October 10, 2025 • 8 mins
Ron Wilson has the latest Fall lawn and garden tips and gives his choice between Full-Size or Fun-Size candy bars
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone line and check in with one of my favorite
people on the planet, Ron Wilson, host of In the
Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
How are you, my friend?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm great. Hey, I got a quick solution for the
super Bowl and the halftime. Yeah, not serious about this.
The boys thought this, why don't they have three stages
and they have the dancing crowd between all three stages.
First stage is country music, second stage is rock old rock,
and the third stage is current. Each time they played
two abbreviated songs, go to the next stage, two abbreviated songs,
(00:34):
next stage, two abbreviated songs, and then they all do
one song together.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I think it's a great idea, and you're absolutely everybody yes,
that's and we kind of dipped our tone into that
discussion when they announced the Bad Bunny performance that you
could have. They missed a huge opportunity with Hey, you
know what, the world is very divisive right now. We're
going to have a bunch of different artists from a
bunch of differents each doing a couple of their own,
(01:02):
almost like we are the world type of thing exactly,
and then get a little something for everybody. They all
come together on the same stage, and so I think
I think you're onto something there, Ron Wilson, Look at you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You're a problem solver, is what you are.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
There, I am going to.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Talk about the National Pumpkin Way off. You're going to
be at Oakland Nursery in Dublin on Sunday. That'll be cool.
So we'll get to that coming up. As far as
the lawns, Ron did, does the window closed? I got
mine fed, I got it ar rated before the rain
this week, so I'm in good shape. But if you
haven't done it yet, is it too late?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Still time to feed?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And you still do it again a second time in November?
Still time to core airate obviously, mid to late October
grade month for spot treating weeds. Can I put grass
seat down? Now? The window is really closing. Now we're
seeing these really cooler nights. Things are going to really
start to slow down. So temperatures start to cool down,
things slow down. Would I still do it this weekend?
I'd still take a chance with best using rise, but
(01:58):
it's really starting to close, So you got to make
a quick decision here. Otherwise on the seating, if you
don't get it done soon, I'd say let's hold off
and do dormance seating. I like to do that mid
to late February, right before we get into the spring season.
So you got to make a choice.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Okay, what about getting bulbs into the ground.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I got my buddy JP and Delaware who wanted to
get some tulips and daffodils in.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Have we missed the window there?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Just getting started? As a matter of fact, that the
best time to buy, you know it's for selection wise,
is right now, But the best time to buy if
you're looking for bulk is later on when they're trying
to get rid of them in November. Then you can
buy a whole bunch of it. And the reason I say
that is because October early November is the best time
to plant them, and you get planted right up until Christmas.
If you want to, the earlier the better, So you
(02:43):
got plenty of time for planting. Not an issue, but
selection wise good Now it'll drop down in November, but
they get rid of those before they get to Thanksgiving.
You can get some really good deals on daffodils and
things like that and really do a lot of planting.
So light up your ball, light up. You're your next
spring by planting right now?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is that a good time?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What if I have existing data dolts or toolips, can
I move those transplant them?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Or is that earlier in the year type of operation.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's usually done more after they're finished flowering and you
know fully starts to turn yell, we'll dig them up
at that time and move. If you had to move
them right now you have a landscape job. Yeah, you
still dig them up, get them, you know, plan it
right back into where you need to replant. But you
could do it if you had to.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Send at thirty ninety degrees use some frost advisories in
the area on. People probably start thinking about bringing some
plants inside right house.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Plants should be starting to work inside, you know, once
you start or anything. Pull them up to the house
so it stays a little bit warmer up there if
you're not ready to take them inside yet. But otherwise
I don't cover anything. I can't think of anything that
would actually cover up. Now. I'm ready for the frost
to take everything out the annuals at all. Let's shut
down the baseball guarden except for the greens that are
still growing and they'll take these light frosts, so not
(03:57):
an issue and let us start shutting things down.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is that time of the year, do you recommend insecticides?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
If you're bringing stuff indoors, indoor plants, that is something
you should be thinking about.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, you know, there's three things I do. Usually I
try to move them into an area where it's a
little bit shadier for a week or so to start
to acclimate for coming inside the house. During that time,
I'll hose them off a couple of times just to
knock off any bugs that may be on the leaves,
and then I'll probably spray once or twice with the
secticidal soap does a great job. And right before I
bring them in the house, there's two things you can do.
(04:29):
Want to slide them out of the pot. Make sure
there's no hitchhikers. We've had mice and we even had
a couple of small snakes in the bottom of those pots.
They like to hang out there, so make sure there's
no hitch hikers in the pot. Slide it back in.
If you're having issues with insects in the soil, you
know you can fill up a washtub and just set
them down in the washtub for a couple hours. They'll
they'll come right out of the pot drowned, and then
(04:51):
bring it out, let a drain, and you're ready to
take it indoors. One last thing, so stemic insecticides which
are taking up inside the plant, can be applied in
the soil before take them in the house. That kind
of gives you from an inside protection through the winter.
But keep that insecticidal soap on hand just in case,
because you typically we'll get some insect shule start to
hatch out once you get inside. And keep an old
(05:12):
shower curtain around because you can put those plants on
that shower curtain, spray them, let it dry, and put
them back where they blog.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That is money the bank, those tips right there.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Ron Wilson, host of In the Garden with Ron, got
an email from Katie wants to know if it now's
the time to prune back some shrubs that her shrubs
have just gone crazy this summer. Is now the time
to knock some of that stuff back?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You know you can. We're late enough in the fall now,
I don't think we're going to force out any folio.
So you can't do some cutting back. I still save
the heavy pruning for spring. I still like to get
through the wintertime coming back because you may get some
winter damage or whatever to do it heavy in spring.
If you do little hand pruning just to get it
off the sidewalk or whatever, go for it. But if
we can hold off till spring would be great. And remember,
(05:55):
if it's a spring flowering shrub and you prune it now,
you just took out all the flowers. So it's a
spring flowering shrub, wait until flowers in the springtime, then
cut it back and enjoyed the spring flowers.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Solid rule of thumb there. All right, let's talk pumpkins ron.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You're going to be in Dublin Oakland Nursery Sunday and
that starts around noon or one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You'll be m seeing that event. How is the pumpkin
crop this year?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Sounds good so far? You know, I think I mentioned
last week Jerry Rose is he just had his throwaway
at eleven hundred and sixteen hundred pounds. That's a small
one throwaway, right, Yeah, it's a throwaway. So the record
right now to date and this is through twenty twenty four,
coming in twenty five was twenty seven forty nine all right,
two thousand seven and forty nine pounds. I just got
(06:41):
worried yesterday that the record has been broken. Twins in
Limington in Hampshire just weighed in there pumpkin at twenty
eight hundred and nineteen pounds twenty eight pounds nineteen yep.
And it also broke the record for circumference of over
twenty one eat.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That is a big that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And that's the that's in the UK.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That's in the UK, and this is this was the
last year. There are twins that have been growing for
fifty years and they said this was the last year
they're going to grow pumpkins, and come to find out
they've you know, they've grown this man of twenty eight
hundred and nineteen pound pumpkin and again twenty one feet
in circumference. That's phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Do you think we'll ever break three thousand threshold?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yes, oh, it'll happen. You know. The biggest problem with
three thousand pounds is one is gravity, because they start
to sink and they can't support themselves. Secondly is there's
so many things that can happen. They could crack when
you get that size. To try to move those, it's
really hard to do. And so you've got and they
were talking about when they grew many years ago that
(07:48):
was a record breaker and by the time they got
to the way off they had cracked and put a
very small hole and then which just qualifies them. So
you know, it's it's hard to move when they get
that size. But yeah, all the all the pumps and
growers say three thousand, and I can remember we started
this in Oakland. If you did over a thousand pounds,
it was phenomenal. I mean that was unbelievable. And now
look at it pushing three thousand.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So you'll be out there on Sunday Oakland Nursery in
Dublin around one o'clock. But you're encouraging folks to come
early and see some of the pumpkins before the contest.
And we look forward to seeing you on Sunday before
I let you fly round. We're three weeks away from Halloween.
Full sized candy bar, fun sized.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Candy bar to give away to eat, to eat, small
size and you know why because I can eat more
of them.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's not necessarily a popular opinion, but I take the
fun size because you can try different versions.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I mean right, I can try this, when I can
try that one. Keep moving all around. You know it
doesn't matter, but I'll still still have plenty of reces
Let's go over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone line and check in with one of my favorite
people on the planet, Ron Wilson, host of In the
Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
How are you, my friend?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I'm great. Hey, I got a quick solution for the
super Bowl and the halftime. Yeah, not serious about this.
The boys thought this, why don't they have three stages
and they have the dancing crowd between all three stages.
First stage is country music, second stage is rock old rock,
and the third stage is current. Each time they played
two abbreviated songs, go to the next stage, two abbreviated songs,
(00:34):
next stage, two abbreviated songs, and then they all do
one song together.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I think it's a great idea, and you're absolutely everybody yes,
that's and we kind of dipped our tone into that
discussion when they announced the Bad Bunny performance that you
could have. They missed a huge opportunity with Hey, you
know what, the world is very divisive right now. We're
going to have a bunch of different artists from a
bunch of differents each doing a couple of their own,
(01:02):
almost like we are the world type of thing exactly,
and then get a little something for everybody. They all
come together on the same stage, and so I think
I think you're onto something there, Ron Wilson, Look at you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You're a problem solver, is what you are.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
There, I am going to.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Talk about the National Pumpkin Way off. You're going to
be at Oakland Nursery in Dublin on Sunday. That'll be cool.
So we'll get to that coming up. As far as
the lawns, Ron did, does the window closed? I got
mine fed, I got it ar rated before the rain
this week, so I'm in good shape. But if you
haven't done it yet, is it too late?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Still time to feed?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And you still do it again a second time in November?
Still time to core airate obviously, mid to late October
grade month for spot treating weeds. Can I put grass
seat down? Now? The window is really closing. Now we're
seeing these really cooler nights. Things are going to really
start to slow down. So temperatures start to cool down,
things slow down. Would I still do it this weekend?
I'd still take a chance with best using rise, but
(01:58):
it's really starting to close, So you got to make
a quick decision here. Otherwise on the seating, if you
don't get it done soon, I'd say let's hold off
and do dormance seating. I like to do that mid
to late February, right before we get into the spring season.
So you got to make a choice.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Okay, what about getting bulbs into the ground.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I got my buddy JP and Delaware who wanted to
get some tulips and daffodils in.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Have we missed the window there?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Just getting started? As a matter of fact, that the
best time to buy, you know it's for selection wise,
is right now, But the best time to buy if
you're looking for bulk is later on when they're trying
to get rid of them in November. Then you can
buy a whole bunch of it. And the reason I say
that is because October early November is the best time
to plant them, and you get planted right up until Christmas.
If you want to, the earlier the better, So you
(02:43):
got plenty of time for planting. Not an issue, but
selection wise good Now it'll drop down in November, but
they get rid of those before they get to Thanksgiving.
You can get some really good deals on daffodils and
things like that and really do a lot of planting.
So light up your ball, light up. You're your next
spring by planting right now?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is that a good time?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What if I have existing data dolts or toolips, can
I move those transplant them?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Or is that earlier in the year type of operation.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's usually done more after they're finished flowering and you
know fully starts to turn yell, we'll dig them up
at that time and move. If you had to move
them right now you have a landscape job. Yeah, you
still dig them up, get them, you know, plan it
right back into where you need to replant. But you
could do it if you had to.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Send at thirty ninety degrees use some frost advisories in
the area on. People probably start thinking about bringing some
plants inside right house.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Plants should be starting to work inside, you know, once
you start or anything. Pull them up to the house
so it stays a little bit warmer up there if
you're not ready to take them inside yet. But otherwise
I don't cover anything. I can't think of anything that
would actually cover up. Now. I'm ready for the frost
to take everything out the annuals at all. Let's shut
down the baseball guarden except for the greens that are
still growing and they'll take these light frosts, so not
(03:57):
an issue and let us start shutting things down.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is that time of the year, do you recommend insecticides?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
If you're bringing stuff indoors, indoor plants, that is something
you should be thinking about.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, you know, there's three things I do. Usually I
try to move them into an area where it's a
little bit shadier for a week or so to start
to acclimate for coming inside the house. During that time,
I'll hose them off a couple of times just to
knock off any bugs that may be on the leaves,
and then I'll probably spray once or twice with the
secticidal soap does a great job. And right before I
bring them in the house, there's two things you can do.
(04:29):
Want to slide them out of the pot. Make sure
there's no hitchhikers. We've had mice and we even had
a couple of small snakes in the bottom of those pots.
They like to hang out there, so make sure there's
no hitch hikers in the pot. Slide it back in.
If you're having issues with insects in the soil, you
know you can fill up a washtub and just set
them down in the washtub for a couple hours. They'll
they'll come right out of the pot drowned, and then
(04:51):
bring it out, let a drain, and you're ready to
take it indoors. One last thing, so stemic insecticides which
are taking up inside the plant, can be applied in
the soil before take them in the house. That kind
of gives you from an inside protection through the winter.
But keep that insecticidal soap on hand just in case,
because you typically we'll get some insect shule start to
hatch out once you get inside. And keep an old
(05:12):
shower curtain around because you can put those plants on
that shower curtain, spray them, let it dry, and put
them back where they blog.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That is money the bank, those tips right there.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Ron Wilson, host of In the Garden with Ron, got
an email from Katie wants to know if it now's
the time to prune back some shrubs that her shrubs
have just gone crazy this summer. Is now the time
to knock some of that stuff back?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You know you can. We're late enough in the fall now,
I don't think we're going to force out any folio.
So you can't do some cutting back. I still save
the heavy pruning for spring. I still like to get
through the wintertime coming back because you may get some
winter damage or whatever to do it heavy in spring.
If you do little hand pruning just to get it
off the sidewalk or whatever, go for it. But if
we can hold off till spring would be great. And remember,
(05:55):
if it's a spring flowering shrub and you prune it now,
you just took out all the flowers. So it's a
spring flowering shrub, wait until flowers in the springtime, then
cut it back and enjoyed the spring flowers.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Solid rule of thumb there. All right, let's talk pumpkins ron.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You're going to be in Dublin Oakland Nursery Sunday and
that starts around noon or one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You'll be m seeing that event. How is the pumpkin
crop this year?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Sounds good so far? You know, I think I mentioned
last week Jerry Rose is he just had his throwaway
at eleven hundred and sixteen hundred pounds. That's a small
one throwaway, right, Yeah, it's a throwaway. So the record
right now to date and this is through twenty twenty four,
coming in twenty five was twenty seven forty nine all right,
two thousand seven and forty nine pounds. I just got
(06:41):
worried yesterday that the record has been broken. Twins in
Limington in Hampshire just weighed in there pumpkin at twenty
eight hundred and nineteen pounds twenty eight pounds nineteen yep.
And it also broke the record for circumference of over
twenty one eat.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That is a big that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And that's the that's in the UK.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That's in the UK, and this is this was the
last year. There are twins that have been growing for
fifty years and they said this was the last year
they're going to grow pumpkins, and come to find out
they've you know, they've grown this man of twenty eight
hundred and nineteen pound pumpkin and again twenty one feet
in circumference. That's phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Do you think we'll ever break three thousand threshold?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yes, oh, it'll happen. You know. The biggest problem with
three thousand pounds is one is gravity, because they start
to sink and they can't support themselves. Secondly is there's
so many things that can happen. They could crack when
you get that size. To try to move those, it's
really hard to do. And so you've got and they
were talking about when they grew many years ago that
(07:48):
was a record breaker and by the time they got
to the way off they had cracked and put a
very small hole and then which just qualifies them. So
you know, it's it's hard to move when they get
that size. But yeah, all the all the pumps and
growers say three thousand, and I can remember we started
this in Oakland. If you did over a thousand pounds,
it was phenomenal. I mean that was unbelievable. And now
look at it pushing three thousand.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So you'll be out there on Sunday Oakland Nursery in
Dublin around one o'clock. But you're encouraging folks to come
early and see some of the pumpkins before the contest.
And we look forward to seeing you on Sunday before
I let you fly round. We're three weeks away from Halloween.
Full sized candy bar, fun sized.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Candy bar to give away to eat, to eat, small
size and you know why because I can eat more
of them.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's not necessarily a popular opinion, but I take the
fun size because you can try different versions.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I mean right, I can try this, when I can
try that one. Keep moving all around. You know it
doesn't matter, but I'll still still have plenty of reces
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