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May 16, 2025 • 10 mins
Ron Wilson has the best lawn and garden tips including how to get rid of slugs!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gotta be nice this weekend. After this all blows through today,
we're looking at seventy three on Saturday, seventy three on Sunday, dry,
kind of breezy. It's gonna be nice. By the way,
I have the best weather service out there. I know
when it's gonna get rainy or windy or whatever, because
I've got the neighbor's wind chimes to let me know.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Say you held your finger up in the air.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
No, I'm I think I decided now at the fifty
six years of age, that I am anti wind chime.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh I figured that one out at about sixteen. Yeah,
it's like.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
You know, sounds like the neighbors are just breaking glass next.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Start, But you know that's right, Anger and weather.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, Legacy Retirement Group dot Com phone line. Look who
we find it is? Ron Wilson, host of in the
Garden with Ron Wilson. You'll hear them tomorrow morning at ten.
Are you fro or anti windshime?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Ron?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Uh? Anti as the neighbors have the one that's tuned
the tune tubes. Oh yeah, wait for ninjas to show off.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, it's uh, you know, it is an interesting discussion.
It's it can sound nice and a gentle breeze, but
they way the wind gets whipping and it gets a little,
uh little little irritating there. Yes, so let's check you
in on the gardens and lawns. We've had a pretty
rainy week. It was a gorgeous weekend last weekend from
others day weekend, and then the rain came back as

(01:33):
if on cue on and off all week.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
But the lawns right.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Now, I got to tell you, I'm cutting uh probably
two maybe three times a week.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
They're looking good.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, your neighbors complained about your cut your lawns so much.
But I batted you up by, you know, saying the
fact that he's doing the right thing. And if you
aren't cutting it at least once every you know, once
and a half, I guess you could say a week
h your shirt, you would be in trouble right now.
So yeah, I'm proud of you for doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, and I'm moulting it back into I'm not bagging it.
I'm doing all that. It's edging, it's looking good, it's green,
it's thick. I'm not putting anything on it yet.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
So if I do want to go to a I
always go to the I know it's a brand, it's
a Scott's brand. Step two, but just that sort of
late spring early summer application is when would the time
to do that be.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Is it now? Is it June? What's the schedule on
that step two?

Speaker 4 (02:25):
If you're looking to feed it one more time before
we go to the summer. I get it on by
Memorial weekend. And as a matter of fact, there's four
steps she used to be based on somewhat of the
holidays and Memorial weekend having to be this step two program.
So you know that's that's where you're looking to it
sometime this month, yet the next two weeks. Okay, I
get it down and then be done with it for
the rest of the summer.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
That sounds good.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Hey, my neighbor asked about blooming shrubs. She was I
was out there cutting the grass the other day and
she asked me to ask you about recommendation for a
low maintenance, long blooming like landscape shrub. And we all
know hydranges that's a favorite. But what else is out
there that would be a low maintenance, long blooming summertime shrub.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
You know, if you look at some of the newer roses,
the shrub roses that are available today, from the carpet
roses to the drift roses to the oh so easy roses.
These are all plants that get anywhere from eighteen to
thirty six inches high and wide, and they flower off
and on all summer long. And I think that those
roses are becoming more and more popular in the landscape

(03:31):
because the fact they're lower maintenance.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
They don't have the.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Disease issues that roses used to have. They self cleaning,
so they self dead head and they do flower.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Off and on throughout the entire summer.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
So those are becoming more and more popular all the
time as a flowering woody shrub.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Are they low maintenance though? Are they low maintenance?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Really, yeah, really, because they take care of themselves. You
feed them once a month and basically you're in good shape.
Look at also, you know the old roses sharing Now
you think of this huge shrub when you think of
rosa shit, it's one of the only true shrubs that
will flower all summer long. But there are dwarf varieties
available to the other day under three feet and they
give you color that that great color all summer long

(04:09):
as well, So keep those in mind too. If you're
looking for shrubs, not a lot of shrubs that actually
flower all summer long, But those are a couple that will.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Do that for you.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
What about salvia? Are they called hot lips? You know
that one.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Hot hot lips?

Speaker 3 (04:28):
You got me on that one?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Is it salvia?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Remember her from Man's Hot Lips.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I just someone sent me a text said, hey, they
ask them about salvia hot.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Lips for a for a long blooming, low matenance shrub.
But I guess I stumped the expert.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Salvi would be the perennial, and hot lips is one
of the selections, and it's a perennial. So yes, that
will flower for you off and on through the summer.
But that's a plant that dies back over the winter
and comes back up. So that would be a perennial
that would die back. Now, if you're looking at perennials
of flower all summer long, there's a whole bunch of them.
We can stay here for an hour and go through.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
All of those.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
We don't have that kind of time run, We don't.
We don't have we don't have an hour. I've got
other things they got to get to.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh I'm sorry, Yes, Hills time.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Your number one fan and Lewis Center, Ohio is happens
to be my good friend Mike Redman. He's hit me.
He hits me like with daily with questions to ask you.
So I've got to go in filter out the ones
that I think are relevant. And he does have a
couple of good ones ash trees. He's got a couple
of healthy ash trees in his yard. He's worried about
the borer. Are there any preventative measures you can take

(05:34):
now to keep the ash trees healthy?

Speaker 4 (05:36):
If he has an ash tree that hasn't been affected
by bores, that's he's pretty darn lucky. Because typically if
you look around right now, any ash trees that are
left either regrew from the stumps that had died out
originally or they had been protected over the years through
using a systemic insecticide. So yeah, using a systemic whether
it's in the springtime as they just start to leaf
out and right now is a good time to do

(05:57):
it as well, or in the fall will help to protec.
And there's one called triage that lasts about two or
three years, so you can have that injected into the tree.
Gives you about two or three year protection, come back
three years down the road, do it again, and that'll.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Carry you on through. But it's unusual to see.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
An ash tree growing out there right now that it
either hasn't already been protected or has it you know,
been one that regrew from the stump of the tree
that previously died backed.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah. Interesting.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
And the other one too is you know, we all
get tired of mulching. Run every year, you know, like
night follows day, we go out there, we spread mulch,
or we pay somebody to spread mulch. What how big
of an investment is landscape stone? Do you have any
opinions on that versus mulching.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, I have a great opinion on it, and I say,
don't do it. Okay, And let me tell you what
I would tell people. I always do this. Think about
this before you do it. Number one is landscape stone. Okay, Yeah,
it does last pretty much forever, right, I get that,
But you're gonna have to put down landscape fabric underneath
it to keep it from settling into the ground. Yeah, Now,

(07:00):
dealing with landscape fabric around your landscape plants, and you
can only do that around certain plants. Perennial gardens and
flower guards. You can't do it there, so you've got
to be cautious with that. And then once it's down,
it's there. And if you ever decide to pull that
back out of there, thats a fiask go to get
that stuff out of there. So you think about it.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Is it a weed.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Preventer does a nice job at the beginning, but over
time silt starts to blow into the stones. Then the
next thing, you know, we start to pop up in
the stone. So it's not the cure all. And I
just tell folks I like it in the you know,
like a special gardens Japanese gardens, something like that, creating
a dry bed, but they use it as an entire
mult man. I would think two or three times before

(07:39):
I would invest it, and the time and the.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Effort to put that stuff down.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
The thing about mulchs is going there plants your plants
so that they fill in the beds so you don't
have to put any mulching here. You're only mulching around
the front edge of the bed and not the rest
of the bed. Let the plants do the mulching for you.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, there you go make it sense again.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Ron Wilson, host of in the Garden with Ron tomorrow
at ten o'clock in the morning. One of those little
bumps on the maple trees, they're like little on the leaves.
They're like little wort like bumps on the maple lee.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Is that a problem?

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Uh No, it's more aesthetic than anything else. And boy,
you see those right now, like crazy.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
There's a whole bunch of them.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
They're galls and they're created by an insect and the
insect stings that bud before the leaf. It opens up,
and it tells the leaf to form a cocoon around
their eggs and feed that until they hatch out. And
they hatch out and then it turns the brown. It
leaves a little hole in there. There's no sprays that
you can but the timing is crazy. So it's rarely

(08:36):
to never ever treat it for it's aesthetic.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
It doesn't hurt the tree. Leave it go.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Some years you'll see it in a lot, some years
you won't.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Got a call from Bonnie a couple of minutes ago.
She is allergic, very allergic to bees, and she wants
to know how to keep them away from her flowers,
which seems like a tall ask there.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I think that would be a tall ask. I think
the thing to do is then start looking at flower
that don't flower. And I'm serious when I say that.
Look at all the flowers that that are foliage colors
rather than flower colors. Now, there are flowers out there
that don't seem to attract as many bees. Maregals happen
to be one of them. There's that you can use
that don't seem to attract as many. But also look

(09:17):
at all the great plants that are out there with
foliage colors. They'll give you a brighten up that garden,
but won't want to attract the bees.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Flowers that don't flower.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
You've heard don't flows?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
You heard it here from Ron Wilson on six to NATV.
And what does it mean to plant a tomato deep?
Is that a literal saying to go to dig a
deeper hole and drop your tomato plant in deep?

Speaker 3 (09:36):
It is?

Speaker 4 (09:37):
You know, if you buy a tomato plant that's a
foot tall, you should wind up when you're done planning
that have about four to five inches sticking out of
the ground and the rest of it in the ground.
With that, you know that's a vines. So the more
you put in the ground like that, the more that'll
root in, and the better off the plant is down
the road. A lot of tomato grows are actually use
a post hole digger and dig out a nice little
hole and get those down deep so you've only got

(09:58):
a couple three inches sticking out and then they take
advantage of all the rest of that stem down in
the ground. So, yeah, planning deep with tomatoes only that's
the only one you can do that with is a
great way to go.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
All right, Then, now the question that everyone is waiting
for when it comes to dairy Queen. Ron Wilson, you're
on the spot. You're on the clock, Dairy Queen blizzard
or peanut buster parfait.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
You're gonna love this. I'm not a big ice cream eater.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
But I know it would be something can't be. I
told you it would be some sort of off answer.
I knew he would not have.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
That one was way off. I didn't see that coming.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
We can't drive past the dairy Queen with my wife's
in the vehicle with me without stopping. Yeah, same, so
if I'm driving, it is a small chocolate cone smothered
in chocolate
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