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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 yarding. It is the fourth
of July weekend, and hopefully you had a great fourth
of July. A lot of folks off three day weekend,
maybe a fourth day weekend. I did not travel, Danny
did not travel. I wasn't going to get out of
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that mess this year, not this year, six hundred or
what is it, sixty million people on the road, Nah,
I don't think so. So we stayed home. But I
kind of chuckle because when our show, which obviously is
on on Saturday mornings and every now and then every
once in a while, July fourth is on a Friday.
I don't know about you, Dan, but you try to
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go to sleep, you know, early, because you have to
get in here at four in the morning. Well guess what,
fire fireworks are going off till about eleven. So it's
kind of tough to do. And as a matter of fact,
we give Joe Strekker off today because you know, he
just can't take it, can't sleep very well. So we said, hey,
don't you don't have to come in on the fourth
or the fifth of July, so he's off, so you
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got you're stuck with me for the cup. But me
and Dan, it's always Dan and Me in between, always
in between. But I just I still try to do that.
I still try to go to bed early. And the
problem is if you go under nine or nine thirty,
that's just when everything's starting to fire up. And in
our house, to add to the whole nine yards, I
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don't know about your house, but we have a dog
and our small dog, she's a miniature Docson, and Miley
doesn't flip out with the fireworks, but she does not
like them, and so when they start shooting off fireworks,
she tries to snuggle in next to you as close
as she can get under a blanket or whatever. Shouldn't
flip out, but she definitely does not like them. Well,
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last night, Miiley decided she wanted to sleep on my
pillow on my head at when I went to bed.
So between Miley on my head and trying to be
comforting to her and the fireworks, I don't think either
one of us got to sleep till about midnight. So anyway, yeah,
I know, don't you feel bad? Does your cat flip
out with us.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
She looks at me, and I don't flip out anymore,
so she just ignores it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh, so she looks to you for encouragement. Yeah, and
then goes on yep, And I guess it was Miley too,
because she doesn't really flip out. She just wants to
little comfort. So anyway, here I am laying in bed,
try to go to sleep, fireworks going off everywhere, with
a miniature docks and on my pillows wrapped around my head.
So that was the deal yesterday here last night, trying
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to go to sleep. But anyway, it was a typical
fourth of July here, sunny, great weather yesterday. Actually it
was hot, I mean it was nineties, but it wasn't
as humid, so you know, I mean it was hot,
there's no doubt, but not quite as humid, but the
typical fourth of July, and lots of fireworks going off
as well. So hopefully you had a good one and
enjoyed it. You know, it's interesting right now. You know,
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we've got pretty much all of our planting done at
our house. I've got as matter of fact, I am
planting three more perennials of this morning, and I'm trying
to think I think we have all everything container wise,
there's nothing left to plant, so I think we're good
to go. But what's interesting is is I look out
every day about oh and now that I'm semi retire,
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I'm home by about two o'clock. I look at the
plants that are in full sun around two thirty or so,
and even though they've been in for four weeks or
so now and starting to get rooted in, well, when
they're hit with that hot afternoon sun, they will still
wilt down. And I know that. I go out and,
you know, make sure they've got good moisture in the morning,
all good to go. But by bay time you get
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to that, they're wilded down. And then by the time
the sun gets off of them by six o'clock, guess what,
they're standing right back up again and looking good. And
I look at that and I say, you know, that
even gets my attention. I know it's gonna happen, and
you know, it makes me understand why it could be
so confusing for a lot of folks, especially if you've
never done any gardening. When you're out there and you're saying, man,
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I've got these things soaked. I'm doing my watering really well,
and they still wilt down. And you know, there's a
point where these plants just can't take enough moisture up
from the root system, even though the moisture's there and
replace what's being lost out those leaves and out those stems,
especially if they're newer planted. Makes it even tougher. Hydrangees
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are probably in woody shrubs one of the worst for
doing that, even if they're established. I see hydrangeas sometimes
that are in full sun situations, which I'm gonna be
honest with you, which I'm always honest with you, But
hydrange is you know what, any of them do the best.
Any of them do the best when it's morning sun
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and shaded from the heat of the afternoon sun. I
think they all perform much better if they get that condition.
But there are hydrangeas, the peniculatas they'll take the full sun.
The oak leaf will take full sun. So you know,
there are borestens they'll take. They'll take that sun as
long as you can get some moition to them, you know,
to help them out a little bit. But the point
being is you get into that hot afternoon sun if
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they're newly planted, it's it's bad if they're even if
they're established, they'll still wilt down. And it gets very
confusing because you're like, I just watered those and I
feel the soil and they're wet. How can this be happening?
And so you've just got to remember and watch these
and the annuals improve. As the annuals continue to get
rooted in through the season, you see that happening less
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and less, and so I'm seeing it happen less and less,
but it's still happening. And if they're in smaller containers,
they dry out fast, they warm up, you know, whatever
may be. But it's it's tough. So don't let that
confuse you. If you know you're soaking your plants really well,
you know you're soaking your containers really well, then you
know they've got good moisture. But they continue to wilt
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down in the heat of the day. The key is
take a look at them later in the evening or
first thing in the morning. Later in the evening's usually
fine because they'll come right back up idran just sometimes
take a little bit longer. So by morning, if they've
got sufficient moisture in the ground, they'll be back up
and looking normal. Don't over water. If that's the case,
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keep up your regular water. Let them get close to dry,
soak them close to dry, soak them and don't over water.
So many times we will then take plants, especially like
the hydrangees and some of the annuals as well, and
water them all the time, trying to keep them from wilting.
And when you do that, you're causing what root decline
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because they're staying too wet. Their roots start to decline,
and guess what, now they can't take up more moisture.
So it all just comes together and you lose the plant.
And then a lot of times that's what happens in
mixed annual containers. You know, you've got some plants that
root in very quickly. You got some plants that don't
root in very quickly, and it takes them a little
bit longer. You got some plants that they'll take the moisture,
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and you got some plants that you know they wanted
to try out. Give me some moisture, let it dry out.
I don't want that constant moisture around my root system.
So you wind up watering down on a you know,
everything the same in those containers which you have to
and you wind up losing a plant or two here
and there. That happens sometimes, and I see it, you know,
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it happens that our planters occasionally. So I think the
point being is, you know, watching these over the last
several days with the heat and all, I understand how
frustrating that can be to you sometimes when you look
at that. So the kicker is if you're looking at
him in the middle of the afternoon and they're wilted down,
you know, and you know you've got good moisture in
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the ground, you can tell you put your finger moisture
meter whatever it may be, and they still will down.
But then you come back late in the evening or
in the morning and they're back normal. You're doing right,
You're okay, all right. Water as needed if if they are,
you know, don't overwater them, and that's the whole point.
If they aren't recovering, then they're probably too dry. If
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they aren't recovering, they're probably now have gone to the
point where they've got root rot and can't take up
moisture anymore. So it can be frustrating. That's where that
moisture meter can be a good friend. You know you're
sticking your finger in there. It works. But the moisture
meter can and be a real good help for you too,
just a really quick check that hanging basket, really quick
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check that container. Even indoor plants. And I mentioned earlier
that my wife is getting more into She now has
this shelf, multiple shelves of indoor plants, so she's been
collecting and doing whatever, and one of her biggest frustrations
is going through and find out what's wet and what's dry.
And I finally said the other day, can I bring
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you a moisture meter, Maybe that would help you out
a little bit. And then you can just go through
and just touch it in each one and really does
help you out that way, So keep that in mind.
You can buy moisture meters for ten bucks twelve bucks.
They'll last a couple of years for you get another one.
Sometimes the moisture meters comes with the moisture meter and
a pH meter tell what the pH of the soil
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is at the same time. But they really can be
helpful for you this time of the year when you're
not sure should I be watering or shouldn't I be watering?
And the same with like container plants and balden burle
plants you've planted in the ground. You know that does happen.
And I told you the story I believe it was
last week about the folks working with them with the
dogwood that they had planted planted properly. I saw everything
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that they did was outstanding, the whole the soil amendment,
the whole nine yards planting depthle was perfect. But this
dogwood was wilted the entire time, from the two days
after was planted. It just never perked up, never yellowed,
nothing fell off, but it stayed green. But it just
wilt all the time. And he sent me a picture
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of it, and I could see there was already starting
to grass starting to grow around the backfill around the
outside of that dogwood. And I said, you know, if
you check the moisture, and he said, yeah, it always
seems to be moist soid oh, you know, he put
a moisture meter in and took a picture of it,
sent it back to me said we said, well we
may have a problem. So he dug down the side
of the root ball in the backfill just to see
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what the soil moisture was like. Down deep into that
and he got about four inches down. It was solid water.
The soil was not draining. And so whenever it did
rain in this particular case, and when we will always
count on rain as being a bonus, when it did
rain just rained right into that, or when he water
did drain right and it never went anywhere, it just
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sat there. So that can be a situation where there
it just stays too wet, and again the moisture meter
was telling him to staying too wet. We dug down,
we found out, and adjustments were made, and hopefully the
dog would we can we'll be able to save it.
I'm not sure, but we'll find out as time goes along.
But anyway, that's something you might want to do yet
this summer or fall, if you're plant doing a lot
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of planting in your yard and garden, just do a
perk test sometime and taker we're gonna take a break,
I'll come back, I'll tell you more more about that
perk test, and we'll be taking your calls. Jim hang
On at eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five here in the garden with Ron Wilson, Green Tom
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Speaker 1 (15:05):
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 yarning. Uh. Before we talk
about the percolation, let's go to West Virginia and talk
with Jim Jim.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Good morning, Good morning, Ron. How are you doing.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Today, Jim? I'm great. How about yourself?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Doing fine? Doing fine? I have three questions for you,
sure I have. I'm doing a lot of container gardening now,
and my uh, zucchini and my yellow squash plants are
looking great. And all of a sudden I have the
trouble with the squash bug or beetle whatever it is,
gray paying eggs underneath the big broadleaves. What can I
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do to treat that?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
That's a tough one, I mean, it really is. If
you know, the secret is if you can find those
eggs before they hatch, is perfect because you can wipe
those off with your finger and done deal, and you
don't have to worry about them. You know, the aults
are not that susceptible to insecticides, and of course you
probably don't want to use many insecticides. But if you do,
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you know they there are sprays you can use. I
think spinosids labeled for that. Eight ei g h T
is labeled for that. But it's tougher when they get older,
which is when you see the most of the damages.
So that's a tough one as well. Covering them over
with a grow cover is a natural way to try
to keep mounder control vacuuming them off if you keep
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a handback out there that when you see them you
can go and handback them off. That actually, for container
gardening isn't too bad. And I think the other thing
to remember Jim about about those is that they you know,
they typically they show up right about now or earlier
and then they're done. And one thing that you can
plant in mid July for a late crop would be
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like cucumber's zucchini, most of the squashes depending on how
long it takes for maturity. But you can actually come
back in with a second crop and get past that
first generation, you know, doing it that way, so if
they do, by chance get you, you can pull those out,
come back and plan a second one and still get
a crop late in the season.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Okay, another question I have is I have a chaining
fence about six foot high, and my neighbor has a
wooden fence, and we have about two feet or excuse me,
about a foot between the two fences. Having trouble with
choke berry is growing up in there, and it's the
branches are coming through the fencing and so forth. Is
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there anything I can do to try to get that
under control? I know the butterflies like to go on
that on the berries.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah. Is it choke berry? I mean the woody shrub.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yes, it's The stems are about inch inch and a
halfter like red colored, kind of hard, and then the
leaves are kind of broad and the erry almost look
like grapes. They are very small and they are white colored.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I thought it was chokeberry, pokeberry, poke weed, poke berry,
and then it's kint a white flower. Then you get
the berry, big leaf on. It dies back over the winter,
comes back up in the spring. Yes, yeah, yeah, poke weed.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And you probably remember the song poke salad Annie. That's
what she poked slad. Annie went out and gathered up
her poke weed that she ate And it's very toxic,
by the way, so don't do that. You can eat
the sprouse but again I'm not I'm not suggesting that,
but that's what it is, and you're right some of
the pollinators do like it. But it comes back two ways.
It can come back from the root system. It can
also come back from all the seeds that you see
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there that will drop down. The berries they drop down,
and of course have the seeds they come up, et cetera,
et cetera. So to stop it from if you want
to stop it from coming up twofold one is if
you went through and put a pre emergent herbicide in
that area in early spring, that'll help stop some of
the seeds from germinating and coming up. Secondly is then
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as you see it start to poke up, it's very
susceptible to any of the non selective herbicides. It's succeptable
to a week like a broad leaf weed killer as well,
but I would be interested in using more like a
non selective like kills all from fertilome high yield for furnloms,
kills all and just kind of spray it through at
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a younger stage. Once you do that, you got rid
of those plants so they don't come up and flower
and have the seeds and then the pre emergence stops
the seeds. That should stop them from coming up in
between that section. But yeah, poke weed, if you want
to google it and double check for sure that that's
what it is. But pretty sure that's what you're talking about.
But very toxic, remember that.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Okay. One comment I want to make is I I
had a trip down to the Greenbrier Resort and I
stopped at a small gas station and the show had
a giant earned about three and a half four feet high,
just overwhelming with petunias all over cascading the side of
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the urn. So he went into the station there and
I said, what are you feeding your plants? And he goes,
I don't know, sir. He says, my wife comes out
about every three weeks and she puts a can of
beer in two gallons of water.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And that's how she No kidding. Wow, I've never heard
of that one. But that's interesting enough. I'll tell you
I wouldn't want to waste the beer on him. But
there you go. Well I have to look into that one.
Appreciate it, Jim, good talking with you. All Right, we
take a quick break, we come back. Phone lines are
open for you. At eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Don't forget our website, Ron Wilson online
dot com. We'll talk about that after the break as well.
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And percolation in your lawn here in the garden with
Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (23:07):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Don't forget our website. Ron Wilson online
dot com will talk about what you're gonna find on
that here in just a second. Two things. One is
the beer. You know what I always think of when
I think of the beer. And yeah, we've we have
heard that before and it was if you remember this
guy many many years ago, and if you want to
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get buggy Joe Boggs riled up, mention this guy. Maybe
I'll do that. I'll save that for later on. Jerry Baker.
And Jerry Baker, you know, was on the TV, HGTV
or whatever, had his own thing, had all of his
books about all these natural ways to garden. And I
remember my aunt bought me the book for Christmas, I
think one year. And you know, one of his things,
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I think for the lawn, and I don't remember exactly
was beer, human urine mixed diluted in water, et cetera,
et cetera. I'm a great whatever for the for the yard,
and of course you could feed other plants with it
as well. And of course, as time has gone along,
some of these things that they do like that, they've
done research and showing that, well, okay, it's you know,
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it's got beer, has some minerals in it, and it's
got the brewers YaST in it, and you know it
can't do this, and it can't do that. You got
to dilute it with water. You can't pour it on straight.
You got to dilute it. And it's like a one
to ten, one to twenty. I mean, it's a lot
when you use it. But you know, could affect the microbes,
could affect the insects that are in the soil, et cetera,
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et cetera. So you know, it kind of basically said, yeah,
I don't know about doing that. But in her case,
it worked. And that's what I think is kind of
cool about gardening is that folks have things that they
do and they work and it worked for her. But
Jerry Baker I think used to promote that as a
as one of the ways to feed your lawn, but
he mixed it with human urine and water and something else.
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I don't know. But anyway, we'll bring up Jerry Baker
when Buggy Joe's on later on and see what see
what I bet it? I bet it. Know. We'll hesitate
for a second, and then that should put.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
My finger on the dumb blonde when you mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, I've got mine ready to go right here in
front of me. So yeah, we'll have to see what happens.
I got you. Anyway, talking yarding at eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five percolation in your yard,
And I think it's one of the things we don't
talk about a lot. And after working with these folks
with this dog would last week, it really made me
think about, you know, how important that is. A lot
of times we don't realize how poorly our soils drain.
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We we all complain about, oh I got you know,
I'm working in this heavy clay blah blah blah uh,
but do you really realize how bad it is or
how bad it may not be. And by just simply
digging a hole and I think Joe said something about
a twelve inch by twelve inch old. I usually do
a little bit larger than that, fifteen to eighteen inch
hold down wide square, dig it out, put water in it,
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let it get moist around the sides, let it all,
you know, drain out, whatever it takes. Then come back
and feel that thing up, and then see how long
it takes, you know. To me, and I think again,
everybody's different on the on how long it takes to drain. Now,
but if it drains out of that hole within the day,
that's not too bad. Half a day is great or
less if it drains right through outstanding. But that gives
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you an idea. And if you put it in there
and it's still there the next day or two days later,
you know you got a problem. And if you got
a problem like that, that's like putting plants houseplants in
a pot that doesn't have a drainage hole in the bottom.
Water just sits there. And what happens over time, Eventually
it starts to decay and the plant is just water
logged and it eventually rots and dies. So excuse me
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some folks who say, Okay, I put gravel on the
bottom of the hole like I do in a pot whatever. No,
that doesn't work because all it does is creates a
well a place for water to sit. But it's going
to fill that up and come up past that anyway.
So what you have to do is come up with
another way to get the water to drain away. And
I've always said this planting a tree, if we could
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go in there with with tough soils and dig that
wider hole, only go as deep as you need to
go for planting the tree with a much wider hole,
and then take like a ditch witch and do an
astros through the middle of that hole about four times,
going on about six to eight feet away from that hole,
make an astros and just put the soil back in
those channels. You create these channels for the roots to
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go out into the soil for the water to drain
out away from that hole. It does work. It takes
extra time, tears things up a little bit, but it
could be a long term to help you out to
get those plants grow, trees growing nicely. And I've seen
this happen many many times where they just sit there
because it's just you know, it just doesn't do anything,
and they'll start to root out across the top under
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the sod, which happens a lot anyway, but that helps
to get get them a better rooting and better drainage.
Maybe you have to plant a little bit higher, maybe
you have to mound a little bit, things like that.
But anyway, doing a percolation test can be really helpful
to find out how well you're soils drain when you
get out there to go to plant those evergreens, those
trees and shrubs whatever may be out in that yard.
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A prepped bed where you've tilled in soil amendments and
all different story, but you know where you're planting, you know,
a pocket plant of something into the to the ground.
Totally different setup than planting in your beds and you
raised beds and prepped beds and things like that. Uh,
real quick, let's go to Dayton and talk with our
good buddy Dick from Dayton.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Good morning, Hey, good morning. How are you?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I am doing great in yourself?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
All pretty good.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Did you get any good get some fireworks last night?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
They had some over at the little place here, you know,
over at Starting Rich. Yeah, it was they had like
they it was like sparklers and boy, it just looked
like smoke from a car. Cute. That was cute. And
they had Little What I liked is they had the
simulcast of iHeart Radio nationwide. They had oldies all through
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the day.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Oh wow, I mean so you had the better hitter,
so you were singing all day long.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Oh my gosh. It was good. Johnny be good that
Kentucky Headhunters. They had Walked Softly.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
The Dumas Walker is one of my favorite of They.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Had Mike walk Softly was good.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, that's a good song too.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
And then they had Little Richard. Uh did a couple
of songs I liked, and then uh, there was another one.
Uh they went over to the country of iHeart Radio.
Oh and I sang that song. Uh they put them
my Uh it was called uh close Up The Hanky
Talks by Buck Owens was good.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You like buck Owens.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
I always loved buck Owen loves going to live here.
I did you know, sing it. But they have exercises
every morning here at they it's really nice. And then
they have trivia and then you know, it's funny. I've
never played bingo every every day. This week, I've won
three or four games this week.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Really, yeah, now that do they have any gardens for
you guys to do any gardening or anything?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Yeah they have, Yeah, they do, they do. I saw
some people planting the flowers around the you know where
the walkway is. You know, it's really pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It's nice and we might have to get you involved
with that too, so or else he go out and
sing while they're planting.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Yeah, guess what the rads are doing?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Good, buddy, isn't that something? They're right there? You never
you never know. Just when you're ready to give up,
they come back again.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Hey, you know what three weeks I was lost without
a phone.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I'll bet yeah, I can't imagine it.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Yeah, I just is glad to be back, you know.
And I enjoy it myself here, buddy, I love it.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
That's that's what counts as that is you can do
that and you still get to play music and you
get to sing and hear good music and have a
good time.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
We'll have a good day, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Right, Happy Fourth of July weekend, Dick. Pleasure, always a pleasure.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Okay, have a great week, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Take care Dick from Dayton right there by the way
our website. Ron Wilson online dot com. We do have
our plants of the week, we have Rita's recipe and
a few other things. So let's take a quick break.
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Speaker 1 (33:27):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again.
That toll free number would be eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five talking Yard. Don't forget our
website and I when Joe's not here to do the
cup of Joe, I always forget to you know, get
back in and explain the website because, uh, there's a
lot of great things that we post on there for
you to uh to take a look at and learn
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during the week. Uh so you can check it all out.
A couple of great articles the Asian Needle Ant supposedly
seeing it. You know, we had a couple of reports
in our area you may have dealt with before. But
Joe did a nice job explaining what it is, what
to look for, et etcetera. But not a big issue.
String tremor damage and what that can happen. We talk
(34:09):
about why one of the reasons why we malt around
our trees is to prevent lawnmower disease and string tremor disease.
That's what that's all about. They could eventually wear the
bark down on your trees. Nice article about that. You know.
Joe and his galls. He loves to talk about galls,
and I don't blame this. They're pretty cool the way
they insects can make the leaf do what they wanted
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to do. But galls on poison ivy and sumac and
this little mite that causes I think it's a miter
or fly that causes those galls, you know, And that's
a pretty tough little bug to be able to sting
a poison ivy bud and still have it to create
these galls around his little house for their eggs and
then the insect hatches out and goes from there. But
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he talks about that. I think it's pretty cool. And
of course the two best articles on there, one of
course Rita's Recipe of the Week. She always does such
a great job, and this week, for the fourth of
July weekend. It's baked feta. Baked feta, yes, and the
picture is outstanding and it looks good to me. I
would take it. And it's a pretty easy recipe for
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you as well. Baked feta with tomatoes and a regano.
Think feta, tomatoes aregano. They all go together. I mean,
it's outstanding. And this is a heated up all its
just baked in a castle roll. You can't go wrong.
But that recipe is for you. And then our plants
of the week get a couple of them for you,
(35:35):
all right, one is and they both kind of go
with the fourth of July weekend. The first one is.
I'm still, like I said this morning, still planting in
our garden yards. I think I got three more plants
to go in and I'm finished. But when I'm planting
this morning after the shows are over, I'm planting three Rubeccias.
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We're adding to the front of our landscape because they
just flower all summer long to do such a great job.
But I'm planting American gold rush. This one was a
Perennial of the year in twenty twenty three. I had
been growing it. I don't know three or four five
years before that, and they finally chose it as Perennial
of the year. Absolutely outstanding. This has three inch bright
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golden yellow flowers all right, and kind of a reddish
halo surrounding that chocolate cone in the middle is make
a really nice flower. Gets about twenty four inches high
maybe thirty six inches wide, very compact and round it
so it's really cool. You don't have to do anything
to it. It's great. A little dead heading every now
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on them, but otherwise it flowers all summer long. It
shows good resistance to leave spot, which some of the
other ones can get. Butterflies and pollinators love it. Songbirds
enjoy the seedheads and the winter, great winter interest. You
can grow it in the ground growing containers, but it's
definitely dinner in the show. It's American gold rush rude
bekia and adding three more of those to our landscape today,
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and I think I should finish this up for the summer.
The second one, of course, is the fourth of July tomato.
Fourth of July tomatoes, which is absolutely still one of
my favorites. I don't think I've ever recommended the fourth
of July tomato, and it's a medium sized tomato about
four ounces five ounces. They come in clusters. It's a tough, durable,
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great tomato, very good producer. It's an indeterminate. It was
bread by Burbie many many years ago, and it's a
fifty four day tomato. So it's a quick to produce,
quick to ripen, and it's a good one. And I
don't again, like I said, whether it's in a container
if you can stake it because it is an indeterminate,
or in raised beds or even in the you know,
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in the regular garden wherever folks have planted. Fourth of
July tomato has been a very consistent producer for Again,
like I said, I don't think I've ever ever had
anybody say I did not like that particular tomato. High
volume of tomatoes, great flavor, good disease resistance, early ripening,
which this year. I talk on a good friend of mine,
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Terry Diefenbaker, who is a professional tomato grower. We've had
him on a show in the past in our area
just getting ready to start picking tomatoes. He said, this
is the latest and they planted him in early May,
earliest or the latest that they've ever had as far
as getting ripen tomatoes for their produce stand, which is crazy,
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but it is. It's late. My mom's just now start.
I planted hers early this year, just now starting to
get a few tumbling tom's, the real small ones, the
red and yellow, although it hard to find the reds anymore.
Early producers and the usually do those in a couple
of containers. She's starting to get some off of that already,
but that's usually three weeks ago that they started producing.
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So tomatoes are late in our area this year. I
don't know about yours, but they're late. And again talking
to Terry Diefenbaker, the TD of Tomatoes, he's the same way.
So anyway, American gold Rush, Rebeccia and fourth of July tomato,
and you can learn more about those and read his
recipe and the galls and all the great articles at
Ron Wilson online dot com. Back to the Guardening Fund lines,
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we shall go Pat in Delaware. Good morning, Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I'm good serving yourself?
Speaker 7 (39:19):
Oh good, doing good. It's I've cooled off, so it's
quite enjoyable out.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
We'll take that.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
Oh yeah, hey, you're talking about dogwoods. There's a good
story for you. I in my early days growing up
in Oakridge, Tennessee in the early seventies. I remember going
down with my dad. Oakridge wasn't built until World War
Two for the Manhattan Project, so they had what they
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called chi roads. There were evactiveuation routes, and we would
go down it was about seventy eight years old, go
down to the on them of one of these on
the other side of the mountain, and there was a
creek bottom and white dogwoods grew wild, and we would
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dig up samplings and come back and plant them.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
In the yard.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
And there's just wild white dogwoods and those suckers grew
like weeds.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah, you know that the corners Florida is a native
dogwood and as an understory plant, and yeah, you're right.
In Tennessee, lots of them, uh I know. And we
lived in Indiana. We would there were quite a few.
You would see scattered again on the edge of the woods,
more of an understory, but you'd see them a lot.
And as a matter of fact, same way when I
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was a kid, most people had had them, didn't get
them from the nursery. He went out and found one
in the woods and transplanted it, and you know, if
you could get it to grow and back into your
yard and get it that way. So but it is
a native uh. And you know again in some areas
just absolutely gorgeous the way they fill in. They they
seed well, so they've got you know, young was coming up.
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But what a great story that you remember that from
when you were seven or eight years old.
Speaker 7 (41:08):
Now, No, here's something I encountered yesterday. Have you ever
seen black snake eggs?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
No? I have not, and I would you know what?
And I know I thought they hatched their baby. Their
babies live?
Speaker 7 (41:23):
No, well, no, yesterday I had a weird encounter.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
Not.
Speaker 7 (41:31):
All I can deduct is these are black snake eggs
because I think I found the mother fifteen feet away
dead and there was like about a half dozen eight
of them and there was blood around it. And then
found the snake. It was about three and a half
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feet long. All I can figure out is some black
snakes produce live. You know, I think these were black
snake eggs.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Interesting, I know, I haven't. I'm not aware of that.
I wonder something happened and she just discharged them or
something or I don't know's that's interesting.
Speaker 7 (42:13):
Yeah, because they don't usually discharge in the in the
grass like that. They usually do it, you know, in
a hidden area.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Right, was what happened to her? You know, I was
talking with somebody about snakes yesterday in the garden, and
we all know that how good they are for the garden,
and you want to leave them alone, let them do
their thing. And I don't mind as long as I
see them ahead of time. If I reach down and
there's one, doesn't do me good, doesn't do my heart good.
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But otherwise I tolerate them and I let them do
their thing. But I hate being startled by a snake
when you're out there doing whatever in the yard and garden,
and then there it is. I know what came up
because the lady down the street from us had was
having a couple of snakes in her She found them
in her back around her patio and was kind of
flipping out because there were these snakes and what to
do and repellents and all that and to get rid
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of them, and of course everybody was trying to convince
her to just leave them alone, let them do their thing,
and there are snake repellents that you can buy out there.
My question always was where do you put it down.
You know, they crawl around and they you know that,
I know the areas that they'd like to hang out in.
And then they come out in sun in which they
do this time of the year, soaking up that sun.
But where do you put the repellants down? And of
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course the bottom line was just let them do their thing,
because they'll, you know, help keep down the road, ands
and insects and all kinds of things. So you got
to leave them alone. But I admitted I'll deal with them,
and I don't have any problem with it. But I
do not I'm not a snake fan and I do
not like surprising me in the garden. Now are we're
going to take a break in our next hour? Jerry
rose a giant pumpkin grow where we're going to find
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out where he stands? Right now? Where do the giant
pumpkins look for this year? Where there's crazy weather we had?
What are they dealing with? Bottom of the hour? The
doctor's with us, Doctor triple a Alan Apple Armitage all
happening here in the guard with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
Help.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
So let's do it yourself.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
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