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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson. Don't
forget our website. It's Ron Wilson online dot com facebook page.
In the garden with Ron Wilson. Ladies and gentlemen, Now
it is time for the buggy Joe Boggs Report. That
would be Joe Boggs, Assistant Professor, Commercial Horderculture Educator for
the Ohio State University Extension what OSU Department of Entomology,
(00:23):
co creator of Martha Coffee and for him. His website
is bygl dot OSU dot edu.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Hello Joe, Hello Ron, So how you doing today?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Would you ever imagine using wool pellets in your vegetable
garden containers and hanging baskets?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I never imagine such a thing. I'm not even sure.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Why did you all raise sheep when you were on
the farm.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
We did not, and we did not know we did
in West Virginia. There are sheep in the eastern pri state.
Not a big not a big thing, or wasn't a
big thing then, but you know now things have changed
a bit because of wool and so forth. But no,
so never would have thought about it, though, What.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
A great, great way to use up wasted wool. I
didn't realize there were so much wasted wool in the
United States, but they've been doing it in Europe forever.
But you know, a great way to use it, and
you look at all the benefits of using it. Even
though the Ohio State University did any study on the
use of wool as a compost and other alternative applications
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and gave it a great review. So you know, it's
getting more and more research, more and more people using it,
more and more people making it. The pellets that you
can use so pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You know. That's one thing about about your show, Ron.
I mean, I've heard this many many times, how it's
such an educational opportunity for so many folks. You know,
you you find that like this and other things that well,
you know, we may.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Not good Joe, we found you, that's all.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
That's that's because you turned the rock over, you know,
and there was I mean, that's that's why. I mean,
you turn over rocks to look for interesting and odd things.
And I'm in the second category.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So no, you just interesting and odd. You just summed
it all up right there.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, so what is going on besides moliness this week?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Lots of fall color.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Fall color has been surprising. I did not exploded.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
My term this week is that fall color, especially red maples.
But Barning Bush was just a dark green two ten
days ago. It's now red. Oak trees are even starting
to turn, you know, some yellows and some gold you know,
seeing a little bit of that golden and some maroons
in there. Ash trees are showing color if there's any
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of available out there. But you just see the fall
color has just simply exploded this week.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It has been incredible, and I didn't think that's would happened.
You know, we were in uh, we were in a
bit of a drought. I mean, not as bad as
up in northwest Ohio right now. I mean, even with
the recent rains, they're still in trouble up there, but
but we were in a drought. It was dry and
normally under droughty conditions, you know, we just see trees
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going from green to brown. It's kind of what happened
last year a lot of over much of Ohio. So
I thought that that was the direction we were heading.
I mean, you know, oh yeah, you could see some
of the you know, some of the deciduous trees. Of course,
I talk about here, But some of the hickory's, you know,
they were starting to just go brown. And of course
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hickory is not a huge fall collar tree. You know,
you get yellows and little tingeb oranges depending on the species.
But but they were going brown and and I just
was thinking, there's just no way. And I've noticed two
things that started this past last weekend, last Sunday, fall
callers were just getting rolling and this whole entire last week.
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And then my understanding is that maybe it hasn't even
peaked yet. I don't know, but we we're certainly taking
a peak at them, aren't we.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
We certainly are.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It is incredible, though, but with fall colors, you know,
comes a few insect issues. I am still amazed. Oh yes,
you know. I taught the master gardener class Butler cannyas
past week and and one of the uh, one of
the master gardeners, asked me about, you know, the deal
with these pits in the soil, and of course we
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talked about one of our favorite insects, ant lions, And
that's still I am still getting, you know, emails about
what are these I don't know, you know, she asked
whether or not I thought the populationtions were unusually high
or and you know that wasn't. We talked a bit
last week, and I think even the week before about it.
This has sort of been a consistent topic. But I'm
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not sure what's going on. Ron. I mean, I don't
know whether two years in a row with with you know,
not not total droughts, but this year, for example, but
two years in a row with late summer, early fall,
you know, low amounts of rain. Because we do know
rain it doesn't always kill them. It can it can
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round them, but it certainly destroys their their pits, and
then you have to make new pits. And that's what
they want.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
In my house because I have that four foot overhang.
Well there, you got to stay right up against the foundation,
and that's that's where I see all mine. A matter
of fact, I need to look. I'll look on the
way home today going to the front door and see
if they're still there, because I haven't looked for a while.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Mine are still out back or on the side of
my house. They're under a an overhang created by you know,
all these gas furnaces or gas fireplaces, and they were
still there. Now they say that though I just realized,
Wait a second, when's the last time I was out there.
I think two days ago they were still there, and
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I think they'll stay there until you know, it just
gets too cold that ants aren't moving about. We I've
had pictures of them all the way up into November
or through November. But the point being is is that,
you know, that's been a very unusual thing this fall.
Another unusual thing has been just a dribbling in of
fall invaders. I mean, have you gotten emails or you know,
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questions about large numbers coming into.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
All I have, you know, yeah, box elder bugs usually
all over that. The stink bugs. I think I've seen
two myself, Asian lady Beatles. Nothing. No, I have had
literally no report. I mean I really haven't.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Well it's so odd because we started well, even in
our you know, my house, we started getting some brown
marmery stink bugs a month ago, which was really unusual,
and I marked it down someplace just unusual.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It would have been three weeks ago that I saw
the ones at our house. A couple of them now yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
And that's it. And and then again I get these
mostly well, okay, it's only back up most of my
um not complaints. It's not that they're saying, hey, we
have a large number of these insects. But you know,
this year, last year, people are coming more aware of
our native kissing bug in Ohio that extends all the
way up you know, through and now apparently fairly far
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north end of Ohio. But at any rate, people you
know are mistaking at least one home invader big time,
the western conifer seed bug, which is a mouthful to say.
And also, now look you just said boxeller bugs for
some reason, you know, people, you know, there's some red
on boxellar bugs. The kissing bugs have some red on them.
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And so I think that people are mistaking while I
should say, I think they've been sending pictures and mistaking
these other insects for kissing bugs. So it's sort of
a roundabout a way of finding out, you know, what's
coming into homes. And like I said, they've been trickles
the western conifer seed bugs. I've had emails with pictures
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and there might be no I found three of these,
you know around my home. Well, you know, if you're
near a conifer, particularly a pine tree, a large mature
pine tree producing a lot of cones as the name
implies western conifer seed bug. You can you can have
quite a few of these coming into into your home.
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And of course box elder bugs they feed on not
just maples, but other trees that produce you know, spinners,
like like ash trees, which if a person is treating
their ash tree, they're just still going to have it.
And they come in in large numbers. It's been a
few trickling in over a long period time, and I
don't think I've seen that before. And I keep thinking
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that after we go through normally, after you go through
a cool spell, when you get warm temperatures again, and
that's really dives them in. But we've sort of had
that roller coaster, and I'm not sure what's happening. It's
just the very unusual, very strange.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
They're all got together, well, their unions all got together
and said, let's just hang out for a while. Really
mess them up.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think they just said, now we're just gonna fool
on a joe. We're just gonna you know, they'll have
something to talk about. The first day of November.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
By the way, Marnie Tis wanted me to remind you
it's bat week this week.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Oh it is I've got to get my cape on,
So get your cape on.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
There you go learn more about it at batwek dot org.
I just take a quick break. We come back. We're
gonna find out Joe is talking about roundabouts? Is he
like roundabouts? We're gonna find out. Here in the Garden
with Ron.
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Speaker 1 (11:39):
Welcome back time for part two of the Buggy Joe
Pous Report. Mister Joe Boggs from OSU Extension to website
bygl dot OSU dot e du Batweek. It is bad
Awareness Week this week, and they've got a great website
batweek dot org. Learn more about bats before you hang
up that bat house in your backyard.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I tell you, I'm sorry, I just do that about it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
They can't figure out why they don't get any bats.
Learn more about it before you do it, so you
do it in the right place. By the way, Joe,
don't forget to turn your clock back tonight.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I might. I might forget. You know, this isn't not
this isn't my favorite time of the year, right, which.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Is your favorite daylight or regular.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yes, daylight, daylight saving. You and I talked about it.
I know you like this, you're going into it, but
I just it is, Well, the days are shortening, so
no matter what we do, it's going to be our
days are going to length. Well, well, wait, the light
isn't to say the length of light won't be.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'm just saying whether the time is, whether it's Eastern
Standard time or daylight saving time, it's still the same
to learn of daylight, it's it's just when it comes
up and when it goes down.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Well, it's less daylight and winter, right, I know that
when you say.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
No, matter which time we're on, it's still the same
amount of time.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well the same amount of time exactly. But you know,
getting dark at five o'clock, you.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Just don't have to get up earlier.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Well, you're it's the same time. It's the same time
that I get up and stumbling around. Well that that
could be any time of the day, as you well know. Correct,
you have to take one foot in front of the other.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
You know that roundabouts the roundabout? Way? Do you like roundabouts?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
You know I didn't know first?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
No, that was Dan boy.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Tell you your voice changing there for a second. You know,
I didn't at first, but they've they've kind of We
have a few roundabouts very close to my home, places
where I used to just you know, just come to
complete stop and then you take off and no one's there.
Get really well, yeah, some places that could be just
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a suggestion until you can see those lights in your
rearview mirror, right and that And that's the whole point,
is that the one that nearest my home, you know,
very seldom were there any other cars, which sort of
did beg the question as to why there's a roundabout
there now, But that doesn't matter. You know, I can
come come rolling in, you know, driving the speed limit
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as you very well, and I do it all the
time right.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
In the roundabout, driving the speed limit thirty five forty.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That's right. You see, if you can go up on
two wheels. That's what they're designed for, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know why they have that tilt?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, well some don't. I mean, that's uh just over
just drive straight through. Yeah, Joe, yeah, Joe, I've only
I've only seen that. I just say, I'm not aware
of anyone actually doing that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
No speaking aroundabout which what band did there roundabout during
your high school days?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
What I know?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Wait? Wait, wait, what's this?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I missed that the band did round about the song?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Round did round about? Oh? I thought you meant what
did we do round about?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I don't wait a minute, Dan say round about?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Yes, you the song?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I don't give me a second. My golly, that's great. Yes,
I do, now remember that that was yes?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You're right? You said yes. I do remember?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Wait I said yeah? No, No said no? So you
said yes? You said yes, yes? But who's the band?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
The band? Yeah, okay, I know you're going to tell
me the band, But but who was? Who's on? First?
We were heading that way? Oh, here we go?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Who is the keyboard?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
I can't play the whole thing, it's too too long.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Who's a keyboard?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, Rick Wakeman? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Ah wait wait no, I thought you meant just well, now,
wait a minute. That wasn't I don't remember that as
being in our high school times. I thought that came later.
Am I wrong? When was that?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It could have been freshman year in college. I don't know. Anyway,
I don't know. It's not about music on the show today, right?
Do ants do ants? Freeze? In the winter time. You
know it.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
No, no, they they that's that's.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yes, that's one yes, no, yes, no.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yes, just as the band that's like no, it was
adam ant. What are we going into an avenue? Yes, yes,
I believe we are in that way. And I have
to I have to speaking of freezing in the winter.
You know, it's the first November and and we've talked
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about this. You know that pupation is that's the other
reason ron that you really should not like the shorter
days for you know, standard time, because you know, I'm
starting to feel that need to pupet.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, your fans, your fans have been asking and
I said, I'm not going to even ask him.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I asked about it this morning.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Well I thought a lot about it, and you look
at today for example, of course, And that was another
thing that came up as I said, we're teaching Master
Gardner class nineteen seventy one. Well, definitely we were in
high school, weren't we. I'm there, you go, you know
you're getting me off the I realize what's happening. Yes, yes,
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you just wasn't a thing. Oh did I hear hand
wrid or did he break up?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
He broke up.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I wasn't born yet, so at any rate, at this
time of year, as we've already just discussed, all the
insects are kind of going away, and and so it's
a good time that that because this allows your ratings
to go back up recover.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So then next Saturday will be the last one and
you'll give us a wrap up from twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I think that would be a really fun thing to do,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Will that work?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I think we need to. I think that's fantastic a
wrap up, yes, And then we could have you know,
maybe a few people, you know, submit some questions to say, Okay,
I know you're going to be gone, but you know,
here's a question maybe about roundabouts. I don't know. Nineteen
seventy one, mister Rickman keyboards? You know who was that?
(18:33):
I keep okay? Was that a person that played another band?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
He played he played the keyboards for?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yes, well you said, yeah, I know you said that,
but but did he play in another Rick Wakeman?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Joe's a little confused about more than too.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
It may be that time of year, right, I mean,
you know, one next week is is occupation time. But
we'll have a good time going into the winter. Yes,
So why did you ask about ants? Seriously?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I was seriously questioned when you said something about the
cold weather. It just because I know they go down
and you know, and do their thing over the wintertime.
But I was just curious if they actually could freeze.
Do the ants freeze over the wintertime if they are
exposed to extreme cold temperatures for a long period of time.
It was a serious question.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
No, no, they could and uh and and the ant
lions themselves could possibly be in trouble, although again they're
in the spoil right, So that's gonna be it. This's
gonna be a hot topic for next week for.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
The final twenty twenty five Buggy Joe Box.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
The final one, by the way, we have to say.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It today, Okay, Well, so you'll know. So it's coming
up next week, so be sure you stay tuned next
week by Joe's final final chapter for twenty two and
go buck.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I may have to come back. I may have to
come back after the national championship and we'll see, right,
and I think you have.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Done that before. I have to all right, Joe Bugs,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I'm a great week.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
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