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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy
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He is our executive producer. He's in charge of our
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the Garden with Ron Wilson, and of course, like I said,
running the ship today, mister Joe Streker, good morning, sir,
hey ron Oh was that just getting of the show
and I just took a drink of coffee to make
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sure everything was nice and clear? My goodness, how was that? Okay?
What you get for trying to yell you? Okay? No,
I'm not Are you okay? I'm fine? I mean you
could have hurt your earphones? How? Yeah? How are you?
How's that? How was your week? Not bad? Just not bad?
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I'm bad? It was okay okay? And you I made
it through. It was a little hot, don't you think.
Well I didn't even bring that up because you like that.
I do, I do, But still it was. It was hot.
By the way, save your money because you talk about
and I didn't bring this with me, but you probably
got it too in the in the pr things. But
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talking about the cities that were the most expensive to
have a lawn, Yeah, did you see that?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I didn't see that about two of them when the
top three were in Arizona. Oh okay, So either you
don't you don't have a lawn, or be prepared to
spend big bucks well to have a lawn. I'm gonna
I'm gonna go with not have a lawn. There you
have it. Well, actually that would be better for you
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because then you don't have to take care of it.
I'm not planning on it. See when when I when
I retire to Arizona, I'm not worried about lawn care.
You're just moving to the desert. Moved to the desert.
Or or I'll have a postage stamp, or you just
have a postage stamp. Nothing around it besides native plants
and done. Yeah, a whole bunch of cacti, cack tie.
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No one walk in my yard. I got a whole
bunch of cactie, all kinds of sedge and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah,
it's the goal. We're gonna be able to come out
and visit, or you can come out of the visit.
Just don't walk in the lawn. Will it be too
We'll be able to what do you mean, I'll have
a pathway. Then you'll have a rap snakes in there
and have a Leena's coming up and I'll keep the
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slisteners away. That it will and it would keep other
people away from coming to visit you. There you go,
there you go. I have to admit every time I
went to Tucson to visit our sister in law. I'd
get up early in the morning to do to do
a little walk, and of course she's out. She's outside
of Tucson and out kind of out in suburbans, but
out in the desert, and you go for a walk,
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and in the desert right up to the sidewalk. I
was paranoid the whole time. I kept thinking, some rattlesnake's
gonna jump out. And that doesn't happen. But you know,
still there. But when that sun peeks up over top
of that mountain, wait, it just pierces right through your clothes.
You'll love it. I can't wait, can't wait, he says,
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We'll smite my My goal is to, you know, like
I said, watch the Super Bowl and in the morning,
I'm in the middle of the day and not have
to worry about going about. You go, uh, well, what
difference does it make here and be working? No matter,
that's the goal. So I'm curious, Uh, after some of
your recent endeavors, are you up for an RV AM.
(04:11):
I for an r V Yeah, to get more into
the camping world. Maybe maybe not me driving. No, I
don't know if you have gotten all that camping in
your blood and it was. It was definitely interesting. Last
week Joe went camping. Yeah, we didn't really discuss it.
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It was definitely very interesting. Well just say that, is
that the first time you've camped. Oh gosh, unless unless
you count going to like an overnight you know, soccer,
nothing as camping. That was the first time I've ever camped.
This was legitimate camping. Yeah. We had campground everything, sleeping bags,
all that stuff. Oh yeah, wow, air mattress, but your
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air mattress, sleeping bag, yep. Cook it on the stove
of fire pit. S'mores. Uh, we didn't have smores, but
we did have a fire pit. I brought my blackstones.
We had nice. We didn't have to wear a grill.
So yeah, nice. It was fun. It was It was well,
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just it was. It was very interesting because the the
we went to we went to a concert in Upper Ohio.
For those who are familiar, it's called Neon Nights. It's
like a two night concert. But it's in the middle
of Amish country. Okay, so there's really nothing out there
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other than this this big field. I mean it was
a it was at like a like a camping resort
kind of thing. And they, I mean they had it was.
I mean they had a lake and they had you know,
you can swim and stuff. But yeah, it was just
really interesting hanging out with the with the Amish people
up there. This was kind of a rock rock collection made.
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The first night was rock, the second night was country.
Got it? H it was. It was a fun time.
I mean, it was definitely a fun time, very very interesting,
a lot of a lot of people watching, and yeah,
it was. It was fun. But bye. By the time
Sunday rolled around and about you know, eight nine o'clock
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in the morning, I was ready to get back home.
And you went up on Friday. Yeah, so you had
two nights under your belt in a couple of days
and Friday night Saturday night. How did you cook on
the Blackstone? I did not cook. You just took the Blackstone.
I just took it. I was not in charge of cooking.
Got it. Was there any slip of it's involved? No,
not not not slim of its There was no slow events.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
There was.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
There was alcohol, but it was not slow. Okay, just curious.
So after it's all said and done, the r V
nowhere in the r v's are expensive. So yes they are,
so well, what about trailers camping trailers. Uh maybe you
know what. I'm not gonna make a commitment right now yet,
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kind of like that pool in the backyard. Oh well,
we'll see what, we'll see what I remember Joe Strekker
fifteen years ago or longer, when there was not gonna
be one dog in this Streker household. How many do
you have?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Four? Mm hmm, okay, not gonna have a pool? Yeah,
never know, never, never know. I love it so well, anyway,
it's good to have you here. It is. It was
taking some time off, using up some vacation yep. Yeah,
I'm taking some time off next week, and I also
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got some time off planned for September, and then I'm
free and clear until the holidays. Good for you. You
used to You're You're like me, You used to not
use that vacation up. Well, it's because I will always
forget to. Yeah. And the next thing, you know, it's
the end of the year. Yeah, and I got oh,
I got three and a half weeks I gotta worry
about here, and it's the last week of the year. Yeah.
(08:10):
So yeah, let's pack it all in the one week, right, right,
So let's let's let's let's take a break early here
and then we'll we'll talk about everything, so I don't
want to pack everything in your here into the and
get late. Got it. I love it when you're when
you're in the captains chair, we always go to the
first break. You always say, let's take a break and
then we'll get into the Cup of Joe. Yep. Notice
(08:31):
how that changes when you're in the captains chair. Well,
we dance like old times and Dan's not pushing us
one to get off the stop time, take a break,
get up, all right, we'll take a quick break. We
come back. We have cup two of the Cup of Joe.
Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson, How is.
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Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, are you familiar with the Civicgardencenter? You should be,
and if you're not, going to the website Civiygardencenter dot
org or go visit them on Reading Road. But they
have so many great classes, They do so many great things.
They have all their community gardens, the classes, and then
coming up Saturday, September the sixth is their fall Native
Plant Sale. Learn more about them Civicgardencenter dot org. Got
Civygardencenter dot org. Welcome back. You're in the Garden with
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Ron Wilson. Time for cup two with a cup of Joe,
Mister Joe Strekker, executive producer, finding out what's going on
our website, Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page. In
the Garden with Ron Wilson and Joe is in the
captain's chair today because he is running the ship. He
is our producer. So so it's a good time. So
who do we have having he's on the show today?
On the show today, we will have Joe Strecker. He's
(10:05):
going to do two parts. As a matter of fact,
we have Rita or Rita Barbie Bletcher. Rita Barbie Bletcher
is going to join us. At the top of the hour.
We're gonna get a b update from the summer. I
think they had a really good honey harvest in our area,
but where we are with all the major losses. And
then now we're looking at the fall season round and
third and heading for home, and he was at that's patented.
(10:28):
I'm sorry, and I this is a tough time, can
be a tough time. We'll talk to Barb about that
and how we can help our bees and pollinators out there.
Then of course Gary Sullivan for a little home improvement.
And then Buggy Joe. Gary Sullivan is on location today.
Wait where is he he is in his vacation home.
Oh is he? Yes? Oh he's not even He's not
(10:51):
even solical today. Look at that he's on his vacation
home and he still does his show. I know that
steady canon, That man is steady. I just wish one
day I could be just like Garry. We all want
to be like Gary. So the website is Ron Wilson
online dot com in the Facebook page in the garden
with Ron Wilson. And I'm still waiting for feedback on
the pictures. I have gotten very very little feedback. I
(11:13):
think they're hilarious, so I know, I don't know. Maybe
I'll stop doing it and we'll see if people notice.
I think they're hilarious. And I don't think you need
to stop, Okay, I think do it because you enjoy it.
You know how nice is I enjoy it? Okay, So yeah,
don't stop, just you just keep it going. I got
a special plan for two weeks from there, two weeks
(11:34):
from now. Yeah, you know what two weeks from now is? Right?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Now?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
What is it? Uh, there's a there, there's a big
game and uh oh yeah, I forgot about that big
game coming up here in two weeks. Yes, that's right.
I got a special one plan for that day. Can
you believe that's starting? And I guess a week and
a half, right, because then they start like on Wednesday
or Thursday. Yeah, but U but the big game isn't
until Saturday Sturday. Absolutely. Who are you surprised? And I
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know this has nothing to do with guarding that what
their rankings were when the AP rankings came out, I'm
not surprised. You know, all those teams are so close
you could have flipped the coin and put any of
those in the top ten that you could have ranked
them completely different. Are so close. I thought that was surprise.
Alabama wasn't there in the top five I'm not surprised
Alabama there because they're terrible. Well, we'll see. You never
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know what teams like that. Hey, and when with with
all the new players and n I L now, I mean,
you have no idea what you have until what I'm saying,
you have no idea. You have no idea to like
at least game three or four to have jell on
them together and see what you got. Yeah, I mean
your your way. You don't even know what you have
into like game three or four. Yeah, so it's different.
(12:46):
I mean, I mean, look look at what happened to
High and State last year. They didn't even gel until
what game six or seven? Yep, after that Nebraska game
that was awful yep. So but yes, I'm looking forward
to it. So I can't wait to see that whatever
you got coming up your sleeve for that one, we'll
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see it's it's a special one. So hopefully everyone will
enjoy that one. Good. So on the website, Buggy Joe,
I guess was cleaning out, cleaning off all the stuff
off of his off his desktop. There was a couple
a ton of Buggy Joe's stuff this week. Yes, So
if you want to know about robber flies, my favorite bug.
I love that. I got a picture on my desk
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on the wall of robber fly. You do to sign it? No, no,
but it's one of his pictures and I framed that
because he mislabeled that about twenty fifteen years ago. No way, Yeah,
he misidentified it and it's still a robber fly, but
it's a different name than what he thought it was. Okay,
but they didn't know a lot about him, and now
they do, so we've updated it. But yeah, it's one
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of my favorite bugs. I think it's the coolest looking,
nasty looking no neck heads just right there on his shoulders.
And there's a reason for that. Yeah, okay, cool bud.
So there's robber flies, there's an Asian longhorn beetle update yes, uh,
long jawed spider, yes, and the funnel spiders, a little
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bit of right, a little bit of everything there with spiders, webworms,
and there's a whole bunch of good stuff on there.
So if you check out the website, read all the
tips and stuff from Buggy Joe, so you're ready for
a couple hours from now, excellent day. Of course, you
never know what he's going to talk about. So could
be all that could be none of them. I'm gonna
go with the ladder. I'm going to go with the ladder. Also, so, uh,
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Rita's recipe looks yummy. I've made this, not specifically this recipe,
but I've made this form of this kind of recipe
many many times because I was lazy. Yeah, but it's good.
But it's really really good. It's crockpot ZD with her
little twist on it as usual, and it's a it's
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a quick one too, I mean the recipe that's a
not much to it, but it's show is good. Yep.
Four was it? Four ingredients? Can't beat that? Four ingredients
in a crockpot? Even Gary Sulliva like that because it's
all about easy, all about easy. That's the Sullivan Special.
We should we should rename it Rita's Back to School
Gary sullivan' zd or just bake Gary ZD Gary ZD
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Gary ZD. Yeah, Pat and pending. The plan of the
week is the seven sunflower. Seven sunflower you know that
would look nice in your front yard. That's s u
s n not Son. Yes, you are correct, and it's
a plant that not a lot of people know. But
starting to get more and more popularity. I think I
picked this way back about in eighth I don't know,
(15:45):
August or September of probably eighteen nineteen, twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen,
trying to get some popularity out there, because here is
a shrub that just flowers like its head off late
August and then this September. Every pollinator in the street
loves it. But it's after that when those bracks turned
that red color that it's absolutely spectacular. And again it's
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it's not it's not a plan for everybody, but it's
a really cool plant. It's an oldie, but goody. It's
hepticodium or commonly known as seven sunflower. And be sure
and check it out. Great for the pollinators. All right, Well,
two cups are down and let's get ready to go
that it yep, you sir? All right. Joe Strecker, Executive producer.
And of course, if you like what you see on
our website, Ron Wilson online dot com and the Facebook
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page in the garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker had
everything to do with it. But if there's something on
there you don't like, something you don't hey, your question,
not my fault. It's not his fault. Who were gonna
blame Doctor Z Doctors Z eighty three pictures this week.
I didn't have anything. I didn't see any either. He's
kind of quiet if he's on vacation in Iceland again
again Doctor Z in Washington, d C. Garden eighty three,
(16:55):
Garden eighty three, riding around on his that's with uh
the sweetheart in the sidecar and bow bow bow on
the back seat. You know, my brother in law used
to collect vestvors. He did, Yes, he used to have
a hole that is that the one that had that
owns a megawealth Uh no, no, no, my brother in law. Okay, yeah,
(17:18):
kind I guess anyway he did. He used to have
a whole bunch of them. I don't know what he
did with all of this gut. He still has a
couple of them in his motorcycle garage. So anyway, all right,
thanks Joe, and I'm looking forward to uh running the
show today with you can't wait helme? All right, all right,
appreciate old lines are open. Boat lines are open at
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share with you today and again go to our website
run Wilson online dot com to check everything out there
as well. So there was all the posts and we
will work our way through those two. It has been
kind of a hot and unexpected showers here and there.
I don't know about you, but we've had some very
timely showers. It was getting pretty dry as a matter
of fact in the Joe Strekers area. A local here
(18:01):
and the arberdoct Ron Roethlis, has been very dry at
his area too. In our area about fifteen eighteen miles
north of them, we've had some fairly timely showers. So
again important time of the year as we start to
wind down the summer, looking at the fall season, keep
watching that rain gage so you're watering as needed as
we start to go into the fall season. Don't want
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Good morning, Joe Anne.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
How can we help you?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Oh, I was. I have raspberries, but I put out
three years ago. They did wonderful. Last year, I didn't
get any. This year, I didn't get any, and I
was just wondering, do I have to dig up the
canes to get new ones? Or is this something I'm
doing wrong, whether I'm not feeding them good or whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well, but I'm disappointed.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, I have two big, huge patches.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I'd be disappointed as well. Do you remember when you
bought them? What type they were?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You know, I was wondering about that too, but I
don't remember what it was. But I loved them. The
first year. I just had them everywhere. The neighbors were
coming over with buckets, and now no one's coming over now.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
At the end of the season, after those flower, did
those canes die back?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah? They did. So they died back and thought that
was the end of it. But they came back the
leaves but not the.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Fruit, okay, And so they're taking do you do any
topping of them. So when you go in there, go
to the top, cut them and then get that lateral
growth coming off to the side.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, I do that. Okay, Yeah, they're everywhere, this here, everywhere,
and I thought, great, I'm going to have them.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Sure not one leaves. All still look good? Yeah, its
look great, all right. Did you see any flowers at
all on the canes? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Not very many though, and but not very many. I'm
really disappointed because all all of them, I make everything.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, I'm just trying to think of what else could cause.
I mean, if you're you're seeing good flowers, you're you're
seeing or you're seeing some flowers. Anyway, you're good. Fold
each everything looks fine, you're cleaning up the dead wood,
you're topping those, You've got nice, good lateral growth coming
out as well. Wow, the only other you know again,
you know we got to go back to the other
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thing too. Weather Wise, if it's by chance raining or
not good weather when those are in, flower pollinators have
a hard time pollinating the flowers to set the fruit
for you. And so if we went through a period
of time these last two years where it was extremely
wet during that time of the year or cold while
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they were in flower, that could affect the pollination. So
if we're seeing flowers, that's a good thing. So that
means that we're you know, they're there to set fruit,
but nothing's happening. If nothing happens and you don't see
any fruit at all, we don't see a fruit drop
or anything. You got to look back and say, okay,
am I getting good pollination? Do I see any bees?
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Do I see any pollinators working around those raspberries? Do
you notice that at all?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah? I have a lot of bees that come around, Yeah,
but not this year. I noticed I didn't have very
many of this year.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, I mean right of them. That could be that
could be part of the problem. Now here's what we
might want to do if the if the for some
reason the population seems to be going down, what can
we do to try to increase where those raspberries are planted? Uh,
next spring, you might want to try planting a row,
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just a nice snarrow twelve fourteen inch wide row along
the side of it with flowering annuals or perennials that
attract pollinators, and let's see if we can bring more
of them in to help set the fruit on those raspberries.
If you're doing everything else culturally correct and you're not
overfeeding them, sometimes we get them too much nitrogen. They
put out all kinds of new growth, but they just
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don't set fruit. Doesn't sound like that's what you're doing,
then I would say, if you're doing everything culturally correct,
let's do everything now that we can to encourage those
pollinators to come in and take care of the rest
of it for you. And by again, by planting just
a simple row of annuals that pollinators love, few perennials
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in there, not only do you get to enjoy the
look of those, but you get to bring them inside
for cut flowers, and the pollinators will show up and
you'll see a lot more bees in that back into
your backyard. Again. Other than that joint, I don't have
another answer for you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Okay. Well, I want to ask you a question now.
At the end of the season, do I cut back
the cane? Nobody told me to do that.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, it depends why didn't do it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I thought maybe that would they wouldn't come back, But
they did come.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Back, right, okay. And that's that's the thing, you know.
The canes that fruited. It depends on That's why I
was asking if you knew what type of raspberry you had,
because there is one that's called heritage, which is very common.
It's it's considered an everberry. So you get two sets
of fruit off of it each year. But the easiest
way to handle that is to just cut it off
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at the end of the year and let them sprout
back up, and you'll get a late summer blooming and
it's late summer summer blooming and a late set of fruit,
and that's a lot of folks will do, just real
easy to take care of. Otherwise, if you have some
of the older varieties, once they fruit on that cane,
that cane is done and you won't get any more
fruit on that. So that's why I was asking, if
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you go through and clean out those dead canes or
the spent canes, either in the fall or in the springtime,
to get those out of the way so the new
canes can come up, and then you know, you start
a succession of having primal canes or flora canes, which
are the canes are gonna fruit for you, and the
canes are gonna fruit for you. Next year, so you
get two sets going. So it depends on what type
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you have. If by chance, you get really frustrated and
can't figure it out, take a look at if you
ever look to replace them, look at heritage raspberries and
they're probably the easiest one to grow because all you
have to remember to do, Joanne, is either cut them
back to the ground in the fall or cut them
back to the ground in the springtime before they start
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to regrow, and you'll get one crop late in the
season and it's piece of cake. You don't have to
worry about it. All right, good talking with you. We're
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How do your tomatoes do this year? Man? All of
a sudden, the last two weeks, I've just gotten some
horrible reports. Weather's been kind of, uh, depending on where
you live, crazy on a lot of tomatoes. Leaf spot
like crazy, that's the other day with the the like
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white spot or clear spots like like water spots. You
up and of course, uh, there's a back. There's a
bacteria that causes that. There's a couple you know, fruit diseases.
But also what happens is squash bugs love those and
they pierced the side of that tomato and suck out
the juices. And where they do that, you'll see the
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little pierce mark, and then you'll get this round circle
around it that looks like it's empty because they suck
the juice out and a lot of times you don't
see them do that, and that can cause some serious issues.
But leaf diseases like crazy blossom and rod as usual,
always getting complaints about that. But boys, some folks just
have had a great season so far, and some of
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just at this stage lost most of their tomato plants,
so kind of crazy. But if you've lost your tomato
plants or you've cleared out areas in your garden and
you've got this empty space right now, don't forget. Those
are great areas to come back in and do fall crops.
And now's a great time for planting all kinds of
fall crops, greens, Asian greens, cilantro, some of the fast
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growing maturing cucumbers, and squash. Some of the fast maturing
beans can be planted right now. So there's a lot
of greens, your radishes. If you can still find onion bowls,
sets or the bulbs, those can be planted right now.
So again, fill in those spaces with other types of vegetables.
I mean, if you've got a large area, I'll tell
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you something you can try pretty cool is get yourself
a small pack of buckwheat seeds and plant a little
bit of buckwheat and it's pretty cool plant and it's
a great cover crop for you too, and you'll get
the flowers out of that. Pollenaters will love it late
in the season. But that's a pretty cool one as well.
But again, take advantage of those areas. But have having
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some issues with tomatoes, there's no doubt. Just in the
last couple of weeks or so, quite a few emails.
By the way. One thing I want to mention about
talking about those raspberries. If you decide you want to
plant raspberries or blackberries or purple raspberries or whatever you
decide you want to plant, whether it be you know,
fruit trees, whatever, do your homework first of all before
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you plant these and realize, and I've said this, I
say this all the time because I'm just trying to
be honest, realize the type of care that's involved to
being successful when growing fruits and berries. You know, it's
one of those things in most cases you don't just
plant the plants and let them do their thing and
your harvest from them every year. They typically require some
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timely pruning, maybe some timely sprays, mostly funge of sidle
sprays versus insecticidal sprays, but to keep the diseases off
of the fruits and berries. And again, like I said,
that the pruning can be very especially when it gets
into brambles, and it can be a little confusing as
far as how you prune those. Some canes you know
that are come up or for will flower later. Some
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have the flowers for the early spring. Like I said,
the heritage or the ever bearings do it twice, so
you get two sets of flowers on those canes. And
then the easiest thing to do is just cut them
down and only get one set. But you know, do
your homework and learn about these so that you know
what is detailed and what you're gonna have to do
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to be successful for growing these these fruits and berries.
A couple of things if you want just some general
information which I think is outstanding. There's a male order
catalog that supplies mostly berries, and it's called Indiana Berry
Company Indiana Berry and their website is Indianaberry dot com
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Indiana Berry dot com and go there and request their
catalog and their catalog or you can download it, but requested,
they'll mail you one it's probably one of the nicest
catalogs with instructions on how to grow and what it takes,
and how to prune and harvest. And they of course
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list of different varieties, which you also want to remember
what varieties you have when you plant them, so make
sure you sign them or market down somewhere so you
know what that is, what type of grape do I have,
what type of raspberry do I have strawberry? Et cetera,
et cetera, so that you can reference back and we
know you know what you're growing. But this particular catalog,
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which is absolutely free, it's one of the most best
instructional catalogs I think I've ever seen. But it's Indiana
Berry Indiana Berry dot com as their website and order
it whether you get the twenty five one yet or
twenty twenty six, but it certainly helps you understand what
is involved when it comes to growing most of these
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berries and help to walk you through. But again it's
not something you typically just plant and then walk away
and in harvest when they come on it Debbi typically
takes a little more than that. And do remember these
can all be grown in raised beds and a lot
of these do very well in larger containers. If you
just have a patio area you want to grow some
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dwarf blueberry something like that. There are dwarf varieties that
do quite nicely growing in containers. Annie in Cincinnati, any,
good morning, Good morning, Hi Von.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I had a very lopsided tomato crop this year. Starting
I had I'm sorry, go ahead, well.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
As you gonna say, started out good or started out bad.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
No, just depended on the briety.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
I planted wins this year that I've never used before.
I planted the thong, yes, and the giant dwarf.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yes, two of those.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
The two of the giant dwarfs, they were tall and
thin plants and gave me two tomatoes, that's it. And
then they turned yellow, so I took them out. The
songs produced the ugliest tomatoes I've ever seen, but they were.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Absolutely delicious good.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
I almost burn a white because I thought they were
rotting at the bottom. They just don't write them all over.
The bottom kind of turns black and the.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Top is pink Yep.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
They were amazing, but they didn't last very long either.
They're already done well.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
The thought now I don't remember because I actually I
requested that we grow that one. About it. We started
growing out about two years ago, and the tomato itself
had a great flavor. I don't remember being delicious, yeah,
as much as far as production, but a great flavor,
and you're right, not very not a very attractive tomato.
The big dwarf, for the giant Dwarf, was a new
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one that I had heard several good reports about. So
we grew them this year, I think for the first time.
And you're right, nice, upright, stocky as heck, beautiful, foolish early,
but only about three three tomatoes, yep, and that was
about it. And they were nice. They were beef steak
type tomatoes. But then that was it. And that was
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so the production we found out on those big dwarfs
and giant dwarfs not all that much. But it did
produce a beef steak tomatoes. So I'm with you on
now both of those, as far as definitely on the dwarf.
When I was a little disappointed, well, I.
Speaker 8 (35:35):
Also planted four better bush. Yes, I do all my
tomato gardening and really large round containers.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Good.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
They have produced hundreds of tomatoes. Good, they are delicious,
and they're still I can't tell you how many I
still have on the line.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
They are just doing amazing.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yep, you know, I go ahead.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
It just really depended on the specific plant this year. Yeah,
they were right next to the other ones that got
all yelled and the disease never transferred to the better bush.
They were great.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah. And see when you get into some of the
heritage or the heirloom varieties, they are in this disease
resistant or very rarely are the disease resistance. So we
always That's why I've always suggested to folks plant heirlooms,
because you like the heirlooms, but plant some hybrids as well,
because the hybrids are typically bred to be you know,
more disease and virus and you know resistant. And those
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better bush you know, those have been around. You got
the cherry and the regular and those have been around forever.
Uh determined tomatoes. But man, they just you don't even
have to steak them. They're beautiful and heavy producers. Then
all a sudden they just stop and they're done. And
then then and you what, you really got a nice
production out of them?
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Oh I've got I still have probably on the four plants,
I probably have at least one hundred green tomatoes still left.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Oh, good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
They are just amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Let me tell you. I was gonna say, let me
throw one in there for you to try next year.
If you haven't tried it before, try fourth of July.
Now that's that's a hybrid. The tomatoes are a medium
sized tomato and they're in a cluster of like three
or four like when you see him at Kroger or whatever.
You get that cluster. That's what that's what you're going
to look at. But I have not found anybody yet
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that has not had six good success with Fourth of July.
It's a fifty four day producer, so it starts producing early.
But it is it is a it is an indeterminate,
so you've got to stake it so it gets you know,
because it's going to get some height to it. But
they do exceptionally well in containers. Great flavor, solid tomato,
you'll absolutely love it. And a good producer right until
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the frost finally takes them out.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
Sounds great, I'll look for it. I did not plant
early girls this year like I normally do, because last
year they stopped ripening. And when I asked you about it.
You thought it might be the heat. Yeah, and they
just they just rotted on the vine after like mid July.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Now did they ever start, did they ever lose the
dark color green? The No, they never want you know,
And sometimes you get into the heat, and I'm surprised
I didn't get more complaints about that from folks this
year when we got into that really hot spelled when
it first started that tomatoes has stopped at that point.
And sometimes they will literally now we're finding out if
it's hot enough for a longer period, long enough period
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of time, they'll just stop and they just don't do anything.
And then you know, they won't exact. Yeah, they wind
up being sliced and the breaded and fried.
Speaker 8 (38:23):
Yeah. I guess I just left them on the vine
too long, assuming that they would eventually get right. That
they never did.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
No, they don't do anything. Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you
one last thing. Any and if you've got green tomatoes
on there and you get to a point where you
just can't use them all and you're not gonna do
fried green tomatoes or whatever. Pickle green tomatoes I think
are outstanding. But if they break that dark green color
and start to turn into the lighter green, but not
gonna make it red. If you've never done this before,
cut a couple of those up, dice them up, put
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them in a salad. Outstanding, absolutely outstanding. So dice it
up and anybody listened to it. Take some time and
take the green tomato that's a darker green that starts
to change color. You can tell they lose that and
they start to turn that lighter limeier green and then
they finally even start to go into the reds or
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yellows or whatever it may be, and get them at
that lighter green color. My aunt did this for us,
I don't know, three or three years ago in North Carolina.
We were having the salad and there were these small
diced up pieces of green and I couldn't figure out
what it was. And it was a green tomato. Now
you get it, like I said, you gotta get it
when it gets you know, starts to starts to ripen,
but it's still green. And they were absolutely outstanding, nice
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and firm, had a little crunch to the salad, and
a very interesting flavor added to the salad as well.
So you can always use those. But who doesn't like
fried green tomatoes readed fried, little parmesan cheese on the top. Outstanding.
All right, we're gonna take a quick Andy, Thanks for
the call, really appreciate it. Thanks for the update. I
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love that kind of stuff. We share that information. Now
everybody knows next year we're not gonna grow big dwarfs,
dran dwarfs. But I really do appreciate that, and that's
what I love to hear from our listeners. So don't
ever hesitate to give us a call and share your
opinions about things like that. I love it. Right, quick break,
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