they had to
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loosen them up a little bit because they're so darn
compact and tight. It's sometimes already to get those plants
down in there, you almost that you do have to
cut a hole out and get them in and use
little potting soil to get started. I've even seen folks
put those up on edge where the cut straw is
on the edge, put a little potting soil on top
of that, and sew greens on the top and grow
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greens early in the season, then flip it back over,
and then when you're done picking the greens, put the
holes in it and grow your tomatoes and peppers and
things like that on the other side of the of
the strawbail. So pretty interesting concept. I've been around quite
some time, but you know, it really came. And again,
I think there's a probably a book or two that's
out there about strawbail gardening as well. But I staw
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my old tip chief I wrote twenty three years ago
and it's still I think the information is still pretty
darn good. So there you go. If you want it,
email me and I'll send it to you. Eight hundred
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Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. We are
talking yarding. On the final day of May twenty twenty five.
Can you believe that that month went in a flash
moving into June. I'm curious to see what the weather's
going to be like for there. But remember, still plenty
of time to plant, plenty of time to plant annuals, perennials, vegetables.
(36:11):
All right, you still got plenty of If somebody asked
me this week about potatoes, is it too late to
plant potatoes? It's late, But you can plant potatoes. I
mean you can plant them up into June with no problem.
You just get a later crop, you know, new potatoes.
But yeah, you still got time to do that. If
you find some potato seed potatoes out there ready to go,
absolutely and don't forget. They do great in containers. Bushel
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baskets are pretty cool. To grow them in five gallon buckets.
You can make chicken wire cages on top of the
ground and just use composts and all and grow them
in that. They do great. But still plenty of time
to plant potatoes and trees and shrubs and roses and
grasses and old nine yards. We're still there. We're still
in the planting season. So get out to your locally
owned independent garden centers and see what they got. I
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think you're going to find that they've got a lot
for you to choose from. Back to the guardening phone
as we shall go. Ohio, Rusty, good morning.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
Morning Ron. Thanks taking a call.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
Appreciates shows always.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
Apparently I had a better can of crop last year,
and I thought, I.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Have several balls left over. Can I keep them? I
mean the dirt to dry and everything around them, right,
and the ones that I'm not planned, Yes, they're not
sprout or anything. Can I keep them over a year?
Speaker 8 (37:24):
Or do I need to plan them and just maybe
to re harvest them next year or something.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I think you need to plan them. You leave those
things sticking out or try to put them into storage
for another year. It's really hard to bring them through. Okay,
they need that, they need that, Yeah, they need that grows.
So I would say do something with them, try to
get them out there at least let them grow, harvest
them one more time, and then do what you need
to do. But yeah, I would still plant them.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
Okay, very good, Like I've got several planet It was
just I thought, Man, I ended up more than I thought.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Hey, you know what you got to do. Sometimes I
don't know what part of Ohio you're in, but we're
getting more and more folks that are having success with
cannas overwintering in the ground and just for an experiment, Yeah,
just for an experiment. Now, they they you know, they
can't freeze and they hate really poorly drained soils. But
it seems like closer to the house by the foundation
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south side, southwest side, where state's fairly warm over the winter.
We have had last two or three years, several reports
of folks saying, you know what, I had cannas that
pop back up because I didn't want to take them
out and you know, redo it. I was just going
to plant new ones and they actually came back up
for me. So we are seeing it a little bit more.
Just just experiment with a couple of them, if you
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have a situation like that and see what happens.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
Good deal, good deal.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Okay, so much Betty, Thanks Rusty, good talking with you.
And if you you know, again, as things warm up,
especially over the wintertime for us, I mean it's been
staying warm right up until December. Roses, you know, and
again I think it's I think it does a number
like on Knockout roses, some of the roses that are
self clean self dead heading, and they just you know,
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we stop pruning roses and dead heading roses in September
to tell them you leave those last flowers on and
then go to seed. You get those rose hips, and
then it you know, tells a plant to shut down,
stop growing, shut down. Uh, we're getting ready to get
you know, go go into the winter season. And so
that's one of the reasons why we do that. And
then by the time it starts to cool down, leaves
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start to yellow drop. By the time you get to
Christmas's time, you know, hopefully the temperatures, soil temps and
air temps have gotten cold enough into the upper thirties
definitely forty degrees or colder that we can put them
away for the winter. The problem with like knockouts and
some of the other shrub roses that are self dead
heading and self cleaning is that they'll just deadhead themselves
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and keep right on flowering. And you know, I again
I haven't marked on my counter, December eighteenth was the
last date that I have seen a knockout rose still
in bloom. Depending on the the fall weather, and if
they do that, that means the plant's still very active
right up until Christmas holiday season, and then all of
a sudden if we get into the winter season, the
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cold drop. They really haven't shut down for the winter.
And I'm seeing a lot of cane die back, top
die back on those which is again they're growing on
their own roots. They're not a grafted rose. So you know,
you cut them back hard in the springtime, which I
do anyway, and force them up from the base of
the of those stems and from the roots, then force
up a new plant. But I'm seeing a lot of
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that happen, and a lot of emails right now, folks saying,
you know, I cut them back to twelve inches and
those canes that I left there aren't looking so good.
Everything's coming up from the bottom. Well, that's what it is,
budleaya butterfly bush. Same way, you know that plant never
shuts down. You look at that, it's always got leaves
right to the end of the year. I always consider
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those a woody perennial. And you know, if the winter's
not too bad, some of those stems will make it
through the winter the winter season and you can kind
of clip them back. I can let them get taller
if that's what you want to do. And that's what
we used to do with butterfly bush, big bold butterfly
bushes that I think when them was dark knight just
would get six feet tall, weeping over with all the flowers.
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Of course, all the dwarf and smaller varieties are what
we use today. But we've gotten the point now where
we wind up losing all of that over the winter.
You cut it back and they come back up from
their root system. But that's again my theory, but they
just don't shut down, so they're much more susceptible to
having die back issues over the winter time. So we're
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seeing that I would put my paycheck on it that
that's what we're seeing any self cleaning roses. And by
the way, I get that question a lot too. I've
got knockouts or I've got a shrub rose that is
touted as being self cleaning or self dead heading. Do
I need a dead at them at all? You don't
have to, that's the whole point about it, But I do,
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because if you deadhead those yourself, cut them back, get
rid of those old spins flowers when they're done. I
think it recovers quicker, puts out new growth, and you
get flowers quicker than when it has to do it itself.
As a matter of fact, you'll see knockout roses will
give you a great show in the springtime. Then when
most of those flowers are done, they fall apart. You
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don't see much on that knockout for quite some time.
It regroups, regrows, and then all of a sudden you
start to see it come back out in the flower again.
There's usually a period of time there you don't see
too many flowers. That's just the way they do it.
But I think if you're deadhead them yourself, you can
speed that up a little bit and bring it back.
And of course feeding once a month, pushing out that
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new growth because that's where all the flowers come from,
will help you out as well. But that's my theory
on both of those. As far as why sometimes in
the springtime they just don't look so good and they've
died back. They just don't shut down to the very
end of the year, and then they're rate there at
wintertime and boom they're still hit with it while they're
still looking good. So there you go, all right, Well,
take a quick break we come back. It'll be you know,
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a Hikenfeld at the top of the hour talking about
her recipe, which you can find on our website at
Ron Wilson online dot com. It's read this sage pork
loin raft.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
I'm still.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
It's a good age. We'll talk about sage as well.
Bottom of the hour, Heggy and Montgomery, we'll talk about, uh,
it's the year that kalladiums. We'll talk about how to
be successful growing kalladiums. One of my absolute favorite annuals.
Love that one. I've loved it since I was in
the high school. Always one of my favorites. We'll have
both of them and of course sharing tips with you
and taking your calls at eight hundred eight two three,
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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, talking about yarning last day of May.
By that month flew by in a hurry, nice and
wet and cool through the entire month. Holy shm holies,
get this.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Thing out of here here in our area.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh my gosh. It's just, you know, it's been very unusual.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
All though.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I think, way back, way back, I can remember amaze
that were a little bit cooler, you know, and kind
of rainy through the month. But we kind of gotten spoiled,
and uh, you know, the weather's kind of broken a
little bit earlier and been warmer, et cetera, et cetera. Personally,
I love the weather. I mean it's been great. As
a matter of fact, at nighttime, if you get the
windows open, you almost have to close down because it's
(01:22):
gotten so cool. Uh. And you know, grass and trees
and shrubs, lots of flowering things have lasted longer. They're
growing like a weed. The lawns growing like a weed
because of the cooler temperatures and the you know, the
good rainfalls. I mean, we've had basically good moisture in
the ground I at least in my area for the
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entire month, and you know, I have people even saying,
you know, question is how often? How often should I
be mowing my grass right now? And you know the
question is you got to mow and it needs to
be moaned. If it's growing, you need to keep mowing.
And you got to look at that and say, you know,
if you're maintaining it at a three inch height three
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and a half inch height, you never want to remove
more than two thirds or a third of the grass blade.
You leave two thirds of it there, so you never
want to remove more than a third of the grass
blade each time you mow. So depending on how tall
you want to keep or maintain your lawn, that's how
you calculate when it's time to mow again. And in
many cases it may be twice a week. It has
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been that way. You may have to move once this
week and maybe twice next week, depending on how fast
it's growing. So you know, don't just go out there
and mow it twice a week. Take a look at it.
Try and you get you know, have a little yardstick
or something out there that you can measure the lawn
and look at it. And when you get to that
point where you're gonna if you want to keep it
at three inches and you want to you know, it's
got that point where you're going going to take off
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a third of the grass blade. Then that's when you
take a look at it, say if and you say, well,
I'm confused. Let's say we want to mow our ur
keep our lawn at four inches. That's pretty tall, and
I know a few people that do that too tall
for me. I'm right around three three and a half inches,
but four inches right, And we want to never remove
more than a third of the grass plade each time
we mow. So every time that reaches six inches, we
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take off two inches. That's a third of that entire
grass plade, brings it back down to the four that's
what we're looking for. So your more would be set
at four inches. And I'll tell you what. You know,
you look at some if you're using a push more,
you know, to mow at three and a half inches high,
you've got to really set that thing up to the top,
and some of them don't even reach three and a
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half inches. If you're buying a new mower, make sure
it does that that you can at least get to
three inches three and a half if possible, but some
of them don't even go that quite that high. But
that's the height that you want to set that at
it and you want to maintain it at that at
all times. So the goal is to mow it when
you're at that, removing a third of the grass plade,
to bring it back down to the height that you
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want to maintain it at, and please, by all means,
throw those grass clippings back into the turf. I'm telling you,
you know, and some folks, I the reason I'm bringing
this up. I've had this discussion I don't know four
or five times this week with folks about throwing those
grass blades back. And right now, you know, there's there's
a lot of moisture in the grass. There's a you know,
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chances are you're mowing, you know, the next morning or
whatever after a rain the day before, maybe even a
little bit of actual moisture on the blades. You be
careful when you do that. But you can mow like
that and talking about you know why I see the
blades at the top, blah blah blah. You know, just
do it. That's the way you want to do it.
You want to throw those blades back. They will work
their way back down into the to the soil. They
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break down. They're like celery, you know, they're like eighty
to ninety percent water and within that or all the
nutrients that they've taken up from the soil that's contained
in that grass blade and you throw it back into
the turf and it's like reapplying fertilizer again, all natural
and of course putting organic matter back into the soil
as well. So you know, as a part of your
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cult cultural practices to keep that turf looking the best
it can be, You're mowing practices are at the top
of the list. And you know, I've said this before.
I still remember many years ago somebody asking me, you know,
you talking about turf care and blah blah blah, all
the things you can do to it. If there was
only one thing you could do to your yard, and
this is assuming I have the right grass seed for
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the location. All right, If there was only one thing
I could do to my yard to keep it looking
the best, that it could be only one thing, what
would that be? My answer was, I didn't even have
to think about it proper mowing. That is the key,
and that's proper mowing. Hot mow it higher rather than lower,
moa as needed rather than just when you're available, and
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throwing those grass clippings back into the turf. What I've
done is I've established this lawn that's a little bit taller.
The little bit taller shades below, makes it thicker, It
makes those roots go deeper. You have fewer weeds, so
you see where I'm coming from. So I've already started
to help eliminate the wheeze by mowing a little bit higher,
not stressing the turf, I'm making it deeper those roots
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so that it makes a little bit more adaptable when
we get into dry spells, right, so you can see
all this thing coming. And then I throw those grass
clippings back into the turf, so I'm returning those nutrients
back to the soil, refeeding it and putting organic matter
back into the soil as well. So cultural practices mowing,
proper mowing is still at the top of the list.
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And of course, using a sharp mower blade every time
I'm mow. Hopefully you've sharpened that blade before we get
into the spring mowing. Hopefully you'll do it again before
we go into the summer mowing, and hopefully you'll do
it one more time going into the fall. Mowing three
times a year.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
That's not much.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's you know, the professionals do it a lot more
than that, but three times a year is not much
to ask you can do. That's that's just an addition
to all, you know, the great things that you accomplished
by mowing your grass. So anyway, the bottom line is,
with all the the rain we've had, grass growing like crazy.
Got to keep up with the mowing. It will eventually
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slow down. We're gonna get into the summer, things are
going to start to get drier, it's going to start
to get warmer, and it'll start to slow down, and
then you're back into a normal pace. And then we
probably gonna get to a point where we aren't mowing
for three or four weeks because has it rained for
three or four weeks? I don't know. I hope not,
but you know how that happens with the cycling of
the weather up and down. So anyway, that's the way
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you want to look at that lawn. But point being is,
we've had so much moisture in our area this spring,
things are just growing like crazy, lots of new growth,
lots of new needles, lots of new leaves, et cetera,
et cetera. There's gonna be a time, I'm assuming, based
on past averages, that we're finally gonna warm up, get
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into some really warm weather. And as we get into
the really warm weather with a heat, more sun, the
wind blowing, of course, more moisture being lost out of
those plants. If we don't get the type of rainfall
we're getting right now, all of a sudden, they don't
have that source of moisture anymore. And now they put
all this new growth and all these leaves and all
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that going on, and now all of a sudden, I
don't have enough moisture to support what I put out
this spring. Then what happens. Then, all of a sudden
you start to see some leaf drop and things like that.
You know, you watch River Birch go through that every June. Typically,
when we start to come out of the spring season
and going into the summer season, temperatures warming up, less
moisture in the ground, they start to shed leaves on
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the insights. Very natural because they like good even moisture
in the ground river birch. That's what they like and
their root system. If you've ever tried to plant around
a river birch is right at the top of the ground,
and we talk about all the roots being in the
top twelve to eighteen inches. Literally, they form a mat
in that top six to eight ten inches of soil.
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So it's right at the top purposely so they can
catch all the moisture that comes in. But it's also
at the very top so it dries out very quickly
as well, so it's combo of things there. So that's
why they drop leaves pretty much all summer long if
it's a dry, hot, dry summer. So I'm bringing this
up so that if we finally get to that point
and it's based on average is going to happen, there's
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a real good chance you're gonna have to you know.
The question then becomes when do I start watering? And
of course newly planted trees and shrubs right now, you
should be checking those on a regular basis, you know.
I again, I know so many folks that have planted
and not watered very much because they said, I've had
so much rainfall, I don't need to water. And then
the question is, then go check the immediate rootball of
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those new plants and come to find out it's dry
soil around, it's got moisture, but the soil in that
root buls is dry, and they need to go back
and water that root ball. So you've got to continue
to monitor those root balls on a regular basis, you know,
for the first couple three years, until they start to
get themselves rooted out. Then you monitor the soil in
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your rainfall, et cetera, et cetera. But you've got to
stick with us, especially ever broad leaf and needled evergreens
so so important. So we're gonna get We're gonna eventually
get there, and we do. We'll keep bringing it up
on our show about you know, watering and when it
gets started into proper procedure. And remember it's about an
inch of rainfall every ten days or so from mother nature.
(10:16):
That's what plants want for, you know, for growing conditions.
And if she doesn't supply it, then you've got to
come back and supplement.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And we'll watch that as we go down the road.
But you know, again, it's gonna happen. I've seen it
happen before, and we're gonna get out of this really lush, cooler,
moist spring season and we're gonna get into warmer temperatures,
sunny and not so moist conditions, and plants are gonna
react to it. Then we have to react to that
to keep them as healthy as we can. No cup
(10:45):
of Joe today, obviously, as I've been rambling on for
the last ten minutes. He's off this weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I just thought Joe was being quiet in there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah, he's just looking at me, staring, twiddling his thumbs.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But we'll take a break, we come back. We'll take
a look at the website at Ron Wilson online dot com.
See what he's up there for us this week. Don't
forget our Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
That's going right now. A little chat going on there
as well. Be sure and check that out. Got special
guests today, Rita Hikeinfell will be with us at the
top of the hour, the bottom of the hour. Peggy
and Montgomery always had fun having Peggy in on because
(11:15):
you know, we're gonna talk about bulbs, and we're gonna
talk about one of my favorite annuals for our area,
and it is a bulb and they're called kalladiums and
it's the year of the kalladium. Absolutely one of my
absolute favorites, especially for Shaye Gardens. We'll talk about that,
and then we're gonna talk with Bill de Boor from
Woody Warehouse at the top of the following hour. They're
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drive to Cincinnati next to Thursday. They're giving away some
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Speaker 1 (14:48):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Talking about yardening and of course the
rainfall and the changes in the weather we're going to
see here eventually. I thought would have happened sooner, but
it's going to I'm seeing the eighties and eighty five's
in our forecast for next week, but back down into
the seventies again by the end of the week, and
(15:08):
I see rain showers on there as well again. Yeah,
so we'll see. You know, we're gonna get through it eventually, anyway.
Talking about yarding eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five, don't forget our website, Ron Wilson Online dot
com and the course Facebook page in the Garden with
Ron Wilson Rita's recipe this week, and Rita will be
with us at the top of the hour. It's her
(15:30):
sage pork loin. Sage pork loin now first is delicious.
Oh my gosh, the picture is unbelievable, says it all
right there. But the thing you have to remember about this,
and you know what Dan, he says, sounds delicious. Here's
two great things combined together. Two pork tenderloins about a
pound each and pershudo. Yes, yeah, so how can you
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go wrong with that? And it's the persudos wrapped around
the pork tenderloin. Then you involve you have to have
a you know, the herbs in there and the spices.
Age is going to be our main carrier here today
it would be sage and we're going to talk about
sage with the Rita as well. But again, sage and
prostudo wrapped pork tenderloin mmmmmm, every last And you can
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find that recipe at Ron Wilson online dot com. Also
my plans of the week this week. Yeah, I picked hydrangees.
And the reason I picked hydrangees this week is because
most of them in our area are getting ready, are
just starting to put on their shows. As I'm looking
around right now, I don't see too many of the macrofilas,
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all right. I don't see the pinks and the blues.
I don't see too many of those starting to butt
up right now. A little bit of die back over
the winter, but we'll see. But the paniculas and the arboressence,
and the oak leaves, of course, the folios, they are
all as they are, consistent bloomers every year, really starting
to set up a tremendous show. And I tell you
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two of them that I have been so impressed with,
and these are both white flowers, all right, but I
think it's just done an outstanding job the first one.
And landscapers are loving this plant, especially for smaller areas
that you want that really good, spectacular cone shaped hydrangea
show that white that actually sticks out away from the plant.
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I mean it just stands right out in your face.
It's called Bobo, and Bobo's now been around and been
available in the landscape for probably I don't know, four
or five years, and gets about three to four feet
high and white. That's about it. In a NonStop show
of white flowers right up until the frost. They're upright,
they stick straight out. They may turn that kind of
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a pinky shoe as they start to you know, be
spent more in the season. But this one is a
true winner. It's called bobo. It's a paniculata. And I'm
telling you in containers or in the ground for a
compact plant. Three to four feed high and white hydrangia,
consistent bloomer every year. This is one to put on
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your list and in your landscape. Number two choice another hydrangia,
brand new, all right. This is an arborescent all right.
This is a smoothlya hydraanjia, so they have more of
the mophead that rounded white flower. And this is called
flowerful flower full and again more of a dwarf. Three
to four feet high and wide, very compact. The old
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arbor escins sometimes you think about them with Grandma had
them and they get really tall. They kind of fall over,
flop over, great show, but she always had to tie
them up, do whatever not with flowerful, short, compact, low maintenance,
dead had them, you know, clip those off, but otherwise
it will again give you a great show throughout the summer.
Two to three times more blooms than any of the other.
The smooth hydrangeas. It's a new one, but I've seen it.
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It does the job. It's the real deal. So our
two hydrangeas today, more compact, lots of show, Bobo and
flo powerful. Check them out at your local garden centers.
Got about a minute and a half to go before
we take a break. Kevin O'Dell, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Good morning, mister Wilson.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 8 (19:09):
I completely agree with you about the Bobo and I'm
not familiar with the other one yet. Maybe you'll have
to save one for me somewhere.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'll set it aside for.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
You, okay, I appreciate that. And the other one around
a little chirka. I learned about Annabelle a long time ago.
When you cut them back, don't cut them back all
the way. Leave twelve fifteen to eighteen inches on there,
and when they come up the next year, that's going
to support those plants and they're not going to flop this.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Much, so you leave. So what you're doing is you're
leaving some support down close to the ground, well.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Close to the ground, meaning twelve to twelve inches.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Well, yeah, twelve, twelve to fifteen inches, but from the
ground up. And then that those dry sticks stems act
as they support for the new ones that are coming
up so they don't flop. Great, that's a great tip.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Yes, sir, yep, yep, learn that a while.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That's that's why you're the man. Okay, hey, good, and.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Go to those local places. This is gonna be a
heck of a weekend.
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For it's a great weekend to plant, no doubt about
a good moisture in the ground, easy to dig right now,
weather's perfect. Get out to your local independent garden centers
and check them out. They're really they're very well stocked
still at this stage, plenty of time to plant. Eight
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We're talking yardening at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. We are talking yardening. And before we
get back into the yardening concept, let's go to Dayton, Ohio.
We're gonna surprise him. Talk to Dick from Dayton, Dick.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
Murder, Good morning, round and everybody, how are you. I've
got some breaking news.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Is breaking news.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Well, I'm going to have to after a long time,
I'm going to move over to Stony Ridge. How to
sell the house, uh and have a garage sale. But
I'm going to get to take my little animal chief
with me. But I'll be around. I've been playing a
little music, but it's probably just best because you know,
(23:24):
it's been kind of lonely here and it's about time
for me to leave. And I got good Mendy and
Megant helped me. But oh, it's gonna be hard, Ron,
but I'll be okay, We'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, now it's Stony Brook, will you be able to
make new friends there?
Speaker 9 (23:41):
Yes, yes, it's it's not a nurse it's an apartment.
It's real fancy down by the ball It's close to Cincinnati,
and it's close to uh, you know, Cincinnati and Columbus.
So I'll be I'll be good because i've been playing.
Bob's been bringing me to the string Benders from and
then I'll there's a couple I might miss, but I'm
(24:01):
sure I can. They're going to try to get transportation
for me.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You'll you'll work all that stuff out. You get make
the move get get all adjusted settled in, and then
you start making adjustments and right back into the routine again.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Yeah, you'll just.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You'll do fine. And then the next thing, you know,
all your neighbors are gonna want you to be playing
for them all the time.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
All the time, all the time. It's gonna be good.
I heard it's really good down there, and I could
maybe get over to the mall. It's right close to
the Dayton mall. Okay, uh, yeah, that'd be nice.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I used to work up that way, so I know exactly.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I'll be still keeping in touch
with you guys.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well, of course you're gonna keep your phone with you
so you know, yeah, we.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Know what I gotta take. Yeah, I gotta take my landlights.
You have my phone, but yeah, but I'll keep in touch.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right, Well, house, is this gonna happen.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
I'll be there probably by Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Okay, all right, good luck with the move, and you
give us an update next Saturday. Okay, I will, all right, Dick,
good luck with everything. Okay, thank you, all right, bye bye.
There you go. Good for him, and you know he's
gonna get moved in, Dan and then everybody's gonna hear
him playing music and they're gonna.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Say, everybody's gonna love being around town.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Can you schedule a couple of nights a week that
you can do a little entertainment after dinner, yeah, or maybe.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
During dinner and while they're cooking dinner.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And while they're cooking dinner. You never know. So there
you go back to the guarding phone lines. We shall
go Tennessee. Mike, good morning, Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I'm enjoyed your show. Just had a tip and this
is what I'm in the process of doing right now.
You can take a square by La Hay, Yes, sir,
cut a center out. I don't know if you've ever
heard of this, but it works. Uh, cut a hole
out of it, fill it up with dirt and pott
and sol, keep it awayet. I have grown some excellent
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watermelows at on the square.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Bla.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Hey, I'll tell you what. Strawbail gardening I think is
an outstanding way to go. It's it's easy way to go.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And once you get it wet.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, once you get that strawbail wet. And you know
how they weigh five hundred pounds because they hold so
much moisture. It makes it makes it easy to grow,
and you can put them anywhere you want. And I
think it's an outstair And I have done strawbel gardening myself.
The only thing I've not done in them would be
like a root crop like radishes or potatoes. But vining
(26:27):
c no, and I didn't because it stays so wet
on the inside.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Well would rock.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, So tomatoes and peppers and vining plants like cucumbers
and melons and all of that outstanding way to grow.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
And I've I'm gonna try purple tomatoes, Yes, do that.
I'm will try it to plant this year.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Good.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I don't know if it work or not.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It will, trust me. I've done them and they do it.
Oh yeah, they do a great job. So you'll love it.
But what you got to do now, Mike is keep
his post on how well it turns out.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Well, I'll tell you what else I done last year.
I took a five gallon bucket and an oil sample
tube that when I worked for Caterpillar, and I run it,
hung it up in a tree, and I took a
hypoder insulin needle and injected the water melon and I
(27:23):
grew it on a pallet, and I had to keep
the water in the tree, my wide oak full of
water and injected the sugar water into the U water
melon on a pallet and it took a forklift raising. Yeah,
(27:43):
I won the fire. It's about it's about maybe what
two hundred pounds something like that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
No kidding, So where does it? Where does it?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You did it like a like you're doing an infusion
or something. Correct, So you stuck a needle. Did you
do it in the vein or the one of the
vines or did you do it in the watermelon itself?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I put it in the end of it, Okay, the
butt of it right? Yeah, wow, buddy, it got it
got huge. I'm like, I had to get a Forcliff
because I got it on palette because I know.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
They'd get big for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But I won our county fire. We'll get for you
the biggest watermelon. Gross.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Well, now the question is did you eat it?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
No, no, it wasn't worth anyting.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
They went right and got the seeds.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah. Usually when you grow things like that, they're not
all that edible. No, no, but.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
They shot some seeds that come through the Cumberland Gap
where my family settled Middle Tennessee, and I went to
rack and got busted up pretty bad and come back
and I had a airtiger that told her alone says
what I could have choked her to da Oh no,
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because they've been my family for generations.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Oh no, she didn't.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Know, though. She just claimed it out in my fraezer.
That's where says, sure, So did you say what you
get back to work?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You say you had sage that you carried through and
we lost him. Yeah. But anyway, that's a strawbeil gardening.
I'm telling you. You know, it's something that's been around
a long time. As a matter of fact, somebody brought
it up to me when we first started this show
twenty three years ago, and it asked me if I
had ever heard of strawbeil gardening, and that a friend
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of hers in Alabama, Mississippi, one of the southern states,
an older gentleman there, had been doing it for years
and they had written an article about him in the
local magazine or newspaper, and she sent it to me,
and we tried to get a hold of him and
couldn't get all of the other to talk to us
about it, but did a lot of research, got as
(30:02):
much information as I could about how you know, how
you did it, and we've had a tip sheet for
twenty three years on doing strawbeil gardening. Course, there's been
a book written since then, and probably two or three
books that somebody's written about strawbel guarding. But it's an
interesting way to garden. It's an easy way. I think.
One of the things that for strawbeil guarding that comes
in handy is that if you have a garden that
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you get into a soil situation where you may have
a soil borne disease or whatever, and you need to
just let it set for a year or two before
you come back and start replanning again. You could take
strawbales and create you know, just go right down the
roads where you would have normally planted and set those
right on top of the ground in the garden and
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do like he said, and you seize them and you weather.
Then let them get them out of early in like
in February, let them other nature rain on them. You're
gonna pour some fertilizer in there. You're gonna get some
nutrients going. Just like container gardening, there's no nutrients in there,
so you feed them a little bit, get that thing
fired up, get it cooking. And if you've ever dealt
with a wet straw bill, you know they do. They
weigh five hundred pounds. So you put them in place,
(31:06):
let them sit there, and you can grow in a
straw bail. If they're wire tied, you can probably get
pulled a couple of years out of them with no
problem string tides. Sometimes the strings are done by the
end of the season, so put steaks at the end
of the bail and hold it together. Point being is,
you can garden in those bales for a couple of years.
So while you're letting that garden sit, you know, without
(31:28):
growing anything in it at all, to do whatever reason
to get the disease out or whatever it may be,
you're growing on top of it in the straw bales.
And then after a two year period, those straw bales
are really starting to decompose, not so good for growing
in anymore. So now you take those loose, chop them
all up, with them more or whatever, and till them
back into the garden where they were sitting. And you know,
(31:52):
do that like in the fall, and then in the
springtime you've added organic matter, you've tilled, and your garden.
Your garden is ready to go. Are sitting still for
a couple of years to get rid of the diseases
or whatever happened to be in the soil. It works
quite nicely to do that. But I've had folks that
have sent me pictures of taking wood and making little
boxes around them and putting them along their driveway or
(32:14):
on a patio or wherever, and growing in the straw bale.
And it does work, There's no doubt about it. I found.
Once you get them good and wet, you don't have
to water quite as often. But you know, you have
to stick with it till the plants get rooted in.
But I've done tomatoes, peppers to vining. Almost all the
vining plants no root crops. Although I have read some
folks that have did potatoes, I'm sure they had to
(32:36):
loosen them up a little bit because they're so darn
compact and tight. It's sometimes already to get those plants
down in there, you almost that you do have to
cut a hole out and get them in and use
little potting soil to get started. I've even seen folks
put those up on edge where the cut straw is
on the edge, put a little potting soil on top
of that, and sew greens on the top and grow
(32:58):
greens early in the season, then flip it back over,
and then when you're done picking the greens, put the
holes in it and grow your tomatoes and peppers and
things like that on the other side of the of
the strawbail. So pretty interesting concept. I've been around quite
some time, but you know, it really came. And again,
I think there's a probably a book or two that's
out there about strawbail gardening as well. But I staw
(33:20):
my old tip chief I wrote twenty three years ago
and it's still I think the information is still pretty
darn good. So there you go. If you want it,
email me and I'll send it to you. Eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five. That's our number
here in the garden with Ron.
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Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. We are
talking yarding. On the final day of May twenty twenty five.
Can you believe that that month went in a flash
moving into June. I'm curious to see what the weather's
going to be like for there. But remember, still plenty
of time to plant, plenty of time to plant annuals, perennials, vegetables.
(36:11):
All right, you still got plenty of If somebody asked
me this week about potatoes, is it too late to
plant potatoes? It's late, But you can plant potatoes. I
mean you can plant them up into June with no problem.
You just get a later crop, you know, new potatoes.
But yeah, you still got time to do that. If
you find some potato seed potatoes out there ready to go,
absolutely and don't forget. They do great in containers. Bushel
(36:34):
baskets are pretty cool. To grow them in five gallon buckets.
You can make chicken wire cages on top of the
ground and just use composts and all and grow them
in that. They do great. But still plenty of time
to plant potatoes and trees and shrubs and roses and
grasses and old nine yards. We're still there. We're still
in the planting season. So get out to your locally
owned independent garden centers and see what they got. I
(36:57):
think you're going to find that they've got a lot
for you to choose from. Back to the guardening phone
as we shall go. Ohio, Rusty, good morning.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
Morning Ron. Thanks taking a call.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
Appreciates shows always.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
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Speaker 8 (37:11):
Apparently I had a better can of crop last year,
and I thought, I.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Have several balls left over. Can I keep them? I
mean the dirt to dry and everything around them, right,
and the ones that I'm not planned, Yes, they're not
sprout or anything. Can I keep them over a year?
Speaker 8 (37:24):
Or do I need to plan them and just maybe
to re harvest them next year or something.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I think you need to plan them. You leave those
things sticking out or try to put them into storage
for another year. It's really hard to bring them through. Okay,
they need that, they need that, Yeah, they need that grows.
So I would say do something with them, try to
get them out there at least let them grow, harvest
them one more time, and then do what you need
to do. But yeah, I would still plant them.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
Okay, very good, Like I've got several planet It was
just I thought, Man, I ended up more than I thought.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Hey, you know what you got to do. Sometimes I
don't know what part of Ohio you're in, but we're
getting more and more folks that are having success with
cannas overwintering in the ground and just for an experiment, Yeah,
just for an experiment. Now, they they you know, they
can't freeze and they hate really poorly drained soils. But
it seems like closer to the house by the foundation
(38:17):
south side, southwest side, where state's fairly warm over the winter.
We have had last two or three years, several reports
of folks saying, you know what, I had cannas that
pop back up because I didn't want to take them
out and you know, redo it. I was just going
to plant new ones and they actually came back up
for me. So we are seeing it a little bit more.
Just just experiment with a couple of them, if you
(38:38):
have a situation like that and see what happens.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
Good deal, good deal.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Okay, so much Betty, Thanks Rusty, good talking with you.
And if you you know, again, as things warm up,
especially over the wintertime for us, I mean it's been
staying warm right up until December. Roses, you know, and
again I think it's I think it does a number
like on Knockout roses, some of the roses that are
self clean self dead heading, and they just you know,
(39:02):
we stop pruning roses and dead heading roses in September
to tell them you leave those last flowers on and
then go to seed. You get those rose hips, and
then it you know, tells a plant to shut down,
stop growing, shut down. Uh, we're getting ready to get
you know, go go into the winter season. And so
that's one of the reasons why we do that. And
then by the time it starts to cool down, leaves
(39:24):
start to yellow drop. By the time you get to
Christmas's time, you know, hopefully the temperatures, soil temps and
air temps have gotten cold enough into the upper thirties
definitely forty degrees or colder that we can put them
away for the winter. The problem with like knockouts and
some of the other shrub roses that are self dead
heading and self cleaning is that they'll just deadhead themselves
(39:48):
and keep right on flowering. And you know, I again
I haven't marked on my counter, December eighteenth was the
last date that I have seen a knockout rose still
in bloom. Depending on the the fall weather, and if
they do that, that means the plant's still very active
right up until Christmas holiday season, and then all of
a sudden if we get into the winter season, the
(40:09):
cold drop. They really haven't shut down for the winter.
And I'm seeing a lot of cane die back, top
die back on those which is again they're growing on
their own roots. They're not a grafted rose. So you know,
you cut them back hard in the springtime, which I
do anyway, and force them up from the base of
the of those stems and from the roots, then force
up a new plant. But I'm seeing a lot of
(40:31):
that happen, and a lot of emails right now, folks saying,
you know, I cut them back to twelve inches and
those canes that I left there aren't looking so good.
Everything's coming up from the bottom. Well, that's what it is,
budleaya butterfly bush. Same way, you know that plant never
shuts down. You look at that, it's always got leaves
right to the end of the year. I always consider
(40:52):
those a woody perennial. And you know, if the winter's
not too bad, some of those stems will make it
through the winter the winter season and you can kind
of clip them back. I can let them get taller
if that's what you want to do. And that's what
we used to do with butterfly bush, big bold butterfly
bushes that I think when them was dark knight just
would get six feet tall, weeping over with all the flowers.
(41:13):
Of course, all the dwarf and smaller varieties are what
we use today. But we've gotten the point now where
we wind up losing all of that over the winter.
You cut it back and they come back up from
their root system. But that's again my theory, but they
just don't shut down, so they're much more susceptible to
having die back issues over the winter time. So we're
(41:33):
seeing that I would put my paycheck on it that
that's what we're seeing any self cleaning roses. And by
the way, I get that question a lot too. I've
got knockouts or I've got a shrub rose that is
touted as being self cleaning or self dead heading. Do
I need a dead at them at all? You don't
have to, that's the whole point about it, But I do,
(41:54):
because if you deadhead those yourself, cut them back, get
rid of those old spins flowers when they're done. I
think it recovers quicker, puts out new growth, and you
get flowers quicker than when it has to do it itself.
As a matter of fact, you'll see knockout roses will
give you a great show in the springtime. Then when
most of those flowers are done, they fall apart. You
(42:17):
don't see much on that knockout for quite some time.
It regroups, regrows, and then all of a sudden you
start to see it come back out in the flower again.
There's usually a period of time there you don't see
too many flowers. That's just the way they do it.
But I think if you're deadhead them yourself, you can
speed that up a little bit and bring it back.
And of course feeding once a month, pushing out that
(42:38):
new growth because that's where all the flowers come from,
will help you out as well. But that's my theory
on both of those. As far as why sometimes in
the springtime they just don't look so good and they've
died back. They just don't shut down to the very
end of the year, and then they're rate there at
wintertime and boom they're still hit with it while they're
still looking good. So there you go, all right, Well,
take a quick break we come back. It'll be you know,
(43:00):
a Hikenfeld at the top of the hour talking about
her recipe, which you can find on our website at
Ron Wilson online dot com. It's read this sage pork
loin raft.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
I'm still.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
It's a good age. We'll talk about sage as well.
Bottom of the hour, Heggy and Montgomery, we'll talk about, uh,
it's the year that kalladiums. We'll talk about how to
be successful growing kalladiums. One of my absolute favorite annuals.
Love that one. I've loved it since I was in
the high school. Always one of my favorites. We'll have
both of them and of course sharing tips with you
and taking your calls at eight hundred eight two three,
(43:32):
eight two five five Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Help.
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