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Eight hundred eight two three eight twofive five. Good morning. I A'm
Run Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about yarding on this post July
fourth weekend. Who really, really? You know, I can't even think
I was. I not supposed todo that. Well, you're you whoing
about the fourth of July and misteranti fireworks? How my anti fireworks?
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You said you did? You hatethe fireworks except for on the fourth of
July. I know, except fromthe fourth of July. Correct, during
it when it's not celebration time.Yes, you don't like the fireworks,
right, Okay, just clear thatup. I like certain fireworks. Other
fireworks not so much, not somuch. Okay, anyway, anyway,
it's good. Yeah, yes,Joe Struck, our executive producer. You
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all know Joe takes care of awebsite, Ron Wilson online dot com,
Facebook page in the garden with RonWilson. Did you have a good fourth
of July? I had a greatfourth of July. Did you have a
lot of fireworks all around you?Tons of fireworks all around me? What
are all those dogs doing when thefireworks are going on? See? One
of them was knocked out because Igive him some medication to make them more
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of our friends do that. That'sall I talk about. Yeah, we
got about seven o'clock, give itso and so. Yeah it works whatever
chill them out. But well itworked for one of them. One of
them was knocked out. Uh.The Chewy was underneath the bed because he
was freaked out. That's where healways goes. And the other two they
were just acting like nothing happened.I mean, who was knocked out?
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The docs No, Fritzie was,Oh, Fritzy the bee Shawn was out.
Okay, was going going strong atten o'clock at night, really wanting
to play, and kept on bringinghis ducky up and like throw it.
And I'm like, I gotta goto bed. I gotta work. You
build a rams so you can geton the bed. Now he jumps,
Oh he can get up there.Yeah, jeez. He with certain toys,
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he can't get up there. It'sso funny to watch you. If
he got a certain toy in hismouth, he'll jump and he'll hit the
side of the bed, hit theside of the bed. You help him
down, all right, I'll helpyou help him get down off the bed.
Now he jumps, all right,Let him keep doing that? Why
shelled out our life savings on oursfor doing that? Fix your back?
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Wow? I don't know what tosay. I mean, I had I'm
for warning you. I had steps. Did you know they got they have
bad back problems and they jump down. It's not going up. It's always
going down the stairs or jumping offof things. Okay, not all of
them, but they're noted for havingthe back issues. I'm just forewarning you.
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Remember don't you remember that? Yeah? I do? But man,
you know, thanks for being captain. Bring down here. I'm just forewarning
you all. All the doction ownersall get together every time it's like,
so's years they were heading back problems. Yes, well he's two, so
he's still young. That's when Mileyhad hers too. He's not whining about
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anything, so I guess he's okayand he made it be just fine.
I'm just forewarning you, man,anything else you want to let's see what
else can I well, what theprey do you want to? So?
Anyway, he's jumping up and down. You're right. If they have it's
too heavy, they can't get upthere too, balty And if it's not,
then they make it up there.Tell you what though everyone says Doc's
have attitudes buster he when when theyplay, he's definitely aggressive. I mean
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he's he's really really meek when whenhe's not playing, when he's playing,
he goes he goes for pretty Imean, and he goes after Ronzie's neck
and his ears. And when outsideplaying it's just like, wow, I
know they're just playing, but youhope they are anyway, Yeah, they're
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just playing. It's fun. It'sfun to watch them. Yes, yes
it is. Yeah, so Ithink the fourth was uneventful. Speak do
I do that? So? Yeah, so Hans he starts digging for it.
I don't do that. But whatI do is do that because he's
like, no, what they startdigging if I if I need to,
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like, if I'm like, ifI call him and he doesn't call and
he doesn't come, just squeak something. I just squeak something. It's just
like drives some nuts. Well,what's okay? Another sidebar, what's funny
is that when I come home andthey'd be like three or four toys laying
on the ground. He knew howwhenever a Docson sees you, he has
to like bring you something. Hedoesn't know which one to pick up it.
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See, either're all the same becauseMiley does the same things. She
doesn't get home, she has somethingin her mouth. Yeah, she goes
and grabs. She doesn't no matterwhat it is. She just grab something
to bring you. Yeah. Andit's like and if there's like four or
five toys, he doesn't know.He's like running around like, Okay,
do I pick up the bunny?No, he doesn't want the bunny.
Maybe the ducky No, maybe notthe ducky. Oh, maybe the lamb.
Oh, I don't know what topick up. He just runs away.
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They all do that. Yeah,it's amazing, just totally amazing.
So it's so adorable. They're fun. Okay, so we wasted five minutes
rare, so waste it. Itwas a good conversation though, Yeah,
fun conversation. So it was,Uh, it's a decent fourth. I
didn't do I didn't wind up anyfireworks this year. We didn't really have
anything planned. And uh, Ijust uh, do you want to make
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potato Sally? We didn't do anything. Oh, I didn't do anything.
Nothing we did. We didn't momAnd let's see, Mom and dad just
act like it, act like itwas another day. Both my kids were
gone. They were out with theirfriends, so it was just you and
the dogs, me and the dogs. And I went and tried out my
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new smoker and made myself ribs.Oh yeah, now do you eat those
dry? Do you eat those withlittle sauce on there? Then would be
would have Montgomery at the beginning ofNo, no, and no. It
was a it was a different kindof sauce. But when I cook them,
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I don't put sauce on them.I just dry rob them and then
put the sauce sauce on bladers.Yeah yeah, so yeah, worked like
a charm. I went, Ibought two kinds of potato salad Yesterday,
Wednesday? What was yesterday? Friday? Thursday? I'm totally lost. You
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don't even know what they say.I was off Friday Off. Then Independence
Day was Thursday. So this wastwo days ago. Yeah, so Friday.
I'm like, keep telling myself today'sFriday, Today's Friday, Tomorrow Saturday,
because I kept thinking it was Saturday. I was all confused, and
I'm still confused anyway. So Iwent on Wednesday in preparation for Thursday,
and I bought two types of potatosalad herbed potato salad, which was outstanding,
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and blue cheese salad. Potato salad. Really, blue cheese potato salad
is phenomenal. If you've never hadthat before, it was unreal. I'll
bring you some blue ch you likeblue cheese, blue cheese, you have
blue cheese potato salad. Unbelievable.Oh my gosh, it was good.
So did you do any gardening?Definitely? Did I do any gardening?
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No, No, I think nothing. He cut the grass. It's I've
wanted it every other day. Yeah, Now I didn't didn't get planted yet.
It's playing it, okay, Iplanted it now, that's it.
Initially took a took a hit whenI planted it, okay from the shovel.
No, the flowers kind of poopedout, so I well they'd print
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them, all right. But I'vebeen I've been watering it every other day,
like you said, and it's Iguess it's it's just kind of okay.
And it's not dead yet. Wellthat's a plus. But it should
start growing because it is a rebloomer, okay, so should put out new
growth and more flowers eclips. Itwas upside joga, so the goal anyway,
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so yeah, mm hmm, cheese, potatoes and ribs and ribs.
I would I would go good withthe ribs, it would. I made
baked beans too, baked beans.See what I did was it was the
two hours for the ribs, andafter one hour I put the beans.
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Put the beans in there with them. Oh it's very good. Yes,
so uh. Anyway, any who'son the show. Who is on the
show? Rita Hike if I wasgoing to join us this morning talk about
her recipes and then talk about theherb garden and what's going on there,
and then doctor triple A. Thereyou go, Alan Apple Armitage Quay this
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morning. Yeah, so he'll beon with us. Cool and of course
you and of course Buggy Joe ofcourse, Garry Sullivan awesome and Danny and
me in between and the website RonWilson online dot com. Buggy Joe go
on vacation this week. He's reallybeen backing on the last couple of weeks.
He was on vacation last week,by the way. Oh, that's
I explained it. So that explainsit. So not really anything from Buggy
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Joe. But if you missed anythingfrom the last couple of weeks, you
can go ahead and go still onthere, and it's all still on there.
Check it out. Rita's got acouple of recipes this week. The
first one was s'mores, so ifyou're still grilling, grilling, or you
doing something with the kids, there'sa spores recipe that is pretty cool.
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And her other recipe is grilled chickenwith Greek. Yes, sounded good.
Mouthwater does sound good. My wifegot her our second batch of peaches from
the peach truck tour and they havea peach somoras recipe on there using peaches.
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Huh interesting interesting, very interesting.So yeah, and then there's a
picture of Rito's Greek chicken there.It's pretty pretty dark, pretty good,
it's pretty dark. Dive into that. Yes, how does she take those
awesome pictures? I don't know,but she does. She's very good at
it. Yeah. Of course sheuses those in her articles and things like
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that too, so well, yeah, she's a pro. She is.
The the plants of the week,Yes, the plants of the week.
There's two this week. Yes,uh, we'll go to the number two
first. It's the Red White andBlue annuals. Your list my list of
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Red, White and Blue annuals.Yes, So if you're looking to be
patriotic, check out the red,White, and blue A Joe did is
actually did his homework and came upwith his list of red, white and
blue flowers that you can plant tobe patriotic. Yeah, not just for
the Fourth of July weekend, butfor for all seasons. It'll be always
patriotic. And the second one isthe annual Fourth of July tomato. Now
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we've had the fourth of July tomatoas a plane of the week. How
many years in the what what?Mhmm what what? At least at least
a couple of years. Yeah,oh, it's been longer than that.
Yeah, and it's still been Neverhad anybody complain about Fourth of July tomato.
That's one tomato nobody's ever complained about. It's easy to grow, and
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they taste yummy, and yeah they'rea nice little little tomato for getting ready
for the absolutely medium sized him aswe're almost into the big time tomato season.
Yep, we're getting there now.The freshmans are starting to come in.
Yes, there you go. Sothis is the plants of the week,
all right, And uh, I'vewasted enough time this morning. So
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it was fun It was a greatconversation. It was fun. It was
fun. Usually we don't talk aboutour dogs that much. Yeah, it's
fun. It's good. Joe Streckerour executive producer. If you like,
we just see on our website atRon Wilson online dot com or the Facebook
page. In the garden with RonWilson. Joe Strucker had everything to do
with it. But something on thereyou don't like. You don't sure.
I'm not sure about that. Idon't know. Not my fault. Don't
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blame Joe. Blame the pinball Wizarddoctor Z in Washington, d C.
Garden eighty three. I haven't seenany pictures of that, is pinball Wizard,
No, the garden, the garden. I've seen him playing pinball,
but I mean he's busy playing pinif he was on tour for that for
a while. Did you see himplaying golf? I did you see and
his sweetheart with his sweetheart? Didyou know something that wasn't on her finger?
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Yeah? Really of course she hadmaybe had a golfing glove on.
Maybe you couldn't see. I don'tthink so. I don't think so either.
The bowser is really good at drivingthe cart, so he is he
is. He's got a lot ofpractice from from the VESTPA. So yeah,
there you go, all right,anything else, that's it all right?
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free number eight hundred eight two threeeight two five five talking about yardening on
this post. July fourth Weekend.Got a text from Rone this morning and
says that the in the Garden chatis in the fan page this morning in
the garden. So you go onFacebook that particular page, not in the
Garden with Ron Wilson, but inthe garden, and that's where they're chatting
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this morning. So if you're lookingto do that and say hey to Ron
rothas the Arbor Dock and everybody elsethat gets on there, that would be
in the garden on Facebook, notin the Garden with Ron Wilson. He
always keeps me updated there every nowand then I don't know if Joe sets
up the little chat link for that, and sometimes it works and sometimes it
doesn't, or maybe he forgets.I'm not sure, but nope, Joe,
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as you're young, as we usedto be, so he probably forgot.
Joe would never do something like that, so you know I would say,
no, he did not. Itjust didn't work. Nevertheless, we
do have the bailout with the inthe garden fan page, so check that
one out as well. You know, this time of the year, as
you know outside, maybe not spendingas much time out there in the garden,
trying to stay cool inside. Ialways I like going through looking at
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some of the gardening catalogs, refreshingmy memory of some of the great tools
that are out there. I'll tellyou one of them is Gardener's Supply Catalog.
I think it's one of the bestgardener supply catalog and they give you
so many great ideas for raised beds. I mean, you talk about just
across the board, they really haveit covered. They do a wonderful job.
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But it's Gardener's Supply and I thinktheir website is just gardeners dot com
if I'm not mistaken. But theother one I always liked is Am Leonards
Gardener's Edge, and they're located inOhio, Picklell, Ohio and Am Leonard's
always been a professional tool source forthe professionals only, and many years ago
they came out did a retail websiteonline ordering called Gardener's Edge and they do
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have a great selection of gardening toolsand other cool things as well. And
one thing they have on there thatI have not talked about much and I
actually got one of about I don'tknow. They've had these for quite a
while, four or five years ago, and it really does work. It's
called it's called their garden glide,the Linyard garden Glide. It looks like
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a saucer that you ride, youknow, it's in the snow around saucer
with handles on it, but it'sflat and it has a pretty high lip
around them, especially the back ofit, so things don't fall off.
And then it has a pull ropein front of it with a ski handle,
like like if you're skiing, soit's easy to pull. So you
put things in this, like clippingsor whatever you want to drag around they
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need to move around the yard,and then you just pull it behind you
and it pulls right across the topof blacktop or gravel or the grass or
whatever it may be open soil.It's really very easy to pull. It's
amazing what you can pull on thisthing without get involved with a wheelbarrow or
you know, something like that.But it's called a linyard garden glide and
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they're not that expensive. But ifyou want to look at it, go
to Gardener's Edge catalog. It's gardenedge dot com. And of course that's
where I get my soil knife.I always get it from Gardener's as there
are so many different soil knives outthere, it's crazy. You know,
you don't have to go to thatone. I just happen to use that
one and it does a great jobfor me. And you can get it
in a sheet that you've got apair of am Leonard. They have very
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professional type prunters that fit in thatwith it as well, so be sure
and check that out. And ifyou have problems with the wast hornets and
yellow jackets, they've got a fataltrap. You take a two liter bottle,
you stick this thing on the side, put some lemonade in it,
and then going through the whole drownd. It's pretty cool. It's called a
fatal funnel trap anyway, Gardener's Edgecheck it out. Sometimes great tools quick
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at eight hundred eight two three eighttwo five five, Good morning. I
am Ron Wilson, your personal yardboy on this post July fourth weekend.
You know, there's all kinds ofplants of the year, the Year of
The National Garden Bureau does the Yearof every year, you know, the
different types of plants, just tobring recognition to different plants. And I
think it's a great great way tomarket plants to you know, the folks
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that don't realize these plants are outthere and believe it or not, there's
actually one that's uh it's the Associationof Specialty cut Flower Growers. They have
their cut Flowers of the Year.And I don't know if you've bought custom
cut flowers arrangements or whatever. Todaywhen you look at some of those arrangements,
and I always have folks say,what is this? Can you tell
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me what this plant is? Well, this grow in our yard. Most
of that I have no idea whatit is anymore. They bring so many
things in from all around. Theyuse so many unusual and different flowers and
foliages in arrangements, it's crazy.But they do have their specially cut flower
growers cut Flower of the Year,and these are typically plants that you can
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grow in your yard and garden anduse them as cut flowers as well.
The recipient of the cut fresh CutFlower of the Year Fresh Cut Flower of
the Year twenty twenty four is asnap dragon called Potomac apple blossom. It's
a really cool one, very intense, kind of a white and pink together
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gives you that apple blossom type look. But a heavy producer. But again,
although this has grown, it's aa Zone six grower said, this
stuff is tough. I've grown atmy yard. It's trout and all the
gardens they do absolutely wonderful. Soagain, too late to find it this
year in your local garden centers,but look it up. It's called Potomac
apple blossoms snapdragon. And if yourlocal independent garden center doesn't grow it or
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doesn't have it, maybe they lookat it for next year for you to
grow in your yard and garden anduse it as a cut flower as well.
But it's called it's the fresh cutflower of the year. Snapdragon,
potomac apple blossom, heavy duty,really sticking up their long, nice plant,
very very nice and it's from whatI understand, a mid spring to
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midfall bloomer says grown close together forlong stem production. So in other words,
when you grow them closer together,obviously they grow more. Upright,
we plant angelonia, and if you'renot, this is a year of that's
speaking of which the year of Thisis the year of Angelonia through the National
Garden Bureau bringing angelonia to the forefront. Have you ever grown angelonia as an
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annual? It's outstanding and it's kindof it was actually kind of dubbed as
as a substitute for snap dragons.It kind of kind of has a snap
dragon look, but the flowers aresmaller, upright spikes, nice foliage.
This angelonia is tough. I meanit is tough and durable. There are
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some creeping or rieties that will kindof lay over the side as well,
but the upright varieties are absolutely phenomenal, but it's angelonia and it's a great
substitute for snap dragons if you likethat. Look, the point being is
we grow them. I put themin our pots by our front door faces.
The west just gets beat, Imean it gets beat. And you
put a little Leisa Machia in there, the creeping jenny coming down the side
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of the pots, and then theangeloni on the top, and there's purples
and whites and pinks and reds.There's several colors for you to choose from.
But we plan them real tight inthere, so what they do,
and the pot's not all that bigin diameter, they grow straight up and
so I get more upright flowers outof those, and they're absolutely gorgeous.
But snapdragons are pretty darn tough aswell. So fresh cut flower of the
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year snapdragon, potomac apple blossoms,so keep that one of mind. Then
they do a cut foliage of theyear. And I had no idea that
they even use this for cut fullfor cut foliage and arrangements. That kind
of blew me back when I whenI saw this. But it's thornless raspberry
Joan j. Now, I've neverheard of joan j before it's from burpie,
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produces long loads of stems all seasonlong, lots of new growth obviously
for lots of the berries. Butthey used that, I had no idea
they used that for cut flowers andflower arrangements. I don't think I've ever
seen that one before. But it'scalled joan j and joan Jay has great
foliage, but it's also reliable,care free and produces you know, berries
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as well. It's a primo canecultivar, so keep that in mind.
So that means it bears fruits onthe current year's growth, which is kind
of cool. But it's I didn'tknow they used thornless raspberry foliage and cut
flowers, but there you go.It's the cut foliage of the year.
And then the bulb cut flower ofthe year is daffad Oh. Cheerfulness and
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cheerfulness is available out there for you. That's one. It's been around for
a while. Cold hearting zones five. It's mostly white with a yellow center,
very heavy flower, very multiple bloomsper stem, absolutely any nice fragrance
to it as well. Great forcut flowers, and again you'll find that
this fall in your local garden centers. That's the daffodilt cheerfulness and it's like
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I say, it's been around fora while. And then the fresh the
fresh cut flower, woody plant,so that would be like you know,
a woody plant, tree or shrubwhatever is. Brandy Wine viburnum. I
love that plant. Brandy Wine viburnum. Great foliage, absolutely great foliage,
real glossy green. So you canuse it during the season. You get
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the white flowers in the springtime,and then the berries and they form a
lot of berries at the tips.The berries are multi colored, so as
they change colors, you get everythingfrom ivory green to ivory to pink,
then to blue, and they gothrough those different stages. And this one
does well and you'll find this atyour local garden centers. It's been available
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for years and years and years zonesfive to seven or five to nine I'm
sorry, and gets about six feethigh six feet wide something like that.
But the lots of flowers and lotsof berries. So the woody cut flower
of the year brandy Wine vi burnam. So yes, they do have actual
cut flowers of the year as well, and all of those can be grown
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in your yard and gardens, Sokeep that in mind as well. And
if you don't remember all of thoseand you didn't get a chance to write
it down, don't forget. Youcan check out our podcast or just email
me and I will send you backthe information. But it's always interesting because
the cut flowers they try when theypick cut flowers of the year, they
try to pick things that you canactually grow and use. But it's amazing
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the assortment of things that are usedtoday, flowers and foliage and things like
that and arrangements. When we gotmarried, my wife and I back in
the late seventies, shows you howold I am. We went to the
small florest in Sydney, Ohio toget our flowers for the wedding, and
me being in the business green industryand I was still in college senior year
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and all that kind of stuff.But anyway, you know, always into
the plants and they had all kindsof house plants and stuff. We did
had them do all of the bouquetsand everything out of foliage plants, yeah,
like zebra plants and things like that. We had pothos and stuff,
and then we had white roses inthere and all. It was pretty cool
there was something they had never donebefore, and now you see it all
the time. Hey, look,I was on the cutting edge back in
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the late seventies, but that's whatwe did back then, and they were
just they were all flipping out atthis small town florest because we were actually
using foliage and with a few flowersfor all the flowers and arrangements and all
in the bouquets and boutineers and allthat for our wedding. So it's pretty
cool. All right, Before wetake a break, what do you say
we travel up to Dayton, Ohioand talk to our good friend Dick from
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Dayton. Dick, co morning,Good morning, How are you? I
am great in you? Oh,pretty good. It's been been kind of
a slow week. I'll be glad. I have to go to the Dosmer
Club tonight and play. You know, not many things going on during the
you know, the fourth I wassurprised, you know, yeah, I
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figured they'd have you out playing patrioticmusic on your ukulele. But now it'll
be back to normal. You know, we'll play a lot of concerts here
in July. But uh, yeah, I happened to go in fourth of
July. I went over down herein Dayton, So it's down there at
Woodman Drive. I bought some apparelwith the Bengals in the reds in Ohio
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State. Wow, they had everythingseventy five to ninety five percent off,
and I got about let's see,I got a Bengal, two Bengals,
three reds uh to Ohio State.And course my cousin. I talked to
her. She's been. She saidshe's been there out in that sun.
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She's been planting flowers and things.And she said that she goes to the
lows down there in Cleveland and shetold me, Dick, there's nobody there.
Huh. I tell you, Dick, there's no people weft And I
told her, well, that's probablywhat's happened in Beaver Creek. But she
said that it was a packed placein this weather, you know what I
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mean? Yeah, yeah, peoplestill planting, still out there planting.
So yeah, still out there planting. Well, well we got to go
have a little hope, don't they. Oh yeah, you know it's like
they say, it ain't over tillit's over. No, no, and
it ain't over yet. So we'reonly halfway through there, so we got
plenty of time. They can bringit back, they can bring it back.
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Oh well, you know, I'mgoing to go back to the store
and see if I can uh seesome of my friends. I think they'd
be glad to see me and drumup a little bit for him. Yeah,
or play music, right, yougot it, play music there.
I think it would work. Allright, Dick, good talking to you.
All right, take all right,take care, quick break, we
come back. Phone lines are openfor you at eight hundred and eight two
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three eight two five five. Comingup at the top of the hour,
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Eight hundred eight two three eight twofive five. Good morning. I am
Ron Wilson, your personal yard boytalking about yarding. Don't forget our website.
It's Ron Wilson Online and we haveall kinds of of course, our
podcasts are on there. You cango back and listen to some of the
segments. Of course, Rita's recipeswe got two of them this week,
and we'll talk to her about thatin the top of our next hour.
We had Nina Bagley on last weektalking about how you developed queen bees,
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and you can listen to that aswell. Very interesting and a lot of
folks now instead of buying queen beesare learning how to develop their own.
So interesting talking. I always learnedso much stuff when I talked to Nina
or Teresa or Barbie Bletcher about bees. I just every time I learned something
new, and it's so intriguing whatthey can do. It's just wow.
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It's crazy stuff, all right.Eight hundred and eight two three eight two
five five To Charlotte we Go John, Good morning morning, Ron, love
your show. Thank you, sir. I've got I've got an infestation of
Eastern Ciccada killers in my yard,Cakada wasting killers. I believe they got
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two stripes on their back and prettyheavy infestation of them. I believe that
their nest is embedded. And I'vegot a grouping of lilies, a circle
of them about six foot in circumference, and they're very thick. You can't
get a credit card in between them. So I don't know. I'm assuming
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their nest is in there. They'reall hovering around there. Is there a
way that I can get rid ofthose? Well, you know a couple
of things, John. The waythey work is that obviously they're not after
you, and I don't know ifyou've noticed that if you go around there,
they really don't care about you.They just you know, they're not
stinging. They could, but they'renot stinging type you know, insects or
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anything like that. So you know, they're just very much you know,
you see those things, it looklike a B fifty two bomber and it's
you know, it just blows yourway. So what they're doing is the
female actually digs a hole in veryloamy soil. Should they like it.
Usually where it's very sandy or loamysoils, like on the edge of a
bed or whatever. They'll go inthere and dig that hole. Then they
lay their egg down in that hole. And what they'll do then is they
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go in the grab a cicada andthey take the cicada and take the stuff
it down and that they'll paralyze itso it's still alive, and they stick
it down in that hole, andthen the larvae feeds on that until they
mature out and then they hatch outand come out as an adult. And
that's the process. And so they'reyou know, they're only here for one
thing and has to go after cicadasand to reproduce, and that's it.
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And like I say, they prettymuch ignore you, you know, unless
you would get in there and actuallygrab a hold of them. Really do
their stings, so not an issue, so you're quite it's a nuisance and
I understand that. And in openbed areas a lot of times if you
go in there and just flood it, you know, bring water in there
and set the sprinkler up and justget it really wet, they don't like
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that and sometimes that will chase themaway. To go to some other area.
You can dust the soil obviously withif you wanted to come in there
and you know, you dust withsomething like seven eight I think a spinos.
It's very toxic to them. Youcan do that as well if you
want. Again, it's a youknow, it's not hurting anything, it's
just very much, very much ofa nuisance. So there, you know,
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you can dust it. You cando that type of thing you want.
You can set up the sprinklers alittle bit and really soak it down
really well. That usually will kindof chase them away and then you know
they're gone. Eventually, they don'tlast very long. I remember I went
to the took my daughter the brickyardfour hundred in Indianapolis, Indiana, and
we pulled into it. They takea subdivision, they turned it into a
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parking lot, pulled it into thisyard and this yard had really sandy soil
and there were cicada killer wasps everywhere. I mean they were all over,
and everybody was in a panic.And of course I got out explained to
a lot of folks that were therewhat they were, and they weren't gonna
boy you cutter cetera. Then everybodystart kind of watching them, and they
were in the sandy your you knowareas where they were laying their eggs.
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But other than that, nobody gotstung. Everybody just finally ignored them and
let them do their thing and eventuallythey go what they're done. So,
but can you take care of them? Yes, the wet soaking the soil
sometimes works. Otherwise seven eight,probably Spinosa's spring like that. We'll knock
them down as well. Well,we'll try the heavy sprinkler route. That's
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that's an easy one. Give that. Yeah, give that a shot.
First. Your plants are gonna loveyou for it, and see what happens,
and if it doesn't, then youcan come back and do a little
spring. Okay, sounds good.Thanks all right, John, good talking
to you. And yeah, asa matter of fact, yet, it's
funny that John brought that up becauseyesterday went somewhere and in the parking lot
they had several locust trees and Iheard my first dog day cicadas. We
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don't have the periodicals in our areathis year, and I didn't, you
know what, I didn't see muchon the news. I don't know if
you did or not, but Ididn't see much on the news about the
double brew that came out in Illinois, you know, the west side of
Indiana, Illinois Missouri overnight area.I didn't see too much news about that.
It's supposed to have been really spectacularwith the numbers of cicadas, but
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we have none of those this year, fortunately, But we do always have
the dog Day cicadas, the annualcicadas. And to me, when you
hear that annual cicada doing its thingand it's a hot day, you know,
you hear that male singing like that, that to me is kind of
the sound of summer, isn't it. I mean, you know, we
sit down in the woods, arebehind you or whatever, and you hear
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the cicadas juring that sounds like summer. Well, I got out of the
truck. There you go, it'ssummer. In the studios. That's a
little bit heavy summer. That's alot of them. But that was my
first one. You got to gowith the sound effect I have. Oh
yeah, that works. That works, there's no doubt. But that was
the first Dog Day when that Ihad heard this year, and so I
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look forward to that, and ofcourse Dog Day cicadas they do the same
thing. The females lay the eggsand the branches of the trees. But
there are so few of them thatthe day images are rarely ever even noticed
because there's so few of them.And then of course a lot of times
this cicada's killer wass take care ofa lot of them. Anyway, But
yeah, I heard that yesterday,and that kind of made me feel good.
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I said, it's summertime, nodoubt, as the temperatures are starting
to reach ninety degrees and it washot and humid. But anyway, that's
that's the way it goes. Hey, you know, by the way,
talking mother nature thing here, we'llfinish out the top of the hour and
then get go to Rita on thenext to our next segment. And of
course doctor Alan Armidy's after that lastyear, I noticed on our patio and
our deck area that the cardinals rightabout now started showing up for some reason.
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We don't have a bird feeder thereshowing up and hanging out right by
our back door on the handrails andon the decking rail across the front of
this first layer of decking, hangingout there. Every day, you'd look
out there there be four or fivecardinals flying around and sitting there right outside
the door and outside the window,and I couldn't figure out why they were
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there. Now, when I usedto have a Harry Lowder's walking stick planeted
in that general area. When theyshowed up, I knew they were after
the Japanese beetles, and you'd getsome blue jays as well. Well.
I saw a blue jay yesterday too, so I'm like, wait a second,
So I knew there were no Japanesebeetles out there, although I did
find one in the zenias, butnot enough to attract the birds. And
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it dawned on me that I sawthe same thing happening last year at this
time our carpenter bees. And Iallow the carpenter bees to drill the holes
and put their eggs in there.When they start to hatch out, all
right, turn into adults and fallout of there to warm up the cicadas.
No one that's or the cicadas thecardinals. No one that's happening,
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and they're waiting for them to comeout. And sure enough I watched yesterday
was one sitting on the deck andall of a sudden this thing fell out
and it picked it up and ateit. They know when that's happening.
Mother Nature again just blows us allaway, doesn't she. Eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five RitaHeikefeld coming up next here in the Garden
with Ron Wilson. How is yourgarden growing? Call Ron now at one
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eight hundred eighty two three talk you'relistening to. In the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Eight hundred eight two three eight twofive five. Good morning. I A'm
Run Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about yarding on this post July
fourth weekend. Who really, really? You know, I can't even think
I was. I not supposed todo that. Well, you're you whoing
about the fourth of July and misteranti fireworks? How my anti fireworks?
(00:56):
You said you did? You hatethe fireworks except for on the fourth of
July. I know, except fromthe fourth of July. Correct, during
it when it's not celebration time.Yes, you don't like the fireworks,
right, Okay, just clear thatup. I like certain fireworks. Other
fireworks not so much, not somuch. Okay, anyway, anyway,
it's good. Yeah, yes,Joe Struck, our executive producer. You
(01:21):
all know Joe takes care of awebsite, Ron Wilson online dot com,
Facebook page in the garden with RonWilson. Did you have a good fourth
of July? I had a greatfourth of July. Did you have a
lot of fireworks all around you?Tons of fireworks all around me? What
are all those dogs doing when thefireworks are going on? See? One
of them was knocked out because Igive him some medication to make them more
(01:42):
of our friends do that. That'sall I talk about. Yeah, we
got about seven o'clock, give itso and so. Yeah it works whatever
chill them out. But well itworked for one of them. One of
them was knocked out. Uh.The Chewy was underneath the bed because he
was freaked out. That's where healways goes. And the other two they
were just acting like nothing happened.I mean, who was knocked out?
(02:07):
The docs No, Fritzie was,Oh, Fritzy the bee Shawn was out.
Okay, was going going strong atten o'clock at night, really wanting
to play, and kept on bringinghis ducky up and like throw it.
And I'm like, I gotta goto bed. I gotta work. You
build a rams so you can geton the bed. Now he jumps,
Oh he can get up there.Yeah, jeez. He with certain toys,
(02:29):
he can't get up there. It'sso funny to watch you. If
he got a certain toy in hismouth, he'll jump and he'll hit the
side of the bed, hit theside of the bed. You help him
down, all right, I'll helpyou help him get down off the bed.
Now he jumps, all right,Let him keep doing that? Why
shelled out our life savings on oursfor doing that? Fix your back?
(02:53):
Wow? I don't know what tosay. I mean, I had I'm
for warning you. I had steps. Did you know they got they have
bad back problems and they jump down. It's not going up. It's always
going down the stairs or jumping offof things. Okay, not all of
them, but they're noted for havingthe back issues. I'm just forewarning you.
(03:13):
Remember don't you remember that? Yeah? I do? But man,
you know, thanks for being captain. Bring down here. I'm just forewarning
you all. All the doction ownersall get together every time it's like,
so's years they were heading back problems. Yes, well he's two, so
he's still young. That's when Mileyhad hers too. He's not whining about
(03:36):
anything, so I guess he's okayand he made it be just fine.
I'm just forewarning you, man,anything else you want to let's see what
else can I well, what theprey do you want to? So?
Anyway, he's jumping up and down. You're right. If they have it's
too heavy, they can't get upthere too, balty And if it's not,
then they make it up there.Tell you what though everyone says Doc's
have attitudes buster he when when theyplay, he's definitely aggressive. I mean
(04:03):
he's he's really really meek when whenhe's not playing, when he's playing,
he goes he goes for pretty Imean, and he goes after Ronzie's neck
and his ears. And when outsideplaying it's just like, wow, I
know they're just playing, but youhope they are anyway, Yeah, they're
(04:24):
just playing. It's fun. It'sfun to watch them. Yes, yes
it is. Yeah, so Ithink the fourth was uneventful. Speak do
I do that? So? Yeah, so Hans he starts digging for it.
I don't do that. But whatI do is do that because he's
like, no, what they startdigging if I if I need to,
(04:45):
like, if I'm like, ifI call him and he doesn't call and
he doesn't come, just squeak something. I just squeak something. It's just
like drives some nuts. Well,what's okay? Another sidebar, what's funny
is that when I come home andthey'd be like three or four toys laying
on the ground. He knew howwhenever a Docson sees you, he has
to like bring you something. Hedoesn't know which one to pick up it.
(05:09):
See, either're all the same becauseMiley does the same things. She
doesn't get home, she has somethingin her mouth. Yeah, she goes
and grabs. She doesn't no matterwhat it is. She just grab something
to bring you. Yeah. Andit's like and if there's like four or
five toys, he doesn't know.He's like running around like, Okay,
do I pick up the bunny?No, he doesn't want the bunny.
Maybe the ducky No, maybe notthe ducky. Oh, maybe the lamb.
Oh, I don't know what topick up. He just runs away.
(05:30):
They all do that. Yeah,it's amazing, just totally amazing.
So it's so adorable. They're fun. Okay, so we wasted five minutes
rare, so waste it. Itwas a good conversation though, Yeah,
fun conversation. So it was,Uh, it's a decent fourth. I
didn't do I didn't wind up anyfireworks this year. We didn't really have
anything planned. And uh, Ijust uh, do you want to make
(05:55):
potato Sally? We didn't do anything. Oh, I didn't do anything.
Nothing we did. We didn't momAnd let's see, Mom and dad just
act like it, act like itwas another day. Both my kids were
gone. They were out with theirfriends, so it was just you and
the dogs, me and the dogs. And I went and tried out my
(06:16):
new smoker and made myself ribs.Oh yeah, now do you eat those
dry? Do you eat those withlittle sauce on there? Then would be
would have Montgomery at the beginning ofNo, no, and no. It
was a it was a different kindof sauce. But when I cook them,
(06:36):
I don't put sauce on them.I just dry rob them and then
put the sauce sauce on bladers.Yeah yeah, so yeah, worked like
a charm. I went, Ibought two kinds of potato salad Yesterday,
Wednesday? What was yesterday? Friday? Thursday? I'm totally lost. You
(06:58):
don't even know what they say.I was off Friday Off. Then Independence
Day was Thursday. So this wastwo days ago. Yeah, so Friday.
I'm like, keep telling myself today'sFriday, Today's Friday, Tomorrow Saturday,
because I kept thinking it was Saturday. I was all confused, and
I'm still confused anyway. So Iwent on Wednesday in preparation for Thursday,
and I bought two types of potatosalad herbed potato salad, which was outstanding,
(07:23):
and blue cheese salad. Potato salad. Really, blue cheese potato salad
is phenomenal. If you've never hadthat before, it was unreal. I'll
bring you some blue ch you likeblue cheese, blue cheese, you have
blue cheese potato salad. Unbelievable.Oh my gosh, it was good.
So did you do any gardening?Definitely? Did I do any gardening?
(07:46):
No, No, I think nothing. He cut the grass. It's I've
wanted it every other day. Yeah, Now I didn't didn't get planted yet.
It's playing it, okay, Iplanted it now, that's it.
Initially took a took a hit whenI planted it, okay from the shovel.
No, the flowers kind of poopedout, so I well they'd print
(08:09):
them, all right. But I'vebeen I've been watering it every other day,
like you said, and it's Iguess it's it's just kind of okay.
And it's not dead yet. Wellthat's a plus. But it should
start growing because it is a rebloomer, okay, so should put out new
growth and more flowers eclips. Itwas upside joga, so the goal anyway,
(08:35):
so yeah, mm hmm, cheese, potatoes and ribs and ribs.
I would I would go good withthe ribs, it would. I made
baked beans too, baked beans.See what I did was it was the
two hours for the ribs, andafter one hour I put the beans.
(08:56):
Put the beans in there with them. Oh it's very good. Yes,
so uh. Anyway, any who'son the show. Who is on the
show? Rita Hike if I wasgoing to join us this morning talk about
her recipes and then talk about theherb garden and what's going on there,
and then doctor triple A. Thereyou go, Alan Apple Armitage Quay this
(09:18):
morning. Yeah, so he'll beon with us. Cool and of course
you and of course Buggy Joe ofcourse, Garry Sullivan awesome and Danny and
me in between and the website RonWilson online dot com. Buggy Joe go
on vacation this week. He's reallybeen backing on the last couple of weeks.
He was on vacation last week,by the way. Oh, that's
I explained it. So that explainsit. So not really anything from Buggy
(09:39):
Joe. But if you missed anythingfrom the last couple of weeks, you
can go ahead and go still onthere, and it's all still on there.
Check it out. Rita's got acouple of recipes this week. The
first one was s'mores, so ifyou're still grilling, grilling, or you
doing something with the kids, there'sa spores recipe that is pretty cool.
(10:01):
And her other recipe is grilled chickenwith Greek. Yes, sounded good.
Mouthwater does sound good. My wifegot her our second batch of peaches from
the peach truck tour and they havea peach somoras recipe on there using peaches.
(10:24):
Huh interesting interesting, very interesting.So yeah, and then there's a
picture of Rito's Greek chicken there.It's pretty pretty dark, pretty good,
it's pretty dark. Dive into that. Yes, how does she take those
awesome pictures? I don't know,but she does. She's very good at
it. Yeah. Of course sheuses those in her articles and things like
(10:46):
that too, so well, yeah, she's a pro. She is.
The the plants of the week,Yes, the plants of the week.
There's two this week. Yes,uh, we'll go to the number two
first. It's the Red White andBlue annuals. Your list my list of
(11:07):
Red, White and Blue annuals.Yes, So if you're looking to be
patriotic, check out the red,White, and blue A Joe did is
actually did his homework and came upwith his list of red, white and
blue flowers that you can plant tobe patriotic. Yeah, not just for
the Fourth of July weekend, butfor for all seasons. It'll be always
patriotic. And the second one isthe annual Fourth of July tomato. Now
(11:31):
we've had the fourth of July tomatoas a plane of the week. How
many years in the what what?Mhmm what what? At least at least
a couple of years. Yeah,oh, it's been longer than that.
Yeah, and it's still been Neverhad anybody complain about Fourth of July tomato.
That's one tomato nobody's ever complained about. It's easy to grow, and
(11:54):
they taste yummy, and yeah they'rea nice little little tomato for getting ready
for the absolutely medium sized him aswe're almost into the big time tomato season.
Yep, we're getting there now.The freshmans are starting to come in.
Yes, there you go. Sothis is the plants of the week,
all right, And uh, I'vewasted enough time this morning. So
(12:18):
it was fun It was a greatconversation. It was fun. It was
fun. Usually we don't talk aboutour dogs that much. Yeah, it's
fun. It's good. Joe Streckerour executive producer. If you like,
we just see on our website atRon Wilson online dot com or the Facebook
page. In the garden with RonWilson. Joe Strucker had everything to do
with it. But something on thereyou don't like. You don't sure.
I'm not sure about that. Idon't know. Not my fault. Don't
(12:41):
blame Joe. Blame the pinball Wizarddoctor Z in Washington, d C.
Garden eighty three. I haven't seenany pictures of that, is pinball Wizard,
No, the garden, the garden. I've seen him playing pinball,
but I mean he's busy playing pinif he was on tour for that for
a while. Did you see himplaying golf? I did you see and
his sweetheart with his sweetheart? Didyou know something that wasn't on her finger?
(13:03):
Yeah? Really of course she hadmaybe had a golfing glove on.
Maybe you couldn't see. I don'tthink so. I don't think so either.
The bowser is really good at drivingthe cart, so he is he
is. He's got a lot ofpractice from from the VESTPA. So yeah,
there you go, all right,anything else, that's it all right?
(13:24):
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free number eight hundred eight two threeeight two five five talking about yardening on
this post. July fourth Weekend.Got a text from Rone this morning and
says that the in the Garden chatis in the fan page this morning in
the garden. So you go onFacebook that particular page, not in the
Garden with Ron Wilson, but inthe garden, and that's where they're chatting
(17:14):
this morning. So if you're lookingto do that and say hey to Ron
rothas the Arbor Dock and everybody elsethat gets on there, that would be
in the garden on Facebook, notin the Garden with Ron Wilson. He
always keeps me updated there every nowand then I don't know if Joe sets
up the little chat link for that, and sometimes it works and sometimes it
doesn't, or maybe he forgets.I'm not sure, but nope, Joe,
(17:37):
as you're young, as we usedto be, so he probably forgot.
Joe would never do something like that, so you know I would say,
no, he did not. Itjust didn't work. Nevertheless, we
do have the bailout with the inthe garden fan page, so check that
one out as well. You know, this time of the year, as
you know outside, maybe not spendingas much time out there in the garden,
trying to stay cool inside. Ialways I like going through looking at
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some of the gardening catalogs, refreshingmy memory of some of the great tools
that are out there. I'll tellyou one of them is Gardener's Supply Catalog.
I think it's one of the bestgardener supply catalog and they give you
so many great ideas for raised beds. I mean, you talk about just
across the board, they really haveit covered. They do a wonderful job.
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But it's Gardener's Supply and I thinktheir website is just gardeners dot com
if I'm not mistaken. But theother one I always liked is Am Leonards
Gardener's Edge, and they're located inOhio, Picklell, Ohio and Am Leonard's
always been a professional tool source forthe professionals only, and many years ago
they came out did a retail websiteonline ordering called Gardener's Edge and they do
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have a great selection of gardening toolsand other cool things as well. And
one thing they have on there thatI have not talked about much and I
actually got one of about I don'tknow. They've had these for quite a
while, four or five years ago, and it really does work. It's
called it's called their garden glide,the Linyard garden Glide. It looks like
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a saucer that you ride, youknow, it's in the snow around saucer
with handles on it, but it'sflat and it has a pretty high lip
around them, especially the back ofit, so things don't fall off.
And then it has a pull ropein front of it with a ski handle,
like like if you're skiing, soit's easy to pull. So you
put things in this, like clippingsor whatever you want to drag around they
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need to move around the yard,and then you just pull it behind you
and it pulls right across the topof blacktop or gravel or the grass or
whatever it may be open soil.It's really very easy to pull. It's
amazing what you can pull on thisthing without get involved with a wheelbarrow or
you know, something like that.But it's called a linyard garden glide and
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they're not that expensive. But ifyou want to look at it, go
to Gardener's Edge catalog. It's gardenedge dot com. And of course that's
where I get my soil knife.I always get it from Gardener's as there
are so many different soil knives outthere, it's crazy. You know,
you don't have to go to thatone. I just happen to use that
one and it does a great jobfor me. And you can get it
in a sheet that you've got apair of am Leonard. They have very
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professional type prunters that fit in thatwith it as well, so be sure
and check that out. And ifyou have problems with the wast hornets and
yellow jackets, they've got a fataltrap. You take a two liter bottle,
you stick this thing on the side, put some lemonade in it,
and then going through the whole drownd. It's pretty cool. It's called a
fatal funnel trap anyway, Gardener's Edgecheck it out. Sometimes great tools quick
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at eight hundred eight two three eighttwo five five, Good morning. I
am Ron Wilson, your personal yardboy on this post July fourth weekend.
You know, there's all kinds ofplants of the year, the Year of
The National Garden Bureau does the Yearof every year, you know, the
different types of plants, just tobring recognition to different plants. And I
think it's a great great way tomarket plants to you know, the folks
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that don't realize these plants are outthere and believe it or not, there's
actually one that's uh it's the Associationof Specialty cut Flower Growers. They have
their cut Flowers of the Year.And I don't know if you've bought custom
cut flowers arrangements or whatever. Todaywhen you look at some of those arrangements,
and I always have folks say,what is this? Can you tell
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me what this plant is? Well, this grow in our yard. Most
of that I have no idea whatit is anymore. They bring so many
things in from all around. Theyuse so many unusual and different flowers and
foliages in arrangements, it's crazy.But they do have their specially cut flower
growers cut Flower of the Year,and these are typically plants that you can
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grow in your yard and garden anduse them as cut flowers as well.
The recipient of the cut fresh CutFlower of the Year Fresh Cut Flower of
the Year twenty twenty four is asnap dragon called Potomac apple blossom. It's
a really cool one, very intense, kind of a white and pink together
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gives you that apple blossom type look. But a heavy producer. But again,
although this has grown, it's aa Zone six grower said, this
stuff is tough. I've grown atmy yard. It's trout and all the
gardens they do absolutely wonderful. Soagain, too late to find it this
year in your local garden centers,but look it up. It's called Potomac
apple blossoms snapdragon. And if yourlocal independent garden center doesn't grow it or
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doesn't have it, maybe they lookat it for next year for you to
grow in your yard and garden anduse it as a cut flower as well.
But it's called it's the fresh cutflower of the year. Snapdragon,
potomac apple blossom, heavy duty,really sticking up their long, nice plant,
very very nice and it's from whatI understand, a mid spring to
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midfall bloomer says grown close together forlong stem production. So in other words,
when you grow them closer together,obviously they grow more. Upright,
we plant angelonia, and if you'renot, this is a year of that's
speaking of which the year of Thisis the year of Angelonia through the National
Garden Bureau bringing angelonia to the forefront. Have you ever grown angelonia as an
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annual? It's outstanding and it's kindof it was actually kind of dubbed as
as a substitute for snap dragons.It kind of kind of has a snap
dragon look, but the flowers aresmaller, upright spikes, nice foliage.
This angelonia is tough. I meanit is tough and durable. There are
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some creeping or rieties that will kindof lay over the side as well,
but the upright varieties are absolutely phenomenal, but it's angelonia and it's a great
substitute for snap dragons if you likethat. Look, the point being is
we grow them. I put themin our pots by our front door faces.
The west just gets beat, Imean it gets beat. And you
put a little Leisa Machia in there, the creeping jenny coming down the side
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of the pots, and then theangeloni on the top, and there's purples
and whites and pinks and reds.There's several colors for you to choose from.
But we plan them real tight inthere, so what they do,
and the pot's not all that bigin diameter, they grow straight up and
so I get more upright flowers outof those, and they're absolutely gorgeous.
But snapdragons are pretty darn tough aswell. So fresh cut flower of the
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year snapdragon, potomac apple blossoms,so keep that one of mind. Then
they do a cut foliage of theyear. And I had no idea that
they even use this for cut fullfor cut foliage and arrangements. That kind
of blew me back when I whenI saw this. But it's thornless raspberry
Joan j. Now, I've neverheard of joan j before it's from burpie,
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produces long loads of stems all seasonlong, lots of new growth obviously
for lots of the berries. Butthey used that, I had no idea
they used that for cut flowers andflower arrangements. I don't think I've ever
seen that one before. But it'scalled joan j and joan Jay has great
foliage, but it's also reliable,care free and produces you know, berries
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as well. It's a primo canecultivar, so keep that in mind.
So that means it bears fruits onthe current year's growth, which is kind
of cool. But it's I didn'tknow they used thornless raspberry foliage and cut
flowers, but there you go.It's the cut foliage of the year.
And then the bulb cut flower ofthe year is daffad Oh. Cheerfulness and
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cheerfulness is available out there for you. That's one. It's been around for
a while. Cold hearting zones five. It's mostly white with a yellow center,
very heavy flower, very multiple bloomsper stem, absolutely any nice fragrance
to it as well. Great forcut flowers, and again you'll find that
this fall in your local garden centers. That's the daffodilt cheerfulness and it's like
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I say, it's been around fora while. And then the fresh the
fresh cut flower, woody plant,so that would be like you know,
a woody plant, tree or shrubwhatever is. Brandy Wine viburnum. I
love that plant. Brandy Wine viburnum. Great foliage, absolutely great foliage,
real glossy green. So you canuse it during the season. You get
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the white flowers in the springtime,and then the berries and they form a
lot of berries at the tips.The berries are multi colored, so as
they change colors, you get everythingfrom ivory green to ivory to pink,
then to blue, and they gothrough those different stages. And this one
does well and you'll find this atyour local garden centers. It's been available
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for years and years and years zonesfive to seven or five to nine I'm
sorry, and gets about six feethigh six feet wide something like that.
But the lots of flowers and lotsof berries. So the woody cut flower
of the year brandy Wine vi burnam. So yes, they do have actual
cut flowers of the year as well, and all of those can be grown
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in your yard and gardens, Sokeep that in mind as well. And
if you don't remember all of thoseand you didn't get a chance to write
it down, don't forget. Youcan check out our podcast or just email
me and I will send you backthe information. But it's always interesting because
the cut flowers they try when theypick cut flowers of the year, they
try to pick things that you canactually grow and use. But it's amazing
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the assortment of things that are usedtoday, flowers and foliage and things like
that and arrangements. When we gotmarried, my wife and I back in
the late seventies, shows you howold I am. We went to the
small florest in Sydney, Ohio toget our flowers for the wedding, and
me being in the business green industryand I was still in college senior year
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and all that kind of stuff.But anyway, you know, always into
the plants and they had all kindsof house plants and stuff. We did
had them do all of the bouquetsand everything out of foliage plants, yeah,
like zebra plants and things like that. We had pothos and stuff,
and then we had white roses inthere and all. It was pretty cool
there was something they had never donebefore, and now you see it all
the time. Hey, look,I was on the cutting edge back in
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the late seventies, but that's whatwe did back then, and they were
just they were all flipping out atthis small town florest because we were actually
using foliage and with a few flowersfor all the flowers and arrangements and all
in the bouquets and boutineers and allthat for our wedding. So it's pretty
cool. All right, Before wetake a break, what do you say
we travel up to Dayton, Ohioand talk to our good friend Dick from
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Dayton. Dick, co morning,Good morning, How are you? I
am great in you? Oh,pretty good. It's been been kind of
a slow week. I'll be glad. I have to go to the Dosmer
Club tonight and play. You know, not many things going on during the
you know, the fourth I wassurprised, you know, yeah, I
(31:23):
figured they'd have you out playing patrioticmusic on your ukulele. But now it'll
be back to normal. You know, we'll play a lot of concerts here
in July. But uh, yeah, I happened to go in fourth of
July. I went over down herein Dayton, So it's down there at
Woodman Drive. I bought some apparelwith the Bengals in the reds in Ohio
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State. Wow, they had everythingseventy five to ninety five percent off,
and I got about let's see,I got a Bengal, two Bengals,
three reds uh to Ohio State.And course my cousin. I talked to
her. She's been. She saidshe's been there out in that sun.
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She's been planting flowers and things.And she said that she goes to the
lows down there in Cleveland and shetold me, Dick, there's nobody there.
Huh. I tell you, Dick, there's no people weft And I
told her, well, that's probablywhat's happened in Beaver Creek. But she
said that it was a packed placein this weather, you know what I
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mean? Yeah, yeah, peoplestill planting, still out there planting.
So yeah, still out there planting. Well, well we got to go
have a little hope, don't they. Oh yeah, you know it's like
they say, it ain't over tillit's over. No, no, and
it ain't over yet. So we'reonly halfway through there, so we got
plenty of time. They can bringit back, they can bring it back.
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Oh well, you know, I'mgoing to go back to the store
and see if I can uh seesome of my friends. I think they'd
be glad to see me and drumup a little bit for him. Yeah,
or play music, right, yougot it, play music there.
I think it would work. Allright, Dick, good talking to you.
All right, take all right,take care, quick break, we
come back. Phone lines are openfor you at eight hundred and eight two
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Eight hundred eight two three eight twofive five. Good morning. I am
Ron Wilson, your personal yard boytalking about yarding. Don't forget our website.
It's Ron Wilson Online and we haveall kinds of of course, our
podcasts are on there. You cango back and listen to some of the
segments. Of course, Rita's recipeswe got two of them this week,
and we'll talk to her about thatin the top of our next hour.
We had Nina Bagley on last weektalking about how you developed queen bees,
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and you can listen to that aswell. Very interesting and a lot of
folks now instead of buying queen beesare learning how to develop their own.
So interesting talking. I always learnedso much stuff when I talked to Nina
or Teresa or Barbie Bletcher about bees. I just every time I learned something
new, and it's so intriguing whatthey can do. It's just wow.
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It's crazy stuff, all right.Eight hundred and eight two three eight two
five five To Charlotte we Go John, Good morning morning, Ron, love
your show. Thank you, sir. I've got I've got an infestation of
Eastern Ciccada killers in my yard,Cakada wasting killers. I believe they got
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two stripes on their back and prettyheavy infestation of them. I believe that
their nest is embedded. And I'vegot a grouping of lilies, a circle
of them about six foot in circumference, and they're very thick. You can't
get a credit card in between them. So I don't know. I'm assuming
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their nest is in there. They'reall hovering around there. Is there a
way that I can get rid ofthose? Well, you know a couple
of things, John. The waythey work is that obviously they're not after
you, and I don't know ifyou've noticed that if you go around there,
they really don't care about you.They just you know, they're not
stinging. They could, but they'renot stinging type you know, insects or
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anything like that. So you know, they're just very much you know,
you see those things, it looklike a B fifty two bomber and it's
you know, it just blows yourway. So what they're doing is the
female actually digs a hole in veryloamy soil. Should they like it.
Usually where it's very sandy or loamysoils, like on the edge of a
bed or whatever. They'll go inthere and dig that hole. Then they
lay their egg down in that hole. And what they'll do then is they
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go in the grab a cicada andthey take the cicada and take the stuff
it down and that they'll paralyze itso it's still alive, and they stick
it down in that hole, andthen the larvae feeds on that until they
mature out and then they hatch outand come out as an adult. And
that's the process. And so they'reyou know, they're only here for one
thing and has to go after cicadasand to reproduce, and that's it.
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And like I say, they prettymuch ignore you, you know, unless
you would get in there and actuallygrab a hold of them. Really do
their stings, so not an issue, so you're quite it's a nuisance and
I understand that. And in openbed areas a lot of times if you
go in there and just flood it, you know, bring water in there
and set the sprinkler up and justget it really wet, they don't like
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that and sometimes that will chase themaway. To go to some other area.
You can dust the soil obviously withif you wanted to come in there
and you know, you dust withsomething like seven eight I think a spinos.
It's very toxic to them. Youcan do that as well if you
want. Again, it's a youknow, it's not hurting anything, it's
just very much, very much ofa nuisance. So there, you know,
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you can dust it. You cando that type of thing you want.
You can set up the sprinklers alittle bit and really soak it down
really well. That usually will kindof chase them away and then you know
they're gone. Eventually, they don'tlast very long. I remember I went
to the took my daughter the brickyardfour hundred in Indianapolis, Indiana, and
we pulled into it. They takea subdivision, they turned it into a
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parking lot, pulled it into thisyard and this yard had really sandy soil
and there were cicada killer wasps everywhere. I mean they were all over,
and everybody was in a panic.And of course I got out explained to
a lot of folks that were therewhat they were, and they weren't gonna
boy you cutter cetera. Then everybodystart kind of watching them, and they
were in the sandy your you knowareas where they were laying their eggs.
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But other than that, nobody gotstung. Everybody just finally ignored them and
let them do their thing and eventuallythey go what they're done. So,
but can you take care of them? Yes, the wet soaking the soil
sometimes works. Otherwise seven eight,probably Spinosa's spring like that. We'll knock
them down as well. Well,we'll try the heavy sprinkler route. That's
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that's an easy one. Give that. Yeah, give that a shot.
First. Your plants are gonna loveyou for it, and see what happens,
and if it doesn't, then youcan come back and do a little
spring. Okay, sounds good.Thanks all right, John, good talking
to you. And yeah, asa matter of fact, yet, it's
funny that John brought that up becauseyesterday went somewhere and in the parking lot
they had several locust trees and Iheard my first dog day cicadas. We
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don't have the periodicals in our areathis year, and I didn't, you
know what, I didn't see muchon the news. I don't know if
you did or not, but Ididn't see much on the news about the
double brew that came out in Illinois, you know, the west side of
Indiana, Illinois Missouri overnight area.I didn't see too much news about that.
It's supposed to have been really spectacularwith the numbers of cicadas, but
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we have none of those this year, fortunately, But we do always have
the dog Day cicadas, the annualcicadas. And to me, when you
hear that annual cicada doing its thingand it's a hot day, you know,
you hear that male singing like that, that to me is kind of
the sound of summer, isn't it. I mean, you know, we
sit down in the woods, arebehind you or whatever, and you hear
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the cicadas juring that sounds like summer. Well, I got out of the
truck. There you go, it'ssummer. In the studios. That's a
little bit heavy summer. That's alot of them. But that was my
first one. You got to gowith the sound effect I have. Oh
yeah, that works. That works, there's no doubt. But that was
the first Dog Day when that Ihad heard this year, and so I
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look forward to that, and ofcourse Dog Day cicadas they do the same
thing. The females lay the eggsand the branches of the trees. But
there are so few of them thatthe day images are rarely ever even noticed
because there's so few of them.And then of course a lot of times
this cicada's killer wass take care ofa lot of them. Anyway, But
yeah, I heard that yesterday,and that kind of made me feel good.
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I said, it's summertime, nodoubt, as the temperatures are starting
to reach ninety degrees and it washot and humid. But anyway, that's
that's the way it goes. Hey, you know, by the way,
talking mother nature thing here, we'llfinish out the top of the hour and
then get go to Rita on thenext to our next segment. And of
course doctor Alan Armidy's after that lastyear, I noticed on our patio and
our deck area that the cardinals rightabout now started showing up for some reason.
(42:38):
We don't have a bird feeder thereshowing up and hanging out right by
our back door on the handrails andon the decking rail across the front of
this first layer of decking, hangingout there. Every day, you'd look
out there there be four or fivecardinals flying around and sitting there right outside
the door and outside the window,and I couldn't figure out why they were
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there. Now, when I usedto have a Harry Lowder's walking stick planeted
in that general area. When theyshowed up, I knew they were after
the Japanese beetles, and you'd getsome blue jays as well. Well.
I saw a blue jay yesterday too, so I'm like, wait a second,
So I knew there were no Japanesebeetles out there, although I did
find one in the zenias, butnot enough to attract the birds. And
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it dawned on me that I sawthe same thing happening last year at this
time our carpenter bees. And Iallow the carpenter bees to drill the holes
and put their eggs in there.When they start to hatch out, all
right, turn into adults and fallout of there to warm up the cicadas.
No one that's or the cicadas thecardinals. No one that's happening,
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and they're waiting for them to comeout. And sure enough I watched yesterday
was one sitting on the deck andall of a sudden this thing fell out
and it picked it up and ateit. They know when that's happening.
Mother Nature again just blows us allaway, doesn't she. Eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five RitaHeikefeld coming up next here in the Garden
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