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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarding on this Father's Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Uh yeah, woo hoo.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Didn't I say something about uh, extra spending on Father's.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Day this year? Yeah? Yeah, heck yeah. Did that come
true for you? It sounds like apparently apparently I got
a big box showed up in the mail in my house.
Who was it addressed to? It was addressed to me? Who?
Who's me?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Me?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Who is me? Who's on first? Who is me? Who
is mes? Some just say who is who is? Who
it is? Who? What? What is your name? What is
my name?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Joe Strucker, our executive producer, will find out what's going
on his lawn, his landscape, and of course our website
at Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page. In the
garden with Ron Wilson, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Sir, Good morning, gotcha? I know not this is going
on your lawn or landscape? Did you mow the grass?
The front was Mon, hadn't done the back yet? And yeah,
I gotta getting it leveled out for the pool. Big
package in the mail and it's sitting in the in
the back. I didn't open it. I don't know what
it is. Yeah, but parents a Father's Day gift, a
(01:54):
Father's Day president. Yes, so we'll find out what it is.
It's a big package and they had to take it
to the back of the house. Yeah. Yes, so apparently
the girls are listening. I'll keep you informed next week
as to what it was.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So that little research was right. Spending did go up
on Father's Day. Wow, I'm impressed.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That a news report was actually accurate. Yes, oh yeah,
that's true. So yeah, well we'll find I'll knowing my
girls are probably what I did to then when Christmas
with a big package for Christmas, and there was all
kind of little boxes inside, and it ended up being
a piece of paper all the way at the very end.
(02:38):
It was like ten boxes. I had to put a
lot of effort in that one, and they had to
work all the way down. Oh yeah, and every single
box was was wrapped in different paper, nice and h
And as I got smaller, the tape got more and
more difficult. Well it was it was you know, it
(03:00):
was this regular masking tape, then it was packing tape,
then it was duct tape, then it was gorilla tape,
and then I think the last one. I actually super
glued it together. Great. So yeah, but yeah it was
concert tickets but nice. But it was in a huge box.
(03:21):
Oh that's good. Make them work for it, hey, So
they maybe make it work for this one. Maybe they are.
Maybe they're getting me back for revenge for a little
for that. So how's your Father's Day weekend going? So far?
Good for you? I can't see you, but it sounds
like you're very excited. I'm very excited. Good. Yeah, they're
gonna be a party tonight. Good and you know, all
(03:44):
kinds of stuff. So how's uh, excellent? So how's Columbus today?
Is that? Is that your Father's Day present?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, it's my Father's Day present. They got showers coming
through just like up you know, down Cincinnati. So we'll
see what happens. Hope we don't get rained out. But again,
I'm gonna be an Oakland Nursery dad.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Columbus Oakland Nursery.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Doing our garden show from the Columbus area. So yeah,
is that the last one for the year, last one
for the spring season? Absolutely already, but they usually have
like eight or nine of them. Then this is usually
the last one, though, Wow, this is usually the last date.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So there you go. So, yeah, it's it's Father's Day weekend.
When I say a happy Father's Day to my dad
and all the dad's out, there's a.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Super nice guy. Yeah, you look more like him every time,
all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Eighty nine years old, super nice guy. Still loves his soccer.
We'll go and still watching soccer. Sure, we'll be watching
soccer this weekend. When the uh when the World Cup starts.
Just start this weekend Sunday. Wow, Munich's playing. Munich's playing,
and I I already had to set up the streaming
service for him. Oh yeah, that was his present. Good
(04:52):
from me. I set up the soccer streaming service week
and watched the World Cup. So you can watch all
the World Cup. Yeah, every the game is going to
be on that streaming service. So he could watch every
single game. He would totally have his soccer fixed for
a month. Good for him, good for you. Excellent. I
know what he likes. Yeah, hey, it beats bind him
(05:13):
something that I know. It doesn't he's not he's not
going to use or at eighty nine does drink the slave. Yeah,
but yeah, there's my age. I don't to get some well,
my kidneys I can't drink this little bits anymore. But
there with times in the you know, with sometimes in
(05:34):
the past, you don't know what to get Dad, and
it's just yeah, this is easy.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. He'll be in seventh Heaven for
a month. Heck yeah, for a whole month. I have
to keep I try. I tried to talk him into.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Because there's gonna be some games here in Cincinnati at
the soccer Stadium. I try to talk him into seeing
if he want to go those days, and I gotta
I got it. Absolutely not. So Dad doesn't want to go.
They want to fight the crowds. I just think he
doesn't like doing that stuff anymore. Yeah, he's just at
that age. Tell you I went that last year. Those
are steep steps. Yeah, I looked it up. We are
(06:08):
in the second deck and those that's a straight up
kind of thing. Oh yeah, like whoa yeah, and uh, well,
since I'm afraid, I'm afraid to hide someone and go
up there, but I probably in the bottom ball. Yeah.
But the temperature for the next coming week is going
to be in the high eighties, and I don't think
Dad would have liked be in his stands in the heat. Yeah,
(06:32):
so I think it's good. He just watches it on TV. Well,
he can go to the bathroom in his own bathroom
and yep, yeah whatever, yep, so good for him. So yeah, hey,
he's gonna have it. He's gonna have a fun.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Buy him a soccer ball and can kind of have
it hold in his hands while he's watching TV.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I don't think he needs another soccer ball, Okay, but
yeah he's Yeah, he's gonna be in Heaven. Good. So
that's the best thing. Good as long as he's happy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah. So the website is Soccer Heaven Ron Wilson online
dot com and the Facebook page in the Garden with
Ron Wilson. And before we hit that, what's that new
graphic look like? Is there a new graphic this week?
We'll go there, we'll get I'm sorry, what guests are today?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
None? You have any guests? Z row. Wow. It's the
make up for last week when we had.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
All had lots of guests and said, you know what,
let's open you know every nine and we do that.
Let's just open this one up. I mean, we got
our usuals, Buggy Joe.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And all that. As a local talk show host down
here says I.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Got to talk to the people, got to talk to
the people. So's I would just leave it open and
see what happens. All right, So we got taken all
kinds of calls to.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The right now. Yeah, so uh yeah, we have a
new graphic, a Father's Day special. So but you have
to go to Facebook page and check it out to
see it. Gonna I'm not gonna ruin it, okay, So
you have to go to Facebook page to check that
one out. Excellent, And that chat room is up and
running right now. There you go, right now, see Joe's
new I've seen all of them. He's got quite a call. Actually, well,
(08:01):
what you've got up until now, you're going to keep adding.
I guess the whole tea, the whole t shirt series.
There's let's just say I have enough to last for
the entire rest of the year. Then I started thinking,
we do a collage of all of them and frame it. Okay,
we're not going to go that far. Oh, Danny can
do that. No, you frame it, okay, get them away,
(08:23):
sure ahead and do that. Yeah, sell them off. Have
you sign them on one of one, have you sign
them Okay, we'll do that. So the on the website.
Buggy Joe has a couple of things. First of all,
it's time for the really nasty toxic plants. That's the
first thing. At the wild parsnip. And then so uh
(08:47):
bring those posts back right there. Especially, don't touch the
wild parsnip or else you'll be you'll be messed up. Yep. Yeah,
And they don't eat the poison mlocker. You don't care
about touching them well parsons, that's true as well. Uh
maybe need some shlip of that's after that. I mean,
I don't think your lips would move after that. Backrooms
(09:09):
are coming. They are already trees, They already on the trees.
They're hanging out with the cicadas.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Don't see those as much as as we have to
look a little bit harder. But there are still out there.
Did you see the uh cicadas I'm tired of.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Did you see the story of the cicada that caused
a car accident and you're here in locally. No, they
get in the car, Yeah it got Look someone had
the window open and got in the car and they
freaked out and started swatting at it and racked and
turned the car over. Oh really, No, I didn't see that.
Oh my goodness. It's like, okay, it's just the bug
(09:42):
isn't going to hurt you. They don't have a mouth,
they can't bite you. All it's going to do is
its flutter and you're just weird. Yeah, it's weird. So
I know they're gross. Yep, you don't smell. They don't
smell nice when they're well, they do when they're live,
but do you smell when they're a live I don't
get you know what that's given? Got next? Well, the
thing that and it's not on the bucket list either,
(10:04):
hasn't made it up to your nose. It's okay, it's
not something that I don't really plan on doing. Got
it now? As well as eating one, right, I don't
eat want I'll eat one bug. And that's and that's
very famously, uh been documented for every cue grasshopper Rita
has Rita has well, Rita has a recipe of the week,
(10:25):
and I took it upon myself to have two recipes
for this phase. Yes, for this week. So Rita's recipe
of the week is a snappea kind of salad kind
of thing, yeah, with herbs for the health conscious father
and go along with Frank's ribs though recipe last week.
(10:47):
Well as funny as you say that, because that's the
other I brought that back up to the top. Well, absolutely,
I'm not going to have fathers the weekend be snap
pea salad. You don't snappy salad. No, okay, you can
put it next to it. I want some ribs. You
can put it next to it. Eat a little bit
of that snap piece out, look at it and go,
that's not what's better not be on my plate. You
(11:12):
can have this snap piece salad. I'm in you know,
there's you know, I'm trying to be more health conscious.
But on the Father's Day, snap peace salad. I mean, look, okay,
I'll look at the ribs and I'll call it snap
peace salad. There you go.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Or you can look at the snap peace salad while
you're eating the ribs. Yeah, pretend there you go. Yeah,
it's the best snap salad I've ever had.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I want to know the room snap oh me, oh gosh.
And the plants of the week are the father Special
Father's Day plants of the Week. The first one is
verbina and the second one is globe and merath. Yes, yes,
(12:04):
so annuals. Yes, because June is annual month, isn't it
perennial month, perenial month. You're close. It's one or the other.
It's one of yeah, fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It's perennial month. But those two, I'll tell you what
I tell you. The great pollinator plants kind of give
you a more natural look. I am totally impressed with
what they draw into your containers or to your plantings,
So be sure to check them out. And they are
available local garden centers as well, and still plenty of
time to plant those as well. So exactly there you go,
all right, And June is perennial gardening. Juna is perennial
(12:35):
garden month.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yes, it's also pollinator Awareness month. Yep. It's also it's
also Turkey Lovers Month, remember that, Joey. Yeah, exactly, yeah,
I remember that one. Nothing, never mind, I remember that one.
And it's also it's because actually I just have happened
to have the well you're talking wasting time. The uh,
(13:00):
it's killing killing time. The website that has all the
different days is also National ax Throwing Day. June's a
whole bunch of days of months and days and all
that it's National ax Throwing Day, Ax Throwing Day. It's
Weed your Garden Week, Lead the Garden Week. Yeah, I'm
(13:21):
not practicing that. It's good therapy. I'm not practicing that. Okay.
It's also National kitchen Klutz this week. Kitchen Klutz. Yeah
that you drop stuff in the kitchen, I guess. And
it's uh, there's a couple other things, so find that
on I'm sure you can google that and check it out.
(13:42):
So it's it's Fight the Fly month. Whatever that Fight
the fly. I don't think you want to fight the fly.
I want to kill flies. Don't they help pollinate? They
flies are number two family of pollinator. I don't want
to fight the flies on the list. I'm not going
to celebrate that behind those bees. I'm not gonna I'll
break that either. It's National Iced Team month, yagn have
(14:03):
that Cucumber month, Mango month, pluot month. What's that? That's
a thing like a plumb, right, I don't know. You
don't know what a pluot is, mister gardening. Wow, go
on the Facebook page under in the chat room and
(14:23):
tell Ron Wilson what a pluot is? There? You go,
all right, that's it. That's all. That was fun. There's
a ton of other things, but it has nothing to do.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
With one of the Eddie and Joy things. We did
that one time about June being all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Eddie and Joey were their own specific entity that came
in and did that.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And that's why I said, I thought you would love
it because it's Turkey Lovers Month. You're like, what that's it?
Never mind?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Oh me, all right, that's it. That's time for me
to go. You miss me? What's your name again? That's
what I thought.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Joe Shark, our executive producer. If you like what you
see on our website, a Ron Wilson online dot com
Facebook page in the garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Strucker
had everything to do it do with it, including those
graphics on that Facebook page. You gotta check it out.
If you don't like what you see, you question it.
Maybe not sure, don't blame Joe let doctor Lame doctor
Z Garden eighty three.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Washington, d C. Driving his vast ball with the Bowser
on the back. Bow bow bow Bow bow bow. You
would have thought maybe somebody Bowser would be in the sidecar.
Bowser with the sidecar. Never know and then the sweetheart
would be on the back. We start in the back,
and I don't know, maybe, uh, doctor Z might be
a dad d me what. I don't know. You never know.
(15:39):
I don't know this story out there.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Wow, but I would put Bowser in the sidecar and
the sweetheart on the back of the seat.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Okay, he's he's got priorities.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
But it's his call. Whatever want, but let's blame him
no matter what exactly, Doctor Z Washington, DC. Yes, got it,
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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 yarding on this Father's Day weekend,
and as Joe and I were discussing there earlier, No
get way you have Buggy Joe at the end of
the show. But we've got not Gary today and no
guests because I kind of want to open it up
to you. We've had a lot of guests over the
last several weeks and sometimes it very limits down are
(19:42):
time for you to call in. Although I do get
a lot of emails and I do appreciate those, but
like hearing from you on the show.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So we thought.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Today why not just back off and make it all
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Good mon, I mean, welcome back. You're in the garden
with Ron Wilson again that toll free number eight hundred
and eight two three eight two five five talking about
yarning on his Father's Day weekend. And again, like I
said earlier, no guests, it's you and me talking yardning.
So give us a buzz. If you've got questions or
tips or comments, we'd love to hear from you. To
Oakley we go, John.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Good morning, Good morning Ron.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
How are you John?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I'm great? How about yourself?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Good?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
I got a question about my autumn blaze red maple tree.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Sure, so, I bought.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
It last October and it was professionally planted. It's it
was baldenburg apped about two and a half three inch
diameter trunk fifteen feet tall, so it had been doing
really well. But now the leaves are turning red like
it's fall.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Did so it put out new.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Growth yep, and it was green starting.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Off right, and the leaves looked good. I mean it's
full size as best you can tell.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yeah, and it's kind of killed out.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Right, and your watering schedule has.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Been, well, we've gotten so much rain here that I
haven't had water it a whole lot, but I did
water at times. But like just last weekend, I had
over three inches of rain here, right.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I think the thing that also to do John, And
the first thing I'd look at when they start to
turn red like that, obviously there's some kind of stress
going on. So then we take a look at and
you can go through transplant shock, and that does happen
when you get into a two and a half inch
three and a half inch caliber or larger. Sometimes it
takes a year or two for them to adjust and
(24:42):
you know, get started to get rooting in and things
like that, so you got to get them time. But anyway,
the first thing I would take a look at, even
though we've had all of the rainfall that we've had
through the area, is how much is that actual root
ball getting from that three inches of rainfall, Because sometimes
that rainfall may run right around the outside of that
planting area and not really penetrate, or it drops down
(25:03):
the side and that fresh soil that they use for backfill,
but yeah, doesn't penetrate the rootball. So what I would
like for you to do is just go out there
just to be sure. And actually, you know, either dig
into or get a moisture meter, or stick your finger
down and check the immediate root ball to make sure
that it is getting good and silked. Now you know,
(25:24):
you get the same symptoms from being too dry from
being too wet. So on the other hand, if that
was in a hole that the water, you know, the
soil is such that it doesn't drain very well, and
the water actually does flow into and down into that
hole and it's sitting there. Now, those maples can tolerate
(25:45):
and they enjoy moisture in the ground, but on the
same token, when they're brand new like that, you can
over water. So it's it's both ways. So that would
be the first thing I look at. If you look
at the rest of the trunk of the tree, you
don't see any scars, you don't see any nick You
look on the branches, look for anything unusual like scale,
and that does happen sometimes, but the real small little
(26:08):
bumps on the branches. Look for that, just to make sure.
But the first, you know, if I came to your house,
to be the first thing I'd do is look at
the trunk i'd look at where it's going into the ground,
I look at the stems. I'd be looking for anything
like the scale. Then the next thing would be looking
at trying to figure out where the moisture levels are
around the outside and inside that immediate root ball. See
(26:29):
where we are there. But more than likely what you're
saying there, I'm going to say, it's an issue of
the transplant and of course too wet, too dry, one
or the other. And a lot of times when they
do start to turn red like that doesn't mean it's over,
doesn't mean they're done. You know, it's part of the process.
And sometimes the green back up again all of a
sudden they're green again, or they hold those partially red leaves.
(26:53):
But you know, do all of that check to make
sure look for all of those. The moisture level is
going to be, I think going to be important. I
have even John taking a real small shovel and dug
down the side of the root ball. If I thought
it was staying too wet, to get down and see
what's the moisture level, like down at the bottom of
that h at the bottom of the root ball, and
(27:14):
see where you know, if it is it actually holding water,
So that would be the thing I would I would
check out and then you know, if it continues on,
send me pictures of it. I'll try to help you
out as much as I can, uh to you know,
if I see anything else on there, feel free to
email me pictures. But and then whoever installed it, obviously
it's guaranteed. I get in touch with them as well
and say, hey, I'm you know, a little concerned because
(27:36):
now these leaves are starting to turn red. You know,
what should I do? And and and make sure they're
aware of it as well.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Right, so I do have a moisture meat or I'll
go out and check that right now.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
But go down deep.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
When I first got it, I had a deer guard
on it, yep, And like four days later a buck
got to it and still kind of got through the
deer guard, And there are some scrapes on the trunk,
but nothing deep. And I shaved all kind of the
little pieces that were there, right, But yeah, that looks
just pretty minor really.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And it didn't go all the way around the trunk
of the tree, right.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Well, it was in the front partly in the back.
But like I say, it's just kind of scrapes. It
didn't go and real deep right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And again if you're could you know, feel free to
take pictures of that and email me and I'll evaluate
what I think it's looking like as far as because
that can be a part of the issue. Also, it
does slow down even though it's just a scrape and
took the bark off, you know, it still can slow
down that flow of food and water up and down
that tree. And I could take another look at that
and see what try to give a diagnosis looking at
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that as well. That could be a minor issue going
on there.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Yeah, and I do, I do have pictures, so yeah,
I'll email you, okay, and I'm going to go out
there and use my moisture meter.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Now just check that rootball, Yeah, in the immediate root ball,
and then check around the outside. And then, like I say,
you may even wind up taking a hand trow or
something and digging right down the outside of the root
ball where the backfill is, just to get down to
the bottom to make sure it's you know, is it
dry or is it wet?
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Right?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Yeah, I'm thinking it's pretty wet because when it cut
the grass, and yeah, it's you can see that the
soil all around the rootball is wet.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, and again that's you know, you get the same
symptoms both ways, so it could be one way.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Or the other.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Right, Okay, I'll go check on. I appreciate your help, all.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Right, John, Now watch for you email just in case.
A right, good talking with you. Let's take a quick break.
We come back. Betty and Dayton, you're coming up next.
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Speaker 1 (32:00):
Dayton, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
I have a problem I've heard you talk about before,
but I didn't take any numbers because they didn't have
the problem all right. On my front porch, I noticed
a bumblebee going in a little crack at the bottom
of my front door. Who do I call to get
that taken care of?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Is it an act? Is it a bumblebee or is
it a bee? You know, like a.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Honeybe It's a bumblebee. Okay, I don't know ever two
at a time, right, It's always one at a time,
But I want to get it out of there.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
So it's going up underneath your your doorframe or the
door itself, all right, And I'm just guessing, Okay, I'm
just guessing. But I would almost guess that that's a
carpenter bee. Very slow flying, I mean very you know,
not real fast or anything, just kind of moving along,
lumbering along, and it kind of crawls up on a
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beneath the wood. I'm almost gonna guess if that's a
carpenter bee. And what they do, of course, is they
drill holes in the in that wood, and it's usually
the female and she lays eggs in that and a
little bit of pollen and that's how they reproduce. So
they put these little holes in there. And I'm guessing,
based on what you're telling me, that's what it would
be in that case. You know, you really don't need
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to go to the Southern Ohio Beekeepers Association or Central
High Beekeepers.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Those would be.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
If we have honey bees going in and out of
a hole in the wall, that's a different story. But
the carpenter bee then that would be just a general exterminator,
you know, exterminator service that would come out and take
a look at it. And in many cases, if it
is a carpenter bee, one of the easiest things to
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do they're so slow flying, is that if you've got
like a tennis racket or something, you knock them down,
step on them, and it's a done deal. I mean,
and I'm being honest when I say this, they're so
easy because they're solitary. There's just one or two flying
around and that's it. And then you knock them down,
step on it, and it's a done deal and it's
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you know, it's you finished it right there.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
But if you can't.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Do that, then then it would just be a normal
exterminator service that would come out and hopefully be there
when that carpenter bee happens to fly in and out
that they could take care of it for you.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Well, I've seen the carpenter bees and I do know
what they do. Okay, usually at the back at my
wooden deck. Right it might be a carpenter bee, but
to me it looks like the the bumblebee. But like
I said, I always just see one if it were
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a bumblebee, would I be seeing more?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
H No, you know, and you got to figure carpenter
bees are kind of in that same class as the bumblebee.
Uh So they're solitary bees. So you have a female
that goes around looking for place I mean, and all
they're trying to do is reproduce. So they go out,
they mate, and then they try to find places holes, cracks, crevices,
places to lay those eggs, put that pollen ball in there,
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and continue to reproduce. So that's that's what they're looking
to do, assuming again that that's what it is, you.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
Know, So it's take I'll take care of this one,
and then we'll see if another one appears.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, see if another one shows back up again. And
what I would do is, once you take care of
that one, can you can you like put your your
hand or even if you could get a little mirror,
real flatten mirror and slide it in there to see
if you can look underneath to see if by chance
that's what they were doing, was drilling a hole back
up underneath there, or using that that crevice as an
area to lay eggs or whatever to hang out, and
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you could you be able to see it that way
with like a little mirror or something that would reflect
back up and see what you find out. And if
you're not sure, you take a picture of it, send
it to me, email it to me. I'll do my
best to help figure out what it is for you
and we can take.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It from there.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Okay, well, I'll take care of this one and we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
All right, let me know how it turns out for
I would like to hear the results.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
All all right, Betty, good talking with you. And yeah,
you know, the thing one is with those and they
can be destructive. Of talking about the carpenter bees because
they do drill a lot of holes usually the other
the bumblebees and all hole in the ground, hollow stems,
things like that. And they'll also go and cracks and
crevices places like that.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
But you know, the.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Carpenter bee can be destructive over time. I have always
let them work on my deck. I don't it's a
pressure treated wood, and obviously over time that treatment starts
to leach out. It's not there like it used to
be at the very beginning. But I've let them do
this this the deck that I have there now is
probably fifteen years old maybe, or maybe a little bit
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older than that. And I noticed the other day where
I've let them go in a couple of the handrails
for years, starting to get pretty riddled. And what you
can do in a case like that, and most of
the population is now really started to slow down, don't
see too many of them around, is that in those
holes that are there is to go to stick a
wire up in there, just to make sure that there's
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nothing live like an egg or a pupil up in there.
It's still hanging out. Stick that up in there, make
sure you take care of that and then come right back.
If you use something like liquid nail construction adhesive, I
like a liquid nail and just you know, pump it
up in there. That will dry, fill in the hole
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and actually add structure back to the wood. And if
they come back, they're not going to drill in there.
The old thing used to put beep like stick a
brillowpad or steal wool in the hole or whatever. Just
put the do. Liquid nail makes it easy. You get
this like a calking gun, You squeeze it, you fill
up the hole and it adds structure back to the
wood as well, and I've got quite a few, so
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I will probably sometime this summer. There's a couple of
boards have been boy, they've just been riddled. I may
take them off and replace them. If it's not too bad,
I will just take the liquid nail and fill it
back up again. But what I did, what I was
going to say, is what I did notice on the wood, uh,
a piece of wood that I don't see. It's it's
like to the outside of the railing and there's our
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heat pump is there, and all that don't see it
that often on the side of the wood where they've
drilled the holes up from the bottom. You know, woodpeckers
if they can, if they know that that there's something
in there, they'll peck through the wood on the side
to go after what's inside that hole. And we've also
seen where you plug up the hole and what was
in there turns into an adult and actually can choose
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its way out of there, but woodpeckers goletric. I got
a couple holes where the woodpeckers actually went in and
drilled a hole of the outside. I'll probably wind up
replacing that piece of wood. But on my point, being
is I let them do their thing. I understand if
it's in a you know, in a situation soften around
the house something like that. Uh, you know, primary the
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primary pieces of wood. You don't want them drilling in that.
I get that, and I would do everything to protect
that as well. Fortunately, they've always just gone to our
deck and their railings and that and it has not
been an issue, not caused a problem, and like I say,
I go back and fill up the holes as needed.
So I got them do their thing because I know
there's such a great the female, such a great pollinator,
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and how important is to keep them around. But you know,
if you can live with them, great, If you can't,
you know, I get it. Totally not an issue, and
if you know, we want to try to save as
many of the bees and the pollinators and all that
that we can. But that's a situation where you're also
protecting the home the structure of where they're drilling. And
I've seen them over the years. You know, eventually they'll
go into a fence post and drill so many holes
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eventually that it starts to decay and then just fall over.
Thanks to the thanks to the carpenter, beet So they
can be very destructive, there's no doubt about it. And
some cases you've got to go after him, but otherwise
I let them do their thing. Now, if you see,
like Barbon and I were talking a couple of weeks ago,
if you see the bees, the actual honeybees going in
and out of your foundation and out of a hole
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or whatever the side, different story, And that's where you
want to get a beekeeper to come out, take a
look and try to diagnose what's going on. If they
haven't started to form a nest in there, they'll seal
up the whole, stop everything and be done with it.
And you may lose a few that are inside there,
but that's the way it goes. But you know, again,
you got to protect that. You don't want them putting
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hives inside of your walls just doesn't work. So anyway,
And if you do have that, or you have the
swarms and they're still doing that, And if you're in Ohio,
we've got Southern Ohio beekeepers, Central Higo beekeepers, Ohio State beekeepers,
there's a whole bunch of them out there, Knox beekeepers
that would love to come and collect up those swarms.
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So you know when you see it, if they hang
around for a while, they don't panic, They're not after
you give the beekeepers a call, let them come and
collect those up. They would greatly appreciate that, especially after
what we've gone through this past winter, such a high
honeybee loss. And with that, June is also pollinator Awareness month.
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You know, we talked, Joe and I were kidding earlier
about all the things that June's noted for and another
one happens to be pollinator Awareness month. And you know,
I think when we look at all we were talking
about this for a long long time. It's no big deal,
and you probably get tired of be pushing it all
the time, especially when we get into the drought, talking
about watering all the time. But they are so important.
And you see things like this that happen to these
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bees and major major losses that will affect us down
the road in pollination, lack of pollination, lack of bee products, honey,
things like that takes a long time to recoup from that.
So I look at that and it stimulates me even
more to get out there and do all I can
to continue to plant for these pollinators, not just for
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the bees, but for all of monarch, butterflies, the bees,
you know, all the different types of bees, all the
pollinators that are out there to go and do some planting.
As a matter of fact, we kind of did our
annual raised beds and a couple containers and things, our
annual plantings around our deck. I came back this week
and got three large black nursery pots that are about
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twenty inches in diameter and they're only about twelve inches deep,
kind of a squat pot, and I potted those up
with strictly pollinator plants tropical milkweed. I did actually actually
did tuberosa milkweed in there. I did the gomfrinas, I
did verbenas, I did lantanas, I did vermilion, you know,
(42:34):
the cigar plant. I did all of these plants a combination.
I wasn't concerned about the colors or the look, but
what I was concerned with was adding as many of
the pollinator friendly plants that I could in these two containers.
And we've got other things in the planters that would
draw them in. But I did these two specifically in
addition to what we've already done. And again it's just
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a very small part but it does help. All of
this adds up. So as you're listening to our show
and you're saying, you know, I don't have any I
got a couple of window boxes, or I just have
a few. Those count and those work and they will help,
There's no doubt about it. So you know, again, there's
plenty of time to plant, plenty of time to plant
(43:16):
annual it's a tony plenty of time to put perennials.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
In the ground.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
June is perennial gardening month, so you know, think about
the pollinators as you're planting. It gives you great color,
great flowers. You enjoy them, but the pollinators enjoy them
as well. And I think it's a very important part
of your planning process when you're planting. And I did
two extra ones just for the heck of it, just
for those pollinators. My wife's like, what are you doing?
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He said, I just adding a couple of extra here
that we're gonna just kind of nestle in and let
the pollinators enjoy it. So there you go. All right,
this show today Father's Day Weekend is you and me
talking yardening. Buggy Joe Be coming up at the end
of the show, but otherwise it's you and me eight
hundred A two three two five five Here in the
(44:01):
garden with Ron Wilson, Green.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Tom or not.
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Ron can help at one eight hundred eighty two three talk.
This is in the garden with Ron Wilson.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarding on this Father's Day weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Uh yeah, woo hoo.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Didn't I say something about uh, extra spending on Father's.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Day this year? Yeah? Yeah, heck yeah. Did that come
true for you? It sounds like apparently apparently I got
a big box showed up in the mail in my house.
Who was it addressed to? It was addressed to me? Who?
Who's me?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Me?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Who is me? Who's on first? Who is me? Who
is mes? Some just say who is who is? Who
it is? Who? What? What is your name? What is
my name?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Joe Strucker, our executive producer, will find out what's going
on his lawn, his landscape, and of course our website
at Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page. In the
garden with Ron Wilson, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Sir, Good morning, gotcha? I know not this is going
on your lawn or landscape? Did you mow the grass?
The front was Mon, hadn't done the back yet? And yeah,
I gotta getting it leveled out for the pool. Big
package in the mail and it's sitting in the in
the back. I didn't open it. I don't know what
it is. Yeah, but parents a Father's Day gift, a
(01:54):
Father's Day president. Yes, so we'll find out what it is.
It's a big package and they had to take it
to the back of the house. Yeah. Yes, so apparently
the girls are listening. I'll keep you informed next week
as to what it was.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So that little research was right. Spending did go up
on Father's Day. Wow, I'm impressed.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That a news report was actually accurate. Yes, oh yeah,
that's true. So yeah, well we'll find I'll knowing my
girls are probably what I did to then when Christmas
with a big package for Christmas, and there was all
kind of little boxes inside, and it ended up being
a piece of paper all the way at the very end.
(02:38):
It was like ten boxes. I had to put a
lot of effort in that one, and they had to
work all the way down. Oh yeah, and every single
box was was wrapped in different paper, nice and h
And as I got smaller, the tape got more and
more difficult. Well it was it was you know, it
(03:00):
was this regular masking tape, then it was packing tape,
then it was duct tape, then it was gorilla tape,
and then I think the last one. I actually super
glued it together. Great. So yeah, but yeah it was
concert tickets but nice. But it was in a huge box.
(03:21):
Oh that's good. Make them work for it, hey, So
they maybe make it work for this one. Maybe they are.
Maybe they're getting me back for revenge for a little
for that. So how's your Father's Day weekend going? So far?
Good for you? I can't see you, but it sounds
like you're very excited. I'm very excited. Good. Yeah, they're
gonna be a party tonight. Good and you know, all
(03:44):
kinds of stuff. So how's uh, excellent? So how's Columbus today?
Is that? Is that your Father's Day present?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, it's my Father's Day present. They got showers coming
through just like up you know, down Cincinnati. So we'll
see what happens. Hope we don't get rained out. But again,
I'm gonna be an Oakland Nursery dad.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Columbus Oakland Nursery.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Doing our garden show from the Columbus area. So yeah,
is that the last one for the year, last one
for the spring season? Absolutely already, but they usually have
like eight or nine of them. Then this is usually
the last one, though, Wow, this is usually the last date.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
So there you go. So, yeah, it's it's Father's Day weekend.
When I say a happy Father's Day to my dad
and all the dad's out, there's a.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Super nice guy. Yeah, you look more like him every time,
all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Eighty nine years old, super nice guy. Still loves his soccer.
We'll go and still watching soccer. Sure, we'll be watching
soccer this weekend. When the uh when the World Cup starts.
Just start this weekend Sunday. Wow, Munich's playing. Munich's playing,
and I I already had to set up the streaming
service for him. Oh yeah, that was his present. Good
(04:52):
from me. I set up the soccer streaming service week
and watched the World Cup. So you can watch all
the World Cup. Yeah, every the game is going to
be on that streaming service. So he could watch every
single game. He would totally have his soccer fixed for
a month. Good for him, good for you. Excellent. I
know what he likes. Yeah, hey, it beats bind him
(05:13):
something that I know. It doesn't he's not he's not
going to use or at eighty nine does drink the slave. Yeah,
but yeah, there's my age. I don't to get some well,
my kidneys I can't drink this little bits anymore. But
there with times in the you know, with sometimes in
(05:34):
the past, you don't know what to get Dad, and
it's just yeah, this is easy.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. He'll be in seventh Heaven for
a month. Heck yeah, for a whole month. I have
to keep I try. I tried to talk him into.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Because there's gonna be some games here in Cincinnati at
the soccer Stadium. I try to talk him into seeing
if he want to go those days, and I gotta
I got it. Absolutely not. So Dad doesn't want to go.
They want to fight the crowds. I just think he
doesn't like doing that stuff anymore. Yeah, he's just at
that age. Tell you I went that last year. Those
are steep steps. Yeah, I looked it up. We are
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in the second deck and those that's a straight up
kind of thing. Oh yeah, like whoa yeah, and uh, well,
since I'm afraid, I'm afraid to hide someone and go
up there, but I probably in the bottom ball. Yeah.
But the temperature for the next coming week is going
to be in the high eighties, and I don't think
Dad would have liked be in his stands in the heat. Yeah,
(06:32):
so I think it's good. He just watches it on TV. Well,
he can go to the bathroom in his own bathroom
and yep, yeah whatever, yep, so good for him. So yeah, hey,
he's gonna have it. He's gonna have a fun.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Buy him a soccer ball and can kind of have
it hold in his hands while he's watching TV.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I don't think he needs another soccer ball, Okay, but
yeah he's Yeah, he's gonna be in Heaven. Good. So
that's the best thing. Good as long as he's happy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah. So the website is Soccer Heaven Ron Wilson online
dot com and the Facebook page in the Garden with
Ron Wilson. And before we hit that, what's that new
graphic look like? Is there a new graphic this week?
We'll go there, we'll get I'm sorry, what guests are today?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
None? You have any guests? Z row. Wow. It's the
make up for last week when we had.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
All had lots of guests and said, you know what,
let's open you know every nine and we do that.
Let's just open this one up. I mean, we got
our usuals, Buggy Joe.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And all that. As a local talk show host down
here says I.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Got to talk to the people, got to talk to
the people. So's I would just leave it open and
see what happens. All right, So we got taken all
kinds of calls to.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The right now. Yeah, so uh yeah, we have a
new graphic, a Father's Day special. So but you have
to go to Facebook page and check it out to
see it. Gonna I'm not gonna ruin it, okay, So
you have to go to Facebook page to check that
one out. Excellent, And that chat room is up and
running right now. There you go, right now, see Joe's
new I've seen all of them. He's got quite a call. Actually, well,
(08:01):
what you've got up until now, you're going to keep adding.
I guess the whole tea, the whole t shirt series.
There's let's just say I have enough to last for
the entire rest of the year. Then I started thinking,
we do a collage of all of them and frame it. Okay,
we're not going to go that far. Oh, Danny can
do that. No, you frame it, okay, get them away,
(08:23):
sure ahead and do that. Yeah, sell them off. Have
you sign them on one of one, have you sign
them Okay, we'll do that. So the on the website.
Buggy Joe has a couple of things. First of all,
it's time for the really nasty toxic plants. That's the
first thing. At the wild parsnip. And then so uh
(08:47):
bring those posts back right there. Especially, don't touch the
wild parsnip or else you'll be you'll be messed up. Yep. Yeah,
And they don't eat the poison mlocker. You don't care
about touching them well parsons, that's true as well. Uh
maybe need some shlip of that's after that. I mean,
I don't think your lips would move after that. Backrooms
(09:09):
are coming. They are already trees, They already on the trees.
They're hanging out with the cicadas.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Don't see those as much as as we have to
look a little bit harder. But there are still out there.
Did you see the uh cicadas I'm tired of.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Did you see the story of the cicada that caused
a car accident and you're here in locally. No, they
get in the car, Yeah it got Look someone had
the window open and got in the car and they
freaked out and started swatting at it and racked and
turned the car over. Oh really, No, I didn't see that.
Oh my goodness. It's like, okay, it's just the bug
(09:42):
isn't going to hurt you. They don't have a mouth,
they can't bite you. All it's going to do is
its flutter and you're just weird. Yeah, it's weird. So
I know they're gross. Yep, you don't smell. They don't
smell nice when they're well, they do when they're live,
but do you smell when they're a live I don't
get you know what that's given? Got next? Well, the
thing that and it's not on the bucket list either,
(10:04):
hasn't made it up to your nose. It's okay, it's
not something that I don't really plan on doing. Got
it now? As well as eating one, right, I don't
eat want I'll eat one bug. And that's and that's
very famously, uh been documented for every cue grasshopper Rita
has Rita has well, Rita has a recipe of the week,
(10:25):
and I took it upon myself to have two recipes
for this phase. Yes, for this week. So Rita's recipe
of the week is a snappea kind of salad kind
of thing, yeah, with herbs for the health conscious father
and go along with Frank's ribs though recipe last week.
(10:47):
Well as funny as you say that, because that's the
other I brought that back up to the top. Well, absolutely,
I'm not going to have fathers the weekend be snap
pea salad. You don't snappy salad. No, okay, you can
put it next to it. I want some ribs. You
can put it next to it. Eat a little bit
of that snap piece out, look at it and go,
that's not what's better not be on my plate. You
(11:12):
can have this snap piece salad. I'm in you know,
there's you know, I'm trying to be more health conscious.
But on the Father's Day, snap peace salad. I mean, look, okay,
I'll look at the ribs and I'll call it snap
peace salad. There you go.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Or you can look at the snap peace salad while
you're eating the ribs. Yeah, pretend there you go. Yeah,
it's the best snap salad I've ever had.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I want to know the room snap oh me, oh gosh.
And the plants of the week are the father Special
Father's Day plants of the Week. The first one is
verbina and the second one is globe and merath. Yes, yes,
(12:04):
so annuals. Yes, because June is annual month, isn't it
perennial month, perenial month. You're close. It's one or the other.
It's one of yeah, fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It's perennial month. But those two, I'll tell you what
I tell you. The great pollinator plants kind of give
you a more natural look. I am totally impressed with
what they draw into your containers or to your plantings,
So be sure to check them out. And they are
available local garden centers as well, and still plenty of
time to plant those as well. So exactly there you go,
all right, And June is perennial gardening. Juna is perennial
(12:35):
garden month.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yes, it's also pollinator Awareness month. Yep. It's also it's
also Turkey Lovers Month, remember that, Joey. Yeah, exactly, yeah,
I remember that one. Nothing, never mind, I remember that one.
And it's also it's because actually I just have happened
to have the well you're talking wasting time. The uh,
(13:00):
it's killing killing time. The website that has all the
different days is also National ax Throwing Day. June's a
whole bunch of days of months and days and all
that it's National ax Throwing Day, Ax Throwing Day. It's
Weed your Garden Week, Lead the Garden Week. Yeah, I'm
(13:21):
not practicing that. It's good therapy. I'm not practicing that. Okay.
It's also National kitchen Klutz this week. Kitchen Klutz. Yeah
that you drop stuff in the kitchen, I guess. And
it's uh, there's a couple other things, so find that
on I'm sure you can google that and check it out.
(13:42):
So it's it's Fight the Fly month. Whatever that Fight
the fly. I don't think you want to fight the fly.
I want to kill flies. Don't they help pollinate? They
flies are number two family of pollinator. I don't want
to fight the flies on the list. I'm not going
to celebrate that behind those bees. I'm not gonna I'll
break that either. It's National Iced Team month, yagn have
(14:03):
that Cucumber month, Mango month, pluot month. What's that? That's
a thing like a plumb, right, I don't know. You
don't know what a pluot is, mister gardening. Wow, go
on the Facebook page under in the chat room and
(14:23):
tell Ron Wilson what a pluot is? There? You go,
all right, that's it. That's all. That was fun. There's
a ton of other things, but it has nothing to do.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
With one of the Eddie and Joy things. We did
that one time about June being all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Eddie and Joey were their own specific entity that came
in and did that.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And that's why I said, I thought you would love
it because it's Turkey Lovers Month. You're like, what that's it?
Never mind?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Oh me, all right, that's it. That's time for me
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what I thought.
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(19:42):
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Good mon, I mean, welcome back. You're in the garden
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and eight two three eight two five five talking about
yarning on his Father's Day weekend. And again, like I
said earlier, no guests, it's you and me talking yardning.
So give us a buzz. If you've got questions or
tips or comments, we'd love to hear from you. To
Oakley we go, John.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Good morning, Good morning Ron.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
How are you John?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I'm great? How about yourself?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Good?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
I got a question about my autumn blaze red maple tree.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Sure, so, I bought.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
It last October and it was professionally planted. It's it
was baldenburg apped about two and a half three inch
diameter trunk fifteen feet tall, so it had been doing
really well. But now the leaves are turning red like
it's fall.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Did so it put out new.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Growth yep, and it was green starting.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Off right, and the leaves looked good. I mean it's
full size as best you can tell.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yeah, and it's kind of killed out.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Right, and your watering schedule has.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Been, well, we've gotten so much rain here that I
haven't had water it a whole lot, but I did
water at times. But like just last weekend, I had
over three inches of rain here, right.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I think the thing that also to do John, And
the first thing I'd look at when they start to
turn red like that, obviously there's some kind of stress
going on. So then we take a look at and
you can go through transplant shock, and that does happen
when you get into a two and a half inch
three and a half inch caliber or larger. Sometimes it
takes a year or two for them to adjust and
(24:42):
you know, get started to get rooting in and things
like that, so you got to get them time. But anyway,
the first thing I would take a look at, even
though we've had all of the rainfall that we've had
through the area, is how much is that actual root
ball getting from that three inches of rainfall, Because sometimes
that rainfall may run right around the outside of that
planting area and not really penetrate, or it drops down
(25:03):
the side and that fresh soil that they use for backfill,
but yeah, doesn't penetrate the rootball. So what I would
like for you to do is just go out there
just to be sure. And actually, you know, either dig
into or get a moisture meter, or stick your finger
down and check the immediate root ball to make sure
that it is getting good and silked. Now you know,
(25:24):
you get the same symptoms from being too dry from
being too wet. So on the other hand, if that
was in a hole that the water, you know, the
soil is such that it doesn't drain very well, and
the water actually does flow into and down into that
hole and it's sitting there. Now, those maples can tolerate
(25:45):
and they enjoy moisture in the ground, but on the
same token, when they're brand new like that, you can
over water. So it's it's both ways. So that would
be the first thing I look at. If you look
at the rest of the trunk of the tree, you
don't see any scars, you don't see any nick You
look on the branches, look for anything unusual like scale,
and that does happen sometimes, but the real small little
(26:08):
bumps on the branches. Look for that, just to make sure.
But the first, you know, if I came to your house,
to be the first thing I'd do is look at
the trunk i'd look at where it's going into the ground,
I look at the stems. I'd be looking for anything
like the scale. Then the next thing would be looking
at trying to figure out where the moisture levels are
around the outside and inside that immediate root ball. See
(26:29):
where we are there. But more than likely what you're
saying there, I'm going to say, it's an issue of
the transplant and of course too wet, too dry, one
or the other. And a lot of times when they
do start to turn red like that doesn't mean it's over,
doesn't mean they're done. You know, it's part of the process.
And sometimes the green back up again all of a
sudden they're green again, or they hold those partially red leaves.
(26:53):
But you know, do all of that check to make
sure look for all of those. The moisture level is
going to be, I think going to be important. I
have even John taking a real small shovel and dug
down the side of the root ball. If I thought
it was staying too wet, to get down and see
what's the moisture level, like down at the bottom of
that h at the bottom of the root ball, and
(27:14):
see where you know, if it is it actually holding water,
So that would be the thing I would I would
check out and then you know, if it continues on,
send me pictures of it. I'll try to help you
out as much as I can, uh to you know,
if I see anything else on there, feel free to
email me pictures. But and then whoever installed it, obviously
it's guaranteed. I get in touch with them as well
and say, hey, I'm you know, a little concerned because
(27:36):
now these leaves are starting to turn red. You know,
what should I do? And and and make sure they're
aware of it as well.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Right, so I do have a moisture meat or I'll
go out and check that right now.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
But go down deep.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
When I first got it, I had a deer guard
on it, yep, And like four days later a buck
got to it and still kind of got through the
deer guard, And there are some scrapes on the trunk,
but nothing deep. And I shaved all kind of the
little pieces that were there, right, But yeah, that looks
just pretty minor really.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And it didn't go all the way around the trunk
of the tree, right.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Well, it was in the front partly in the back.
But like I say, it's just kind of scrapes. It
didn't go and real deep right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And again if you're could you know, feel free to
take pictures of that and email me and I'll evaluate
what I think it's looking like as far as because
that can be a part of the issue. Also, it
does slow down even though it's just a scrape and
took the bark off, you know, it still can slow
down that flow of food and water up and down
that tree. And I could take another look at that
and see what try to give a diagnosis looking at
(28:40):
that as well. That could be a minor issue going
on there.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Yeah, and I do, I do have pictures, so yeah,
I'll email you, okay, and I'm going to go out
there and use my moisture meter.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Now just check that rootball, Yeah, in the immediate root ball,
and then check around the outside. And then, like I say,
you may even wind up taking a hand trow or
something and digging right down the outside of the root
ball where the backfill is, just to get down to
the bottom to make sure it's you know, is it
dry or is it wet?
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Right?
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Yeah, I'm thinking it's pretty wet because when it cut
the grass, and yeah, it's you can see that the
soil all around the rootball is wet.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, and again that's you know, you get the same
symptoms both ways, so it could be one way.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Or the other.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Right, Okay, I'll go check on. I appreciate your help, all.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Right, John, Now watch for you email just in case.
A right, good talking with you. Let's take a quick break.
We come back. Betty and Dayton, you're coming up next.
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Speaker 1 (32:00):
Dayton, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
I have a problem I've heard you talk about before,
but I didn't take any numbers because they didn't have
the problem all right. On my front porch, I noticed
a bumblebee going in a little crack at the bottom
of my front door. Who do I call to get
that taken care of?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Is it an act? Is it a bumblebee or is
it a bee? You know, like a.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Honeybe It's a bumblebee. Okay, I don't know ever two
at a time, right, It's always one at a time,
But I want to get it out of there.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
So it's going up underneath your your doorframe or the
door itself, all right, And I'm just guessing, Okay, I'm
just guessing. But I would almost guess that that's a
carpenter bee. Very slow flying, I mean very you know,
not real fast or anything, just kind of moving along,
lumbering along, and it kind of crawls up on a
(33:00):
beneath the wood. I'm almost gonna guess if that's a
carpenter bee. And what they do, of course, is they
drill holes in the in that wood, and it's usually
the female and she lays eggs in that and a
little bit of pollen and that's how they reproduce. So
they put these little holes in there. And I'm guessing,
based on what you're telling me, that's what it would
be in that case. You know, you really don't need
(33:21):
to go to the Southern Ohio Beekeepers Association or Central
High Beekeepers.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Those would be.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
If we have honey bees going in and out of
a hole in the wall, that's a different story. But
the carpenter bee then that would be just a general exterminator,
you know, exterminator service that would come out and take
a look at it. And in many cases, if it
is a carpenter bee, one of the easiest things to
(33:48):
do they're so slow flying, is that if you've got
like a tennis racket or something, you knock them down,
step on them, and it's a done deal. I mean,
and I'm being honest when I say this, they're so
easy because they're solitary. There's just one or two flying
around and that's it. And then you knock them down,
step on it, and it's a done deal and it's
(34:09):
you know, it's you finished it right there.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
But if you can't.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Do that, then then it would just be a normal
exterminator service that would come out and hopefully be there
when that carpenter bee happens to fly in and out
that they could take care of it for you.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Well, I've seen the carpenter bees and I do know
what they do. Okay, usually at the back at my
wooden deck. Right it might be a carpenter bee, but
to me it looks like the the bumblebee. But like
I said, I always just see one if it were
(34:45):
a bumblebee, would I be seeing more?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
H No, you know, and you got to figure carpenter
bees are kind of in that same class as the bumblebee.
Uh So they're solitary bees. So you have a female
that goes around looking for place I mean, and all
they're trying to do is reproduce. So they go out,
they mate, and then they try to find places holes, cracks, crevices,
places to lay those eggs, put that pollen ball in there,
(35:09):
and continue to reproduce. So that's that's what they're looking
to do, assuming again that that's what it is, you.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
Know, So it's take I'll take care of this one,
and then we'll see if another one appears.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, see if another one shows back up again. And
what I would do is, once you take care of
that one, can you can you like put your your
hand or even if you could get a little mirror,
real flatten mirror and slide it in there to see
if you can look underneath to see if by chance
that's what they were doing, was drilling a hole back
up underneath there, or using that that crevice as an
area to lay eggs or whatever to hang out, and
(35:44):
you could you be able to see it that way
with like a little mirror or something that would reflect
back up and see what you find out. And if
you're not sure, you take a picture of it, send
it to me, email it to me. I'll do my
best to help figure out what it is for you
and we can take.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It from there.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Okay, well, I'll take care of this one and we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
All right, let me know how it turns out for
I would like to hear the results.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
All all right, Betty, good talking with you. And yeah,
you know, the thing one is with those and they
can be destructive. Of talking about the carpenter bees because
they do drill a lot of holes usually the other
the bumblebees and all hole in the ground, hollow stems,
things like that. And they'll also go and cracks and
crevices places like that.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
But you know, the.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Carpenter bee can be destructive over time. I have always
let them work on my deck. I don't it's a
pressure treated wood, and obviously over time that treatment starts
to leach out. It's not there like it used to
be at the very beginning. But I've let them do
this this the deck that I have there now is
probably fifteen years old maybe, or maybe a little bit
(36:51):
older than that. And I noticed the other day where
I've let them go in a couple of the handrails
for years, starting to get pretty riddled. And what you
can do in a case like that, and most of
the population is now really started to slow down, don't
see too many of them around, is that in those
holes that are there is to go to stick a
wire up in there, just to make sure that there's
(37:12):
nothing live like an egg or a pupil up in there.
It's still hanging out. Stick that up in there, make
sure you take care of that and then come right back.
If you use something like liquid nail construction adhesive, I
like a liquid nail and just you know, pump it
up in there. That will dry, fill in the hole
(37:34):
and actually add structure back to the wood. And if
they come back, they're not going to drill in there.
The old thing used to put beep like stick a
brillowpad or steal wool in the hole or whatever. Just
put the do. Liquid nail makes it easy. You get
this like a calking gun, You squeeze it, you fill
up the hole and it adds structure back to the
wood as well, and I've got quite a few, so
(37:55):
I will probably sometime this summer. There's a couple of
boards have been boy, they've just been riddled. I may
take them off and replace them. If it's not too bad,
I will just take the liquid nail and fill it
back up again. But what I did, what I was
going to say, is what I did notice on the wood, uh,
a piece of wood that I don't see. It's it's
like to the outside of the railing and there's our
(38:17):
heat pump is there, and all that don't see it
that often on the side of the wood where they've
drilled the holes up from the bottom. You know, woodpeckers
if they can, if they know that that there's something
in there, they'll peck through the wood on the side
to go after what's inside that hole. And we've also
seen where you plug up the hole and what was
in there turns into an adult and actually can choose
(38:38):
its way out of there, but woodpeckers goletric. I got
a couple holes where the woodpeckers actually went in and
drilled a hole of the outside. I'll probably wind up
replacing that piece of wood. But on my point, being
is I let them do their thing. I understand if
it's in a you know, in a situation soften around
the house something like that. Uh, you know, primary the
(38:59):
primary pieces of wood. You don't want them drilling in that.
I get that, and I would do everything to protect
that as well. Fortunately, they've always just gone to our
deck and their railings and that and it has not
been an issue, not caused a problem, and like I say,
I go back and fill up the holes as needed.
So I got them do their thing because I know
there's such a great the female, such a great pollinator,
(39:20):
and how important is to keep them around. But you know,
if you can live with them, great, If you can't,
you know, I get it. Totally not an issue, and
if you know, we want to try to save as
many of the bees and the pollinators and all that
that we can. But that's a situation where you're also
protecting the home the structure of where they're drilling. And
I've seen them over the years. You know, eventually they'll
go into a fence post and drill so many holes
(39:44):
eventually that it starts to decay and then just fall over.
Thanks to the thanks to the carpenter, beet So they
can be very destructive, there's no doubt about it. And
some cases you've got to go after him, but otherwise
I let them do their thing. Now, if you see,
like Barbon and I were talking a couple of weeks ago,
if you see the bees, the actual honeybees going in
and out of your foundation and out of a hole
(40:06):
or whatever the side, different story, And that's where you
want to get a beekeeper to come out, take a
look and try to diagnose what's going on. If they
haven't started to form a nest in there, they'll seal
up the whole, stop everything and be done with it.
And you may lose a few that are inside there,
but that's the way it goes. But you know, again,
you got to protect that. You don't want them putting
(40:26):
hives inside of your walls just doesn't work. So anyway,
And if you do have that, or you have the
swarms and they're still doing that, And if you're in Ohio,
we've got Southern Ohio beekeepers, Central Higo beekeepers, Ohio State beekeepers,
there's a whole bunch of them out there, Knox beekeepers
that would love to come and collect up those swarms.
(40:46):
So you know when you see it, if they hang
around for a while, they don't panic, They're not after
you give the beekeepers a call, let them come and
collect those up. They would greatly appreciate that, especially after
what we've gone through this past winter, such a high
honeybee loss. And with that, June is also pollinator Awareness month.
(41:06):
You know, we talked, Joe and I were kidding earlier
about all the things that June's noted for and another
one happens to be pollinator Awareness month. And you know,
I think when we look at all we were talking
about this for a long long time. It's no big deal,
and you probably get tired of be pushing it all
the time, especially when we get into the drought, talking
about watering all the time. But they are so important.
And you see things like this that happen to these
(41:28):
bees and major major losses that will affect us down
the road in pollination, lack of pollination, lack of bee products, honey,
things like that takes a long time to recoup from that.
So I look at that and it stimulates me even
more to get out there and do all I can
to continue to plant for these pollinators, not just for
(41:49):
the bees, but for all of monarch, butterflies, the bees,
you know, all the different types of bees, all the
pollinators that are out there to go and do some planting.
As a matter of fact, we kind of did our
annual raised beds and a couple containers and things, our
annual plantings around our deck. I came back this week
and got three large black nursery pots that are about
(42:12):
twenty inches in diameter and they're only about twelve inches deep,
kind of a squat pot, and I potted those up
with strictly pollinator plants tropical milkweed. I did actually actually
did tuberosa milkweed in there. I did the gomfrinas, I
did verbenas, I did lantanas, I did vermilion, you know,
(42:34):
the cigar plant. I did all of these plants a combination.
I wasn't concerned about the colors or the look, but
what I was concerned with was adding as many of
the pollinator friendly plants that I could in these two containers.
And we've got other things in the planters that would
draw them in. But I did these two specifically in
addition to what we've already done. And again it's just
(42:56):
a very small part but it does help. All of
this adds up. So as you're listening to our show
and you're saying, you know, I don't have any I
got a couple of window boxes, or I just have
a few. Those count and those work and they will help,
There's no doubt about it. So you know, again, there's
plenty of time to plant, plenty of time to plant
(43:16):
annual it's a tony plenty of time to put perennials.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
In the ground.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
June is perennial gardening month, so you know, think about
the pollinators as you're planting. It gives you great color,
great flowers. You enjoy them, but the pollinators enjoy them
as well. And I think it's a very important part
of your planning process when you're planting. And I did
two extra ones just for the heck of it, just
for those pollinators. My wife's like, what are you doing?
(43:41):
He said, I just adding a couple of extra here
that we're gonna just kind of nestle in and let
the pollinators enjoy it. So there you go. All right,
this show today Father's Day Weekend is you and me
talking yardening. Buggy Joe Be coming up at the end
of the show, but otherwise it's you and me eight
hundred A two three two five five Here in the
(44:01):
garden with Ron Wilson, Green.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Tom or not.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Ron can help at one eight hundred eighty two three talk.
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