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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I'm Ron Wilson and you are
in the garden here on news radio six ' ten WTVN,
eight two one wtv and eight hundred and six to
ten WTVN, talking about yarding little relief. Yeah, thank you, Helene. Boy,
damage is down deep on the Southern States, but up
through Atlanta and up through the North Carolinas and wow.
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But we'll take the rainfall that we got. The winds, boy,
it's a little bit unusual, but anyway, can't imagine the
high winds. I just I've never been through a hurricane before,
but I just can't imagine going through those wins and
looking at those pictures this morning on the news. Pretty crazy.
So our prayers and condolences to all the folks involved
(00:43):
with that. But we'll take the aftermath of the rain
showers moving through and trying to add a little bit
more moisture to the state of Ohio. Wow do we
need that? All? Right? What do you say we kick
off our show as we always do, with the biggy
Joe Boggs apartment would be mister Joe Boggs, Assistant Professor
Commercial Horder coach for the Ohi State University extens you
know what, you'd a part of an entomology. Always laughs
(01:04):
at me when I try to do this. Uh post
a boy for a issue extension his website byg L
dot OSU dot eedu, Ladies and gentlemen, Mister common sense.
He called himself Buggy Joe Bobs.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
What a difference a week makes?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Isn't that something?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It is truly something. I mean, you know, our good
friend colleague weather man extraordinary Ron Roth, you know, had
he sent us an email saying it was going to
take a tropical storm to break this drought. And he
was right.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
He I don't know about you, but he sent me
a text a little bit earlier this morning and said,
there's another tropical storm developing in the Gulf that'll be
showing up in another ten days.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, I'll tell you it. You're right. It's a shame
that that's so much damage, you know, was done in
Florida and Georgia. I mean, my goodness, Ashville, North Carolina.
You know, it's a I mean, that's certainly the downside
of getting a lot of rainfall from a hurricane. But
you know it is it is interesting how often exceptional drought.
(02:11):
I mean, I think something like, I don't hold me
to this, but I think that came well. Okay, so
the drought monitor came out on the US Drought Monitor
was updated this past Thursday, and of course it's updated
every Thursday, and you know, we've all been you know,
even I'm sure some of the listeners, like many folks
(02:34):
maybe wasn't even aware that this tool was out there
that would would help to quantify exactly what's happening. It's
not just dry. You know, people are paying attention to
say how dry is it? And I believe something like
thirteen percent of the state of Ohio was at exceptional
that's a zero to a four scale, you know, with
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the highest being exceptional drought. After that it's spontaneous combustion, right,
I mean, you know it's pretty much higher. And over
eight million people, well eight point five million people estimated
to have been affected. So in Ohio alone, it had
really gotten to be desperate. And I was up in
Columbus on Thursday and as I was driving up, you
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know a lot of the fields, so you had reported
that fields were already starting to be harvested, and that
really that's kind of unprecedented. I mean, how many times
have you and others myself. I mean, you look at November,
corn is still out there, you know, just simply because
it's being held to, you know, to be harvested. But no,
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the soybean fields, cornfields, they were being harvested early. Don't
know the percentage of yield, but you know, obviously it
was it was farmers were hurting.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And then I did see an article that said showed
a farmer with a normal size of your corner's hands
and then what he was harvesting right now is easily
half the size. And he was predicting like a fort
reduction in corn, you know, in corn production. Yeah, just
based on the size of the ears that they were harvesting.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, and you know, my native state of West Virginia.
You know, I almost said our native state, you did
after all? Really, I mean, you know, when you get
into apple Achia, where our roots are, we're all related, right,
I mean, yeah, yes, we are brother Yes, except for
the half build McCoy's you know, the West Virginia Kentucky
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well it just kind of doesn't matter, right, But West Virginia,
I mean, most of the state had reached exceptional and
the concern that I was having is that there are
a lot of insect pests, some of them, for example,
the bark beetles, And we kind of talked about this
already in past. I mean, we've been talking about this
(04:55):
impact for a while. But as we mentioned before, you know,
any of the our native bark beetles do not attack
native healthy trees, So let's start start there. So and
when I say bark beetles, I also lumping in Ambrosia
beetles that actually bore right into the xylum release fungus,
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and their larvae feet on the fungus. That's why we
call it Ambrosia fungi. But they attack trees that are
under stress, and that stress can be reversible. And like
I said, I mentioned this I think last week, meaning
that you know, if you have things like conifers in particular,
they can become drought stress and they can be attacked
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by bark beetles. Kind of for bark beetles, however, if
they receive water, the whole situation can reverse. So that's
kind of important to keep in mind. So you have,
you know, the major areas of Ohio where we have
forested regions, forest products industry, and West Virginia same thing.
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And we've seen this elsewhere. I mean, the droughts out west,
for example, really elevated a native pass called the western
conifer bark or western pine bark beetle, and that's where
we're seeing we've seen so many losses. It's not that
the beetle was a non native or anything like that.
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It's that it had warmed up so much out there,
coupled with, you know, an unprecedented drought, that these beetles
were then starting to destroy trees they normally wouldn't, right,
And that's the same concern that I was starting to
feel about, you know, our own our trees, not just conifers,
but hardwoods. So yeah, this this kind of you know
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this hopefully we'll start reversing that type of a risk.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Again. And can we go back to the again. You
go through the state of Ohio, even yesterday, as Hellen
is kind of making her swirl around as far north,
I up Toledo and turning back around and coming our
direction back down, you know, to the southern part of Ohio.
Central southern still areas weren't quite as heavy as other
areas because you look a look where you are in
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southwestern Ohio. Four and a half inches. You look at
Portsmouth eight inches of rainfall. I talked to Jerry Rose.
We're gonna talk to Jerry Rose, our giant pumpkin grower
who is in northeastern Ohio. He said, basically, they got
about an inch and a half.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Which is something, which is something, which is something.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But it's still amazing how much it has varied all around.
But for the most part, I think most of the
entire state has gotten something at this stage to help
break what we were into. You know, the other thing
that you were talking about the and is true with
the trees and the beetles and all go back to
the corn thing real quick. You know a lot of
times you don't think about the snowball that this that
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this has because for farmers in areas that were really
suffering because if you look at uh, let's say uh
that you you're raising cattle and you've got the past
the pastures drying up, right, yeah, so and so they
can't feed on that, and they've got their other fields
that are hay fields. And so now you are trying
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to you know, are you going to go to the
hayfield and you know, are you going to get into
your hay that you've already bailed for winter, you know,
just snowballs in the You know, it's amazing what all
this effects. And then it'll be curious to see long
term or a short term what we're going to see
out there. I mean, that's if you think about all
that farmers had to be just wringing their hands.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, and I'll tell you. And of course I see
we're about to have a break here. And I misspoke
a while ago. I called the western kind offer bark
beetles a mountain pine beetle. So the mountain pine beetle
is a native bark beetle. We'll talk a little more
about it's, you know, far reaching impacts when we come
back from the break. Howes that sound?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Ella thinks it's great that you go and take your
own breaks.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, I do not want to get on her bad side.
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No, you do not.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes, yes, she controls the mute button and I know that,
Yes she does.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
She controls everything. Here talking with Buggy Joe bogs here
on New Radio six to ten w TVN. I think
Buggies Joe Boggs used to, Uh, didn you your lip
sing to this?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I did I tell you I'm up dancing. You know,
I just can't help it. I like Van Morrison, I do.
I mean, you know, we need to shop around for
a theme song. What do you think I mean that
for me? That's in the running.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Theme song for what for?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
For the bugget Joe bob oh for bugget Joe botom
of something.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, I thought you always wanted the marching band? Oh
isue Marching Band?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Well? Yeah, but I could get in trouble for that, right,
I mean, you know they'll say, no, we don't want
to be connected to that guy. I mean, but you know,
back to the drought and the breaking of the drought
and so and so forth. You're exactly right. It is
amazing the ripple effect, you know, mentioning that okay, yes,
corn pasturing, you know, all these things connect, you know,
(10:14):
down the pipeline to you know, the price of beef.
You know, the price of meat, the price of different
things that the price of milk. If your pastures are
being destroyed, you can't you know, make hay when the sunshines.
How do you like that? But the same thing holds
true again, back to forest products and the mountain pine
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beetle was is still pretty devastating out west and has
caused a considerable mental loss of conifers that would have
been converted into lumber. So when we look at, you know,
our climate changing, we look at things changing for the future,
and you know, what does it hold, Well, a lot
of things are unpredictable, quite frankly, you know, this whole
(10:57):
effect on our food and fiber and so on. It
is a bit unpredictable. But we can get glimpses of it,
can't we. In this particular case, thankfully, the drought was
possibly broken. And I'm saying that very deliberately because one
thing that you and I talked about before regarding this drought.
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If you're in an area which a lot of Ohio
is a lot of the Greater Columbus areas like this,
where you have very heavy clay soils or soils that
are high in clay content, they may not be you know,
classified as being you know, clay soils. They might be
you know, silky clay something like that. But does clay
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particles they're they're classified based on particle size, and the
particles are extremely small. You know, they feel like flour
in your fingers, and a lot of times people say, well,
that's actually silt joe, And that's true until you wet
the clay and it gets sticky. But you have to
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visualize those clay particles are our laminates. And so when
we think of laminated wood, we think of things like plywood.
So you look at the edge of a plywood sheet,
you'll see their layers right right top fee each other,
laminated together. Well, a clay part exactly like that, and
in between those laminates, in between those different sheets, you
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have what we call negatively charged sites. So these little
what I you know, just visualize like their little chairs
and are negatively charged. Well, water has one end that's
positively charged on the molecule, So that's how clay holds
more water compared to sand. But when the water infiltrates
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between those laminates, it causes the laminations to separate a
little bit and and ron this is this is really
on the molecular level, because we're talking about a water
molecule H two oh, you know, single atom of oxygen
two of hydrogen. At that molecular level, that separation of
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the laminate is so powerful that it can crack concrete,
It can crack walls of basements, right, and it's you know,
to me, I've always found that fascinating. It's, you know,
same thing with ice when it expands, when it freezes.
You know, we know that can exert tremendous pressure. You
can't get past physics. Right.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
So in areas where there's heavy clay in our and
you know my area of Ohio where we have a
lot of clay, my own landscaping, I mean, there were
cracks in the soil because the laminates had had gone
back together, they had squished stuck together because there's no
water between them. And then that leads to the cracks
that we see in clay soil. And I'll play your
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on there were some cracks that were approaching an inch wide.
We had a little Yorkshire terrier one time, and if
you were still alive, I would be worried about losing
in these cracks. The rainfall that we started getting their
very heavy rainfall.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
My wife and I kind of measure how heavy a
rain event is because between our yard and the next
yard in the back of the house there's a bit
of a swale and it can run like a like
a little creek between the two properties. There was nothing,
I mean as hard a rain as we got there
was nothing running off, and so yeah, you know, a
(14:27):
little side note. It always I always have a problem,
you know when people are reporting this and saying, well,
you know, heavy rains don't help after drought because they
just run off, and that's not true. In clay soils.
They run into cracks and that is the first place
in drought recovery to get that soil to expand back
so then we can start seeing infiltration. And we certainly
(14:52):
achieved that. So what I'm seeing today, for example, the
continuance of rain, and now this is going to be
rely beneficial because we've got you know, the water isn't
just going into cracks in the soil. Now it's starting
to be able to infiltrate. And yes, if we had
two inches in an hour because the cracks have closed up,
(15:14):
you know, water could run off, right, But we're kind
of we're experiencing, in my opinion, you know, just kind
of the best type of recovery. If it were hot
and dry today, well you know, we would have closed
the soil cracks, we would have had some infiltration through that.
It would have benefited things, no doubt, but long term
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we would still be concerned, and so I'm happy today
we're starting to see you know, just a little more drizzle,
a little more you know, slow amounts of water. And
I think it's supposed to go into to Monday, is
that right? Yeah, yeah, we'll take it. So we yes,
(15:57):
we did, we will because I think I think long term,
hopefully we dodged a bullet. That's where I'm heading with this. Hopefully,
you know, we won't start seeing, you know, one two
three years down the road with trees starting to have
real problems in our forested areas. I can't say that's true.
I mean, you got very you know, the exceptional drought
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area got very bad. We no doubt had root injury.
But uh, but we'll have to see it's gonna be.
But at least at least I feel better about it now, right,
And I know you do too.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, good old mother Nature. Just when you are not
ready to call it, you know, saying I'm not going
to make it, she said, somehow happens to come through.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Came through. We were able to enjoy Petrick Orer like
it's been a long time.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Did you enjoy that, Petrick Corr, by the way.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I really enjoyed it. Well, We got a little bit,
you know, with Patric Corr last Monday. Yeah, and of
course you know yesterday it was just I mean, Petrick
core is just flying up our noses.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, those of the day. That's the word of the day.
That's the word of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
That you introduced me to that a few years ago
and I've loved it ever since. So so one time off,
you're going to have to tell people, you know, exactly
what is petre. It's a well, okay, that's scent. Oh well, okay,
I'll let.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You do that, all right, Well the lift we will.
We'll do that because we've got Jerry Rose coming up next,
who's going to talk about giant pumpkins. That's what you
need to do sometime there you go grow a giant pumpkins.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yes, that would be I'd just like to look at him.
That's a heck of a thing.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's yeah, real process. Joe, always a pleasure. Appreciate the information.
The chemistry class was outstanding and uh, we appreciate that.
And we'll talk to you next Saturday.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Hey, have a great week, Go Bucks, Go Bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Thanks Joe, Bye bye, quick break. We come back. We
will talk with Jerry Rose. Our giant pumpkin grower. So
how did it all turn out? Because right now the
national way ends are starting around the country. Got some
results all ready. We'll see what's happening based on what
Jerry's steeing out there after the break here on news
Radio six to ten WTVN talking to your areading hero
(18:13):
on news Radio six y ten wtv and and of
course throughout the entire growing season, we've had stayed in touch.
We have stayed in touch with our professional giant pumpkin grower,
Jerry Rose, and he's kind of given us an update
is how we've gone through the season before we went
into this heat and draft, kind of give us an
update at that point. Well, now it's all done, but
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the shouting because it's right around the corner here. Well,
actually some of the wayoffs have already started and he's
been participating in those somewhat around the area. We'll find
out how does the giant pumpkin situation look because we've
got him online with us this morning. Jerry Rose, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How you doing.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I'm doing good. Good to have you on it. By
the way, to put the website you want to go
to is big Pumpkins dot Com. So it's all done.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Hey, first thing you tell Buggie Joe's I'll start start
him a couple of plants next spring, and I expect
him to grow.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You know, Okay, I'll do that. We'll see if you'll
do it or not. I doubt it though he's you know,
he's right. He likes going and looking rather than the
growing himself. God, so you've walked us through the entire
growing season looking pretty good last time we spoke. Now
it's all over but the shouting. So it's the matter
of maintaining and getting these things to the pumpkin way
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offs and again. Folks can check this out through the
entire process here at Big Pumpkins dot com. And I
know you've already been out there, So what what are
you seeing? What's happening out there with giant pumpkins right now?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
The shows have started. The biggest has been twenty twenty
six hundred something by the patents over and over in England,
and I think the biggest in the US is twenty
four hundred something. But the bigger shows are starting basically
this weekend next weekend, in the weekend after when the
is there gonna be a world record, that's when it's
going to be in the next two or three weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So if there is a world record and you're saying
twenty six hundred pounds overseas twenty four to fifty seven,
I think that was in New Hampshire, I'm if I'm
not mistaken, So that's not too bad. But the world
record so far that like twenty seven twenty.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Seven fifty two.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, and that was was that last year or two
years ago?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
That was last year, and that's that same fella put
a picture on Facebook the other day of his this
year and you know it's hard to say, but boy,
it looks just as big this year as it did
last year.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
He's out of Minnesota. Yeah, and he usually saves that
to the Half Moon Bay.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, if he thinks he can win that because they,
oh geez, I think it's seventeen dollars a pound his
first prize or something like that. So, yeah, he won
like thirty one thousand dollars at that pumpkin last year.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Wow, unbelievable. Talking with Jerry Rose talking about those a
giant pumpkins. So I think you you've already done one.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yes, Yeah, we took the Kentucky at twelve hundred pounder
last weekend. I called that my little throwaway, but I
was actually doing a trying to do a competition. They
call it for people that don't have a lot of
room or don't you know, it's called one hundred and
fifty square foot contest. You're not supposed to let your
pumpkin get any bigger than a one hundred and fifty
square foot, which is ten by fifteen. And I'll tell
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you what it doesn't It doesn't sound like much, but
growing a pumpkin and a ten a giant pumpkin that
can be five foot by five foot itself and one
hundred and fifty square foot is tough. And I ended
up disqualifying myself because my plan ended up planning ended
up being probably two hundred and fifty to three hundred
square foot, and I ended up taking that one. And
of course Jerry, my boy, took one two. Mine was
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a little over twelve hundred and it was right around
eleven fifty and yeah, we took him down to Kentucky
along with my giant tomato I had that was just
just a little undred seven pounds for my giant tomato.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, you heard him right, just a little bit under
seven pounds for his giant tomato. By the way, speaking
of the giant tomato, because I know you do the tomatoes,
you do the pumpkins, you do the field pumpkins, you.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Do the sunflowers, sunflower tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, when you're growing that giant tomato like that, and twofold,
what is the what is the It used to be
big Zach all the time? Was the one was used
out there? And what is the Domingo?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah, Domingo, which it's all it's just like the giant
pumpkins are Atlantic giants, they're the Domingo line. But like mine,
we're out of a fella from Washington State. He had
over ten pounder last year, and my big one the
other day was out of his eight and a half pounder.
I had one of his big one out of his
ten pounder. So we all had the same way, you know,
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I mean, if you want a couple of my seeds,
we'll trade a few of my seeds for a few
year seeds and uh. And then the one I had
the other day was actually out of my own six
point five pounder from a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Is that a tomato?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You eat well like they're you're supposed to be able to.
Like I said, I got a couple out there that
are two or three pounds, and we might try slicing
them up, and you know it might have to I
think even on a two or three pounder to only
take about a quarter of a slife to slice to
cover a piece of piece of bread.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, that's a pretty good sized tomato, no doubt about it.
So if you don't eat those, tell everybody, because I
know what the answer to this is, what is your
best eating tomato that you grow in your garden?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
And I can't tell much of a difference.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It's either the Man Orange or the Kellogg's Breakfast. And
I said, I heard it from this guy on the
radio show a few years ago about these things, and
I started growing. Can't find them around you know it's funny,
I'll tell you, you couldn't find them around here. So
I ordered my own seeds. I gave an Amish lady
that I do some dealing. She's got a greenhouse and
some plants a couple of years ago, and now she's
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starting to grow a few of the plants in her
greenhouse to sell to people and all of a sudden,
now the amage around here, a lot of them are
starting to grow them because they really really like them.
So it might be something that our greenhouse start carrying
around here now.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, well and again people ask for him and if
folks will start growing them, and you're you are seeing
them more and more as far as being available. But
that was a fun when they get those going, and
they truly are you can't tell the difference between the two.
I mean, they're so darn close. But uh, you send
me a picture the other day of the two five
gallon buckets you were packed with those things. And those
are pretty good size.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, I mean I've had them up to like a
two to two and a half pounder on them, and
I think I told you you know, my wife does
a spaghetti sauce and and I grow the celebrities, which
I really love. Is just my all around just maybe
best tomato you can grow. And so'll do like a
three two thirds to three quarters celebrity two about a
third of the a man orange and tell Oggs breakfast
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mixed in her spaghetti sauce and it's like a semi
sweet sauce already. Whenever you when you eat it, and
actually I just I love it.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You can be and I'm talking with Jerry Rose. Here
is our professional giant pumpkin grower. If you want to
check all this out, what's going on over the next
several weeks, it's big Pumpkins dot Com for all the
wayoffs tomatoes and the pumpkins and the gors and all
of that stuff. Let's take a quick break, we come
back a couple questions for Jerry and we'll find out
where he stands on what pumpkins he has left, and
where he's going to because I think you might be
(25:14):
able to see him October thirteenth at Oakland in Dublin
for that National way Off coming up after the break
here on news radio six to ten WTVN. I just
want you to know you picked one of Jerry Rose's
most favorite songs. As a matter of fact, Jerry, I
think we played this when they brought your pumpkin out
of Oakland last year.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Right, I'm trying to hear it.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Talking with Jerry Rose, he is our giant pumpkin grower.
And of course, if you want to keep up with
all of this that's going on over the next few
weeks go to big Pumpkins dot com. So how many
pumpkins did you wind up having to take out to
the shows to the way offs.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Well, I've lost three.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
The latest one was just Wednesday. I've taken one to
Canfield Fair at sixteen sixty seven and I got two
left out there that look good right now, but we'll
see how they look in two weeks from not one
I loft on Wednesday. I thought was good until I
picked it up and it had a soft spot in
the bottom, and so it was no good. Can't have
(26:15):
You can have up to a three by three by
three soft spot and that's it. Mine was probably six
probably six inches long by three inches by three inches,
so it was two big.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
So what do you do with something like that?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I got a customer that only needs it for a
few hours. They're going to destroy it and I'm hoping
it will make it through for a few more days
and they can have it for that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Got it? So you're and you don't try to save
the seeds from that or anything.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I don't believe. So, no, there wouldn't be nothing. I
would plant and tried. Nobody else would. If I do
happen to be able to get a few seeds out
of it. If I get people that sometimes just want
some seeds to try to grow or something like that,
that's what I would end up doing with them.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So as you're looking out there right now, and of
course you get a good feel for what's going on
all across the country, there are you know, does houses look?
I mean, we got a chance for another world record
this year.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
I mean, it's that's possible, whether you know. I mean
he used to be a thousand pounds of the Holy Grail,
then a ton, you know, then twenty five hundred, and
now it's three thousand, you know, or over twenty seven
to fifty. So that's you know, whether we have a
three thousand pounder, I don't know if we do or not,
but I mean there's some out there that got the
measurements to be, uh, you know, over twenty seven to fifty.
(27:29):
So I think the best grower that's within our area
is Dave Steltz, which he'll have a big one at
Oakland as long as as long as it holds up.
I've seen him last week, and I know how big
mine are and minor are the biggest I've ever had
and his we're bigger than mine just looking at him,
you know, visually, So he'll be interesting to see what
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they got. That Grower of the Year where he gets
you three. There's a grower of the Year in all categories, pumpkins, tomatoes,
feel pumpkins, goreds, all that, and he's hoping for that
Grower of the Year award. That's a pretty big prestigious
award get there's a little bit of prize money, but
you get a nice jacket and all that kind of
stuff and recognition amongst all your peers.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Well, if you'd like to meet Jerry Rose, see his pumpkin,
and see the Stelts pumpkin and all of the big
ones coming to Oakland, that's coming up on Sunday, October
the thirteenth. It usually starts around one thirty and you
can meet Jerry. And Jerry always were kind. He's kind
enough to stand up there with me and help mc
this thing, and it always throws out a lot of
great information for folks to enjoy as well. And of
(28:31):
course he is the only pumpkin girl that we know
that actually sleeps with his pumpkins. So I'm gonna I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Bring that up as well for a raisis.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I'm gonna havesk Sandy for a rasis here for my.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
MC duties, for your MC duties.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, I'm a after for a raise. And one other
thing I said on that Sunday, if if you're not
doing nothing else, that's gonna be a guaranteed seventy and
sunny degree day because Paul must know somebody upstairs because
he always has beautiful weather that day.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Isn't that amazing? I mean, it can be cloudy all
the way around us, but for some reason, the sun
seems to just shine right there.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So there you go, so check it out. It's going
to coming up again. Sunday, October thirteenth, usually starts around
one thirty. Get there a little bit early so you
can walk through and see all the different pumpkins. You
get to meet Jerry Rose. We'll find out what goes there.
As far as the biggest one, don't forget he his
roilways are sixteen hundred pounds, so you can guarantee it's
gonna have something a little bit bigger than that. Jerry,
(29:28):
always a pleasure. We appreciate you keeping us updated throughout
the season, and I look forward to seeing the big
competition at Oakland on October thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All right, Ron, we'll see you that, all right, take.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Care Jerry Rose from Huntsburg, Ohio, and again he's already
done a few and you can go through a seriously
go to Big Pumpkins dot dot com. They have all
the different categories, tomatoes, pumpkins, the sunflower. Everything gets measured
and officially is posted there for you so you can
go and follow along as we go along. And of
(30:01):
course everything happens at Oakland on the thirteenth, we'll be
posted there for you as well, so be sure and
check it out. And Jerry'll be there and he's always
a lot of fun to talk to, and all the
giant pumpkin growers. If you've never done this before and
you'd like to learn how to do it, you'll find
that there's a lot of folks that are there for
the first time. They're all willing to share their information
with you, So be sure and show up and bring
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your questions and have a good time. And the weather
knock on Wood has always been very good for this event,
so we look forward to seeing you there on again.
It's October the thirteenth at the Oakland Nursery in Dublin.
All right, we're gonna take a break at the top
of the hour here. Coming up at the top of
the hour. After the break, we're gonna talk about flowering lawns.
(30:46):
A flawn Have you considered doing that? I know a
lot of folks are looking at that micro clover. We
get even take it a step further and actually have
a flowering lawn, maybe just in the backyard, maybe not
in the front yard. We're gonna learn more about flawns
coming up next with the folks from the Flawn Company. Uh.
Lots of great information and of course sharing tips with
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you as well, and taking your calls after we get
done with that little interview. It's all happening here on
the home of the best Buckeye coverage, News Radio six
' ten WTVN.
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I'm Ron Wilson and you are
in the garden here on news radio six ' ten WTVN,
eight two one wtv and eight hundred and six to
ten WTVN, talking about yarding little relief. Yeah, thank you, Helene. Boy,
damage is down deep on the Southern States, but up
through Atlanta and up through the North Carolinas and wow.
(00:22):
But we'll take the rainfall that we got. The winds, boy,
it's a little bit unusual, but anyway, can't imagine the
high winds. I just I've never been through a hurricane before,
but I just can't imagine going through those wins and
looking at those pictures this morning on the news. Pretty crazy.
So our prayers and condolences to all the folks involved
(00:43):
with that. But we'll take the aftermath of the rain
showers moving through and trying to add a little bit
more moisture to the state of Ohio. Wow do we
need that? All? Right? What do you say we kick
off our show as we always do, with the biggy
Joe Boggs apartment would be mister Joe Boggs, Assistant Professor
Commercial Horder coach for the Ohi State University extens you
know what, you'd a part of an entomology. Always laughs
(01:04):
at me when I try to do this. Uh post
a boy for a issue extension his website byg L
dot OSU dot eedu, Ladies and gentlemen, Mister common sense.
He called himself Buggy Joe Bobs.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
What a difference a week makes?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Isn't that something?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It is truly something. I mean, you know, our good
friend colleague weather man extraordinary Ron Roth, you know, had
he sent us an email saying it was going to
take a tropical storm to break this drought. And he
was right.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
He I don't know about you, but he sent me
a text a little bit earlier this morning and said,
there's another tropical storm developing in the Gulf that'll be
showing up in another ten days.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, I'll tell you it. You're right. It's a shame
that that's so much damage, you know, was done in
Florida and Georgia. I mean, my goodness, Ashville, North Carolina.
You know, it's a I mean, that's certainly the downside
of getting a lot of rainfall from a hurricane. But
you know it is it is interesting how often exceptional drought.
(02:11):
I mean, I think something like, I don't hold me
to this, but I think that came well. Okay, so
the drought monitor came out on the US Drought Monitor
was updated this past Thursday, and of course it's updated
every Thursday, and you know, we've all been you know,
even I'm sure some of the listeners, like many folks
(02:34):
maybe wasn't even aware that this tool was out there
that would would help to quantify exactly what's happening. It's
not just dry. You know, people are paying attention to
say how dry is it? And I believe something like
thirteen percent of the state of Ohio was at exceptional
that's a zero to a four scale, you know, with
(02:58):
the highest being exceptional drought. After that it's spontaneous combustion, right,
I mean, you know it's pretty much higher. And over
eight million people, well eight point five million people estimated
to have been affected. So in Ohio alone, it had
really gotten to be desperate. And I was up in
Columbus on Thursday and as I was driving up, you
(03:22):
know a lot of the fields, so you had reported
that fields were already starting to be harvested, and that
really that's kind of unprecedented. I mean, how many times
have you and others myself. I mean, you look at November,
corn is still out there, you know, just simply because
it's being held to, you know, to be harvested. But no,
(03:43):
the soybean fields, cornfields, they were being harvested early. Don't
know the percentage of yield, but you know, obviously it
was it was farmers were hurting.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And then I did see an article that said showed
a farmer with a normal size of your corner's hands
and then what he was harvesting right now is easily
half the size. And he was predicting like a fort
reduction in corn, you know, in corn production. Yeah, just
based on the size of the ears that they were harvesting.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, and you know, my native state of West Virginia.
You know, I almost said our native state, you did
after all? Really, I mean, you know, when you get
into apple Achia, where our roots are, we're all related, right,
I mean, yeah, yes, we are brother Yes, except for
the half build McCoy's you know, the West Virginia Kentucky
(04:35):
well it just kind of doesn't matter, right, But West Virginia,
I mean, most of the state had reached exceptional and
the concern that I was having is that there are
a lot of insect pests, some of them, for example,
the bark beetles, And we kind of talked about this
already in past. I mean, we've been talking about this
(04:55):
impact for a while. But as we mentioned before, you know,
any of the our native bark beetles do not attack
native healthy trees, So let's start start there. So and
when I say bark beetles, I also lumping in Ambrosia
beetles that actually bore right into the xylum release fungus,
(05:16):
and their larvae feet on the fungus. That's why we
call it Ambrosia fungi. But they attack trees that are
under stress, and that stress can be reversible. And like
I said, I mentioned this I think last week, meaning
that you know, if you have things like conifers in particular,
they can become drought stress and they can be attacked
(05:39):
by bark beetles. Kind of for bark beetles, however, if
they receive water, the whole situation can reverse. So that's
kind of important to keep in mind. So you have,
you know, the major areas of Ohio where we have
forested regions, forest products industry, and West Virginia same thing.
(06:00):
And we've seen this elsewhere. I mean, the droughts out west,
for example, really elevated a native pass called the western
conifer bark or western pine bark beetle, and that's where
we're seeing we've seen so many losses. It's not that
the beetle was a non native or anything like that.
(06:24):
It's that it had warmed up so much out there,
coupled with, you know, an unprecedented drought, that these beetles
were then starting to destroy trees they normally wouldn't, right,
And that's the same concern that I was starting to
feel about, you know, our own our trees, not just conifers,
but hardwoods. So yeah, this this kind of you know
(06:47):
this hopefully we'll start reversing that type of a risk.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Again. And can we go back to the again. You
go through the state of Ohio, even yesterday, as Hellen
is kind of making her swirl around as far north,
I up Toledo and turning back around and coming our
direction back down, you know, to the southern part of Ohio.
Central southern still areas weren't quite as heavy as other
areas because you look a look where you are in
(07:16):
southwestern Ohio. Four and a half inches. You look at
Portsmouth eight inches of rainfall. I talked to Jerry Rose.
We're gonna talk to Jerry Rose, our giant pumpkin grower
who is in northeastern Ohio. He said, basically, they got
about an inch and a half.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Which is something, which is something, which is something.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
But it's still amazing how much it has varied all around.
But for the most part, I think most of the
entire state has gotten something at this stage to help
break what we were into. You know, the other thing
that you were talking about the and is true with
the trees and the beetles and all go back to
the corn thing real quick. You know a lot of
times you don't think about the snowball that this that
(07:57):
this has because for farmers in areas that were really
suffering because if you look at uh, let's say uh
that you you're raising cattle and you've got the past
the pastures drying up, right, yeah, so and so they
can't feed on that, and they've got their other fields
that are hay fields. And so now you are trying
(08:19):
to you know, are you going to go to the
hayfield and you know, are you going to get into
your hay that you've already bailed for winter, you know,
just snowballs in the You know, it's amazing what all
this effects. And then it'll be curious to see long
term or a short term what we're going to see
out there. I mean, that's if you think about all
that farmers had to be just wringing their hands.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, and I'll tell you. And of course I see
we're about to have a break here. And I misspoke
a while ago. I called the western kind offer bark
beetles a mountain pine beetle. So the mountain pine beetle
is a native bark beetle. We'll talk a little more
about it's, you know, far reaching impacts when we come
back from the break. Howes that sound?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Ella thinks it's great that you go and take your
own breaks.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well, I do not want to get on her bad side.
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No, you do not.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yes, yes, she controls the mute button and I know that,
Yes she does.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
She controls everything. Here talking with Buggy Joe bogs here
on New Radio six to ten w TVN. I think
Buggies Joe Boggs used to, Uh, didn you your lip
sing to this?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I did I tell you I'm up dancing. You know,
I just can't help it. I like Van Morrison, I do.
I mean, you know, we need to shop around for
a theme song. What do you think I mean that
for me? That's in the running.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Theme song for what for?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
For the bugget Joe bob oh for bugget Joe botom
of something.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, I thought you always wanted the marching band? Oh
isue Marching Band?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Well? Yeah, but I could get in trouble for that, right,
I mean, you know they'll say, no, we don't want
to be connected to that guy. I mean, but you know,
back to the drought and the breaking of the drought
and so and so forth. You're exactly right. It is
amazing the ripple effect, you know, mentioning that okay, yes,
corn pasturing, you know, all these things connect, you know,
(10:14):
down the pipeline to you know, the price of beef.
You know, the price of meat, the price of different
things that the price of milk. If your pastures are
being destroyed, you can't you know, make hay when the sunshines.
How do you like that? But the same thing holds
true again, back to forest products and the mountain pine
(10:35):
beetle was is still pretty devastating out west and has
caused a considerable mental loss of conifers that would have
been converted into lumber. So when we look at, you know,
our climate changing, we look at things changing for the future,
and you know, what does it hold, Well, a lot
of things are unpredictable, quite frankly, you know, this whole
(10:57):
effect on our food and fiber and so on. It
is a bit unpredictable. But we can get glimpses of it,
can't we. In this particular case, thankfully, the drought was
possibly broken. And I'm saying that very deliberately because one
thing that you and I talked about before regarding this drought.
(11:18):
If you're in an area which a lot of Ohio
is a lot of the Greater Columbus areas like this,
where you have very heavy clay soils or soils that
are high in clay content, they may not be you know,
classified as being you know, clay soils. They might be
you know, silky clay something like that. But does clay
(11:40):
particles they're they're classified based on particle size, and the
particles are extremely small. You know, they feel like flour
in your fingers, and a lot of times people say, well,
that's actually silt joe, And that's true until you wet
the clay and it gets sticky. But you have to
(12:02):
visualize those clay particles are our laminates. And so when
we think of laminated wood, we think of things like plywood.
So you look at the edge of a plywood sheet,
you'll see their layers right right top fee each other,
laminated together. Well, a clay part exactly like that, and
in between those laminates, in between those different sheets, you
(12:26):
have what we call negatively charged sites. So these little
what I you know, just visualize like their little chairs
and are negatively charged. Well, water has one end that's
positively charged on the molecule, So that's how clay holds
more water compared to sand. But when the water infiltrates
(12:48):
between those laminates, it causes the laminations to separate a
little bit and and ron this is this is really
on the molecular level, because we're talking about a water
molecule H two oh, you know, single atom of oxygen
two of hydrogen. At that molecular level, that separation of
(13:09):
the laminate is so powerful that it can crack concrete,
It can crack walls of basements, right, and it's you know,
to me, I've always found that fascinating. It's, you know,
same thing with ice when it expands, when it freezes.
You know, we know that can exert tremendous pressure. You
can't get past physics. Right.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
So in areas where there's heavy clay in our and
you know my area of Ohio where we have a
lot of clay, my own landscaping, I mean, there were
cracks in the soil because the laminates had had gone
back together, they had squished stuck together because there's no
water between them. And then that leads to the cracks
that we see in clay soil. And I'll play your
(13:52):
on there were some cracks that were approaching an inch wide.
We had a little Yorkshire terrier one time, and if
you were still alive, I would be worried about losing
in these cracks. The rainfall that we started getting their
very heavy rainfall.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
My wife and I kind of measure how heavy a
rain event is because between our yard and the next
yard in the back of the house there's a bit
of a swale and it can run like a like
a little creek between the two properties. There was nothing,
I mean as hard a rain as we got there
was nothing running off, and so yeah, you know, a
(14:27):
little side note. It always I always have a problem,
you know when people are reporting this and saying, well,
you know, heavy rains don't help after drought because they
just run off, and that's not true. In clay soils.
They run into cracks and that is the first place
in drought recovery to get that soil to expand back
so then we can start seeing infiltration. And we certainly
(14:52):
achieved that. So what I'm seeing today, for example, the
continuance of rain, and now this is going to be
rely beneficial because we've got you know, the water isn't
just going into cracks in the soil. Now it's starting
to be able to infiltrate. And yes, if we had
two inches in an hour because the cracks have closed up,
(15:14):
you know, water could run off, right, But we're kind
of we're experiencing, in my opinion, you know, just kind
of the best type of recovery. If it were hot
and dry today, well you know, we would have closed
the soil cracks, we would have had some infiltration through that.
It would have benefited things, no doubt, but long term
(15:35):
we would still be concerned, and so I'm happy today
we're starting to see you know, just a little more drizzle,
a little more you know, slow amounts of water. And
I think it's supposed to go into to Monday, is
that right? Yeah, yeah, we'll take it. So we yes,
(15:57):
we did, we will because I think I think long term,
hopefully we dodged a bullet. That's where I'm heading with this. Hopefully,
you know, we won't start seeing, you know, one two
three years down the road with trees starting to have
real problems in our forested areas. I can't say that's true.
I mean, you got very you know, the exceptional drought
(16:18):
area got very bad. We no doubt had root injury.
But uh, but we'll have to see it's gonna be.
But at least at least I feel better about it now, right,
And I know you do too.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, good old mother Nature. Just when you are not
ready to call it, you know, saying I'm not going
to make it, she said, somehow happens to come through.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Came through. We were able to enjoy Petrick Orer like
it's been a long time.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Did you enjoy that, Petrick Corr, by the way.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I really enjoyed it. Well, We got a little bit,
you know, with Patric Corr last Monday. Yeah, and of
course you know yesterday it was just I mean, Petrick
core is just flying up our noses.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, those of the day. That's the word of the day.
That's the word of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
That you introduced me to that a few years ago
and I've loved it ever since. So so one time off,
you're going to have to tell people, you know, exactly
what is petre. It's a well, okay, that's scent. Oh well, okay,
I'll let.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You do that, all right, Well the lift we will.
We'll do that because we've got Jerry Rose coming up next,
who's going to talk about giant pumpkins. That's what you
need to do sometime there you go grow a giant pumpkins.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yes, that would be I'd just like to look at him.
That's a heck of a thing.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's yeah, real process. Joe, always a pleasure. Appreciate the information.
The chemistry class was outstanding and uh, we appreciate that.
And we'll talk to you next Saturday.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Hey, have a great week, Go Bucks, Go Bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Thanks Joe, Bye bye, quick break. We come back. We
will talk with Jerry Rose. Our giant pumpkin grower. So
how did it all turn out? Because right now the
national way ends are starting around the country. Got some
results all ready. We'll see what's happening based on what
Jerry's steeing out there after the break here on news
Radio six to ten WTVN talking to your areading hero
(18:13):
on news Radio six y ten wtv and and of
course throughout the entire growing season, we've had stayed in touch.
We have stayed in touch with our professional giant pumpkin grower,
Jerry Rose, and he's kind of given us an update
is how we've gone through the season before we went
into this heat and draft, kind of give us an
update at that point. Well, now it's all done, but
(18:35):
the shouting because it's right around the corner here. Well,
actually some of the wayoffs have already started and he's
been participating in those somewhat around the area. We'll find
out how does the giant pumpkin situation look because we've
got him online with us this morning. Jerry Rose, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How you doing.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I'm doing good. Good to have you on it. By
the way, to put the website you want to go
to is big Pumpkins dot Com. So it's all done.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Hey, first thing you tell Buggie Joe's I'll start start
him a couple of plants next spring, and I expect
him to grow.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You know, Okay, I'll do that. We'll see if you'll
do it or not. I doubt it though he's you know,
he's right. He likes going and looking rather than the
growing himself. God, so you've walked us through the entire
growing season looking pretty good last time we spoke. Now
it's all over but the shouting. So it's the matter
of maintaining and getting these things to the pumpkin way
(19:31):
offs and again. Folks can check this out through the
entire process here at Big Pumpkins dot com. And I
know you've already been out there, So what what are
you seeing? What's happening out there with giant pumpkins right now?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
The shows have started. The biggest has been twenty twenty
six hundred something by the patents over and over in England,
and I think the biggest in the US is twenty
four hundred something. But the bigger shows are starting basically
this weekend next weekend, in the weekend after when the
is there gonna be a world record, that's when it's
going to be in the next two or three weeks.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So if there is a world record and you're saying
twenty six hundred pounds overseas twenty four to fifty seven,
I think that was in New Hampshire, I'm if I'm
not mistaken, So that's not too bad. But the world
record so far that like twenty seven twenty.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Seven fifty two.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, and that was was that last year or two
years ago?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
That was last year, and that's that same fella put
a picture on Facebook the other day of his this
year and you know it's hard to say, but boy,
it looks just as big this year as it did
last year.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
He's out of Minnesota. Yeah, and he usually saves that
to the Half Moon Bay.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, if he thinks he can win that because they,
oh geez, I think it's seventeen dollars a pound his
first prize or something like that. So, yeah, he won
like thirty one thousand dollars at that pumpkin last year.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Wow, unbelievable. Talking with Jerry Rose talking about those a
giant pumpkins. So I think you you've already done one.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Yes, Yeah, we took the Kentucky at twelve hundred pounder
last weekend. I called that my little throwaway, but I
was actually doing a trying to do a competition. They
call it for people that don't have a lot of
room or don't you know, it's called one hundred and
fifty square foot contest. You're not supposed to let your
pumpkin get any bigger than a one hundred and fifty
square foot, which is ten by fifteen. And I'll tell
(21:24):
you what it doesn't It doesn't sound like much, but
growing a pumpkin and a ten a giant pumpkin that
can be five foot by five foot itself and one
hundred and fifty square foot is tough. And I ended
up disqualifying myself because my plan ended up planning ended
up being probably two hundred and fifty to three hundred
square foot, and I ended up taking that one. And
of course Jerry, my boy, took one two. Mine was
(21:46):
a little over twelve hundred and it was right around
eleven fifty and yeah, we took him down to Kentucky
along with my giant tomato I had that was just
just a little undred seven pounds for my giant tomato.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, you heard him right, just a little bit under
seven pounds for his giant tomato. By the way, speaking
of the giant tomato, because I know you do the tomatoes,
you do the pumpkins, you do the field pumpkins, you.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Do the sunflowers, sunflower tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, when you're growing that giant tomato like that, and twofold,
what is the what is the It used to be
big Zach all the time? Was the one was used
out there? And what is the Domingo?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah, Domingo, which it's all it's just like the giant
pumpkins are Atlantic giants, they're the Domingo line. But like mine,
we're out of a fella from Washington State. He had
over ten pounder last year, and my big one the
other day was out of his eight and a half pounder.
I had one of his big one out of his
ten pounder. So we all had the same way, you know,
(22:44):
I mean, if you want a couple of my seeds,
we'll trade a few of my seeds for a few
year seeds and uh. And then the one I had
the other day was actually out of my own six
point five pounder from a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Is that a tomato?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You eat well like they're you're supposed to be able to.
Like I said, I got a couple out there that
are two or three pounds, and we might try slicing
them up, and you know it might have to I
think even on a two or three pounder to only
take about a quarter of a slife to slice to
cover a piece of piece of bread.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, that's a pretty good sized tomato, no doubt about it.
So if you don't eat those, tell everybody, because I
know what the answer to this is, what is your
best eating tomato that you grow in your garden?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
And I can't tell much of a difference.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It's either the Man Orange or the Kellogg's Breakfast. And
I said, I heard it from this guy on the
radio show a few years ago about these things, and
I started growing. Can't find them around you know it's funny,
I'll tell you, you couldn't find them around here. So
I ordered my own seeds. I gave an Amish lady
that I do some dealing. She's got a greenhouse and
some plants a couple of years ago, and now she's
(23:49):
starting to grow a few of the plants in her
greenhouse to sell to people and all of a sudden,
now the amage around here, a lot of them are
starting to grow them because they really really like them.
So it might be something that our greenhouse start carrying
around here now.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, well and again people ask for him and if
folks will start growing them, and you're you are seeing
them more and more as far as being available. But
that was a fun when they get those going, and
they truly are you can't tell the difference between the two.
I mean, they're so darn close. But uh, you send
me a picture the other day of the two five
gallon buckets you were packed with those things. And those
are pretty good size.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, I mean I've had them up to like a
two to two and a half pounder on them, and
I think I told you you know, my wife does
a spaghetti sauce and and I grow the celebrities, which
I really love. Is just my all around just maybe
best tomato you can grow. And so'll do like a
three two thirds to three quarters celebrity two about a
third of the a man orange and tell Oggs breakfast
(24:45):
mixed in her spaghetti sauce and it's like a semi
sweet sauce already. Whenever you when you eat it, and
actually I just I love it.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You can be and I'm talking with Jerry Rose. Here
is our professional giant pumpkin grower. If you want to
check all this out, what's going on over the next
several weeks, it's big Pumpkins dot Com for all the
wayoffs tomatoes and the pumpkins and the gors and all
of that stuff. Let's take a quick break, we come
back a couple questions for Jerry and we'll find out
where he stands on what pumpkins he has left, and
where he's going to because I think you might be
(25:14):
able to see him October thirteenth at Oakland in Dublin
for that National way Off coming up after the break
here on news radio six to ten WTVN. I just
want you to know you picked one of Jerry Rose's
most favorite songs. As a matter of fact, Jerry, I
think we played this when they brought your pumpkin out
of Oakland last year.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Right, I'm trying to hear it.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Talking with Jerry Rose, he is our giant pumpkin grower.
And of course, if you want to keep up with
all of this that's going on over the next few
weeks go to big Pumpkins dot com. So how many
pumpkins did you wind up having to take out to
the shows to the way offs.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Well, I've lost three.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
The latest one was just Wednesday. I've taken one to
Canfield Fair at sixteen sixty seven and I got two
left out there that look good right now, but we'll
see how they look in two weeks from not one
I loft on Wednesday. I thought was good until I
picked it up and it had a soft spot in
the bottom, and so it was no good. Can't have
(26:15):
You can have up to a three by three by
three soft spot and that's it. Mine was probably six
probably six inches long by three inches by three inches,
so it was two big.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
So what do you do with something like that?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I got a customer that only needs it for a
few hours. They're going to destroy it and I'm hoping
it will make it through for a few more days
and they can have it for that.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Got it? So you're and you don't try to save
the seeds from that or anything.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I don't believe. So, no, there wouldn't be nothing. I
would plant and tried. Nobody else would. If I do
happen to be able to get a few seeds out
of it. If I get people that sometimes just want
some seeds to try to grow or something like that,
that's what I would end up doing with them.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
So as you're looking out there right now, and of
course you get a good feel for what's going on
all across the country, there are you know, does houses look?
I mean, we got a chance for another world record
this year.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
I mean, it's that's possible, whether you know. I mean
he used to be a thousand pounds of the Holy Grail,
then a ton, you know, then twenty five hundred, and
now it's three thousand, you know, or over twenty seven
to fifty. So that's you know, whether we have a
three thousand pounder, I don't know if we do or not,
but I mean there's some out there that got the
measurements to be, uh, you know, over twenty seven to fifty.
(27:29):
So I think the best grower that's within our area
is Dave Steltz, which he'll have a big one at
Oakland as long as as long as it holds up.
I've seen him last week, and I know how big
mine are and minor are the biggest I've ever had
and his we're bigger than mine just looking at him,
you know, visually, So he'll be interesting to see what
(27:49):
they got. That Grower of the Year where he gets
you three. There's a grower of the Year in all categories, pumpkins, tomatoes,
feel pumpkins, goreds, all that, and he's hoping for that
Grower of the Year award. That's a pretty big prestigious
award get there's a little bit of prize money, but
you get a nice jacket and all that kind of
stuff and recognition amongst all your peers.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Well, if you'd like to meet Jerry Rose, see his pumpkin,
and see the Stelts pumpkin and all of the big
ones coming to Oakland, that's coming up on Sunday, October
the thirteenth. It usually starts around one thirty and you
can meet Jerry. And Jerry always were kind. He's kind
enough to stand up there with me and help mc
this thing, and it always throws out a lot of
great information for folks to enjoy as well. And of
(28:31):
course he is the only pumpkin girl that we know
that actually sleeps with his pumpkins. So I'm gonna I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Bring that up as well for a raisis.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I'm gonna havesk Sandy for a rasis here for my.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
MC duties, for your MC duties.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, I'm a after for a raise. And one other
thing I said on that Sunday, if if you're not
doing nothing else, that's gonna be a guaranteed seventy and
sunny degree day because Paul must know somebody upstairs because
he always has beautiful weather that day.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Isn't that amazing? I mean, it can be cloudy all
the way around us, but for some reason, the sun
seems to just shine right there.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So there you go, so check it out. It's going
to coming up again. Sunday, October thirteenth, usually starts around
one thirty. Get there a little bit early so you
can walk through and see all the different pumpkins. You
get to meet Jerry Rose. We'll find out what goes there.
As far as the biggest one, don't forget he his
roilways are sixteen hundred pounds, so you can guarantee it's
gonna have something a little bit bigger than that. Jerry,
(29:28):
always a pleasure. We appreciate you keeping us updated throughout
the season, and I look forward to seeing the big
competition at Oakland on October thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All right, Ron, we'll see you that, all right, take.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Care Jerry Rose from Huntsburg, Ohio, and again he's already
done a few and you can go through a seriously
go to Big Pumpkins dot dot com. They have all
the different categories, tomatoes, pumpkins, the sunflower. Everything gets measured
and officially is posted there for you so you can
go and follow along as we go along. And of
(30:01):
course everything happens at Oakland on the thirteenth, we'll be
posted there for you as well, so be sure and
check it out. And Jerry'll be there and he's always
a lot of fun to talk to, and all the
giant pumpkin growers. If you've never done this before and
you'd like to learn how to do it, you'll find
that there's a lot of folks that are there for
the first time. They're all willing to share their information
with you, So be sure and show up and bring
(30:24):
your questions and have a good time. And the weather
knock on Wood has always been very good for this event,
so we look forward to seeing you there on again.
It's October the thirteenth at the Oakland Nursery in Dublin.
All right, we're gonna take a break at the top
of the hour here. Coming up at the top of
the hour. After the break, we're gonna talk about flowering lawns.
(30:46):
A flawn Have you considered doing that? I know a
lot of folks are looking at that micro clover. We
get even take it a step further and actually have
a flowering lawn, maybe just in the backyard, maybe not
in the front yard. We're gonna learn more about flawns
coming up next with the folks from the Flawn Company. Uh.
Lots of great information and of course sharing tips with
(31:08):
you as well, and taking your calls after we get
done with that little interview. It's all happening here on
the home of the best Buckeye coverage, News Radio six
' ten WTVN.
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