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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning everybody, Welcome back. I'm Ron Wilson and you
are in the garden. You're on there's the radio six
' ten WTVN eight two one w TV and is
our number. Talking about yardening. A beautiful weekend. You couldn't
ask for a better weekend for the month of August
than this weekend through Monday. I mean, great temperatures, great
to get outside, work in the garden, get things taken
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care of, absolutely gorgeous. Or you may want to go
to the tomato festival out in Rentalsburg or whatever it
may be. But great weekend to get out and take
care of that. So you like dahlias, you know, you
see pictures of dahlias, You see dahlias and other gardens,
you see them in the garden centers. You're like, man,
these things are absolutely gorgeous. Have you ever tried to
grow dahlias? Some folks have, some haven't. Some folks are successful,
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sometimes they're not. But I'll tell you somebody who is
and really knows her dahlias. That's why we have her
on our show and she's our dahlia expert. Is Lois
Lane's second cousin, Linda Lane.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Good morning, Good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good to have you on the show. Are wed go
get the hair done and everything for.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The show, and the nails and the.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Nails good for you. Absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well I am really ready right.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now, I guess so I tell you. So let's get
started here. First of all, before we talk about growing
Dalia's and of course the Dalia show that's coming up
at the end of the month. You and mister Lane
had an opportunity last year to go over to England. Yes,
tell me about the show you went to.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, mister Lane is here too, Hi, Ron.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Hey, Hey, good to hear from you.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Thank you. Yeah, the show was incredible. It's England has
three major national shows every year and this was one
of them. And I contacted their national Society and said
we were coming over. They were really really nice about
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having us visit. They allowed us to go around with
the judges. Everyone was just so pleasant and informative. And
there are some really serious dahlia growers in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So I'm looking at this picture of Linda with this
dahlia in front of her, and I don't know how
close it is to her. That thing is huge? Are
they bigger? I mean, are the varieties and the selections
or are the climate? Are they bigger than what we
see here in the United States?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I would say not. Okay, they're pretty much the same varieties.
A lot of them are exactly the same, and a
lot of them are quite similar but have different names
because they've been hrbardized in the UK and they get
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to name them.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And they grow more of them.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So is there growing season about the same? I mean
pretty much the same length as ours.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It is pretty much the same. The one thing they
do very different, at least from most of the growers
in Ohio, is they rely very heavily on cuttings for
their plants, as opposed to in Ohio. Here we mostly
simply grow the tubers, right, And that's.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Because they have wet weather there, so very wet and rainy, so.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The tubers won't so they would rot basically, is what
you're saying. They wouldn't perform as well, right, Okay, and
interesting We.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Got to meet one of the top growers. We went
to his house and got to see his allotments of
property and he starts his own dahalias, makes his own
kind and we saw he had hundreds of dallias there thousands, thousands.
We spent a couple of hours there and when we
were done, we said, okay, thank you very much for going.
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He goes, oh, no, you're not leaving. You have to
meet my wife and she had a pot of tea
for us and Petty Ford and we were there for
another hour.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh my goodness. So so you what were you there?
Like a week or so?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Three weeks?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Three weeks, well, not three weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
At the show we were I had met somebody at
Machu Pichu and we went to visit her. She lives
in England, and we were with her for a few
days and going out to dinner with her and having
a good time. And she would tell us where to
go in England and want to go to what restaurant
and what to get at the restaurant. So it was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That sounds like you guys had a great time. So
tell me about the judge with the dog. You said
that they'd take the dogs everywhere over there.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Dogs were everywhere. I was assisting one judge and judging,
and I noticed he had a funny little front of
his suit and I look closer and he had the
puppy coming out of it, So I thought that was
so cute. Did they have restaurants? Did they have dog
menus just for the dogs? Your from appetizers to drinks
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to dessert and everybody brings their dogs and the dogs
come as puppies and they under the table and they
go every place to.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Work with them too. Really, Oh, that's really amazed.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That's pretty cool. Talking without Jeff and Linda Lane, we're
talking about Dalias. They had the opportunity to go over
to England last year and enjoy one of the Dhalia
shows that was there. Are season wise like that Dalia
show you were there in what in September? Is growth
season wise about the same? I mean is that because
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our show, well, your show is going to be what
at the end of this month, so timing wise about
the same?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I think I'd say it's the same pretty much values
of peeking end of August and through September, and it's
pretty much the same in the UK.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Okay, all right, so you would did you get.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
To see the picture of the vegetables?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Absolutely. You know what's funny is, you know some of
the flower shows that we have had. Cincinnati used to
do their flower show and some of the other ones
that you go to. I always liked it when like
Kroger or somebody like that would do it. And they
always did those shows with vegetables, you know, did displays.
I always thought they were pretty cool. But man, looking
at these shelves of all the different vegetables here, that's
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the National Vegetable Society.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
That was pretty cool really.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And the weeks they grow leaks in tubes because it's
too wet in the ground, so they used tubes to
grow it in.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So that's why I see them on the top shelf there,
That's why they're so tall like that.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
When I walked into this and it's smell like a
big tide of vegetable soup with all the vegetables that
were there, and it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I love it. And the way they did those too,
the way that's standing up and they tied those together.
That's a that's a really cool display. I wondered how
they got those so tall and straight like that, but
actually growing them in two so well, it sounds like
you had a great time, which I'm sure the two
of you always do no matter where you go. Talking
with Jeff and Linda Lane from the Dahlia society here,
So let's talk real quick. Got about two or three
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minutes before we have to take a break, and then
we'll come back and talk about the show that's coming up.
For folks that may have never grown dallias before, and
they say, Okay, I'm interested, I would like to get started,
And obviously coming to the show can be a real
good stepping stone to get you started. But what are
the basic requirements needed for growing successful values? Like you said,
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they couldn't grow them there because it stays too wet.
I'm assuming well drained soil and sunny locations are a must.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yes, at least half a day's worth of sunshine. You
want well drained soil. Adding compost is something we do
yearly and that seems to really help a lot of
people are afraid of growing dal is just because of
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the reputation, but they're actually easy to grow. The only
thing you have to watch out for is they can
get tall, and you want to provide some support for
them as they grow up. You can still have beautiful
blooms with them lying across across the ground, but they
look better if they get a chance to stand up.
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So staking and tying is advised plus if I know.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
A storm is coming, I'll take off some of the
blooms so it's not too heavy for the winds and
everything too.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So you'll actually remove some of those just to keep
them from falling over. And then they how long does
it take to reproduce again? A couple of weeks you're
back into some flowers again.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
In right, it's continuous. Yes, they start usually by July,
and last year we had it in tune November, and
they'll survive unless you have a hard freeze. For us,
they'll still survive. But what they freeze, say goodbye. One
day it's gorgeous. The next day they're all blackened, and.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Then that's it. They're done. And then it's then it's
a little bit of a little bit of a labor
to and then this probably turned some people off, I'm sure,
but you know, then there is a process of digging
those up and storing them away.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Over the winter, And people say to me, don't you
have to dig them up? And I say no, my husband.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Does I like that answer. Talking with Jeff and Linda Lane,
there are expert dahlia growers. Let's take a quick break,
we come back. We'll talk about the Dahlia show that
you're probably going to want to attend coming up at
the end of this month. Talk about it here on
news radio six to ten WTVN. We're talking daly Is
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here on news radio six ' ten WTVN with our
Dahlia experts, Linda and Jeff Lane. And I have to
say that the pictures you said to me, and you
always send me pictures of your landscape and your gardens
absolutely gorgeous. How long you two been working on this
landscape in the gardens around your home.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We've been here for thirty years. Thirty years.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Wow, unbelievable. How much time do you spend a day
out there?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
A day? I was inspired by Anne Passaway's gardens in
England and I used to do rows of flowers until
I went there, and I used to have flowers are
just all over the place. So we have flowers north, south,
east and west. We have an inner garden, we have
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out of garden, we have the front garden, we have
side gardens, and all have names, so we know if
I'm going out, all said, I'm going to be in
the wedding garden. He knows what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So unbelievable. It's absolutely gorgeous. And those hydrangeas not only
in your garden but all around putting on a heck
of a show this year.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And it's that way. They've been there for thirty years now.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wow, is that the wedding garden?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
This has been near back garden by?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay, I was thinking, with the white and all that stuff,
we have been the wedding garden. And then after you
spend all that time working in these beautiful gardens around
your home, then you send me a picture of this deer.
How long does it take him to take care of
all that?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's not only the deer, it's the ground pog. I
didn't know how tall they could touch their bodies. They've
been eating the leaves off the plants, from the morning
glory to the potato vine to the flock.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Don't you love it?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Oh, it's been terrible this year. Everybody's been eating everything
with see deer eating my hydranges. Now I'm getting another
flock shoved blooms where by. Now they're all green, but
now I'm getting white one bull. So I'm trying to
use it to my advantage. Except that that's just the groundhogs.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I wrote myself a note under the picture of the
buck deer coming through because he's got a lot of
velvet on those antlers. I just wrote myself, remind everybody
to put up deer protectors on all those smaller trees
because they're going to start rubbing here very soon. And
you can tell it he's going to be doing that
pretty soon as well. Talking with Linda and Jeff Lane
talking about dahlias and they just their gardeners that your
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garden is absolutely wonderful. I am jealous as heck. But nevertheless,
if folks want to learn more about dallias and really
get the feel, you've got a great show coming up
August Saturday, August thirty, first out at the Union County
YMCA and Marysville. Tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, the show is featuring well. People can expect to
see hundreds of spectacular blooms, and historically we have had
exhibitors with national reputations who reside in Ohio exhibit an
Auras show. In fact, six of the last eight Grand
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champions and National shows that were held the Mississippi were
awarded to people who exhibited our show. So we're really
going to be spectacular right now.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
This and this is the fifty eighth Dahalias show that
you guys have put on, and again it's both Saturday
and Sunday. It's the thirty first from one until five
and in on Sunday from one until four. Again it's
at the Union County YMCA and Marysville. And of course
your website tells you it has all the information Columbus
dalias dot com. That's Columbus dalias dot com. For somebody
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that's maybe growing dahias for the first time this year
and they've got a really nice, very very successful can
they can they show you know in this particular show.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yes, our show is open to all, So first of all,
it's free for visitors, and it's also free for people
to enter their blooms, so you don't have to be
a member to enter a bloom. You also could enter
photographs of dalias and arrangements. We have different classifications to
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enter both of those, and we have a full show
schedule on our website that people can take a look at.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And again go to their website's Columbus dalias dot com
for more information. And of course if you're interested in
growing dahlias and you've always wanted to, but you just
never have. This will be a great opportunity for folks
to come out see the different daluas, and of course
you've got all the dahlia experts, including you and Linda
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there to help answer questions.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yes, they will be We will be there as well
as others, and we'd be happy to answer any questions
that people might have about values. It could be a
little intimidating for folks to see these beautiful ballooms, but
they really shouldn't be because you have to start somewhere
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and it doesn't matter where.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
We also have a section just for beginners, so you're
never grown, but you have some pretty flowers you want
to bring in. This is your chance to go to
the beginner's table and you'll be judged very leniently.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So do they need to pre register or just can
they just come the day of, like on Saturday and enter.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
There's no need to preregister. But the setup for people
is Friday starting at about five pm Friday evening, okay,
or Saturday morning from like six am until nine am
because the judging starts at ten, so everything has to
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be in place by nine.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So are you folks part of the judging or do
you actually bring judges in from other areas to do this.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
We are part of the judging and we also bring
in judges. Well, yeah, we bring in judges from all
around actually, because we have people who come from Indiana
and Michigan and Pennsylvania to enter as well. Usually we
don't know till the day of the event exactly who's
going to be there. But yes, we have judges from
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all around.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Interesting again, go to their website is Columbus Dalias dot
com to learn more. So, if we're in the lane
Guard Dahlia garden, how many varieties of dalias are you growing?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
About eighty? About eighty ground has taken them and carried
them away. We find the plant anymore?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Oh my gosh. So do you do you switch it up?
Do you buy new ones? Do you do you like
go online or go to other shows to find new
selections or new varieties?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
We do all of the above. Yes, uh, we uh
look at what other people are growing. We we do
buy some online. We also our society does a tuba
sail in the spring and we can get some different
varieties that way from other members. And that tuba sale
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is also open to the public, so it's a good
way for non members to get Dallia tubers.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
As well an open nursery in the spriend time.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yes, I was gonna say, I do remember them doing
that in the springtime as well, having that sale they
had theirs and they have all the years as well.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And then at would we do a talk about how
to winter your dalliers too, all.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Right, so and you'll let us, you'll let us know
when that's coming up, so we can get that out
there too, and I'm assuming it would be posted on
your website as well.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yes, yes, the schedule of all our events is on
the website.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Again and that's Columbus daly is dot com. And Jeff
and Linda Lane would be more happy to help you out,
or all the folks from the Dahalia group would be
more happy to help you out if you have questions,
but put it down to the go to the show.
It's Saturday August thirty first and Sunday September the first,
one to five and one to four. It's at the
Union County YMCA and Marysville. And again for more information,
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Columbus daly is dot com. And just so you know,
on those groundhogs, I was getting ready to film a
This was many years ago, a segment on those new
ornamental sweet potatoes when they first oh, came out right,
and I let them grow across our entire patio as
a groundcover, and I cut holes in it like a
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stepping stone to walk through them. The morning that I
was having the TV crew come out to film this
new ornamental vine, guess what happened. I know the groundhogs
ate every one of them, including my two potted pont
SETI is that I was going to do a story
on how to get the pon setis to turn colors
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for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yes, that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It never fails, darn critters, I tell you, well, good
luck with that pumpkin. You got it. That's a great
looking volunteer pumpkin. Thanks for that picture too, But we
really appreciate you doing this with us talking about Dalis
and again all that you do with the shows. Your
gardens are absolutely outstanding. Again, if you want more information,
go to their website Columbus Dalis dot com, Columbus Dalues
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dot com and go to the show. Show it's a
fun show and then get to meet Linda and Jeff
Lane as well. So that's worth it. The admission price
right there, which is absolutely free. Appreciate you spending time
with us.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Thank you, We appreciate very much.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, take care, good talking with both of you again.
Columbus Dalias, Columbus Daalia dot com. Columbus Dalyas dot com.
That's the website. All right, Take guy a little break
here and we come back. We'll have the phone lines
open for you once again. Eight two to one WTVN,
eight hundred and six to ten WTVN. Here on news
radio six to ten WTVN. All right, did you write
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it down? That's August thirty first and September one, the
Columbus Dahalia Show. And again their website is Columbus Dalias
dot com. Also, want to remind you coming up tomorrow,
we've got the Central Ohio Hasta Society. They're having their auction.
It's at one o'clock in the afternoon with Meyer Conference
on Carmac Road. It's off of Lane Avenue. It's on
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the north side by the dairy Farm. Parking is right there.
It's air conditioning to get restrooms are gonna have ice
cream floats. They've been doing this for years. Jim Rush
is the auctioneer. They auction off over one hundred different
types of hostas. So coming at your HOSTA collection if
you're in the hostas again, that's tomorrow, Central Ohio Hosta Society.
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That's their auction at one o'clock at the Witmeyer Conference
Room on Carmack Road and that's off of Lane Avenue.
So enjoy that one as well. Lots of the you know,
these are fund just to go to just to see
what's happening and see all the different selections that are
available out there. And you know it's good fundraiser. Two
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and one last one here and then we'll go back
to the guarding phone lines. Columbus Garden Railway Societies having
their annual backyard tour. It's in September August the eighth,
from one in till five, and you can go to
their website. It's on here somewhere the cg r S
dot org the cg RS dot org to learn more
about that as well. And I did when she sent
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me the picture of the buck deer last week. Let
me see, the third week of July is when she
sent this. Walking through their backyard, I can see all
that velvet on his antlers and of course they won't
be long. They'll be rubbing out off of their be
running season. And I think last year we got our
first report of a deer rub like the middle of August.
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We used to talk about putting deer protectors on those
tree trunks first September through late March early April the
following year, and then you can take them off. But you might,
I don't know, you might not want to take a
chance and wait too much longer to put those deer
protectors on. And if you're planting trees this fall, anything
that's three inch and smaller, although they'll go after any
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sized tree, but especially three inch trunk diameters are smaller,
don't take your hand off the trunk of that tree
when you're planting it, and you're done planting until you
put a tree trunk protector around it. I've had folks
that have planted those on a Saturday, gonna do you know,
finish it up on Sunday, come out Sunday morning, and
a buck deer come through and scar and rub on
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every new tree they planted in their yard. It does happen.
So don't walk away from that tree until you get
a tree trunk protector to keep those buck deer from
rubbing on those, and leave it on till about first
of April. Then you can take it off, usually clear
by then, and I keep doing it until they get
some size to them, just to try to add extra
protection because a buck rub can really destroy the health
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of a tree, especially the newly planted ones. All right
back to the arning phone lines, we shall go. Mike,
good morning, Good morning, Ron. How are you, sir.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'm doing great good. We are first year novice gardener
container gardener, so we're learning some things there. Want to
turn it out into a raised bed next year?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Question I have is we've had true green in here
for about eight years treating the areas. Is there any
precautions I need to take before we start raised beds
in those areas?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So you're gonna build, obviously build on top of the
turf where they've been treating. The chemicals that are in
the that they would use pretty light. You can check
with them to find out specifically what they're using, but
and they would be able to tell you. I think
the longevity in the soil. But otherwise I think that
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if they don't do any fall applications or at least
you mark off the areas where you're going to be
building your your beds and don't let them do the
applications there.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I've since since I started organic gardening or trying that process.
I since kicked in with the property and we are
working at other things. I have another question when we're
finished here.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All right, So they haven't done anything for the in
the last.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Year, correct, I believe you're good to go. Okay, correct,
good to go. Other thing. A couple of weeks ago,
you had a fellow on talking about micro clover lawns. Yes,
and I would like to explore that, but I haven't
found anything. I don't know if I'm finding a local
guy that makes the seed here? Did Did you have
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a local guy on there?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
No, he's Uh. Their company is I think it's Flawns
Flowering Lawns. Flawns, I believe is the name of the company.
He's out of Minnesota. I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
is where he first is where he started that business.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And if if that's not it, I will look it
up for you and give you that because I know
he just sent me in a newsletter this past week
and they were running some specials because we're getting into
that seating season and he was having some specials on
doing that. But I'm pretty sure it was called flawns.
Flawns the parts.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
That I'm not turning into garden this year. I'm want
to put that in for everything. And my father planted
this fifty years ago back here, and he put prairie
graphs and anything he could find to throw in the yard.
That was what's in here. They were on a scar
play down this year and try to get that going
with the micro loan.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh, good for you, good for you. Well, keep us posted,
and you know, when you do stuff like that, let
us know how it's turning out for you. I love
seeing pick of it as well. I mean I love
seeing what other folks are doing. So keep us posted. Yep,
thank you, all right, My good talking with you, and
a quick break. We come back, Ron, you're coming up next.
Phone lines you're open few at eight two to one
WTVN here on news radio six ' ten WTVN. So
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I'm out the other day and I've been watching this
landscape bed in front of our landscape office as this
nut set just continues to fill in. Nobody was pulling it. Out.
So I the other morning spent the time of just
I pulled my truck up there, turned on the radio
seven in the morning, and I weeded this bed. Took
me about twenty minutes. I just hand pulled it all
out of there with my soil knife. And when I
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got done, I felt great. So I look at weeding
as anger management, weed anger management, or I was felt
less stressed. I felt good about myself because it looks
so good. So when you have a hard time thinking
about I got to go out and pull those weeds,
because right now you do not want weeds getting a foothold,
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nor do you want them going to flower and setting seed,
because it just makes it a million times worse for
you next year. Get rid of them now. So as
you're out there managing by walking around right looking at
your landscape, what am I going to do for the fall?
Right now? If you've got weeds out there and the
garden in the landscape wherever it may be, now's the
time to make sure you get them taken out of there.
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Do not let them flower, do not let them throw
those seeds out there. And when you're all said and
done with your weeding and your back's a little sore
and you were sweating a little bit. But you look
back and you see this really nice cleaned up area.
It makes you pretty feel pretty darn good. And of
course if you got your saw knife with you and
you're stabbing down in there and poking these things out
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of the ground, it makes you feel pretty good too.
And that's soil knife. I'll tell you, what is one
handy thing to have when you're out walking around managing
by walking around is having your soil knife because you
can do so many different things with it. And if
you don't have a soil knife to garden with, get one,
and there's all kinds of them out there. Mine comes
from guard Gardener's Edge Am Leonard out of Pickwell, Ohio.
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It's the orange handle one. I like that one, but
there are many different ones out there, but it does work.
But I'm telling you, if you haven't a hard time
convincing yourself that you need to do some weeding, you know,
and you got to do some of it by hand,
like I had to do with this particular bed because
I couldn't spray anything in there. Just do it, have
your soil night, get it done, and you'll feel so
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much better about yourself when it's all said and done. Ron,
thanks for holding on. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Hi, there.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
A, yes, we can.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
I have a plant, a buckeye tree about eight years
ago and it's about ten feet tall now. But every
early summer, like the first week or two July japanitie
feels attacked the top of it. And I've used traps
and I think I've used spray stuff like that, but
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they they damnaged about twenty percent of the top of
the buckeye tree. And these beetles, I think are they
don't live very long. There's just a short season for them.
But my question is there some type of netting I
can get to put over that the tree is not
real tall, or how can I send off these beetles?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Well, you know, physical barriers do help, and if you've
got to, you know, timing wise, when they're gonna when
you're starting to see them show up, you can buy
what's if you look at it now that you have
cicada netting, and the cicada nettings are real small, probably
a quarter inch netting or a little bit smaller than
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that at the opening, so they can't get through that,
and I'm hoping the beetles that would be small enough
that they couldn't get through it as well. Don't you
use anything like cheese cloth or something like that, because
you're gonna leave it on for too long of a
period of time. But you can find netting that's got
a real you know, that's a very lightweight, that's got
that real small mesh, and you could do that tarp
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it over for a ten day two week period and
minimize the damages. Yep, And that would work. And what
I do is just keep monitoring until you see the
beetles and then as soon as you see some of
them starting to show up, take like a garden hose
before you net it over and just hose it real
quick and knock them off so they go somewhere else.
Net it over, tie it around the base of the
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tree so they can't get inside of that, and then
you should be good to go to try to spray.
It is nearly impossible, you know, I understand that the
traps the only thing that do you catch some of
the beatles in the traps?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Yes, the traps show up, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Well, the problem with that is is that give them
to the neighbor and get them as far away from
your buckeye tree as you can so that they're attracted
to the traps away from the tree rather than going
to the tree. And that's why we don't use Japanese
beetle traps as much as we used to, because we
found out in many cases it actually drew more in
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than you would have gotten originally, so you wind up
getting more in your landscape than you would have gotten
if you had not had the Japanese beetle traps. So
you can do that, you know, if you've got a
lot of them, and they can fly in long distances.
But if you have a lot of them, you may
even want to use a grub preventter in the turf
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to try to knock down as many grubs. You know
that they would lay eggs and have the grubs and
the turf. I don't recommend that very often, but if
you're having such a large population of such a short
period of time, that may be something to take a
look at to try to just reduce the numbers as well.
So if you use the traps, give them to the neighbors,
put them on the other side as far away as
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you can to track them away. Anytime you see them
buzzing around the tree, hose it and you'll make them
fly away. And then the physical barrier with the netting
would be a possibility for you to while it's smaller.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Anyway, Okay, the tree had I understand what you said,
get the cicada netting, and the tree has recovered. It
just looks some of the they.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Look oh yeah, you look at linden trees. I mean,
they love linden trees and they'll just shred those things
to death now and it makes you just look bad
for the rest of the year. Doesn't kill it, but
it just looks bad. But you know, again, the physical
barrier is a way to try to suppress or reduce
the amount of damages that you normally see.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Okay, and I have a recommendation too. Yeah, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Hershey Gardens twenty five acres of a wide variety of flowers,
and they have walkways and fountains and it's just a
go to place at.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
The Hershey I've never I've never heard anybody saything about that.
Is that and that's obviously in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yeah, it's across in the theme park it's across the
road near the hotel.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Okay, Oh yeah, what's the best.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Her She's just twenty five acres of just glorious varieties
of flowers. So I just throw that in for travel.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I can live it. I could live with the other gardens.
You could. You could drop me off in there and
I could just stay there forever.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I know, Longwood. Yeah, that's an all day visit, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Oh yeah, that's why I say I could just go
in there and just camp out and stay there forever. Unbelievable. Well,
thanks for the tips. I appreciate it, all right, take care, Joey.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Good morning, Good morning. How are you can hear me?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Good?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
So I have a question. It's kind of it's two
parter about my lawn. When the house is built, they
took pretty much all the top soil off of the
yard in the back, and so I have just nothing
but clay and rock. And then when they put the
SPoD down, it was kind of a catchy job. So
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since then I have two large dogs, two big german shepherds,
and they tear the heck out of my yard. So
about probably two thirds of my yard is now mud.
And this fall I was planning on re leveling the backyard.
So that's question number one is basically the best way
to go about re leveling the yard. And then I
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was going to plant seed, and so part two is
what would be the best type of grass seed for pets,
something that will do sun shade and be sturdy enough
to withstand the the dogs.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Twofold one is as far as leveling, I'm assuming you're
just talking about ruts that were put in by the
dogs running and that type of thing. Right, Okay, are
you going if you're going to put in and if
you is there any grass left at all?
Speaker 6 (35:03):
I'm a little bit. Probably about a core of my
yard has some grass, and it's different types of grass,
so it's not all the.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Same, Okay, And I'm running out of time, so I
want to tell you this real quick. I got about
fifteen or twenty seconds. Email me and I'll get right
back to you on Monday or Tuesday, and I'll give
you Just email me and i'll give you more answers.
But you can come in there and top dress with
core air rate first, and then I would come back
and top dress with some nice shredded top soil fill
in the ruts and then you can come back and
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see it on top of that. The kicker is you
got to keep the dogs off of that for two
or three months to give that a time to root
in and get established. So you may have to do
it in sections to allow the dogs to work on
one side and on the other side. And timing wise,
you are there right now. Gotta go, Joey, email me
and I'll give you a better answer or more extended answer.
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Thanks for everything today. Thank you Ella. You're in the
Garden with Ron Wilson on News Radio six NWTVN
Good morning everybody, Welcome back. I'm Ron Wilson and you
are in the garden. You're on there's the radio six
' ten WTVN eight two one w TV and is
our number. Talking about yardening. A beautiful weekend. You couldn't
ask for a better weekend for the month of August
than this weekend through Monday. I mean, great temperatures, great
to get outside, work in the garden, get things taken
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care of, absolutely gorgeous. Or you may want to go
to the tomato festival out in Rentalsburg or whatever it
may be. But great weekend to get out and take
care of that. So you like dahlias, you know, you
see pictures of dahlias, You see dahlias and other gardens,
you see them in the garden centers. You're like, man,
these things are absolutely gorgeous. Have you ever tried to
grow dahlias? Some folks have, some haven't. Some folks are successful,
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sometimes they're not. But I'll tell you somebody who is
and really knows her dahlias. That's why we have her
on our show and she's our dahlia expert. Is Lois
Lane's second cousin, Linda Lane.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Good morning, Good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good to have you on the show. Are wed go
get the hair done and everything for.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The show, and the nails and the.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Nails good for you. Absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well I am really ready right.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now, I guess so I tell you. So let's get
started here. First of all, before we talk about growing
Dalia's and of course the Dalia show that's coming up
at the end of the month. You and mister Lane
had an opportunity last year to go over to England. Yes,
tell me about the show you went to.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, mister Lane is here too, Hi, Ron.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Hey, Hey, good to hear from you.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Thank you. Yeah, the show was incredible. It's England has
three major national shows every year and this was one
of them. And I contacted their national Society and said
we were coming over. They were really really nice about
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having us visit. They allowed us to go around with
the judges. Everyone was just so pleasant and informative. And
there are some really serious dahlia growers in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So I'm looking at this picture of Linda with this
dahlia in front of her, and I don't know how
close it is to her. That thing is huge? Are
they bigger? I mean, are the varieties and the selections
or are the climate? Are they bigger than what we
see here in the United States?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I would say not. Okay, they're pretty much the same varieties.
A lot of them are exactly the same, and a
lot of them are quite similar but have different names
because they've been hrbardized in the UK and they get
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to name them.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And they grow more of them.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So is there growing season about the same? I mean
pretty much the same length as ours.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It is pretty much the same. The one thing they
do very different, at least from most of the growers
in Ohio, is they rely very heavily on cuttings for
their plants, as opposed to in Ohio. Here we mostly
simply grow the tubers, right, And that's.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Because they have wet weather there, so very wet and rainy, so.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The tubers won't so they would rot basically, is what
you're saying. They wouldn't perform as well, right, Okay, and
interesting We.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Got to meet one of the top growers. We went
to his house and got to see his allotments of
property and he starts his own dahalias, makes his own
kind and we saw he had hundreds of dallias there thousands, thousands.
We spent a couple of hours there and when we
were done, we said, okay, thank you very much for going.
(04:05):
He goes, oh, no, you're not leaving. You have to
meet my wife and she had a pot of tea
for us and Petty Ford and we were there for
another hour.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh my goodness. So so you what were you there?
Like a week or so?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Three weeks?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Three weeks, well, not three weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
At the show we were I had met somebody at
Machu Pichu and we went to visit her. She lives
in England, and we were with her for a few
days and going out to dinner with her and having
a good time. And she would tell us where to
go in England and want to go to what restaurant
and what to get at the restaurant. So it was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That sounds like you guys had a great time. So
tell me about the judge with the dog. You said
that they'd take the dogs everywhere over there.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Dogs were everywhere. I was assisting one judge and judging,
and I noticed he had a funny little front of
his suit and I look closer and he had the
puppy coming out of it, So I thought that was
so cute. Did they have restaurants? Did they have dog
menus just for the dogs? Your from appetizers to drinks
(05:17):
to dessert and everybody brings their dogs and the dogs
come as puppies and they under the table and they
go every place to.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Work with them too. Really, Oh, that's really amazed.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That's pretty cool. Talking without Jeff and Linda Lane, we're
talking about Dalias. They had the opportunity to go over
to England last year and enjoy one of the Dhalia
shows that was there. Are season wise like that Dalia
show you were there in what in September? Is growth
season wise about the same? I mean is that because
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our show, well, your show is going to be what
at the end of this month, so timing wise about
the same?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I think I'd say it's the same pretty much values
of peeking end of August and through September, and it's
pretty much the same in the UK.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Okay, all right, so you would did you get.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
To see the picture of the vegetables?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Absolutely. You know what's funny is, you know some of
the flower shows that we have had. Cincinnati used to
do their flower show and some of the other ones
that you go to. I always liked it when like
Kroger or somebody like that would do it. And they
always did those shows with vegetables, you know, did displays.
I always thought they were pretty cool. But man, looking
at these shelves of all the different vegetables here, that's
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the National Vegetable Society.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
That was pretty cool really.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And the weeks they grow leaks in tubes because it's
too wet in the ground, so they used tubes to
grow it in.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So that's why I see them on the top shelf there,
That's why they're so tall like that.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
When I walked into this and it's smell like a
big tide of vegetable soup with all the vegetables that
were there, and it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I love it. And the way they did those too,
the way that's standing up and they tied those together.
That's a that's a really cool display. I wondered how
they got those so tall and straight like that, but
actually growing them in two so well, it sounds like
you had a great time, which I'm sure the two
of you always do no matter where you go. Talking
with Jeff and Linda Lane from the Dahlia society here,
So let's talk real quick. Got about two or three
(07:31):
minutes before we have to take a break, and then
we'll come back and talk about the show that's coming up.
For folks that may have never grown dallias before, and
they say, Okay, I'm interested, I would like to get started,
And obviously coming to the show can be a real
good stepping stone to get you started. But what are
the basic requirements needed for growing successful values? Like you said,
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they couldn't grow them there because it stays too wet.
I'm assuming well drained soil and sunny locations are a must.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yes, at least half a day's worth of sunshine. You
want well drained soil. Adding compost is something we do
yearly and that seems to really help a lot of
people are afraid of growing dal is just because of
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the reputation, but they're actually easy to grow. The only
thing you have to watch out for is they can
get tall, and you want to provide some support for
them as they grow up. You can still have beautiful
blooms with them lying across across the ground, but they
look better if they get a chance to stand up.
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So staking and tying is advised plus if I know.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
A storm is coming, I'll take off some of the
blooms so it's not too heavy for the winds and
everything too.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So you'll actually remove some of those just to keep
them from falling over. And then they how long does
it take to reproduce again? A couple of weeks you're
back into some flowers again.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
In right, it's continuous. Yes, they start usually by July,
and last year we had it in tune November, and
they'll survive unless you have a hard freeze. For us,
they'll still survive. But what they freeze, say goodbye. One
day it's gorgeous. The next day they're all blackened, and.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Then that's it. They're done. And then it's then it's
a little bit of a little bit of a labor
to and then this probably turned some people off, I'm sure,
but you know, then there is a process of digging
those up and storing them away.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Over the winter, And people say to me, don't you
have to dig them up? And I say no, my husband.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Does I like that answer. Talking with Jeff and Linda Lane,
there are expert dahlia growers. Let's take a quick break,
we come back. We'll talk about the Dahlia show that
you're probably going to want to attend coming up at
the end of this month. Talk about it here on
news radio six to ten WTVN. We're talking daly Is
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here on news radio six ' ten WTVN with our
Dahlia experts, Linda and Jeff Lane. And I have to
say that the pictures you said to me, and you
always send me pictures of your landscape and your gardens
absolutely gorgeous. How long you two been working on this
landscape in the gardens around your home.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We've been here for thirty years. Thirty years.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Wow, unbelievable. How much time do you spend a day
out there?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
A day? I was inspired by Anne Passaway's gardens in
England and I used to do rows of flowers until
I went there, and I used to have flowers are
just all over the place. So we have flowers north, south,
east and west. We have an inner garden, we have
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out of garden, we have the front garden, we have
side gardens, and all have names, so we know if
I'm going out, all said, I'm going to be in
the wedding garden. He knows what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So unbelievable. It's absolutely gorgeous. And those hydrangeas not only
in your garden but all around putting on a heck
of a show this year.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And it's that way. They've been there for thirty years now.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wow, is that the wedding garden?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
This has been near back garden by?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay, I was thinking, with the white and all that stuff,
we have been the wedding garden. And then after you
spend all that time working in these beautiful gardens around
your home, then you send me a picture of this deer.
How long does it take him to take care of
all that?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's not only the deer, it's the ground pog. I
didn't know how tall they could touch their bodies. They've
been eating the leaves off the plants, from the morning
glory to the potato vine to the flock.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Don't you love it?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Oh, it's been terrible this year. Everybody's been eating everything
with see deer eating my hydranges. Now I'm getting another
flock shoved blooms where by. Now they're all green, but
now I'm getting white one bull. So I'm trying to
use it to my advantage. Except that that's just the groundhogs.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I wrote myself a note under the picture of the
buck deer coming through because he's got a lot of
velvet on those antlers. I just wrote myself, remind everybody
to put up deer protectors on all those smaller trees
because they're going to start rubbing here very soon. And
you can tell it he's going to be doing that
pretty soon as well. Talking with Linda and Jeff Lane
talking about dahlias and they just their gardeners that your
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garden is absolutely wonderful. I am jealous as heck. But nevertheless,
if folks want to learn more about dallias and really
get the feel, you've got a great show coming up
August Saturday, August thirty, first out at the Union County
YMCA and Marysville. Tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, the show is featuring well. People can expect to
see hundreds of spectacular blooms, and historically we have had
exhibitors with national reputations who reside in Ohio exhibit an
Auras show. In fact, six of the last eight Grand
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champions and National shows that were held the Mississippi were
awarded to people who exhibited our show. So we're really
going to be spectacular right now.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
This and this is the fifty eighth Dahalias show that
you guys have put on, and again it's both Saturday
and Sunday. It's the thirty first from one until five
and in on Sunday from one until four. Again it's
at the Union County YMCA and Marysville. And of course
your website tells you it has all the information Columbus
dalias dot com. That's Columbus dalias dot com. For somebody
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that's maybe growing dahias for the first time this year
and they've got a really nice, very very successful can
they can they show you know in this particular show.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yes, our show is open to all, So first of all,
it's free for visitors, and it's also free for people
to enter their blooms, so you don't have to be
a member to enter a bloom. You also could enter
photographs of dalias and arrangements. We have different classifications to
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enter both of those, and we have a full show
schedule on our website that people can take a look at.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And again go to their website's Columbus dalias dot com
for more information. And of course if you're interested in
growing dahlias and you've always wanted to, but you just
never have. This will be a great opportunity for folks
to come out see the different daluas, and of course
you've got all the dahlia experts, including you and Linda
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there to help answer questions.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yes, they will be We will be there as well
as others, and we'd be happy to answer any questions
that people might have about values. It could be a
little intimidating for folks to see these beautiful ballooms, but
they really shouldn't be because you have to start somewhere
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and it doesn't matter where.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
We also have a section just for beginners, so you're
never grown, but you have some pretty flowers you want
to bring in. This is your chance to go to
the beginner's table and you'll be judged very leniently.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So do they need to pre register or just can
they just come the day of, like on Saturday and enter.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
There's no need to preregister. But the setup for people
is Friday starting at about five pm Friday evening, okay,
or Saturday morning from like six am until nine am
because the judging starts at ten, so everything has to
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be in place by nine.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So are you folks part of the judging or do
you actually bring judges in from other areas to do this.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
We are part of the judging and we also bring
in judges. Well, yeah, we bring in judges from all
around actually, because we have people who come from Indiana
and Michigan and Pennsylvania to enter as well. Usually we
don't know till the day of the event exactly who's
going to be there. But yes, we have judges from
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all around.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Interesting again, go to their website is Columbus Dalias dot
com to learn more. So, if we're in the lane
Guard Dahlia garden, how many varieties of dalias are you growing?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
About eighty? About eighty ground has taken them and carried
them away. We find the plant anymore?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Oh my gosh. So do you do you switch it up?
Do you buy new ones? Do you do you like
go online or go to other shows to find new
selections or new varieties?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
We do all of the above. Yes, uh, we uh
look at what other people are growing. We we do
buy some online. We also our society does a tuba
sail in the spring and we can get some different
varieties that way from other members. And that tuba sale
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is also open to the public, so it's a good
way for non members to get Dallia tubers.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
As well an open nursery in the spriend time.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yes, I was gonna say, I do remember them doing
that in the springtime as well, having that sale they
had theirs and they have all the years as well.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And then at would we do a talk about how
to winter your dalliers too, all.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Right, so and you'll let us, you'll let us know
when that's coming up, so we can get that out
there too, and I'm assuming it would be posted on
your website as well.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yes, yes, the schedule of all our events is on
the website.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Again and that's Columbus daly is dot com. And Jeff
and Linda Lane would be more happy to help you out,
or all the folks from the Dahalia group would be
more happy to help you out if you have questions,
but put it down to the go to the show.
It's Saturday August thirty first and Sunday September the first,
one to five and one to four. It's at the
Union County YMCA and Marysville. And again for more information,
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Columbus daly is dot com. And just so you know,
on those groundhogs, I was getting ready to film a
This was many years ago, a segment on those new
ornamental sweet potatoes when they first oh, came out right,
and I let them grow across our entire patio as
a groundcover, and I cut holes in it like a
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stepping stone to walk through them. The morning that I
was having the TV crew come out to film this
new ornamental vine, guess what happened. I know the groundhogs
ate every one of them, including my two potted pont
SETI is that I was going to do a story
on how to get the pon setis to turn colors
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for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yes, that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It never fails, darn critters, I tell you, well, good
luck with that pumpkin. You got it. That's a great
looking volunteer pumpkin. Thanks for that picture too, But we
really appreciate you doing this with us talking about Dalis
and again all that you do with the shows. Your
gardens are absolutely outstanding. Again, if you want more information,
go to their website Columbus Dalis dot com, Columbus Dalues
(19:50):
dot com and go to the show. Show it's a
fun show and then get to meet Linda and Jeff
Lane as well. So that's worth it. The admission price
right there, which is absolutely free. Appreciate you spending time
with us.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Thank you, We appreciate very much.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, take care, good talking with both of you again.
Columbus Dalias, Columbus Daalia dot com. Columbus Dalyas dot com.
That's the website. All right, Take guy a little break
here and we come back. We'll have the phone lines
open for you once again. Eight two to one WTVN,
eight hundred and six to ten WTVN. Here on news
radio six to ten WTVN. All right, did you write
(20:29):
it down? That's August thirty first and September one, the
Columbus Dahalia Show. And again their website is Columbus Dalias
dot com. Also, want to remind you coming up tomorrow,
we've got the Central Ohio Hasta Society. They're having their auction.
It's at one o'clock in the afternoon with Meyer Conference
on Carmac Road. It's off of Lane Avenue. It's on
(20:52):
the north side by the dairy Farm. Parking is right there.
It's air conditioning to get restrooms are gonna have ice
cream floats. They've been doing this for years. Jim Rush
is the auctioneer. They auction off over one hundred different
types of hostas. So coming at your HOSTA collection if
you're in the hostas again, that's tomorrow, Central Ohio Hosta Society.
(21:12):
That's their auction at one o'clock at the Witmeyer Conference
Room on Carmack Road and that's off of Lane Avenue.
So enjoy that one as well. Lots of the you know,
these are fund just to go to just to see
what's happening and see all the different selections that are
available out there. And you know it's good fundraiser. Two
(21:33):
and one last one here and then we'll go back
to the guarding phone lines. Columbus Garden Railway Societies having
their annual backyard tour. It's in September August the eighth,
from one in till five, and you can go to
their website. It's on here somewhere the cg r S
dot org the cg RS dot org to learn more
about that as well. And I did when she sent
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me the picture of the buck deer last week. Let
me see, the third week of July is when she
sent this. Walking through their backyard, I can see all
that velvet on his antlers and of course they won't
be long. They'll be rubbing out off of their be
running season. And I think last year we got our
first report of a deer rub like the middle of August.
(22:16):
We used to talk about putting deer protectors on those
tree trunks first September through late March early April the
following year, and then you can take them off. But you might,
I don't know, you might not want to take a
chance and wait too much longer to put those deer
protectors on. And if you're planting trees this fall, anything
that's three inch and smaller, although they'll go after any
(22:37):
sized tree, but especially three inch trunk diameters are smaller,
don't take your hand off the trunk of that tree
when you're planting it, and you're done planting until you
put a tree trunk protector around it. I've had folks
that have planted those on a Saturday, gonna do you know,
finish it up on Sunday, come out Sunday morning, and
a buck deer come through and scar and rub on
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every new tree they planted in their yard. It does happen.
So don't walk away from that tree until you get
a tree trunk protector to keep those buck deer from
rubbing on those, and leave it on till about first
of April. Then you can take it off, usually clear
by then, and I keep doing it until they get
some size to them, just to try to add extra
protection because a buck rub can really destroy the health
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of a tree, especially the newly planted ones. All right
back to the arning phone lines, we shall go. Mike,
good morning, Good morning, Ron. How are you, sir.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I'm doing great good. We are first year novice gardener
container gardener, so we're learning some things there. Want to
turn it out into a raised bed next year?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Question I have is we've had true green in here
for about eight years treating the areas. Is there any
precautions I need to take before we start raised beds
in those areas?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So you're gonna build, obviously build on top of the
turf where they've been treating. The chemicals that are in
the that they would use pretty light. You can check
with them to find out specifically what they're using, but
and they would be able to tell you. I think
the longevity in the soil. But otherwise I think that
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if they don't do any fall applications or at least
you mark off the areas where you're going to be
building your your beds and don't let them do the
applications there.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I've since since I started organic gardening or trying that process.
I since kicked in with the property and we are
working at other things. I have another question when we're
finished here.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All right, So they haven't done anything for the in
the last.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Year, correct, I believe you're good to go. Okay, correct,
good to go. Other thing. A couple of weeks ago,
you had a fellow on talking about micro clover lawns. Yes,
and I would like to explore that, but I haven't
found anything. I don't know if I'm finding a local
guy that makes the seed here? Did Did you have
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a local guy on there?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
No, he's Uh. Their company is I think it's Flawns
Flowering Lawns. Flawns, I believe is the name of the company.
He's out of Minnesota. I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
is where he first is where he started that business.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And if if that's not it, I will look it
up for you and give you that because I know
he just sent me in a newsletter this past week
and they were running some specials because we're getting into
that seating season and he was having some specials on
doing that. But I'm pretty sure it was called flawns.
Flawns the parts.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
That I'm not turning into garden this year. I'm want
to put that in for everything. And my father planted
this fifty years ago back here, and he put prairie
graphs and anything he could find to throw in the yard.
That was what's in here. They were on a scar
play down this year and try to get that going
with the micro loan.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh, good for you, good for you. Well, keep us posted,
and you know, when you do stuff like that, let
us know how it's turning out for you. I love
seeing pick of it as well. I mean I love
seeing what other folks are doing. So keep us posted. Yep,
thank you, all right, My good talking with you, and
a quick break. We come back, Ron, you're coming up next.
Phone lines you're open few at eight two to one
WTVN here on news radio six ' ten WTVN. So
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I'm out the other day and I've been watching this
landscape bed in front of our landscape office as this
nut set just continues to fill in. Nobody was pulling it. Out.
So I the other morning spent the time of just
I pulled my truck up there, turned on the radio
seven in the morning, and I weeded this bed. Took
me about twenty minutes. I just hand pulled it all
out of there with my soil knife. And when I
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got done, I felt great. So I look at weeding
as anger management, weed anger management, or I was felt
less stressed. I felt good about myself because it looks
so good. So when you have a hard time thinking
about I got to go out and pull those weeds,
because right now you do not want weeds getting a foothold,
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nor do you want them going to flower and setting seed,
because it just makes it a million times worse for
you next year. Get rid of them now. So as
you're out there managing by walking around right looking at
your landscape, what am I going to do for the fall?
Right now? If you've got weeds out there and the
garden in the landscape wherever it may be, now's the
time to make sure you get them taken out of there.
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Do not let them flower, do not let them throw
those seeds out there. And when you're all said and
done with your weeding and your back's a little sore
and you were sweating a little bit. But you look
back and you see this really nice cleaned up area.
It makes you pretty feel pretty darn good. And of
course if you got your saw knife with you and
you're stabbing down in there and poking these things out
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of the ground, it makes you feel pretty good too.
And that's soil knife. I'll tell you, what is one
handy thing to have when you're out walking around managing
by walking around is having your soil knife because you
can do so many different things with it. And if
you don't have a soil knife to garden with, get one,
and there's all kinds of them out there. Mine comes
from guard Gardener's Edge Am Leonard out of Pickwell, Ohio.
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It's the orange handle one. I like that one, but
there are many different ones out there, but it does work.
But I'm telling you, if you haven't a hard time
convincing yourself that you need to do some weeding, you know,
and you got to do some of it by hand,
like I had to do with this particular bed because
I couldn't spray anything in there. Just do it, have
your soil night, get it done, and you'll feel so
(28:22):
much better about yourself when it's all said and done. Ron,
thanks for holding on. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Hi, there.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
A, yes, we can.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
I have a plant, a buckeye tree about eight years
ago and it's about ten feet tall now. But every
early summer, like the first week or two July japanitie
feels attacked the top of it. And I've used traps
and I think I've used spray stuff like that, but
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they they damnaged about twenty percent of the top of
the buckeye tree. And these beetles, I think are they
don't live very long. There's just a short season for them.
But my question is there some type of netting I
can get to put over that the tree is not
real tall, or how can I send off these beetles?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Well, you know, physical barriers do help, and if you've
got to, you know, timing wise, when they're gonna when
you're starting to see them show up, you can buy
what's if you look at it now that you have
cicada netting, and the cicada nettings are real small, probably
a quarter inch netting or a little bit smaller than
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that at the opening, so they can't get through that,
and I'm hoping the beetles that would be small enough
that they couldn't get through it as well. Don't you
use anything like cheese cloth or something like that, because
you're gonna leave it on for too long of a
period of time. But you can find netting that's got
a real you know, that's a very lightweight, that's got
that real small mesh, and you could do that tarp
(30:04):
it over for a ten day two week period and
minimize the damages. Yep, And that would work. And what
I do is just keep monitoring until you see the
beetles and then as soon as you see some of
them starting to show up, take like a garden hose
before you net it over and just hose it real
quick and knock them off so they go somewhere else.
Net it over, tie it around the base of the
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tree so they can't get inside of that, and then
you should be good to go to try to spray.
It is nearly impossible, you know, I understand that the
traps the only thing that do you catch some of
the beatles in the traps?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Yes, the traps show up, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Well, the problem with that is is that give them
to the neighbor and get them as far away from
your buckeye tree as you can so that they're attracted
to the traps away from the tree rather than going
to the tree. And that's why we don't use Japanese
beetle traps as much as we used to, because we
found out in many cases it actually drew more in
(31:04):
than you would have gotten originally, so you wind up
getting more in your landscape than you would have gotten
if you had not had the Japanese beetle traps. So
you can do that, you know, if you've got a
lot of them, and they can fly in long distances.
But if you have a lot of them, you may
even want to use a grub preventter in the turf
(31:25):
to try to knock down as many grubs. You know
that they would lay eggs and have the grubs and
the turf. I don't recommend that very often, but if
you're having such a large population of such a short
period of time, that may be something to take a
look at to try to just reduce the numbers as well.
So if you use the traps, give them to the neighbors,
put them on the other side as far away as
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you can to track them away. Anytime you see them
buzzing around the tree, hose it and you'll make them
fly away. And then the physical barrier with the netting
would be a possibility for you to while it's smaller.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Anyway, Okay, the tree had I understand what you said,
get the cicada netting, and the tree has recovered. It
just looks some of the they.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Look oh yeah, you look at linden trees. I mean,
they love linden trees and they'll just shred those things
to death now and it makes you just look bad
for the rest of the year. Doesn't kill it, but
it just looks bad. But you know, again, the physical
barrier is a way to try to suppress or reduce
the amount of damages that you normally see.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
Okay, and I have a recommendation too. Yeah, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Hershey Gardens twenty five acres of a wide variety of flowers,
and they have walkways and fountains and it's just a
go to place at.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
The Hershey I've never I've never heard anybody saything about that.
Is that and that's obviously in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yeah, it's across in the theme park it's across the
road near the hotel.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Okay, Oh yeah, what's the best.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Her She's just twenty five acres of just glorious varieties
of flowers. So I just throw that in for travel.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I can live it. I could live with the other gardens.
You could. You could drop me off in there and
I could just stay there forever.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I know, Longwood. Yeah, that's an all day visit, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Oh yeah, that's why I say I could just go
in there and just camp out and stay there forever. Unbelievable. Well,
thanks for the tips. I appreciate it, all right, take care, Joey.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Good morning, Good morning. How are you can hear me?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Good?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
So I have a question. It's kind of it's two
parter about my lawn. When the house is built, they
took pretty much all the top soil off of the
yard in the back, and so I have just nothing
but clay and rock. And then when they put the
SPoD down, it was kind of a catchy job. So
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since then I have two large dogs, two big german shepherds,
and they tear the heck out of my yard. So
about probably two thirds of my yard is now mud.
And this fall I was planning on re leveling the backyard.
So that's question number one is basically the best way
to go about re leveling the yard. And then I
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was going to plant seed, and so part two is
what would be the best type of grass seed for pets,
something that will do sun shade and be sturdy enough
to withstand the the dogs.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Twofold one is as far as leveling, I'm assuming you're
just talking about ruts that were put in by the
dogs running and that type of thing. Right, Okay, are
you going if you're going to put in and if
you is there any grass left at all?
Speaker 6 (35:03):
I'm a little bit. Probably about a core of my
yard has some grass, and it's different types of grass,
so it's not all the.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Same, Okay, And I'm running out of time, so I
want to tell you this real quick. I got about
fifteen or twenty seconds. Email me and I'll get right
back to you on Monday or Tuesday, and I'll give
you Just email me and i'll give you more answers.
But you can come in there and top dress with
core air rate first, and then I would come back
and top dress with some nice shredded top soil fill
in the ruts and then you can come back and
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see it on top of that. The kicker is you
got to keep the dogs off of that for two
or three months to give that a time to root
in and get established. So you may have to do
it in sections to allow the dogs to work on
one side and on the other side. And timing wise,
you are there right now. Gotta go, Joey, email me
and I'll give you a better answer or more extended answer.
(35:52):
Thanks for everything today. Thank you Ella. You're in the
Garden with Ron Wilson on News Radio six NWTVN
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