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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarning as we get into the month of August. Really
nice here so far. I've enjoyed it. Anyway. We'll see
what the Joe Strucker thinks, our executive producer. We'll find
out what's going on in his landscape, our website, Ron
Wilson online dot com Facebook page. In the garden with
(00:56):
Ron Wilson, Good morning, sir, welcome back. Was I gone
you were gone? Huh, yep, I was. I guess you
didn't know that you were gone. I didn't know that.
Kansas City here I come. They had, you know what
they had exact same cool weather we had the day
we left, started heating back up again. Nice, so it
was perfect. I'm glad you're rested and ready to go.
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I didn't say I was rested. I'm glad you're ready.
We had we had fun time, so good now we
did it. It was very relaxing, very good, good family
family out there, got horses and things in nice little place,
and glad you had fun, had lots of it was
the in Loss side of the family, so we always
have fun together. Cool plant paletts the same. Of course,
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they had a new house, new little farm ranch thing
they bought, and I'd walk around and tell them what
the trees were and the shrubs and stuff and called that. So, yeah,
I'm glad you had fun? Yeah I did. Are you
gonna have fun? I'm gonna have fun? Good? I always
have fun, you always do. Yep, I hurry to get
out of here. This week, you can have fun. Yeah,
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that's the goal this week. This week, Yes, this week,
I uh had to mow the serengetti that I had
in my backyard, and I cursed it the entire time.
I mean an hour and twenty minutes to cut my
backyard grown that much. It was so high. I mean
I did a pass and a half and the glamourer
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would stop. Yeah. So did you have it up as
high as you could? Yeah? That crazy? So I so
I either a have to go a new lawnmower or
beat cut it more often. It's well, yeah, more often
is the answer. But it's amazing. I mean it's a
push more right, Yeah, it's self propelled. Well, but still
it's it's amazing. How me don't raise up as high
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as you'd like for him to so no go more
than about three or three and a half inches. I
mean it didn't even work, even though I had it
all the way up on the highest setting. It didn't
even look like it even did anything. Wow when it
went when it went up, and so yeah, it was
I was, I was. I was not happy. But you
got it. Then you came back two days later and
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did it again. I didn't do that, okay, but it was. Yeah,
it was a pain. It was a pain. So so
you've been getting the showers, these off and on showers,
because we got some, which sounds like it's growing. Well,
we got some maybe Thursday, a lot of a lot
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of the showers that came through missed, missed, still missed
you still miss me. We got like we didn't get
any of the of the deluges that that some of
the other places did. I mean, maybe drizzled a little bit.
But Thursday was the big day for us, or at
least at my house. Right. Yeah, we had a good
one too. Yeah, we came back and surprising him up here.
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I think it'd been watered quite nicely. So well, where
you live, you get rain all the time. We seem
to be getting this year. We have since since I
lived next close to the city dump. It's its own ecosystem.
I guess, like it feels like. It's what it feels like.
I mean, if you watch the radar, you'll see like
the thunderstorm coming and you could see it in the
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distance and you hear the thunder and everything. And then
as soon as you watch the radar, and it's like
as soon as it's mountain landfill mount landfill, it like separates, dissipates.
It's got to have its own ecosystem. I wonder, I
wonder how that does affect it. It's got to. But
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me off with all the methane and stuff that comes
out of Ron's listening, maybe he's checking in on that. Yeah,
put that in the going into the chat room and
find out about that that. Yeah, so I dide doc.
So I did cut the grass this week and started
the phase one of the redoing the Strucer front landscape,
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which is pulling out the weeds, which is getting rid
of everything and putting putting in rocks. So you're going
with the rocks, Yeah, you're not gonna go with that anything.
I'm going just rocks. Well, the bed underneath the window,
the raised bed, the raised bed. Yes, put everything out, Yes,
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all the weeds, yes, even the uh Sadly the Lenton
roses is gone. That's all right. Yeah, that thing was.
That was the very first thing that was playing in
that house. And we moved in twenty gosh twenty one
years that the Lenton rose popped back up every single year.
But now it's adding to that ecosystem. So it's all
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compost pile. So it's all gone. No, so it's all gone.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to
replant the flocks that were in there, you know, about
seven or eight years ago. So I'm going to do
that in the spring and let the flocks just kind
of just take over because I thought that was cool.
I like the way they cascaded over the over the
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wall there, and then someone didn't like it and pulled
them back out. Someone me. I know it wasn't you,
but that's someone doesn't have a vote anymore. So I'm
putting it. Yeah, so I'm putting it all back. But yeah,
but on the on the on this the other planting bed,
the big one in the front, it's going to be
all rocks. I'm done. Stick a fork in me that's
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what I'm doing. Okay, that's up to you, landscape. I
gonna pull everything out and just put rocks and have
really cool art in there. And how about up by
the gas meter. I'm gonna hide the gas meter with something.
But it's not going to be a plant. There's a
knockout rose forever. Yeah, I don't know, I'm I'm I'm
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I might consider oh gosh, now I'm drawing a blank.
The plant that does the monarchs, the butterfly butterfly butterfly weed.
Maybe maybe that would be interesting, maybe because that will
definitely that would definitely cover the uh, the game. I'd
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be more happy to donate a couple of those to
plant there. Can you can you donate some some workers
that help me. But I'll be more happy to donate this, okay,
milk weeds for you than appreciate that. So, but that,
I mean that that might be the only thing. And
then that the then on the side where the banana
tree is, I'm not I'm not touching that yet. I mean,
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I might do the same thing, but you know, right now,
I'm just concentrating on the front. So but we're doing
it that me, me and the girls are they're doing.
We're doing a little bit every day with the tree
out the front.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Okay, you know the tree.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Well, I'll help help the donate that too. Oh you're
not gonna help plan it either. No, that's okay. So
that was that was this week's fun. Good and fun
and hijinks. Good. She took advantage of the cooler weather. Yeah, yeah,
definitely got took advent. I mean we couldn't do anything
for like two and a half weeks or the blast
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furnace that was out there, so kind of warming back
up again. But as I was bad, as it was crazy. Yeah,
airy could wear good. So the website is Ron Wilson
Online dot com, Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
And if someone in the Cincinnati area knows if the
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landthall is his own ecosystem, put it in the chat room.
I'll be curious because it's it's weird. As soon as
it hits that mountain. I know the owner of them,
I know you do, giant landfill. I ask I'll ask
him myself. One of my cousins is married to there
you go. We'll just call your cousin. But yeah, that's okay.
I'd rather hear it from someone that actually knows. Okay,
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so you go. So, so yeah, that's in the chatter
on the Facebook page and the website has you know,
a couple of things from Buggy Joe and and pals.
I think Buggy Jos and you all kinds of stuff
over the last Yeah. Yeah, the coolest one is the
ant war that he did that took off. So there's
a couple of things, you know, bagword damage, is the
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spoder lantern fly coming you know, still coming this in
the summertime. What to look for. So there's a couple
of posts on there. I think he just sent you
one yesterday, if I'm not mistaken about Paul Webworm. Love
to get that up there next week. Yeah, it was
were finally actually seeing him again. We didn't see him
for a couple of years. Now they're back. Rita's recipe
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of the week is Rita's perfect pasto. That looks good too. Yes,
And that's how I said that without popping the pee.
You just did it, not me, Rita's perfect pasto. Speaking
of Rita, she's going to be on today. She's going
to be on today. I was going to get to that, okay,
just like yeah, that looks that looks yummy. I'm I'm
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a I'm a love Italian, right, I mean, if barbecue
is my favorite, Italians one a. So barbecue being your favorite?
Is it the sauce? I don't know, is it the rub?
Is it the pork? Are you more of a pork
or beef barbecue? When it comes to just barbecue, sausage, barbecue.
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When it comes to like barbecue, I'm a pork. But
I mean barbecue just in general, Like I'm going to
have a barbecue that's just the best grilling stuff. It
could be sausages, it could be you have a favorite
sauce to use multiple sauces. If I'm doing it out
of a plastic bottle, it's usually Baby Rays. Sometimes it's
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Montgomery in that I have. I've put the two together,
the new Montgomery and spicies really good. Oh I like
that one. And and and I'm not a big potato
chip person. But on a side note, Montgomery in id
partnered with Grippo's to make kettle chips, and that's those
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are pretty darn good kettle chips dipped to Montgomery. And
oh yeah, that's kind of goes along with h but
but but I've just I used my own sauce when
I'm when I'm when i'm doing when i'm doing stuff
on the grill, when I'm actually cooking with the sauce,
use my own sauce. Good for you that I make?
Look at you, mister sauce man. Yeah, didn't know that
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about me. I did not know that. Well, So yeah,
I make, I make my own sauce. But yeah, when
when when I when I'm grilling like you know, ribs
or or you know chicken or something, I make my
own sauce for the masses. Yeah, but what it's for
you get your own sauce, right, got it? The plan
of the week. It's that time of year again. Try
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some of that some time. If you don't want to
bring some in, I would, but someone's got to come
over and play something first. Oh, I see, we have
to work for our food. Yeah, if you're going to
do it for free, got it? Jeez, it's that time
of year again. Yes, it's time to check out the
naked ladies in your I had more fun in Kansas
because they were flowering there too. So the first day
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we went out, there were six of us and they
runted a huge sheep wagon. Here. I got to yell,
look at those naked ladies. And everybody's like what except
for my wife obviously what I was talking about. She
rolled her eyes like, oh gosh, here we go, Here
we go. But then everybody realized what they were. And
then they realized you find them there, So everybody was
yelling to do the whole trip. That's fun. So yeah,
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it was a good time. Cool. Yeah, yeah, So it's
time for the naked ladies and check them out. If
you don't have any, you should and something. If you
don't have any, there's there's plenty to go around. And
they didn't know they had him this their new house.
And about the third day we were there, they came up,
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look what you have in your yard? Naked ladies? Yeah,
so they had no idea they had them there. You go, So,
what what guests do you have on read about? We'd
kind of do an out of order read you rita
Gary Sullivan by Joe Joe. That's it. Lots of TIMPs
to share, uh, And of course lots of a lot
of emails this week, a lot of great timely questions.
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So I have those, and of course I'd rather not
answer those and have folks call in. So you got
questions and we're going to be here, so give us
a buzz. See the picture of that doctors he put
on face? He's blonde now, oh is he? Yeah? Did
he do that once before? Yeah? Yeah, but he's he's
blonde again. And it was a picture with this with
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the sweet with the sweetearchies and more pictures now yeah,
now that they're officially getting hitched. Yeah, so, but yeah,
he's blond. He kind of looked watching the mail for
that invitation. Me too, you'll probably get one before me.
I doubt it. Wow. Maybe maybe our males as slow
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as yours.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
That's true. Unless he said if he said it to
the station, you know, we'll get it next year. Yeah.
So yeah, but that's a blonde doctor Z. Blonde doctor Z. Yeah.
Did he do his little mustache thing too, No, the
mustache is gone. Everything's gone. Mustache is gone. But he's blonde.
He kind of looks like old school eminem from the nineties.
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I see, yeah, doctor Z. Doctor you never know what
the man's gonna do. All right, that's time for me
to go. That's it. Yep. Joe Shreker, Executive producer, if
you like what you see on our website, Ron Wilson
Online dot com, Facebook page. In the Garden with Ron Wilson,
Joe Strecker had everything to do with it something I
know you don't like your question. Don't think it should
be on there. Not my fault. It is not Joe
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Speaker 1 (18:18):
Welcome back, Talking yard and you get eight hundred eight
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off this week, went out, left out last weekend and
went to uh Kansas City, Kansas and uh we lucked
out because it was very quiet around here. What are
(18:38):
you saying that I'm loud?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No?
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Oh okay, yeah right, Uh, well, being it's only you
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Gary Jeff on the other side of her too, But anyway,
I had a great time, but I was really concerned.
Obviously they get the hot weather as well, a little
bit warmer there than we are here in southern Ohio,
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although we're pretty close. Our zones and our plant pallets
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plants and trees that we have here. But was kind
of concerned about the fact that it was just going
to be extremely hot. Was that going to carry through?
And boy, all of a sudden, about a week in advance,
I saw the weather start to change, weather forecast and
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actually this cold front was going to move through right
after we went out there, and it did and it
was absolutely gorgeous. Loved it. And even though they've had
some heat out there again, they have had timely rains
in most cases, and as you looked at most lawns
out there, looking at the fields and things like that,
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fairly green and the trees not shedding too bad. As
a matter of fact, they commented that usually this time
of the year it's like, you know, first of August's
fall season for them, as those inner leaves start to
off from trees from being so hot and so dry.
But so far, pretty good. Lawns, like I said, look
pretty great. Pastors look great. I say that because we
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Speaker 1 (22:55):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking about yardening and of course right
now going into this month of August. I look at
August as you know, again we look at all the
different months and what's going on, and I think right now,
we're looking at a maintaining month. Maintain, keep things watered nicely,
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dead heading, dead foliaging things like that, feeding as needed,
keeping those containers watered, and harvesting, harvesting cut flowers, harvesting
from the garden, things like that. So you know, it's
kind of a I think it's a maintain and enjoy
month really, even though it may be a little bit
warm out there our landscapes, as we go through this
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month and start thinking ahead. Can you believe we're saying this,
Start thinking ahead of September October November, because as we
get into the fall season, remember it's the it's a great,
great time to plant, so we can get back into planting,
especially those trees and shrubs and evergreens or whatever spring
flowering bulbs all get planted in the fall. But we've
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got a long period of time of pretty much typically
consistent weather, and so when we get into September October November,
you think about it. Temperatures are cooling. Now they've stayed
warmer for us the last two or three years later
into the season, but they are cooling as time goes along.
So because you know, it continues to get a little
bit more comfortable, a little bit more comfortable. Plants are
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shutting down. So as you plant, even though the tops
are shutting down, the roots are firing up. This is
one time of the year at fall where more roots
are developed than any other time of the year, which
is one of the biggest benefits of planting in the fall,
especially for trees and shrubs, evergreens, things like that get implanted. Now,
we have had some dry falls, there's no doubt about it.
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Going to be right up front about it. So you
know again you've got to stick with your watering. Fall
used to used to say, you know, Mother Nature's natural
rainfalls in the fall helps out as far as watering. Unfortunately,
you have had some dry falls, and looking at the
old Farmer's Almanac addiction for our falls in our area anyway,
Midwest here talking about cooler but drier than average. So
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we'll see what happens there. But don't let that to
tear you from planting. When you do water as the
temperatures are cooling down, doesn't dry out quite as fast.
And again remember what I said earlier. The plants are
shutting down, they're slowing down, they're not putting out a
lot of energy anymore. They're getting ready to shut down
and get ready for the winter, so they don't use
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as much moisture as they would this time of the
year where it's hot, sunny. A lot of moisture being
lost out of those needles and leafs, so they've got
to replace it, and it dries out quicker. So you know,
even though it may be a little bit drier in
the fall, if thats the way it works out, you're
watering may not be quite as often as it would
be during other times of the year. But again, definitely
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a longer planting period. But get your plans in place
so that you know you know what you're going to do.
I look out there right now, I look at lawns,
for instance, and last fall did a number on a
lot of cool season lawns. I mean it did a number.
They shut down, they went dormant, kind of fired back
up late in the season, but still had some thinned
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out areas, bear areas. As we went into the spring
season and we had pretty much timely rainfalls and cooler tempts,
the lawns responded nicely. Now they still had the bare areas,
but it creamed up a little bit thinner. You got
some reads out there. I think I've seen more crab
grass along the edge of our sidewalk and places like
that now that I think I've ever seen. I wish
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we'll get rid of and we'll do some receding come September,
which is the time to do that. So for cool
season grasses. So remember you've got like actual best timing
is actually are you ready for this, depending on the
weather August fifteenth through the end of September. That's coming
up in a week, crazy stuff. I usually don't do
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it in August, but I will do it first of September.
Cool season grasses we're talking about in that warm season,
and you can continue to do that right on through
late September early October. Is bluegrass you want to get.
If you're using bluegrass, get that in earlier because it
takes longer to germinate and get up and growing and filling,
et cetera, et cetera. But the fescusing the rise don't
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take quite as long. But point being is, if you
look out there now and you know your lawn looks
pretty good, and they have I think for the most
part in our area a little do I we're saying
brown patch right now and things like that, which is typical.
But it may be that fall that you want to
do the core air raiding. It may be that fall
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that you want to do some overseating to thicken the
lawn back up again. It may be that fall that
you need to get serious about looking at some of
those patches. And it may be warm season grasses like
nimble will that you may need to kill out totally
and get rid of all that stuff and then come
back and do some receding or residing in those areas.
If that's the case where you need to kill a
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few things out before you do your seating, guess what,
this is the month to do that. So you know,
you get out and you take a serious look and
you say, okay, this is actually not my lawn. This
is a large patch of whatever it may be, and
you need to get rid of it before you do
your seating. So and that may take two or three weeks,
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So now's the time to start thinking about, you know,
whether it be weed killer application or total vegetation killer.
And in cases like the nimble will and that it's
total vegetation killer for the most part. Getting that all
out of there so that you've got a nice beare
area to come back in and recede or resaw it
as we get into September. And of course core air rating.
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What can I say about core air rating besides the
fact that I don't think you could ever overcore air
rate a lawn, especially with clay soils, It just opens
it up. It just makes it so much nicer for
your turf. You'll find that your turf actually does a
lot better, better performs better, roots end deeper. And if
you'll go that extra step when you core air rate
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and you run through and you do the core aer rating,
pull those plugs out, really do a nice job. Maybe
go back and forth really you know, maybe double core
aerated when you're doing it, and then come back with
a really fine compost and rake that in over the
top as a top dressing it right in your existing lawn,
or if you've got you know, areas you're going to
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do seating, you can do that as well and top
dress it lightly with a compost that works its way
down into those openings. Plus it's on the top. And
then you start to add Now you're adding organic matter
back to your lawn, which is a hard thing to do,
but it's a by By doing the core air rating
and then top dressing with it is an easy way
to do that right before you're ready to do some seating.
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Get that all worked out. Maybe a week later, come
back and do your seating, and again think about using
a slice or slit seater where you actually cut grooves
down into the soil and drop your seed down into that,
right through your existing turf. If you have bare areas,
you'll do that right into the bear areas, criss cross,
go one way, go the other direction. When you're doing that,
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half the rate both ways. Start a fertilizer and you're
good to go. Put the water to it, and we're
ready to go. And the next thing, you know, with
the fall season, lawns respond so nicely to that fall
season that by the time you get to November, you
got yourself a nice looking lawn. And again I'm talking
about cool season turf, not warm season turf. You know,
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warm season turf. Obviously you're not feeding as much. As
you start to get into the fall season, you're backing down.
You start worrying looking at pre emergent over sides in
that as your lawns starting to shut down going in
and this is later on the season obviously, to keep
those weeds from coming up as the lawn has shut down.
But I'll tell you I'm telling you this now about
the lawns, cool season lawns because now's when you need
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to think about what you want to do, taking a
serious evaluation, walking through the lawn and taking a look
and see what you really do have in there, and
then going from there. And remember, anytime you do seating
lawn seating in your lawn, save the label from the
bag of seed that you put down, so you always
know what the last type of seed was that you
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put into your turf. So many times we'll ask you,
know the looking at that you have any idea what
kind of turf it is? No, not really what kind
of seed do you recommend? Well, we want to recommend
a seed as compatible to what you already have or
the same thing. And if you know what you've seated
with in the past, sure helps you out in the
long run as far as you know future seating. And
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if you have turf type tall rescue, turf type tall rescue, blend,
single stand, whatever it may be. We know that now
over time that you know, every three or four years
to come back and do a little over seating helps
to keep that nice and thick. And so you know
again you want to, you know, continue with your turf
type tall rescues and you can use different types of them.
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Just remind yourself with that label that you're using turf
type tall fescues. But again, start to put your plans
in place for that lawn, and what you do in
the fall is truly truly the backbone to how well
your lawn's going to perform the rest of the year.
Dick and Dayton, Dick Coby, how are you? I am great?
(32:23):
How are you good? Good?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Well, the news is going to break what well the
activities director got together if she was talking, I've been
helping a lot with you know, the exercise classes and
the trivia and everything. But it's kind of cute. They
did a spotlight I'm I'm I'm with my little shirt
(32:47):
and smiling. It said welcome the new member of Stony
Rich and they just put a little background of my
family and what you know, playing music and Dick calls
his friends and radio and uh TV. Oh it was cute.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Ron.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I have to send it up to you. And Danny
or yeah, oh man, and they just had I went
to Spring Benders yesterday. We had a pretty good crowd.
We were doing a lot of the songs of uh
Merle Haggard and Buck Owens and Eric Clapton. Boy, we
just rocked that show. They got a new piano player
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from Up in Your Air, you know, Cincinnani. It was
pretty good. But I was pretty happy.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
About that Ron, you know, good for you, Good for you.
I'm surprised under your picture. They didn't just put Dick
from Dayton. Yeah, is everybody knows Dick from Dalton?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, I did watch the Bengals. I thought
they were pretty good, but the defense has got to
play better.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Well, you know, they're they're trying to get it to
get together. From what I read, the defensive coach said
he thought that they were in pretty good condition, pretty
good shape, pulling it together. I think they just gotta,
you know, those first couple of games, get to know
each other, get it together, and you know, and then
they'll be ready for you.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I'm most it's hard to believe it's almost it's Labor Day.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
It's hard to believe. Labor Day weekends right around the corner.
College football. Now you know the NFL. They all kick
off here in about three weeks. Crazy stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Yeah, well, listen, you have a good due, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We're proud of you. I'm glad you were in the
in the brochure and everything. And take advantage of it
and entertain all of your new neighbors.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Okay, have a good day.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
All right, Dick, good talking to you. Quick break, we
come back down from Columbus. You're coming up next phone
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Speaker 1 (36:53):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking to you yardening. Don't forget our
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you might want to check that out as well. To
Columbus we Go, Hey don how's it going?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Well, I have questions for you. How many hours a
day would you say you spend water in your containers
how much time per day?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Less than an hour less?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
And now, yeah, that's what I do too. Yeah, I
hate container gardings for that wendn until my wife tried out.
We have one hundred toasts on our dock, and I
use the soil moist and everything else. But you know,
as always living and ever looks good on container all
this time of years, I think a Trainingum.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, yeah, you gotta hang with there's no doubt about it.
We went away for a few days here this past week,
so we found our neighbor, young lady who's about twelve
or thirteen, who thoroughly enjoyed doing that. So we hired
her to water. And then we both looked at each
other and said, I wonder we should hire to do
this all the time. So yeah, it takes us, It
takes a little bit.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Yeah, that could probably be a little business book kid.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You know, my daughter Don used to have a youngest
daughter used to have a container garden, vegetable garden, and
they were the containers were all in rows and she
actually had a drip irrigation set up so that it
went in the spaghetti tubes going into each of the pots,
so she literally could just turn on she had two
areas you could turn on one or the other and
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water those by just turning it on or putting it
on a timer. And so she really wasn't doing hardly
any hand watering because of those drips. And if you
if you get someone who are set up where you
can hide that tubing behind it, that really does come
in handy.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Right yeah, now, yeah, it's one of those things that
you know, he has to cook everything up, and so
it's like, I think about spending an hour every year,
it spends about play an hour to play five mention
an hour at least watering, and so trying to cut
down on the I was thinking, like, you know, maybe
do a drip thing or the part is they just
bake out here this deck and so it's like it's
(39:01):
just peel sun beating down and you know it's twice
a day for the tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
So oh yeah, absolutely, I think, And that's where that's
one of my things with tomatoes. The bigger the pot,
the better off you're going to be on those tomatoes.
That's why I'll always look at those twenty twenty five
gallon containers for one tomato and that seems that seems
to hold it fairly well. But you're right, you know,
this time of the year, when that sun's beating down,
if it's a full sun patio, full sun deck, it's
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it's tough on those plans. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, that's why I love That's the one thing about
Ohio Stoy which everybody complains about, but it's so bad
is an agricultural estate. But you know it it holds
nutrient into the moisture pretty well. Yeah, so well, the
all the convention you can do about it. It does
have that very positive attribute. But one of the reasons
why I've always loved thing ground God, I love in
ground dot Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Oh you know are you are? You do the raised beds,
and it's a good combination of the two, that's true.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Yeah, all right, Well take care of on all.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Right, don good talking to you always a pleasure. And
you know that is one of the things that when
it comes to container guarding, I'm the first one to
be up front about it is the watering. I mean,
let's face it, these plants are growing in a container,
not in the ground, so they're counting on you more
for watering than the plants that would be in the ground,
although you have to water them too, but sometimes that
may hold the moisture a little bit longer for you.
(40:20):
It's only getting baked at the top of the surface,
whereas in containers it's getting heated up all the way
around the outside, so they can dry out faster. There's
no doubt about it. Look at potting soils.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
I do this, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I look at potting soils. I add pine soil conditioner.
I think that really does help out as far as
retaining moisture. I use the soil moist and I think
that does help. There's no doubt in cutting down your
watering and core COI R and if you mix that in,
and you're seeing a lot of potting soils now that
are using more and more core as an ingredient. And
(40:55):
that core is like spagnum pete, but it's a byproduct
of coconut holes, coconut shells and holes, and they grind
that up and it's a really nice product. It's kind
of weird because you soak it. You get them in
and compressed little bales. You put it in like a
five gallon bucket of water. It's absorbs, it expands, fills
up that whole bucket with the core, and then you
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pick it up and water could be dripping out of it,
but yet it if the wind's blowing, it'll blow right
off your hands. Kind of It's interesting. But co I R.
And if you do all those together, and you know,
use larger containers, if you're you know, pretty serious about
container guardening because obviously those smaller containers are going to
dry out faster. It's amazing, you know how you can
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help to cut down on that watering. And you look
at today some of these drip irrigation systems that are
out there with the tube that would run behind the pots.
If you're able to do that, and then you run
a little spaghetti tube that goes up and directly into
your container, that really helps because you can put that
on a timer. You know, you always want to check those,
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just like the plants that are in in the ground,
checking for moisture, because it's easy to overwater them as
well if you put in there too much. But if
you look at a nursery, look at a grower, obviously
with smaller one gallon two gam of pots are not
doing that as much with those that's more overhead watering,
but with anything larger than that, many times, especially with
the larger trees, they're on that drip system and so
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down the you know the rods that goes that hoes
down the middle with the spaghetti tubes out the side
and into those pots, and you know, you turn that
on every day and gives them a good, good watering
and it really does help you out. So there are
ways out there to help to cut back on the watering,
but that is probably as far as I'm concerned. One
of the biggest drawbacks to container gardening is the fact
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that you are there to take care of them as
far as watering, and no doubt about it. And that's
where raised beds come in. It's kind of a you know,
it's container gardening on steroids, especially if it's sitting on
top of the ground. You've got a combination. You've got
the thickness of the wall of the raised beds will
sh help to cut down on that heat build up,
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and then you plan him kind of covers everything over
and again very very easy to run your tubing to
those and create an irrigation system so that you really
don't have to do anything besides turn on the faucet,
turn off the faucet, and with some of the timers
they have out there, it works nicely for you. I'll
tell you the secret for us going through we still
handwater each one, dram watering ones. That dram watering one
(43:29):
with that four hundred breaker on the end. It's the
best thing in the world because it reaches down into
that pot for you, nice flow coming out. You can't
beat dram watering ponds, especially when it comes to really
soaking containers or even newly planted, smaller perennials and things
like that that you're individually watering on a regular basis.
(43:49):
All right, quick break, we come back. Rita Hikenfeld coming
up next. We'll talk about a recipe which is a pesto,
the perfect pesto, and what's going on in her garden
here in the guard with Ron Wilson
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Help for the do it yourself gardener at one eight
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Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarning as we get into the month of August. Really
nice here so far. I've enjoyed it. Anyway. We'll see
what the Joe Strucker thinks, our executive producer. We'll find
out what's going on in his landscape, our website, Ron
Wilson online dot com Facebook page. In the garden with
(00:56):
Ron Wilson, Good morning, sir, welcome back. Was I gone
you were gone? Huh, yep, I was. I guess you
didn't know that you were gone. I didn't know that.
Kansas City here I come. They had, you know what
they had exact same cool weather we had the day
we left, started heating back up again. Nice, so it
was perfect. I'm glad you're rested and ready to go.
(01:20):
I didn't say I was rested. I'm glad you're ready.
We had we had fun time, so good now we
did it. It was very relaxing, very good, good family
family out there, got horses and things in nice little place,
and glad you had fun, had lots of it was
the in Loss side of the family, so we always
have fun together. Cool plant paletts the same. Of course,
(01:41):
they had a new house, new little farm ranch thing
they bought, and I'd walk around and tell them what
the trees were and the shrubs and stuff and called that. So, yeah,
I'm glad you had fun? Yeah I did. Are you
gonna have fun? I'm gonna have fun? Good? I always
have fun, you always do. Yep, I hurry to get
out of here. This week, you can have fun. Yeah,
(02:03):
that's the goal this week. This week, Yes, this week,
I uh had to mow the serengetti that I had
in my backyard, and I cursed it the entire time.
I mean an hour and twenty minutes to cut my
backyard grown that much. It was so high. I mean
I did a pass and a half and the glamourer
(02:24):
would stop. Yeah. So did you have it up as
high as you could? Yeah? That crazy? So I so
I either a have to go a new lawnmower or
beat cut it more often. It's well, yeah, more often
is the answer. But it's amazing. I mean it's a
push more right, Yeah, it's self propelled. Well, but still
it's it's amazing. How me don't raise up as high
(02:44):
as you'd like for him to so no go more
than about three or three and a half inches. I
mean it didn't even work, even though I had it
all the way up on the highest setting. It didn't
even look like it even did anything. Wow when it
went when it went up, and so yeah, it was
I was, I was. I was not happy. But you
got it. Then you came back two days later and
(03:04):
did it again. I didn't do that, okay, but it was. Yeah,
it was a pain. It was a pain. So so
you've been getting the showers, these off and on showers,
because we got some, which sounds like it's growing. Well,
we got some maybe Thursday, a lot of a lot
(03:27):
of the showers that came through missed, missed, still missed
you still miss me. We got like we didn't get
any of the of the deluges that that some of
the other places did. I mean, maybe drizzled a little bit.
But Thursday was the big day for us, or at
least at my house. Right. Yeah, we had a good
one too. Yeah, we came back and surprising him up here.
(03:47):
I think it'd been watered quite nicely. So well, where
you live, you get rain all the time. We seem
to be getting this year. We have since since I
lived next close to the city dump. It's its own ecosystem.
I guess, like it feels like. It's what it feels like.
I mean, if you watch the radar, you'll see like
the thunderstorm coming and you could see it in the
(04:09):
distance and you hear the thunder and everything. And then
as soon as you watch the radar, and it's like
as soon as it's mountain landfill mount landfill, it like separates, dissipates.
It's got to have its own ecosystem. I wonder, I
wonder how that does affect it. It's got to. But
(04:29):
me off with all the methane and stuff that comes
out of Ron's listening, maybe he's checking in on that. Yeah,
put that in the going into the chat room and
find out about that that. Yeah, so I dide doc.
So I did cut the grass this week and started
the phase one of the redoing the Strucer front landscape,
(04:50):
which is pulling out the weeds, which is getting rid
of everything and putting putting in rocks. So you're going
with the rocks, Yeah, you're not gonna go with that anything.
I'm going just rocks. Well, the bed underneath the window,
the raised bed, the raised bed. Yes, put everything out, Yes,
(05:11):
all the weeds, yes, even the uh Sadly the Lenton
roses is gone. That's all right. Yeah, that thing was.
That was the very first thing that was playing in
that house. And we moved in twenty gosh twenty one
years that the Lenton rose popped back up every single year.
But now it's adding to that ecosystem. So it's all
(05:35):
compost pile. So it's all gone. No, so it's all gone.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to
replant the flocks that were in there, you know, about
seven or eight years ago. So I'm going to do
that in the spring and let the flocks just kind
of just take over because I thought that was cool.
I like the way they cascaded over the over the
(05:56):
wall there, and then someone didn't like it and pulled
them back out. Someone me. I know it wasn't you,
but that's someone doesn't have a vote anymore. So I'm
putting it. Yeah, so I'm putting it all back. But yeah,
but on the on the on this the other planting bed,
the big one in the front, it's going to be
all rocks. I'm done. Stick a fork in me that's
(06:21):
what I'm doing. Okay, that's up to you, landscape. I
gonna pull everything out and just put rocks and have
really cool art in there. And how about up by
the gas meter. I'm gonna hide the gas meter with something.
But it's not going to be a plant. There's a
knockout rose forever. Yeah, I don't know, I'm I'm I'm
(06:44):
I might consider oh gosh, now I'm drawing a blank.
The plant that does the monarchs, the butterfly butterfly butterfly weed.
Maybe maybe that would be interesting, maybe because that will
definitely that would definitely cover the uh, the game. I'd
(07:07):
be more happy to donate a couple of those to
plant there. Can you can you donate some some workers
that help me. But I'll be more happy to donate this, okay,
milk weeds for you than appreciate that. So, but that,
I mean that that might be the only thing. And
then that the then on the side where the banana
tree is, I'm not I'm not touching that yet. I mean,
(07:31):
I might do the same thing, but you know, right now,
I'm just concentrating on the front. So but we're doing
it that me, me and the girls are they're doing.
We're doing a little bit every day with the tree
out the front.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Okay, you know the tree.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Well, I'll help help the donate that too. Oh you're
not gonna help plan it either. No, that's okay. So
that was that was this week's fun. Good and fun
and hijinks. Good. She took advantage of the cooler weather. Yeah, yeah,
definitely got took advent. I mean we couldn't do anything
for like two and a half weeks or the blast
(08:11):
furnace that was out there, so kind of warming back
up again. But as I was bad, as it was crazy. Yeah,
airy could wear good. So the website is Ron Wilson
Online dot com, Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
And if someone in the Cincinnati area knows if the
(08:33):
landthall is his own ecosystem, put it in the chat room.
I'll be curious because it's it's weird. As soon as
it hits that mountain. I know the owner of them,
I know you do, giant landfill. I ask I'll ask
him myself. One of my cousins is married to there
you go. We'll just call your cousin. But yeah, that's okay.
I'd rather hear it from someone that actually knows. Okay,
(08:58):
so you go. So, so yeah, that's in the chatter
on the Facebook page and the website has you know,
a couple of things from Buggy Joe and and pals.
I think Buggy Jos and you all kinds of stuff
over the last Yeah. Yeah, the coolest one is the
ant war that he did that took off. So there's
a couple of things, you know, bagword damage, is the
(09:20):
spoder lantern fly coming you know, still coming this in
the summertime. What to look for. So there's a couple
of posts on there. I think he just sent you
one yesterday, if I'm not mistaken about Paul Webworm. Love
to get that up there next week. Yeah, it was
were finally actually seeing him again. We didn't see him
for a couple of years. Now they're back. Rita's recipe
(09:41):
of the week is Rita's perfect pasto. That looks good too. Yes,
And that's how I said that without popping the pee.
You just did it, not me, Rita's perfect pasto. Speaking
of Rita, she's going to be on today. She's going
to be on today. I was going to get to that, okay,
just like yeah, that looks that looks yummy. I'm I'm
(10:02):
a I'm a love Italian, right, I mean, if barbecue
is my favorite, Italians one a. So barbecue being your favorite?
Is it the sauce? I don't know, is it the rub?
Is it the pork? Are you more of a pork
or beef barbecue? When it comes to just barbecue, sausage, barbecue.
(10:24):
When it comes to like barbecue, I'm a pork. But
I mean barbecue just in general, Like I'm going to
have a barbecue that's just the best grilling stuff. It
could be sausages, it could be you have a favorite
sauce to use multiple sauces. If I'm doing it out
of a plastic bottle, it's usually Baby Rays. Sometimes it's
(10:51):
Montgomery in that I have. I've put the two together,
the new Montgomery and spicies really good. Oh I like
that one. And and and I'm not a big potato
chip person. But on a side note, Montgomery in id
partnered with Grippo's to make kettle chips, and that's those
(11:13):
are pretty darn good kettle chips dipped to Montgomery. And
oh yeah, that's kind of goes along with h but
but but I've just I used my own sauce when
I'm when I'm when i'm doing when i'm doing stuff
on the grill, when I'm actually cooking with the sauce,
use my own sauce. Good for you that I make?
Look at you, mister sauce man. Yeah, didn't know that
(11:33):
about me. I did not know that. Well, So yeah,
I make, I make my own sauce. But yeah, when
when when I when I'm grilling like you know, ribs
or or you know chicken or something, I make my
own sauce for the masses. Yeah, but what it's for
you get your own sauce, right, got it? The plan
of the week. It's that time of year again. Try
(11:55):
some of that some time. If you don't want to
bring some in, I would, but someone's got to come
over and play something first. Oh, I see, we have
to work for our food. Yeah, if you're going to
do it for free, got it? Jeez, it's that time
of year again. Yes, it's time to check out the
naked ladies in your I had more fun in Kansas
because they were flowering there too. So the first day
(12:18):
we went out, there were six of us and they
runted a huge sheep wagon. Here. I got to yell,
look at those naked ladies. And everybody's like what except
for my wife obviously what I was talking about. She
rolled her eyes like, oh gosh, here we go, Here
we go. But then everybody realized what they were. And
then they realized you find them there, So everybody was
yelling to do the whole trip. That's fun. So yeah,
(12:38):
it was a good time. Cool. Yeah, yeah, So it's
time for the naked ladies and check them out. If
you don't have any, you should and something. If you
don't have any, there's there's plenty to go around. And
they didn't know they had him this their new house.
And about the third day we were there, they came up,
(12:58):
look what you have in your yard? Naked ladies? Yeah,
so they had no idea they had them there. You go, So,
what what guests do you have on read about? We'd
kind of do an out of order read you rita
Gary Sullivan by Joe Joe. That's it. Lots of TIMPs
to share, uh, And of course lots of a lot
of emails this week, a lot of great timely questions.
(13:18):
So I have those, and of course I'd rather not
answer those and have folks call in. So you got
questions and we're going to be here, so give us
a buzz. See the picture of that doctors he put
on face? He's blonde now, oh is he? Yeah? Did
he do that once before? Yeah? Yeah, but he's he's
blonde again. And it was a picture with this with
(13:39):
the sweet with the sweetearchies and more pictures now yeah,
now that they're officially getting hitched. Yeah, so, but yeah,
he's blond. He kind of looked watching the mail for
that invitation. Me too, you'll probably get one before me.
I doubt it. Wow. Maybe maybe our males as slow
(14:00):
as yours.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
That's true. Unless he said if he said it to
the station, you know, we'll get it next year. Yeah.
So yeah, but that's a blonde doctor Z. Blonde doctor Z. Yeah.
Did he do his little mustache thing too, No, the
mustache is gone. Everything's gone. Mustache is gone. But he's blonde.
He kind of looks like old school eminem from the nineties.
(14:22):
I see, yeah, doctor Z. Doctor you never know what
the man's gonna do. All right, that's time for me
to go. That's it. Yep. Joe Shreker, Executive producer, if
you like what you see on our website, Ron Wilson
Online dot com, Facebook page. In the Garden with Ron Wilson,
Joe Strecker had everything to do with it something I
know you don't like your question. Don't think it should
be on there. Not my fault. It is not Joe
(14:44):
Strecker's fault. Let's blame doctor Z. The Blondie Hey Blondie
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Speaker 1 (18:18):
Welcome back, Talking yard and you get eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boy, and yeah, I had some time
off this week, went out, left out last weekend and
went to uh Kansas City, Kansas and uh we lucked
out because it was very quiet around here. What are
(18:38):
you saying that I'm loud?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh okay, yeah right, Uh, well, being it's only you
and me in here, well yeah, that's right. We'd had
Gary Jeff on the other side of her too, But anyway,
I had a great time, but I was really concerned.
Obviously they get the hot weather as well, a little
bit warmer there than we are here in southern Ohio,
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although we're pretty close. Our zones and our plant pallets
are pretty much the same if you look at it,
you walk around everybody's yards pretty much seeing the same
plants and trees that we have here. But was kind
of concerned about the fact that it was just going
to be extremely hot. Was that going to carry through?
And boy, all of a sudden, about a week in advance,
I saw the weather start to change, weather forecast and
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actually this cold front was going to move through right
after we went out there, and it did and it
was absolutely gorgeous. Loved it. And even though they've had
some heat out there again, they have had timely rains
in most cases, and as you looked at most lawns
out there, looking at the fields and things like that,
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fairly green and the trees not shedding too bad. As
a matter of fact, they commented that usually this time
of the year it's like, you know, first of August's
fall season for them, as those inner leaves start to
off from trees from being so hot and so dry.
But so far, pretty good. Lawns, like I said, look
pretty great. Pastors look great. I say that because we
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Speaker 1 (22:55):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking about yardening and of course right
now going into this month of August. I look at
August as you know, again we look at all the
different months and what's going on, and I think right now,
we're looking at a maintaining month. Maintain, keep things watered nicely,
(23:16):
dead heading, dead foliaging things like that, feeding as needed,
keeping those containers watered, and harvesting, harvesting cut flowers, harvesting
from the garden, things like that. So you know, it's
kind of a I think it's a maintain and enjoy
month really, even though it may be a little bit
warm out there our landscapes, as we go through this
(23:38):
month and start thinking ahead. Can you believe we're saying this,
Start thinking ahead of September October November, because as we
get into the fall season, remember it's the it's a great,
great time to plant, so we can get back into planting,
especially those trees and shrubs and evergreens or whatever spring
flowering bulbs all get planted in the fall. But we've
(24:00):
got a long period of time of pretty much typically
consistent weather, and so when we get into September October November,
you think about it. Temperatures are cooling. Now they've stayed
warmer for us the last two or three years later
into the season, but they are cooling as time goes along.
So because you know, it continues to get a little
bit more comfortable, a little bit more comfortable. Plants are
(24:22):
shutting down. So as you plant, even though the tops
are shutting down, the roots are firing up. This is
one time of the year at fall where more roots
are developed than any other time of the year, which
is one of the biggest benefits of planting in the fall,
especially for trees and shrubs, evergreens, things like that get implanted. Now,
we have had some dry falls, there's no doubt about it.
(24:42):
Going to be right up front about it. So you
know again you've got to stick with your watering. Fall
used to used to say, you know, Mother Nature's natural
rainfalls in the fall helps out as far as watering. Unfortunately,
you have had some dry falls, and looking at the
old Farmer's Almanac addiction for our falls in our area anyway,
Midwest here talking about cooler but drier than average. So
(25:07):
we'll see what happens there. But don't let that to
tear you from planting. When you do water as the
temperatures are cooling down, doesn't dry out quite as fast.
And again remember what I said earlier. The plants are
shutting down, they're slowing down, they're not putting out a
lot of energy anymore. They're getting ready to shut down
and get ready for the winter, so they don't use
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as much moisture as they would this time of the
year where it's hot, sunny. A lot of moisture being
lost out of those needles and leafs, so they've got
to replace it, and it dries out quicker. So you know,
even though it may be a little bit drier in
the fall, if thats the way it works out, you're
watering may not be quite as often as it would
be during other times of the year. But again, definitely
(25:51):
a longer planting period. But get your plans in place
so that you know you know what you're going to do.
I look out there right now, I look at lawns,
for instance, and last fall did a number on a
lot of cool season lawns. I mean it did a number.
They shut down, they went dormant, kind of fired back
up late in the season, but still had some thinned
(26:14):
out areas, bear areas. As we went into the spring
season and we had pretty much timely rainfalls and cooler tempts,
the lawns responded nicely. Now they still had the bare areas,
but it creamed up a little bit thinner. You got
some reads out there. I think I've seen more crab
grass along the edge of our sidewalk and places like
that now that I think I've ever seen. I wish
(26:36):
we'll get rid of and we'll do some receding come September,
which is the time to do that. So for cool
season grasses. So remember you've got like actual best timing
is actually are you ready for this, depending on the
weather August fifteenth through the end of September. That's coming
up in a week, crazy stuff. I usually don't do
(26:57):
it in August, but I will do it first of September.
Cool season grasses we're talking about in that warm season,
and you can continue to do that right on through
late September early October. Is bluegrass you want to get.
If you're using bluegrass, get that in earlier because it
takes longer to germinate and get up and growing and filling,
et cetera, et cetera. But the fescusing the rise don't
(27:18):
take quite as long. But point being is, if you
look out there now and you know your lawn looks
pretty good, and they have I think for the most
part in our area a little do I we're saying
brown patch right now and things like that, which is typical.
But it may be that fall that you want to
do the core air raiding. It may be that fall
(27:39):
that you want to do some overseating to thicken the
lawn back up again. It may be that fall that
you need to get serious about looking at some of
those patches. And it may be warm season grasses like
nimble will that you may need to kill out totally
and get rid of all that stuff and then come
back and do some receding or residing in those areas.
If that's the case where you need to kill a
(28:00):
few things out before you do your seating, guess what,
this is the month to do that. So you know,
you get out and you take a serious look and
you say, okay, this is actually not my lawn. This
is a large patch of whatever it may be, and
you need to get rid of it before you do
your seating. So and that may take two or three weeks,
(28:21):
So now's the time to start thinking about, you know,
whether it be weed killer application or total vegetation killer.
And in cases like the nimble will and that it's
total vegetation killer for the most part. Getting that all
out of there so that you've got a nice beare
area to come back in and recede or resaw it
as we get into September. And of course core air rating.
(28:43):
What can I say about core air rating besides the
fact that I don't think you could ever overcore air
rate a lawn, especially with clay soils, It just opens
it up. It just makes it so much nicer for
your turf. You'll find that your turf actually does a
lot better, better performs better, roots end deeper. And if
you'll go that extra step when you core air rate
(29:06):
and you run through and you do the core aer rating,
pull those plugs out, really do a nice job. Maybe
go back and forth really you know, maybe double core
aerated when you're doing it, and then come back with
a really fine compost and rake that in over the
top as a top dressing it right in your existing lawn,
or if you've got you know, areas you're going to
(29:26):
do seating, you can do that as well and top
dress it lightly with a compost that works its way
down into those openings. Plus it's on the top. And
then you start to add Now you're adding organic matter
back to your lawn, which is a hard thing to do,
but it's a by By doing the core air rating
and then top dressing with it is an easy way
to do that right before you're ready to do some seating.
(29:48):
Get that all worked out. Maybe a week later, come
back and do your seating, and again think about using
a slice or slit seater where you actually cut grooves
down into the soil and drop your seed down into that,
right through your existing turf. If you have bare areas,
you'll do that right into the bear areas, criss cross,
go one way, go the other direction. When you're doing that,
(30:10):
half the rate both ways. Start a fertilizer and you're
good to go. Put the water to it, and we're
ready to go. And the next thing, you know, with
the fall season, lawns respond so nicely to that fall
season that by the time you get to November, you
got yourself a nice looking lawn. And again I'm talking
about cool season turf, not warm season turf. You know,
(30:32):
warm season turf. Obviously you're not feeding as much. As
you start to get into the fall season, you're backing down.
You start worrying looking at pre emergent over sides in
that as your lawns starting to shut down going in
and this is later on the season obviously, to keep
those weeds from coming up as the lawn has shut down.
But I'll tell you I'm telling you this now about
the lawns, cool season lawns because now's when you need
(30:54):
to think about what you want to do, taking a
serious evaluation, walking through the lawn and taking a look
and see what you really do have in there, and
then going from there. And remember, anytime you do seating
lawn seating in your lawn, save the label from the
bag of seed that you put down, so you always
know what the last type of seed was that you
(31:17):
put into your turf. So many times we'll ask you,
know the looking at that you have any idea what
kind of turf it is? No, not really what kind
of seed do you recommend? Well, we want to recommend
a seed as compatible to what you already have or
the same thing. And if you know what you've seated
with in the past, sure helps you out in the
long run as far as you know future seating. And
(31:37):
if you have turf type tall rescue, turf type tall rescue, blend,
single stand, whatever it may be. We know that now
over time that you know, every three or four years
to come back and do a little over seating helps
to keep that nice and thick. And so you know
again you want to, you know, continue with your turf
type tall rescues and you can use different types of them.
(32:00):
Just remind yourself with that label that you're using turf
type tall fescues. But again, start to put your plans
in place for that lawn, and what you do in
the fall is truly truly the backbone to how well
your lawn's going to perform the rest of the year.
Dick and Dayton, Dick Coby, how are you? I am great?
(32:23):
How are you good? Good?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Well, the news is going to break what well the
activities director got together if she was talking, I've been
helping a lot with you know, the exercise classes and
the trivia and everything. But it's kind of cute. They
did a spotlight I'm I'm I'm with my little shirt
(32:47):
and smiling. It said welcome the new member of Stony
Rich and they just put a little background of my
family and what you know, playing music and Dick calls
his friends and radio and uh TV. Oh it was cute.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Ron.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I have to send it up to you. And Danny
or yeah, oh man, and they just had I went
to Spring Benders yesterday. We had a pretty good crowd.
We were doing a lot of the songs of uh
Merle Haggard and Buck Owens and Eric Clapton. Boy, we
just rocked that show. They got a new piano player
(33:25):
from Up in Your Air, you know, Cincinnani. It was
pretty good. But I was pretty happy.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
About that Ron, you know, good for you, Good for you.
I'm surprised under your picture. They didn't just put Dick
from Dayton. Yeah, is everybody knows Dick from Dalton?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, I did watch the Bengals. I thought
they were pretty good, but the defense has got to
play better.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Well, you know, they're they're trying to get it to
get together. From what I read, the defensive coach said
he thought that they were in pretty good condition, pretty
good shape, pulling it together. I think they just gotta,
you know, those first couple of games, get to know
each other, get it together, and you know, and then
they'll be ready for you.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I'm most it's hard to believe it's almost it's Labor Day.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
It's hard to believe. Labor Day weekends right around the corner.
College football. Now you know the NFL. They all kick
off here in about three weeks. Crazy stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Yeah, well, listen, you have a good due, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We're proud of you. I'm glad you were in the
in the brochure and everything. And take advantage of it
and entertain all of your new neighbors.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Okay, have a good day.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
All right, Dick, good talking to you. Quick break, we
come back down from Columbus. You're coming up next phone
number eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
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Speaker 1 (36:53):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking to you yardening. Don't forget our
website Ron Wilson online dot com and the Facebook page
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Columbus we Go, Hey don how's it going?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Well, I have questions for you. How many hours a
day would you say you spend water in your containers
how much time per day?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Less than an hour less?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
And now, yeah, that's what I do too. Yeah, I
hate container gardings for that wendn until my wife tried out.
We have one hundred toasts on our dock, and I
use the soil moist and everything else. But you know,
as always living and ever looks good on container all
this time of years, I think a Trainingum.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, yeah, you gotta hang with there's no doubt about it.
We went away for a few days here this past week,
so we found our neighbor, young lady who's about twelve
or thirteen, who thoroughly enjoyed doing that. So we hired
her to water. And then we both looked at each
other and said, I wonder we should hire to do
this all the time. So yeah, it takes us, It
takes a little bit.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Yeah, that could probably be a little business book kid.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You know, my daughter Don used to have a youngest
daughter used to have a container garden, vegetable garden, and
they were the containers were all in rows and she
actually had a drip irrigation set up so that it
went in the spaghetti tubes going into each of the pots,
so she literally could just turn on she had two
areas you could turn on one or the other and
(38:26):
water those by just turning it on or putting it
on a timer. And so she really wasn't doing hardly
any hand watering because of those drips. And if you
if you get someone who are set up where you
can hide that tubing behind it, that really does come
in handy.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Right yeah, now, yeah, it's one of those things that
you know, he has to cook everything up, and so
it's like, I think about spending an hour every year,
it spends about play an hour to play five mention
an hour at least watering, and so trying to cut
down on the I was thinking, like, you know, maybe
do a drip thing or the part is they just
bake out here this deck and so it's like it's
(39:01):
just peel sun beating down and you know it's twice
a day for the tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
So oh yeah, absolutely, I think, And that's where that's
one of my things with tomatoes. The bigger the pot,
the better off you're going to be on those tomatoes.
That's why I'll always look at those twenty twenty five
gallon containers for one tomato and that seems that seems
to hold it fairly well. But you're right, you know,
this time of the year, when that sun's beating down,
if it's a full sun patio, full sun deck, it's
(39:27):
it's tough on those plans. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, that's why I love That's the one thing about
Ohio Stoy which everybody complains about, but it's so bad
is an agricultural estate. But you know it it holds
nutrient into the moisture pretty well. Yeah, so well, the
all the convention you can do about it. It does
have that very positive attribute. But one of the reasons
why I've always loved thing ground God, I love in
ground dot Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Oh you know are you are? You do the raised beds,
and it's a good combination of the two, that's true.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Yeah, all right, Well take care of on all.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Right, don good talking to you always a pleasure. And
you know that is one of the things that when
it comes to container guarding, I'm the first one to
be up front about it is the watering. I mean,
let's face it, these plants are growing in a container,
not in the ground, so they're counting on you more
for watering than the plants that would be in the ground,
although you have to water them too, but sometimes that
may hold the moisture a little bit longer for you.
(40:20):
It's only getting baked at the top of the surface,
whereas in containers it's getting heated up all the way
around the outside, so they can dry out faster. There's
no doubt about it. Look at potting soils.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
I do this, you know.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I look at potting soils. I add pine soil conditioner.
I think that really does help out as far as
retaining moisture. I use the soil moist and I think
that does help. There's no doubt in cutting down your
watering and core COI R and if you mix that in,
and you're seeing a lot of potting soils now that
are using more and more core as an ingredient. And
(40:55):
that core is like spagnum pete, but it's a byproduct
of coconut holes, coconut shells and holes, and they grind
that up and it's a really nice product. It's kind
of weird because you soak it. You get them in
and compressed little bales. You put it in like a
five gallon bucket of water. It's absorbs, it expands, fills
up that whole bucket with the core, and then you
(41:17):
pick it up and water could be dripping out of it,
but yet it if the wind's blowing, it'll blow right
off your hands. Kind of It's interesting. But co I R.
And if you do all those together, and you know,
use larger containers, if you're you know, pretty serious about
container guardening because obviously those smaller containers are going to
dry out faster. It's amazing, you know how you can
(41:38):
help to cut down on that watering. And you look
at today some of these drip irrigation systems that are
out there with the tube that would run behind the pots.
If you're able to do that, and then you run
a little spaghetti tube that goes up and directly into
your container, that really helps because you can put that
on a timer. You know, you always want to check those,
(41:58):
just like the plants that are in in the ground,
checking for moisture, because it's easy to overwater them as
well if you put in there too much. But if
you look at a nursery, look at a grower, obviously
with smaller one gallon two gam of pots are not
doing that as much with those that's more overhead watering,
but with anything larger than that, many times, especially with
the larger trees, they're on that drip system and so
(42:22):
down the you know the rods that goes that hoes
down the middle with the spaghetti tubes out the side
and into those pots, and you know, you turn that
on every day and gives them a good, good watering
and it really does help you out. So there are
ways out there to help to cut back on the watering,
but that is probably as far as I'm concerned. One
of the biggest drawbacks to container gardening is the fact
(42:44):
that you are there to take care of them as
far as watering, and no doubt about it. And that's
where raised beds come in. It's kind of a you know,
it's container gardening on steroids, especially if it's sitting on
top of the ground. You've got a combination. You've got
the thickness of the wall of the raised beds will
sh help to cut down on that heat build up,
(43:05):
and then you plan him kind of covers everything over
and again very very easy to run your tubing to
those and create an irrigation system so that you really
don't have to do anything besides turn on the faucet,
turn off the faucet, and with some of the timers
they have out there, it works nicely for you. I'll
tell you the secret for us going through we still
handwater each one, dram watering ones. That dram watering one
(43:29):
with that four hundred breaker on the end. It's the
best thing in the world because it reaches down into
that pot for you, nice flow coming out. You can't
beat dram watering ponds, especially when it comes to really
soaking containers or even newly planted, smaller perennials and things
like that that you're individually watering on a regular basis.
(43:49):
All right, quick break, we come back. Rita Hikenfeld coming
up next. We'll talk about a recipe which is a pesto,
the perfect pesto, and what's going on in her garden
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.