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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yardening as we move our way.
Can you believe this through the month of September? Unreal?
It's this is it last weekend in September. October moves
into town next week, and of course when you get
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to October and Joe and I usually talk about this,
we'll probably talk about it next week.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And by the way, I'm not talking to Joe today.
I'm just not talking to Joe today. No cup of Joe.
That's it. Put my foot down. No cup of Joe today.
He's on vacation, so I hope he had it having
a good.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Time down in Florida, sitting on the beach.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I actually texted him Dan just to teach, just to
see if I could get him to respond to me.
Huh naa he shut it now.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He did respond to another host in this building.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh no, yeah, now I'm hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Basically said it's not my problem this week. Talk to Danny.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh well, I was kidding with him, so I guess
that you know that was business. Mine was just a joke,
all right, But anyway, he was able to refrain from conversing.
So yeah, he was. He was all set, man, he
was headed to Florida and he was doing nada, nothing,
zero zip. And I said, good for you, buddy. Yeah,
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I hope you have a good time. So I think
he comes back either today tomorrow, but anyway, he'll be
back with us next Saturday. So no cup of Joe today.
You're stuck with Dan and me, and you know, what
can I say? But anyway, talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Dick and Dayton and a few other callers too, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
There you go, but standing and me in between every
Saturday morning and it's always a lot of fun. But anyway,
I got your lots of talk about today, lots of tips.
But talking about October being right around the corner, it is,
and it goes quickly. And once we get into October, man,
it seems that really fly because at the end of October,
what do we got? We got a Halloween, and then
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after Halloween we jump right into Thanksgiving, we jump right
into Christmas and the first of the year, and the
next thing you know, it's twenty twenty six. So things
that are starting to wind down, hopefully in your yard
and garden, things are winding up because fall is such
a great time for planting. It is an excellent time.
And you know all the reasons. We've been talking about
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the reasons why fall is such a great planting season
for years and years and years, and I could go
on and on and on tell you all the great reasons.
One of the best is the fact that the plants
are shutting down this time of the year. But it's
fool you because even though the tops are shutting down,
their bottoms are firing up those roots. There are more
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roots developed in the fall September, October, November, and sometimes
even into December than any other time the rest of
the year. So they're getting set up for next year
with that root system in the fall. So when you transplant,
move plants, plant new plants, whatever may be. In the fall,
they're rooting back in, getting started to root back in
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before they get into the spring season. And once the
spring season hits, their goal is to do what push
out that new growth, push out those flowers and do
their thing up top. So you'll hope that they've got
it and they'll develop some roots to the growing season.
I mean, let's face the facts, they do, but not
like they do in September, October, November, December. So that's
probably at the top of the list as why fall
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is such a great time for planting. It's also a
great time because it's a longer planting season. I mean,
you think about it, You get September, October, November, most
of the time December, the weather's halfway decent. You can
plant right on through four months, four months of pretty
consistent weather that you can get out there and plant
and typically cooler. Now, I have some notes here that
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I got a report this week and I knew this
was I knew this was coming. Gut feeling, and I
think Ron Rothis has talked about this a little bit
as well, a little bit of gut feeling, but yet
looking back at some of the past records. But I
saw report this week that said, according to this new report,
first fall frosts. I'm not talking about heavy freezes. I'm
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talking about a good, good frost, the first fall frost.
And like for our area, it's generally around October, the fifteenth,
middle of October, so we see a good frost at
that point. You can have a light one before them
at that point, but if you look anymore, that just
continues to back off and back off. As a matter
of fact, it's just like the first spring of frost
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in the springtime seems to back it gets further, you know,
back into the spring era, into the early spring season
rather than later. You know, it used to be in
our area. You could ask anybody when is a frost
free date, and there's no such thing. I don't take
until we get into the probably first of June. But
frost free date based on percentages of getting a frost,
and that used to be around May fifteenth, fifty percent
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or less, that's your chances are going to that's going
to happen. Now, that's that fifty percent or less is
back into April. So that continues to back up, and
in the fall, looking at fall, that first good frost
or light freeze has actually been pushed back. Now it
keeps pushing back, pushing back, and over the last several decades,
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it says that the date of the first freeze now
comes on an average of eleven into twelve days later
in eighty five percent of the two hundred major cities
surveyed since nineteen seventy with the biggest changes going on,
Guess where the Midwest and the northeast, and they said
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the first freeze heavy frost, light freeze has been pushed
back by at least two weeks, two weeks in five
dozen major northern cities, including Detroit, Philadelphia, in Minneapolis, Saint Paul.
So it just continues to back up. So, you know,
Reno out of Reno, Nevada, their first frost date has
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been backed pushed back the most since nineteen seventy forty
one days. Now. There are some places and then there's
a really cool map and it shows you all across
the country which are going, you know, shifting forward, shifting later, earlier,
and how much And there aren't many arrows that point
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to the earlier, but there are a ton of laters.
And there are a few areas that they have gotten
a little bit earlier here in there, not very many,
but there are a few. But the majority, eighty five
percent are experiencing longer falls, warmer falls before that first
heavy frost early freeze hits their area. So what does
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that mean to us, Well, that means obviously a longer
planting season, you know, a longer time to plant those
spring bulbs. And we try to get those used to say,
you know, you try to get this planet in early
to mid October. Then it was late October, early November.
Then it was that any time before maybe the first
of December. Hey didn't get it done. I'm gonna go
to the fifteenth of December. You still got plenty of time.
They'll get they'll be able to root in. And I've
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planted them even in the February if you had to.
But I mean, that's how things have changed. And of
course you look now and fall colors. I still I
still remember when we used to have ash trees in
our areas before the Emerald Ashboar wiped most of the mouth,
having a tree sale at our nursery in the middle
of September, and that particular ten day period watching the
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ash trees there, one of the first ones to turn
colors change, starting to change their colors middle of September.
I mean, look out there right now, we've got yellows
and browns only because of the trout we've been going through.
But colors haven't really started to show up. Acceptance stressed trees,
trees that have been for whatever reason stress during the
season and again heat drought, poorly rooted in, whatever it
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may be. But those have started to show early fall color,
but for the most part it hasn't even started yet,
so it continues to back off. And you know with that,
we've talked with Barbie Butletcher our queen bee. And you
know that also throws implications. Like with the bees, it
stays warmer longer, they continue to stay active longer. But
guess what's not flowering longer. Yeah, these these late blooming
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plants are usually you know, pretty much used up by
the first week of October, and that's typical, you know,
middle of October at the latest, and then bees usually
starts to really cool down and they start to settle
down and you go into the winter season. So it
affects that. And you know, it also affects winter hardiness
of plants if they're still actively growing, if they're still
active late in the season and all a sudden the
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temperatures just change, well you know what happens there, then
of course they're not ready for the winter to get
winter die back. It also affects the chill winter chill period.
You know, there's that We've had times in Georgia, some
of the southern states have produced peaches in that that
you know, they need a certain amount of cold period
to set their flowers and and have fruit. And there
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have been years when they were had less peaches because
it wasn't cold enough in the fall in the winter.
So you know, it all starts to add up and
and then and oh one last thing that didn't mention
in here. Of course, you know it may cut back
on the amount of snowfall that you get because we
don't get it until later. And of course snowfall was
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part of the insulation. You know, when it gets does
eventually gets cold, and of course they'll just get it
to as rain instead of snow, so you get longer falls,
you got more rain, you got less cold, may even
have a few more insects. Lots of things changing there.
So it is there's it's official, and you kind of
had a got feeling that that was happening. But the
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falls continue to get longer and longer. But it does
give you an opportunity to plant longer. And I think
there's one thing that comes into the play here right
now in our area and most of the Midwest, especially
as I look at the US Drought Monitor map that
Ron roths Now has got me looking at every week,
is that in many many areas. It is dry and
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that's not a good thing, but we got to work
with it because falls such a great time to plan.
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Speaker 1 (13:33):
Welcome back talking to your yarding at eight hundred eight
two three eight two five y five. I like that
song that reminds me, takes me back to my college days. Dan,
my woman from Tokyo. Thank you sir, Yes, sir, deep purple.
How was that they do? Okay, yes, thank you so much.
Welcome talking to your arning and white falls. Such a
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great time for planting, but of course we are now
kind of you know. Okay, it's a great time for planting,
but as we've also experienced over the last two or
three falls, hey, somewhat dry fall finally getting into some
rainfall late in the fall season, but a dry fall.
So what do you do. Well, you know, water's the
key in most of the things that we're doing as
far as planting new grass. I mean, September's is lawng
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cam month. Feeding your lawn September and to get in
November to the most important feedings of the entire season, seeding.
This is the best time of the year to do it.
The best time is in September usually middle August through September,
maybe even the first week or so of October. But again,
the way the falls have been staying warmer longer, folks
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that have kind of put it off and finally got
in and seated in our first second week of October,
we're still able to get the turf type, tall fescues,
the rise you know that type of grass. Now bluegrass, No,
once you get to this point, I'd hold off. I
wouldn't put bluegrass down this time of the year. It
takes too long for it to Germany and started to
come up wid be hardened off. So I'd hold off
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on that one. But the fescues and the other cool
season grasses absolutely, But folks that got into October last year,
it stayed warm long enough and they pushed the water
to it. They got it up and growing did a
nice job. But again water's the key, and whether it's
planting or the seeds or transplanting or whatever, you got
a water But I think it's worth I feel personally
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it's worth the effort of the extra watering that you
may have to do if we don't get natural rainfall.
Now this week we were blessed with a couple of
three really good showers that came through and in some
areas got you know, inch and a half two inches
here and there. It's really dry. And so when you
get those bonus showers like that, even though it may
be two inches, you know, you rarely get half of
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that or a third of that that actually get makes
it into the soil. Nevertheless, we'll take it. The turf
highly benefits from it, especially if you've been cororating over
these seasons. Your landscape beds will benefit from it, especially
if it's you've added organic matter so that it acts
like a sponge and soaks that right in, which is
a little that's a gardening tip right there to make
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sure you're adding organic matter. And when you corerate the
lawn to add organic matter back to the lawn to
make it more like a sponge when it does rain.
But as I've always said, you look at rainfall unless
it's an all day soaker. A half day soaker may count,
but an all day soaker, this nice, slow, steady rain
as a bonus. But I think that, and then build
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your watering around it. But I think that what extra
water you may have to do this fall, whether you
sprinklers or tree tree huggers that wrap around the tree
and water for you. There's some many great ways to water,
but you may have to do a little bit extra watering.
But it's worth it to do that. It is worth
it to do that. And the thing of it is,
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remember the sun is at a lower level now, the
days are getting shorter, the temperatures aren't as warm as
they were have been. Although last Sunday, standing out in
the middle of a soccer field watching the grandkids play soccer,
I was pretty darn hot. But it is cooling down.
Let's face the facts, and the days are shorter, so
it doesn't dry out quite as quickly. So I feel
like even though falls, you know, we talk about this,
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but yet it is dry in the out there, There's
no doubt. I'm the first one to admit it. I
think it's worth it for the benefits of planting. To
add the extra time it's going to take to water
these plants as you're doing your planting, I think it's
worth it. And this may be a situation if this
continues on and it looks like it is. I mean,
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look at the facts over the last several years about
the longer dry you know falls, and they have been drier.
There's no doubt about it that you may consider having
an irrigation installed in the turf. And of course you
could do some type of landscape irrigation, yet be cautious
with those because plants in the landscape may require different
types of watering levels and things like that, so you
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have to be a little bit cautious. But in the
turf especially that you may want to do it and
manually use that irrigation system as needed, not on a timer,
not every day, not every you know, all the do
it as needed. Gary Salvan a hum improvement expert, same
way he's put He put an irrigation system in his
house the first year that they moved into it and
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has had it ever since, but it's on manual, and
only time he turns that on is when he you know,
we're really getting into a dry spell and it's time
to water the lawn. He likes to keep it from
going dormant, so he'll water the lawn. He'll do it
only as needed less a're out of town, and then
I'll put it on manual and do it, you know,
a good thorough soaking once a week. So, you know,
I think that's something you might want to consider. If
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we are seeing things change as far as are have
linked of the fall season, staying a little bit warmer,
a little bit drier later in the season, and being
such a good time for planning, I think it's worth
the taking a look at that and seeing, you know,
is that And again I mentioned earlier organic manner. We've
talked about that forever, how important that is to help
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him in, especially if you've got clay soils like we do.
A way I always love them, folks say I got this,
you know, I got I'm dealing with clay soil in
my yard. We all, we all are in our area
dealing with clay soil. It grows things. There's there's a
lot of benefits to clay soil. Look at the nurseries
around you. They're growing stuff all the time, but it's
nice to amend it with organic matter. Compost the cow
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the bad caalbnure is absolutely outstanding. The cow uh sweet
peat pine soil conditioner. Anything you can add like that
organic matter to the soil helps to make it more
open for accepting rainfall and accepting water when you do water.
And of course the plant's root in better, root in deeper,
so they're more tolerant for drought situations as well. So
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as you continue to plant, all right, make sure you're
always adding organic matter back as a soil amendment to
the original soil. Always use the original soil as you
continue to plant. All right, quick break, we come back.
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Talking your ardening at eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boy. Uh no cup of joe today,
So I and go when you know what's funny, I
told Joe, and he's not on with a cup of Joe.
The show goes another direction because I start talking about
all kinds of stuff and not talking about the website
and guests and all of that, and I forget I
get onto other things. But our website is Ron Wilson
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online dot com.
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And what's on the website run.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And on the website today is of course planning of
the week, which is uh. I think it's a way
under used plant goes along with last week's tree. Last
week happened to be bolt cypress. This week is Don redwood,
a deciduous evergreen. Yes, Don Redwood. You know you've always
wonted one of those redwoods growing in your own yard
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and garden. Well, Redwood's are available. They do a great
job in our in the Midwest, they can do a
great job about anywhere. And so many new, great varieties
that are out there for you. As a matter of fact,
the picture I have of one on our website is
a more narrow growing wins so it doesn't get quite
as large, but it's the same old, same, Oh it's
a Don redwood. And if you'd like those, you know,
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check it out and your local garden centers have them.
There's even a couple of varieties that have a nice
golden foliage which really stands out gold rush Ogan or Ogan.
There's two or three of them out there for you.
But it's a deciduous evergreen, so they do lose those needles. Now,
the needles are a great orange, bronzy red in the fall,
really spectacular, and then drop down and of course you
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can mow those right back into the turf, or just
create a mulch bed underneath the tree and let them
lay there over the wintertime. But that's our plant pick
of the week, don Redwood, and you can find it
at run Wilson online dot com. Rita's recipe this week
sophisticated sophisticated grilled Cheese. Now at the top of this recipe,
Rita says the bread must be high quality bread, sturdy bread.
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Careful not to get a bread that's too holy, but
it has big red holes in it, the feeling will
ooze out. Use real butter, high quality cheese, and that's
why it's called the sophisticated grilled cheese. If this thing
ain't cheesy enough for you, I don't know. You just
don't need a grilled cheese sandwich. It even includes a
little bit of mayo, lots of cheese, a little bit
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of de jon or yellow mustard, maybe even a chopped
green onion if you want a little bit on there
as well. Arugula leaves on the top goes well, be
right before you grill it. But it's called a sophisticated
grilled cheese and that would be Rita's recipe at Ron
Wilson Online.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I'm reading it now and it sounds very delicious.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
M I can smell it grilling right now. We also
have some tips on there on deerproofing your lawn, getting
grubs out of the grass, et cetera, et cetera. Keep
scrolling down you'll see last week's posts as well, but
it's all Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page going
this morning in the Garden with Ron Wilson, So if
you want to go on the Facebook pages, usually a
little chatting going on there as well, so be sure
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and check that out too. Special guests today coming up
the top of the hour, we're going to talk to
our queen bee breeder, Nina Bagley's going to join us
this morning. Nina is out of Columbus, Ohio. She is
a queen bee breeder. We've had Nina on before. It's
always interesting, but there's someone out there that can actually
develops queen bees for all of anybody that wants, ay,
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you know, needs to start a beehive and they need
that queen and a few workers to go with it.
That's what she does. Plus she's a huge beekeeper. So
we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about how
the falls affected her bees. She showed me some pictures
last week about her getting stung. I'm gonna let her
fill you in on that. And also she sent me
a picture this week of someone very unusual looking honey
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and of course the flowers kind of you know, whatever's
in flower at that time can dictate how the honey tastes.
Obviously the sweetness and the color. Well, this is a
very unusual I had no idea where it came from,
and well we're going to tell you. And it's a
very unusual source of nectar for honey bees late in
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the season, but it works and you will be surprised
when we talked to Nina about where that came from.
So that'll be interesting. And of course, doctor Allan Armady's
with us this morning, Doctor triple A. He just got
back from a big trip over to Europe. We'll find
out what he found out over there. You didn't know
if he was going to make it back in time
because they were talking about some strike or something over
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there and maybe not getting out in time. Anyway, So
he is back and we're going to talk about some
plants that he really liked in his garden this year.
We'll talk about his trip and guess what, I guess
he's going to say something about it today. He's got
another book coming out. I think it's coming out this month,
and well, maybe you'll bring it up, maybe you won't,
I don't know. But we got doctor Allen Armidy's coming up.
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So both Nina Bagley and Allan Armage in the next hour,
and of course after that, Gary Salvin, Buggy, Joe Boggs
and of course Danny and Me and you in between.
At eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Be sure check out our website, Ron Wilson online dot com. Also,
I got into an email a little or a text
message a little bit earlier from our giant pumpkin grower,
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Jerry Rose. He has headed to his first pumpkin way
off today. He didn't tell me what he thought that
big pumpkin was going away. I have to check in
with him a little bit later on, but he has
had it out. So pumpkin way offs have begun. Check
in your area to see if there's one maybe that
you could go to to check out some of these
giant pumpkins all around the country. I'll be in Columbus,
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Ohio on the twelfth of October at the Oakland Nursery
in Dublin, Ohio. It's out right outside of Columbus, and
Jerry will be there and all lots of folks and
big pumpkins. And they've had some record breakers at that one,
So you might wanna if you've got going to be
in the Columbus area, check that one out. It's on
October the twelfth. But he sent me a picture of
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a and this is typical Jerry Rose. Send me a
picture of a cauliflower head that he grew. And I
can't tell exactly looking at the picture, but it looks
like about the size of a large soccer ball, and
that is typical Jerry Rose. Oh, by the way, he
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did respond, he said, this is a throwaway pumpkin. This
would be one of his smallest at around eleven hundred
to twelve hundred pounds.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Only eleven hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
That's it, and that's considered one of his throwaways. Ladies
and gentlemen, eleven to twelve hundred pounds. But you can
stay in touch with all the way offs going to
big Pumpkins dot com at is big Pumpkins dot com
and learn more. And by the way, you know, there's
all kinds of records for vegetables, fRoots and vegetables out there,
and Jerry gets into two or three or four of them.
But there is also one for the longest gord and
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and that's pretty interesting. I mean, these things are huge.
They have to tie him onto two by fours to
keep them breaking. Well, there's also records for the world's
tallest sunflower blooms and the largest sunflower boom blooms. Well,
the record this year was officially posted the earlier this
month in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the world's tallest sunflower.
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All right, uh, and the gentleman that grew it, he
grew it as a tribute to the folks and you Ukraine.
He is a Ukrainian immigrant, been been here for a
long time. But that's their their country flower, of course
is the is the sunflower. But he nicknamed this sunflower
clover and they get us World Book of Records came
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and they measured it and he's got to attached to
a pole and holdline yards. You want to guess how
big this thing is? Thirty five feet tall? Thirty five
feet tall with a flower on the top, that's one
big sunflower almost thirty six feet But yeah, is that
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unbelievable or what? Congratulations to Alec bobick Uh in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
And he's got this thing tied on like a looks
like almost like a windmill. Trellis thirty five almost thirty
six feet into the air. What a record. But anyway,
you know, if you want to learn more about all
those big pumpkins, dot com uh and you can keep
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up with all the ways and all the records and
all that kind of stuff. Before we take a break.
Tick from Dayton, good.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Morning, Good morning. How are you Ron?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I am greating, Danny's doing great. I'm doing great. How
are you doing well.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I've been listening about your guests. That's kind of interesting.
You know it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Well thank you, well, you know, it's always cool that
you're on here.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh yeah, yeah. I just wanted to say it's been
a sort of a short week, but please pray for
our Bengals.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh man, they need to win they I tell you,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I was. It was the first game. Then I switched
over to Fox. Yeah, and I had just come home
from people at church, had a little party and stuff,
and it was five minutes to go, and I couldn't
believe they won that game with two seconds to go
with that kicker.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Oh yeah, that was That was an exciting game, that was.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
And the Buck guys played the day too. And then
I went to a little place down in uh Marine
as you go towards you know, uh Cincinnati, and they
had a little session down there, and uh boy, it
was good. They had all kind of or duras and pizza,
and I met some people from Nashville down there, and
(31:16):
I got to sing a couple of songs and the
guy told me to come back next week. He'd played.
He had a man to lend him banjo. How about that?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
All right? And that's right up your alley.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh yeah, And they had good food and ordures and
everything was great.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And that's right up my alley.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, yeah, I told you about that little picture, didn't I?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh at Stony Bridge me playing, Yeah, the talent ship. Yes,
Oh did you like it?
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I didn't get one.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You have to go on Facebook to see it.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Go to Ridge on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah, Stony Ridge, Sittant Levy say it's a talent show.
You'll see me there.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, I don't have Facebook, but I'll have somebody looking
up for us. Danny'll look it up to I think
he's on Facebook, so we'll check it out. Yeah, all right,
we gotta.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Take a break.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Always fun talking to you, Dick. Take care. Yeah, all right,
care buddy, Bye bye, all right, quick break, we come back.
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Eight hundred A two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am run Wilson your personal yardboard. We are talking
yardening in fall season. This is it. This is the
best time of the year to do all kinds of planting.
May have to do a little watering, little extra watering
because Mother Nature's kind of been stingy with that water.
But I'm telling you what, this is the time to plant.
It's a good it's a good trade off. It's I'm
(34:20):
guaranteeing you that that's gonna work for you. You gotta stick
with the watering. That's the key, no matter what you're doing,
but you stick with it. Really, the benefits from planning
and to fall are phenomenal. So please please do stay
with with it. And again our website run Wilson online
dot com facebook page in the garden with Ron Wilson.
By the way, Danny Gleason. During the break we went to
the Facebook page at Stony Ridge and if you want
(34:43):
to see Dick from Dayton, he's on there, so you
can go to their face.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Smile one and every picture.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Smile as always in every picture. So if you want
to see what Dick from Dayton, because everybody knows Dick
from Dayton looks like, there you can find out at
Danny says like you said, smiling and awe of the pick.
You know, we have a lot of trade shows this
time of the year where the locally owned garden centers
get to go and see the new products that are
coming along and of course by their products for next year,
(35:11):
and you know the standbys and the regulars as well
as finding out what's new and exciting out there. A
couple of things we saw last week up in Cleveland,
Ohio at the BFG Show. It's huge and it takes
a while walk through and see all these great products
that are up there. But a couple of things I
thought was kind of interesting. Radius tools and Radius tools
(35:32):
have been around for a while. They started out with
their radius shovel and then came up with a radius
hand digger of trowel, and then has expanded from there
and quite a collection of Radius tools. Where they bought
out a small company. It has like a scuffle hoe
with a point on the front of it, sharpened point,
(35:53):
and I've always thought it was kind of cool. It
was a very small company. Well they took they bought
that company and have now added that to their Radius
tool inventory and it's a great It's like a scuffle
hole if you're familiar with that. You put it under
the weeds and you go back and forth and it
cuts them off just below the ground level. Well, this
has a point on it, and there's a couple of
different sizes a point on it, and it's sharp so
(36:16):
that you know, if you're doing weeding in between cracks
and crevices, you just turn that thing on the side
and walk right down that cracker crevice and that takes
those weeds right out of there for you as well
as the shuffle ho as well as you can turn
it over when you're planting the vegetable garden and dig
out your planting row as well. But it's from Radius Tools.
(36:37):
You might want to check that out. It's a yellow handle,
unlike their red handles and all the Radius tools. I
like it, and I think I think it's well worth
taking a look at it if you use a hoe
a lot in your garden. Also, Panacea products they've been
around forever, have a new option for all you hummingbird
feeder fans. All right. You know, if it stays hot
(36:59):
outside that hummingbird, that nectar, whether you make your own
or you buy the bottled nectar, can can get bad
pretty quickly, especially in the heat. They now have a
thirty ounce insulated reservoir in their new feeder called a
nectar cooler feeder, and it has an insulator reservoir that
(37:22):
keeps that nectar, that liquid nectar in there, lasting twice
as long during the heat of the summer as it
normally would. And it actually has a cutout gates to
show you where the nectar levels are, but it screws
right onto the bottom. But it's insulated and it keeps
it cooler so it doesn't turn bad as quickly. I
thought that was a pretty good idea. That's from a
(37:42):
panacea pa n a cea. But it's called the nectar
cooler feeder for hummingbirds, and I think that's if you're
really into it and you're always switching that out because
it goes bad there you go, that's going to help
you out and save you a little bit of time
in the garden when it comes to feeding those hummingbirds,
and of course keep planting so you have all the
(38:03):
different plants for them as well, but they still enjoy
that hummingbird feeder you and I know that as well.
One last thing I saw, I saw a bunch of stuff,
but one I sing I wanted to bring to your
attention tank sprayers. You know, there are so many different
types of tank sprayers that we can buy on the
market and the quality of the tank sprayers and the
pressure and the whole you know, the whole nine yards
(38:24):
just all over the board. I mean it very so much.
And they're not cheap and if you buy a cheap one,
it usually doesn't last you very long.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
And tank sprayers again, you know, for using a concentrate
of insecticidal soap or horticulture oil or whatever you need
to do to spray with. Right now, in our area,
we're dealing with the box tree moth, which is a
serious situation, dealing with the box tree moth and the
devouring boxwood and it's spreading like crazy. Folks, if you
have and I've brought this up and trying to do
(38:54):
it in all the shows, but if you have boxwood
in your landscape and you live east of the Missis
Sippy River, I want you to look up box tree moth.
It was discovered in our area southern Ohio, southwestern Ohio
about this is our second full season and it is
(39:16):
spreading a lot faster than we thought it was going
to be able to spread. And it's a serious situation.
You got to know what to look for and it's
easy to control. Once you find the caterpillars. They're easy
to spray, knock them down and easy. But the point
being is you need to do a power spray to
get all that down inside your box. Would so tank
sprayers could become a very important part. You can buy
(39:37):
the hose in attachments as well, and you can buy
the pre the fur the insecticide that is already ready
mixed and ready to go that attaches to the end
of your host. So those are available. But if you
need a tank sprayer, getting a high quality one and
then of course the pressure you have to pump them
up or you know, the battery operated to pump them
up or whatever. Somebody in Australia was a firefighter invented
(40:01):
this pump. It's called the Aussy Easy Spray Easy wy
Aussey Easy Spray. It's being sold by a TDI Brands
and it's a pump sprayer that's high quality, really well built.
It's going to cost you probably one hundred bucks. But
it doesn't require gas, a charge or a battery all right,
(40:22):
because the pump uses water pressure, air and water pressure
as you're filling it up to create the pressure inside
the tank and the spray heads or misshower cone and jet,
but it's called the Aussy Easy y Easy Spray from
TDI Brands. Check that out. It's a little bit more expensive,
(40:43):
but it is a high quality tank sprayer that automatically
puts pressure in there for you when you fill it
up with the hose. And it's highly recommended if you
use a tank sprayer in your lawn. And before we
take a break here, we're going to talk to Nina Bagley,
our queen bee breeder, and of course Alan Armity is
at the bottom of the hour. I want to just
(41:04):
bring this up real quick again. The boxtree moth. You know,
we got two insects in our area right now that's
continuing to spread. One is more than the box tree moths,
the spotted lanternfly, and it's like an aphan on steroids
and it really doesn't kill the host tree is tree
of heavenstinctree. They love that that's their host, and it's
against a non native, very invasive, but it looks it's
(41:26):
a probably the most beautiful insect I've ever seen, but
it's like a huge aphen and they're a sucking insect
and they really like grapes and they typically don't kill
the plants that they're on, but can they get really
weaken them. That's one we're sitting spreading across in the
Midwest big time. But this box tree moth now and
I think six different states and continuing to move, and
(41:47):
it's devastating to boxwood. So I want you to go
and learn more about it. Joe and I've talked about
it on the show. You can go to byg L
dot OSU dot eedu. You can go to our website
at Ron Wilson online dot com, scroll down and find it,
but learn more about box tree moth. If you live
anywhere on the east side of the Mississippi River, learn
(42:08):
more about it, what to look for, because one day
it's there and the next day your box would aren't.
Check it out. Box tree ball, all right, quick break,
We come back. Nina Bagley, our queen bee breeder. Here
in the garden, Ron Wilson, Green.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Tom or not. Ron can help at one eight hundred
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Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yardening as we move our way.
Can you believe this through the month of September? Unreal?
It's this is it last weekend in September. October moves
into town next week, and of course when you get
(00:57):
to October and Joe and I usually talk about this,
we'll probably talk about it next week.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And by the way, I'm not talking to Joe today.
I'm just not talking to Joe today. No cup of Joe.
That's it. Put my foot down. No cup of Joe today.
He's on vacation, so I hope he had it having
a good.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Time down in Florida, sitting on the beach.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I actually texted him Dan just to teach, just to
see if I could get him to respond to me.
Huh naa he shut it now.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He did respond to another host in this building.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh no, yeah, now I'm hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Basically said it's not my problem this week. Talk to Danny.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh well, I was kidding with him, so I guess
that you know that was business. Mine was just a joke,
all right, But anyway, he was able to refrain from conversing.
So yeah, he was. He was all set, man, he
was headed to Florida and he was doing nada, nothing,
zero zip. And I said, good for you, buddy. Yeah,
(01:57):
I hope you have a good time. So I think
he comes back either today tomorrow, but anyway, he'll be
back with us next Saturday. So no cup of Joe today.
You're stuck with Dan and me, and you know, what
can I say? But anyway, talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Dick and Dayton and a few other callers too, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
There you go, but standing and me in between every
Saturday morning and it's always a lot of fun. But anyway,
I got your lots of talk about today, lots of tips.
But talking about October being right around the corner, it is,
and it goes quickly. And once we get into October, man,
it seems that really fly because at the end of October,
what do we got? We got a Halloween, and then
(02:32):
after Halloween we jump right into Thanksgiving, we jump right
into Christmas and the first of the year, and the
next thing you know, it's twenty twenty six. So things
that are starting to wind down, hopefully in your yard
and garden, things are winding up because fall is such
a great time for planting. It is an excellent time.
And you know all the reasons. We've been talking about
(02:53):
the reasons why fall is such a great planting season
for years and years and years, and I could go
on and on and on tell you all the great reasons.
One of the best is the fact that the plants
are shutting down this time of the year. But it's
fool you because even though the tops are shutting down,
their bottoms are firing up those roots. There are more
(03:18):
roots developed in the fall September, October, November, and sometimes
even into December than any other time the rest of
the year. So they're getting set up for next year
with that root system in the fall. So when you transplant,
move plants, plant new plants, whatever may be. In the fall,
they're rooting back in, getting started to root back in
(03:39):
before they get into the spring season. And once the
spring season hits, their goal is to do what push
out that new growth, push out those flowers and do
their thing up top. So you'll hope that they've got
it and they'll develop some roots to the growing season.
I mean, let's face the facts, they do, but not
like they do in September, October, November, December. So that's
probably at the top of the list as why fall
(04:02):
is such a great time for planting. It's also a
great time because it's a longer planting season. I mean,
you think about it, You get September, October, November, most
of the time December, the weather's halfway decent. You can
plant right on through four months, four months of pretty
consistent weather that you can get out there and plant
and typically cooler. Now, I have some notes here that
(04:24):
I got a report this week and I knew this
was I knew this was coming. Gut feeling, and I
think Ron Rothis has talked about this a little bit
as well, a little bit of gut feeling, but yet
looking back at some of the past records. But I
saw report this week that said, according to this new report,
first fall frosts. I'm not talking about heavy freezes. I'm
(04:47):
talking about a good, good frost, the first fall frost.
And like for our area, it's generally around October, the fifteenth,
middle of October, so we see a good frost at
that point. You can have a light one before them
at that point, but if you look anymore, that just
continues to back off and back off. As a matter
of fact, it's just like the first spring of frost
(05:09):
in the springtime seems to back it gets further, you know,
back into the spring era, into the early spring season
rather than later. You know, it used to be in
our area. You could ask anybody when is a frost
free date, and there's no such thing. I don't take
until we get into the probably first of June. But
frost free date based on percentages of getting a frost,
and that used to be around May fifteenth, fifty percent
(05:32):
or less, that's your chances are going to that's going
to happen. Now, that's that fifty percent or less is
back into April. So that continues to back up, and
in the fall, looking at fall, that first good frost
or light freeze has actually been pushed back. Now it
keeps pushing back, pushing back, and over the last several decades,
(05:54):
it says that the date of the first freeze now
comes on an average of eleven into twelve days later
in eighty five percent of the two hundred major cities
surveyed since nineteen seventy with the biggest changes going on,
Guess where the Midwest and the northeast, and they said
(06:15):
the first freeze heavy frost, light freeze has been pushed
back by at least two weeks, two weeks in five
dozen major northern cities, including Detroit, Philadelphia, in Minneapolis, Saint Paul.
So it just continues to back up. So, you know,
Reno out of Reno, Nevada, their first frost date has
(06:40):
been backed pushed back the most since nineteen seventy forty
one days. Now. There are some places and then there's
a really cool map and it shows you all across
the country which are going, you know, shifting forward, shifting later, earlier,
and how much And there aren't many arrows that point
(07:02):
to the earlier, but there are a ton of laters.
And there are a few areas that they have gotten
a little bit earlier here in there, not very many,
but there are a few. But the majority, eighty five
percent are experiencing longer falls, warmer falls before that first
heavy frost early freeze hits their area. So what does
(07:24):
that mean to us, Well, that means obviously a longer
planting season, you know, a longer time to plant those
spring bulbs. And we try to get those used to say,
you know, you try to get this planet in early
to mid October. Then it was late October, early November.
Then it was that any time before maybe the first
of December. Hey didn't get it done. I'm gonna go
to the fifteenth of December. You still got plenty of time.
They'll get they'll be able to root in. And I've
(07:45):
planted them even in the February if you had to.
But I mean, that's how things have changed. And of
course you look now and fall colors. I still I
still remember when we used to have ash trees in
our areas before the Emerald Ashboar wiped most of the mouth,
having a tree sale at our nursery in the middle
of September, and that particular ten day period watching the
(08:07):
ash trees there, one of the first ones to turn
colors change, starting to change their colors middle of September.
I mean, look out there right now, we've got yellows
and browns only because of the trout we've been going through.
But colors haven't really started to show up. Acceptance stressed trees,
trees that have been for whatever reason stress during the
season and again heat drought, poorly rooted in, whatever it
(08:29):
may be. But those have started to show early fall color,
but for the most part it hasn't even started yet,
so it continues to back off. And you know with that,
we've talked with Barbie Butletcher our queen bee. And you
know that also throws implications. Like with the bees, it
stays warmer longer, they continue to stay active longer. But
guess what's not flowering longer. Yeah, these these late blooming
(08:53):
plants are usually you know, pretty much used up by
the first week of October, and that's typical, you know,
middle of October at the latest, and then bees usually
starts to really cool down and they start to settle
down and you go into the winter season. So it
affects that. And you know, it also affects winter hardiness
of plants if they're still actively growing, if they're still
active late in the season and all a sudden the
(09:13):
temperatures just change, well you know what happens there, then
of course they're not ready for the winter to get
winter die back. It also affects the chill winter chill period.
You know, there's that We've had times in Georgia, some
of the southern states have produced peaches in that that
you know, they need a certain amount of cold period
to set their flowers and and have fruit. And there
(09:37):
have been years when they were had less peaches because
it wasn't cold enough in the fall in the winter.
So you know, it all starts to add up and
and then and oh one last thing that didn't mention
in here. Of course, you know it may cut back
on the amount of snowfall that you get because we
don't get it until later. And of course snowfall was
(09:58):
part of the insulation. You know, when it gets does
eventually gets cold, and of course they'll just get it
to as rain instead of snow, so you get longer falls,
you got more rain, you got less cold, may even
have a few more insects. Lots of things changing there.
So it is there's it's official, and you kind of
had a got feeling that that was happening. But the
(10:19):
falls continue to get longer and longer. But it does
give you an opportunity to plant longer. And I think
there's one thing that comes into the play here right
now in our area and most of the Midwest, especially
as I look at the US Drought Monitor map that
Ron roths Now has got me looking at every week,
is that in many many areas. It is dry and
(10:40):
that's not a good thing, but we got to work
with it because falls such a great time to plan.
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Welcome back talking to your yarding at eight hundred eight
two three eight two five y five. I like that
song that reminds me, takes me back to my college days. Dan,
my woman from Tokyo. Thank you sir, Yes, sir, deep purple.
How was that they do? Okay, yes, thank you so much.
Welcome talking to your arning and white falls. Such a
(13:54):
great time for planting, but of course we are now
kind of you know. Okay, it's a great time for planting,
but as we've also experienced over the last two or
three falls, hey, somewhat dry fall finally getting into some
rainfall late in the fall season, but a dry fall.
So what do you do. Well, you know, water's the
key in most of the things that we're doing as
far as planting new grass. I mean, September's is lawng
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cam month. Feeding your lawn September and to get in
November to the most important feedings of the entire season, seeding.
This is the best time of the year to do it.
The best time is in September usually middle August through September,
maybe even the first week or so of October. But again,
the way the falls have been staying warmer longer, folks
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that have kind of put it off and finally got
in and seated in our first second week of October,
we're still able to get the turf type, tall fescues,
the rise you know that type of grass. Now bluegrass, No,
once you get to this point, I'd hold off. I
wouldn't put bluegrass down this time of the year. It
takes too long for it to Germany and started to
come up wid be hardened off. So I'd hold off
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on that one. But the fescues and the other cool
season grasses absolutely, But folks that got into October last year,
it stayed warm long enough and they pushed the water
to it. They got it up and growing did a
nice job. But again water's the key, and whether it's
planting or the seeds or transplanting or whatever, you got
a water But I think it's worth I feel personally
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it's worth the effort of the extra watering that you
may have to do if we don't get natural rainfall.
Now this week we were blessed with a couple of
three really good showers that came through and in some
areas got you know, inch and a half two inches
here and there. It's really dry. And so when you
get those bonus showers like that, even though it may
be two inches, you know, you rarely get half of
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that or a third of that that actually get makes
it into the soil. Nevertheless, we'll take it. The turf
highly benefits from it, especially if you've been cororating over
these seasons. Your landscape beds will benefit from it, especially
if it's you've added organic matter so that it acts
like a sponge and soaks that right in, which is
a little that's a gardening tip right there to make
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sure you're adding organic matter. And when you corerate the
lawn to add organic matter back to the lawn to
make it more like a sponge when it does rain.
But as I've always said, you look at rainfall unless
it's an all day soaker. A half day soaker may count,
but an all day soaker, this nice, slow, steady rain
as a bonus. But I think that, and then build
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your watering around it. But I think that what extra
water you may have to do this fall, whether you
sprinklers or tree tree huggers that wrap around the tree
and water for you. There's some many great ways to water,
but you may have to do a little bit extra watering.
But it's worth it to do that. It is worth
it to do that. And the thing of it is,
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remember the sun is at a lower level now, the
days are getting shorter, the temperatures aren't as warm as
they were have been. Although last Sunday, standing out in
the middle of a soccer field watching the grandkids play soccer,
I was pretty darn hot. But it is cooling down.
Let's face the facts, and the days are shorter, so
it doesn't dry out quite as quickly. So I feel
like even though falls, you know, we talk about this,
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but yet it is dry in the out there, There's
no doubt. I'm the first one to admit it. I
think it's worth it for the benefits of planting. To
add the extra time it's going to take to water
these plants as you're doing your planting, I think it's
worth it. And this may be a situation if this
continues on and it looks like it is. I mean,
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look at the facts over the last several years about
the longer dry you know falls, and they have been drier.
There's no doubt about it that you may consider having
an irrigation installed in the turf. And of course you
could do some type of landscape irrigation, yet be cautious
with those because plants in the landscape may require different
types of watering levels and things like that, so you
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have to be a little bit cautious. But in the
turf especially that you may want to do it and
manually use that irrigation system as needed, not on a timer,
not every day, not every you know, all the do
it as needed. Gary Salvan a hum improvement expert, same
way he's put He put an irrigation system in his
house the first year that they moved into it and
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has had it ever since, but it's on manual, and
only time he turns that on is when he you know,
we're really getting into a dry spell and it's time
to water the lawn. He likes to keep it from
going dormant, so he'll water the lawn. He'll do it
only as needed less a're out of town, and then
I'll put it on manual and do it, you know,
a good thorough soaking once a week. So, you know,
I think that's something you might want to consider. If
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we are seeing things change as far as are have
linked of the fall season, staying a little bit warmer,
a little bit drier later in the season, and being
such a good time for planning, I think it's worth
the taking a look at that and seeing, you know,
is that And again I mentioned earlier organic manner. We've
talked about that forever, how important that is to help
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him in, especially if you've got clay soils like we do.
A way I always love them, folks say I got this,
you know, I got I'm dealing with clay soil in
my yard. We all, we all are in our area
dealing with clay soil. It grows things. There's there's a
lot of benefits to clay soil. Look at the nurseries
around you. They're growing stuff all the time, but it's
nice to amend it with organic matter. Compost the cow
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the bad caalbnure is absolutely outstanding. The cow uh sweet
peat pine soil conditioner. Anything you can add like that
organic matter to the soil helps to make it more
open for accepting rainfall and accepting water when you do water.
And of course the plant's root in better, root in deeper,
so they're more tolerant for drought situations as well. So
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as you continue to plant, all right, make sure you're
always adding organic matter back as a soil amendment to
the original soil. Always use the original soil as you
continue to plant. All right, quick break, we come back.
I'll talk about our guests and the website. Eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five Here the Garden
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Talking your ardening at eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson,
your personal yard boy. Uh no cup of joe today,
So I and go when you know what's funny, I
told Joe, and he's not on with a cup of Joe.
The show goes another direction because I start talking about
all kinds of stuff and not talking about the website
and guests and all of that, and I forget I
get onto other things. But our website is Ron Wilson
(22:07):
online dot com.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And what's on the website run.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And on the website today is of course planning of
the week, which is uh. I think it's a way
under used plant goes along with last week's tree. Last
week happened to be bolt cypress. This week is Don redwood,
a deciduous evergreen. Yes, Don Redwood. You know you've always
wonted one of those redwoods growing in your own yard
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and garden. Well, Redwood's are available. They do a great
job in our in the Midwest, they can do a
great job about anywhere. And so many new, great varieties
that are out there for you. As a matter of fact,
the picture I have of one on our website is
a more narrow growing wins so it doesn't get quite
as large, but it's the same old, same, Oh it's
a Don redwood. And if you'd like those, you know,
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check it out and your local garden centers have them.
There's even a couple of varieties that have a nice
golden foliage which really stands out gold rush Ogan or Ogan.
There's two or three of them out there for you.
But it's a deciduous evergreen, so they do lose those needles. Now,
the needles are a great orange, bronzy red in the fall,
really spectacular, and then drop down and of course you
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can mow those right back into the turf, or just
create a mulch bed underneath the tree and let them
lay there over the wintertime. But that's our plant pick
of the week, don Redwood, and you can find it
at run Wilson online dot com. Rita's recipe this week
sophisticated sophisticated grilled Cheese. Now at the top of this recipe,
Rita says the bread must be high quality bread, sturdy bread.
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Careful not to get a bread that's too holy, but
it has big red holes in it, the feeling will
ooze out. Use real butter, high quality cheese, and that's
why it's called the sophisticated grilled cheese. If this thing
ain't cheesy enough for you, I don't know. You just
don't need a grilled cheese sandwich. It even includes a
little bit of mayo, lots of cheese, a little bit
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of de jon or yellow mustard, maybe even a chopped
green onion if you want a little bit on there
as well. Arugula leaves on the top goes well, be
right before you grill it. But it's called a sophisticated
grilled cheese and that would be Rita's recipe at Ron
Wilson Online.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I'm reading it now and it sounds very delicious.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
M I can smell it grilling right now. We also
have some tips on there on deerproofing your lawn, getting
grubs out of the grass, et cetera, et cetera. Keep
scrolling down you'll see last week's posts as well, but
it's all Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page going
this morning in the Garden with Ron Wilson, So if
you want to go on the Facebook pages, usually a
little chatting going on there as well, so be sure
(24:43):
and check that out too. Special guests today coming up
the top of the hour, we're going to talk to
our queen bee breeder, Nina Bagley's going to join us
this morning. Nina is out of Columbus, Ohio. She is
a queen bee breeder. We've had Nina on before. It's
always interesting, but there's someone out there that can actually
develops queen bees for all of anybody that wants, ay,
(25:04):
you know, needs to start a beehive and they need
that queen and a few workers to go with it.
That's what she does. Plus she's a huge beekeeper. So
we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about how
the falls affected her bees. She showed me some pictures
last week about her getting stung. I'm gonna let her
fill you in on that. And also she sent me
a picture this week of someone very unusual looking honey
(25:30):
and of course the flowers kind of you know, whatever's
in flower at that time can dictate how the honey tastes.
Obviously the sweetness and the color. Well, this is a
very unusual I had no idea where it came from,
and well we're going to tell you. And it's a
very unusual source of nectar for honey bees late in
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the season, but it works and you will be surprised
when we talked to Nina about where that came from.
So that'll be interesting. And of course, doctor Allan Armady's
with us this morning, Doctor triple A. He just got
back from a big trip over to Europe. We'll find
out what he found out over there. You didn't know
if he was going to make it back in time
because they were talking about some strike or something over
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there and maybe not getting out in time. Anyway, So
he is back and we're going to talk about some
plants that he really liked in his garden this year.
We'll talk about his trip and guess what, I guess
he's going to say something about it today. He's got
another book coming out. I think it's coming out this month,
and well, maybe you'll bring it up, maybe you won't,
I don't know. But we got doctor Allen Armidy's coming up.
(26:34):
So both Nina Bagley and Allan Armage in the next hour,
and of course after that, Gary Salvin, Buggy, Joe Boggs
and of course Danny and Me and you in between.
At eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Be sure check out our website, Ron Wilson online dot com. Also,
I got into an email a little or a text
message a little bit earlier from our giant pumpkin grower,
(26:55):
Jerry Rose. He has headed to his first pumpkin way
off today. He didn't tell me what he thought that
big pumpkin was going away. I have to check in
with him a little bit later on, but he has
had it out. So pumpkin way offs have begun. Check
in your area to see if there's one maybe that
you could go to to check out some of these
giant pumpkins all around the country. I'll be in Columbus,
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Ohio on the twelfth of October at the Oakland Nursery
in Dublin, Ohio. It's out right outside of Columbus, and
Jerry will be there and all lots of folks and
big pumpkins. And they've had some record breakers at that one,
So you might wanna if you've got going to be
in the Columbus area, check that one out. It's on
October the twelfth. But he sent me a picture of
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a and this is typical Jerry Rose. Send me a
picture of a cauliflower head that he grew. And I
can't tell exactly looking at the picture, but it looks
like about the size of a large soccer ball, and
that is typical Jerry Rose. Oh, by the way, he
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did respond, he said, this is a throwaway pumpkin. This
would be one of his smallest at around eleven hundred
to twelve hundred pounds.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Only eleven hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
That's it, and that's considered one of his throwaways. Ladies
and gentlemen, eleven to twelve hundred pounds. But you can
stay in touch with all the way offs going to
big Pumpkins dot com at is big Pumpkins dot com
and learn more. And by the way, you know, there's
all kinds of records for vegetables, fRoots and vegetables out there,
and Jerry gets into two or three or four of them.
But there is also one for the longest gord and
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and that's pretty interesting. I mean, these things are huge.
They have to tie him onto two by fours to
keep them breaking. Well, there's also records for the world's
tallest sunflower blooms and the largest sunflower boom blooms. Well,
the record this year was officially posted the earlier this
month in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the world's tallest sunflower.
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All right, uh, and the gentleman that grew it, he
grew it as a tribute to the folks and you Ukraine.
He is a Ukrainian immigrant, been been here for a
long time. But that's their their country flower, of course
is the is the sunflower. But he nicknamed this sunflower
clover and they get us World Book of Records came
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and they measured it and he's got to attached to
a pole and holdline yards. You want to guess how
big this thing is? Thirty five feet tall? Thirty five
feet tall with a flower on the top, that's one
big sunflower almost thirty six feet But yeah, is that
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unbelievable or what? Congratulations to Alec bobick Uh in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
And he's got this thing tied on like a looks
like almost like a windmill. Trellis thirty five almost thirty
six feet into the air. What a record. But anyway,
you know, if you want to learn more about all
those big pumpkins, dot com uh and you can keep
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up with all the ways and all the records and
all that kind of stuff. Before we take a break.
Tick from Dayton, good.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Morning, Good morning. How are you Ron?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I am greating, Danny's doing great. I'm doing great. How
are you doing well.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I've been listening about your guests. That's kind of interesting.
You know it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Well thank you, well, you know, it's always cool that
you're on here.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh yeah, yeah. I just wanted to say it's been
a sort of a short week, but please pray for
our Bengals.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh man, they need to win they I tell you,
I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I was. It was the first game. Then I switched
over to Fox. Yeah, and I had just come home
from people at church, had a little party and stuff,
and it was five minutes to go, and I couldn't
believe they won that game with two seconds to go
with that kicker.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Oh yeah, that was That was an exciting game, that was.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
And the Buck guys played the day too. And then
I went to a little place down in uh Marine
as you go towards you know, uh Cincinnati, and they
had a little session down there, and uh boy, it
was good. They had all kind of or duras and pizza,
and I met some people from Nashville down there, and
(31:16):
I got to sing a couple of songs and the
guy told me to come back next week. He'd played.
He had a man to lend him banjo. How about that?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
All right? And that's right up your alley.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh yeah, And they had good food and ordures and
everything was great.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And that's right up my alley.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, yeah, I told you about that little picture, didn't I?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh at Stony Bridge me playing, Yeah, the talent ship. Yes,
Oh did you like it?
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I didn't get one.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You have to go on Facebook to see it.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Go to Ridge on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah, Stony Ridge, Sittant Levy say it's a talent show.
You'll see me there.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, I don't have Facebook, but I'll have somebody looking
up for us. Danny'll look it up to I think
he's on Facebook, so we'll check it out. Yeah, all right,
we gotta.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Take a break.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Always fun talking to you, Dick. Take care. Yeah, all right,
care buddy, Bye bye, all right, quick break, we come back.
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Eight hundred A two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am run Wilson your personal yardboard. We are talking
yardening in fall season. This is it. This is the
best time of the year to do all kinds of planting.
May have to do a little watering, little extra watering
because Mother Nature's kind of been stingy with that water.
But I'm telling you what, this is the time to plant.
It's a good it's a good trade off. It's I'm
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guaranteeing you that that's gonna work for you. You gotta stick
with the watering. That's the key, no matter what you're doing,
but you stick with it. Really, the benefits from planning
and to fall are phenomenal. So please please do stay
with with it. And again our website run Wilson online
dot com facebook page in the garden with Ron Wilson.
By the way, Danny Gleason. During the break we went to
the Facebook page at Stony Ridge and if you want
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to see Dick from Dayton, he's on there, so you
can go to their face.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Smile one and every picture.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Smile as always in every picture. So if you want
to see what Dick from Dayton, because everybody knows Dick
from Dayton looks like, there you can find out at
Danny says like you said, smiling and awe of the pick.
You know, we have a lot of trade shows this
time of the year where the locally owned garden centers
get to go and see the new products that are
coming along and of course by their products for next year,
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and you know the standbys and the regulars as well
as finding out what's new and exciting out there. A
couple of things we saw last week up in Cleveland,
Ohio at the BFG Show. It's huge and it takes
a while walk through and see all these great products
that are up there. But a couple of things I
thought was kind of interesting. Radius tools and Radius tools
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have been around for a while. They started out with
their radius shovel and then came up with a radius
hand digger of trowel, and then has expanded from there
and quite a collection of Radius tools. Where they bought
out a small company. It has like a scuffle hoe
with a point on the front of it, sharpened point,
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and I've always thought it was kind of cool. It
was a very small company. Well they took they bought
that company and have now added that to their Radius
tool inventory and it's a great It's like a scuffle
hole if you're familiar with that. You put it under
the weeds and you go back and forth and it
cuts them off just below the ground level. Well, this
has a point on it, and there's a couple of
different sizes a point on it, and it's sharp so
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that you know, if you're doing weeding in between cracks
and crevices, you just turn that thing on the side
and walk right down that cracker crevice and that takes
those weeds right out of there for you as well
as the shuffle ho as well as you can turn
it over when you're planting the vegetable garden and dig
out your planting row as well. But it's from Radius Tools.
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You might want to check that out. It's a yellow handle,
unlike their red handles and all the Radius tools. I
like it, and I think I think it's well worth
taking a look at it if you use a hoe
a lot in your garden. Also, Panacea products they've been
around forever, have a new option for all you hummingbird
feeder fans. All right. You know, if it stays hot
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outside that hummingbird, that nectar, whether you make your own
or you buy the bottled nectar, can can get bad
pretty quickly, especially in the heat. They now have a
thirty ounce insulated reservoir in their new feeder called a
nectar cooler feeder, and it has an insulator reservoir that
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keeps that nectar, that liquid nectar in there, lasting twice
as long during the heat of the summer as it
normally would. And it actually has a cutout gates to
show you where the nectar levels are, but it screws
right onto the bottom. But it's insulated and it keeps
it cooler so it doesn't turn bad as quickly. I
thought that was a pretty good idea. That's from a
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panacea pa n a cea. But it's called the nectar
cooler feeder for hummingbirds, and I think that's if you're
really into it and you're always switching that out because
it goes bad there you go, that's going to help
you out and save you a little bit of time
in the garden when it comes to feeding those hummingbirds,
and of course keep planting so you have all the
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different plants for them as well, but they still enjoy
that hummingbird feeder you and I know that as well.
One last thing I saw, I saw a bunch of stuff,
but one I sing I wanted to bring to your
attention tank sprayers. You know, there are so many different
types of tank sprayers that we can buy on the
market and the quality of the tank sprayers and the
pressure and the whole you know, the whole nine yards
(38:24):
just all over the board. I mean it very so much.
And they're not cheap and if you buy a cheap one,
it usually doesn't last you very long.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
And tank sprayers again, you know, for using a concentrate
of insecticidal soap or horticulture oil or whatever you need
to do to spray with. Right now, in our area,
we're dealing with the box tree moth, which is a
serious situation, dealing with the box tree moth and the
devouring boxwood and it's spreading like crazy. Folks, if you
have and I've brought this up and trying to do
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it in all the shows, but if you have boxwood
in your landscape and you live east of the Missis
Sippy River, I want you to look up box tree moth.
It was discovered in our area southern Ohio, southwestern Ohio
about this is our second full season and it is
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spreading a lot faster than we thought it was going
to be able to spread. And it's a serious situation.
You got to know what to look for and it's
easy to control. Once you find the caterpillars. They're easy
to spray, knock them down and easy. But the point
being is you need to do a power spray to
get all that down inside your box. Would so tank
sprayers could become a very important part. You can buy
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the hose in attachments as well, and you can buy
the pre the fur the insecticide that is already ready
mixed and ready to go that attaches to the end
of your host. So those are available. But if you
need a tank sprayer, getting a high quality one and
then of course the pressure you have to pump them
up or you know, the battery operated to pump them
up or whatever. Somebody in Australia was a firefighter invented
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this pump. It's called the Aussy Easy Spray Easy wy
Aussey Easy Spray. It's being sold by a TDI Brands
and it's a pump sprayer that's high quality, really well built.
It's going to cost you probably one hundred bucks. But
it doesn't require gas, a charge or a battery all right,
(40:22):
because the pump uses water pressure, air and water pressure
as you're filling it up to create the pressure inside
the tank and the spray heads or misshower cone and jet,
but it's called the Aussy Easy y Easy Spray from
TDI Brands. Check that out. It's a little bit more expensive,
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but it is a high quality tank sprayer that automatically
puts pressure in there for you when you fill it
up with the hose. And it's highly recommended if you
use a tank sprayer in your lawn. And before we
take a break here, we're going to talk to Nina Bagley,
our queen bee breeder, and of course Alan Armity is
at the bottom of the hour. I want to just
(41:04):
bring this up real quick again. The boxtree moth. You know,
we got two insects in our area right now that's
continuing to spread. One is more than the box tree moths,
the spotted lanternfly, and it's like an aphan on steroids
and it really doesn't kill the host tree is tree
of heavenstinctree. They love that that's their host, and it's
against a non native, very invasive, but it looks it's
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a probably the most beautiful insect I've ever seen, but
it's like a huge aphen and they're a sucking insect
and they really like grapes and they typically don't kill
the plants that they're on, but can they get really
weaken them. That's one we're sitting spreading across in the
Midwest big time. But this box tree moth now and
I think six different states and continuing to move, and
(41:47):
it's devastating to boxwood. So I want you to go
and learn more about it. Joe and I've talked about
it on the show. You can go to byg L
dot OSU dot eedu. You can go to our website
at Ron Wilson online dot com, scroll down and find it,
but learn more about box tree moth. If you live
anywhere on the east side of the Mississippi River, learn
(42:08):
more about it, what to look for, because one day
it's there and the next day your box would aren't.
Check it out. Box tree ball, all right, quick break,
We come back. Nina Bagley, our queen bee breeder. Here
in the garden, Ron Wilson, Green.
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