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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy talking about yarding.
Rainy days, hot days, stormy days, thunder days, lightning days,
sunny days. Yeah, it's been all over the board and that,
and it's all been one thing along with all of those.
It's been hot, and that means that Joe'strekker is still
a happy camper. Let's kick it off with our cup
(00:25):
of Joe, Miss Joe Strekker, our executive producer. Final was
going to his lawn, his landscape, of course, our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page, in the garden
with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's been hot and sticky. But I'm gonna say something
that's probably gonna shock you that.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Wait a second, let me hang onder the Okay, got
a hold of the arms on my chair. All the
rain that we had this week, you got none. I
got barely any. Yeah, it's just been really isolated.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I mean I think we got a little bit on Thursday,
just a little bit on Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Now, what's it? All the other rain missed us. We've
been getting pretty good showers.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But I know another Kentuck he got hammered on.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
They're still why is that they're they're getting that that
front of those frontes come up stay right below the
Ohio River kind of tiptoe up into Cincinnati a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And I watched the radar because because I mean, roth
House might be amateur meteorologists, but I like watching them.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You still watching radar. You're just looking for lightning strikes.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Though, And so I'm watching and I'm watching and watching it,
and I'm just like, oh, here it comes here, come there,
it goes. It just for some reason, it right as
soon as it hits in.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But you're watching for lightning strikes and thunder.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I mean, I'm got into it just from doing this
job and and over the years, you know, talking to
meteorologists like you know, the ones that we work.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
With, and non meteorologists like Pat Berry, who was great
at that he was he was I'm not I like
Pat Berry.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
He was.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He was the best. Miss that man, he was the greatest.
But yeah, I mean, we you know, start doing this job,
you kind of watched the weather and you learn how
to what to see because it affects her job. And
but still I was just watching that radar and it's
just nothing, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, yeah, it has been pretty isolated, but we we've
lucked out. We've gotten it. So we really haven't water
too much this week. Even our containers haven't add to
water too much a couple of times, but not much.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Hopefully we'll get some today, especially in in the on
the west side of town. I mean they I think,
I think a shower came through this morning. But how's
your neighbor's landscape. You've been able to get out in
the water through all this, No, her her her kids
come over and water and water. So yeah, yeah, I
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mean that it's been that's been done just goes to
show you you can put landscaping in the military. I
just need to. I'm you know, I'm seriously I might.
I might get with whoever with the people that did
are landscaping and and try to contract that out because
one thing I hate doing other than mowing the lawn
is weeding. I cannot stand weeding. Yeah, I hate it.
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I get it. So I mean need some weeding.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
That's why they that's why they make kills all with
a pump tank. And I might need a as you
can just walk along. I'm gonna need I'm gonna need
like a vat of kills. All I need a tank
truck full. Yeah, just yeah, it's pretty bad. But I
did notice kind of there that stripped between the sidewalk
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in the driveway. Well, I mean that's why I said
last week, I said, we need to get on that
right away.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, it's it's pretty nasty.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Fifteen minutes we have they cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Really. Okay, you're hired. I'll see you later. I'll have well,
well forget you get that stuff on the grill. I'll
be happy to have cold beverages. Be happy to have
a couple of a couple of slives, little Willie Nelson
slives and uh some steaks. So yeah, if you want
to do that. Playing in the background, m hm, you
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heard that America. Ron Wilson's gonna.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Come over my garden. Yeah, hard time weeding my own. Yeah,
that's what I said. You need a thing of pump
spray with a spray water.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I might need fire.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We can get you one of those the dragon torch.
Uh wow, little well, put a little broke pint tank
on there, walk around, burn them off.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Dragon fairy, the dragon fairy, the garden fairy.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Drop it off. See that was that was another one
of those we always try to get on the show,
so the one of us could buy one of those
real cheap and get you know, yeah, share that bad boy. Wow,
that didn't light up, light the mulch on fire and
burn your house down. I think I'm gonna tear.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Out that that that whole area and just put rocks
in there, and think twice about the rocks.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Why but you put him there. It's hard to get
rid of him, and you got it. Scoop them all
out again. I'm not playing on putting anything there anymore.
All right, we'd eventually come up through rocks.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, but I don't have to fluff fluff up, and
you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I don't go to get a crusty's, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't have to fluff anything up, and I don't
have to put new malt new rocks down every couple
of years.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So do you have any guests today? Now that I'm depressed,
do you have any guests today? Yeah? Last week we
had the Gary Bakman scheduled and as soon as you
working out, mister Bachman uh overslept because he was too busy.
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Well I told you, but he forgot He totally for anyone.
Oh my gosh, I am so embarrassed. So anyway, he
is if you follow him on Facebook, he's like a
he's like the work, always on the go, always on
the go. But yeah, so we we got him rescheduled
for it. I said, let's just give another try. So
I'm pretty sure he'll make it this time. And then
readers with us this morning. Cool, So we'll talk about
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her recipe, which you're going to talk about here in
a minute, and what is going on in her garden
as well. So those are our two guests, Garry Sol
and Buggy Joe Boggs, You, Danny Gleeson and me in
between Facebook page in the Garden with run Wilson. The
website I Ron Wilson online dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And there's a couple of alerts from from Buggy Joe.
Did you get the one posted about the weeds and
pals the seeds? Yeah, yes, I got that one posted.
See that's when you should read don't let your weeds
go to seed. It's a little late now for that,
how important that is. And there's a couple other cool
little tip sheets and stuff going on. Things that are
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happening right now cool. So there's a lot going on.
There's a lot going on now. Read is going to
be on later like you said, and it's time to
get it started. I knew you'd get fired up with
that recipe. Yes, it's the cherry bounce season. You gotta
get it started because you got to get it going
for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I think Barbie Bletcher started hers about a month ago.
She got to early jump on it. As soon as
the cherries are ready. She was out buying cherries and
there you go, get it started. They were. They showed
me bottles of stuff. They're going to experiment with the
three stingers. Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's so it's cherry bounce season, yep. And her cherry
side therefore you, I hope. So that is the best
lemon cello I ever had. It is so smooth you
don't even taste it, and it's very it's very it's
it's very dangerous, yes, because it tastes just.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Like I just remember watching you the first time she
brought that in. You were like, oh, I mean you
can't even taste it. It was so smooth. Not that
you're doing it in the studios. I don't know what
you're talking about. That's what I said you'd step out,
But yeah, it was. It was very smooth.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well so it was a cherry bounce and she did
peach bounce one time, and that was really good.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I remember, gosh, this was it's had it been five
years ago when we used to do the Thanksgiving special
and she brought in the cherry bounce that was made
with the bourbon from that that restaurant Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The that Teresa Parker sent you the recipe for that. Yeah,
I forget the name of the rest of the movie.
Cherry's a Fire, okay, and that's something to do with that.
I've never been there. That was pretty darn good. Yeah,
pretty darn good.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And I actually have, uh not last year's cherry bounce
because I didn't get any, uh but the year before
when I actually got some cherry bounce, I took out
some of that.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well you said you just occasionally open and go take
a little sip. Hey, it's it stays, it stays good. Yeah,
oh I know. But I'm just saying, you don't just
drink it. You no, no, you can't make it last.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Chug it. You gotta get that. Yeah, you sip that. Yeah,
I appreciate it. Is cherry bounce down and pull a
cherry out of there, Yes, very much so. So if
you're if you want to make some cherry bo or
if you don't have any idea what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That most people make cherry bounce. Enjoy the cherry bounce. Yes,
once you get started, the enjoy the extra that's left over.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Uh. The plants of the week, Yes, the first one
is the Indian cup plant. Yes, it kind of looks like, uh,
like some flower almost kind of tell us about the
Indian cup plant.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You know that picture that's on there. I think it's
some Ron Roths' backyard. It is, and that's one of
his favorite plants. It's a prairie plant. And what's cool
about that you get the flowers for the pollinators, but
the way the leaves come together on that stem and
they're cupped, it holds water. Indian cup got it, so
the Indians actually would use that for a source of
water because it held water. Plus the birds and the
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wildlife does the same thing because of the water. There.
So really cool looking plant. And it coincides with the
one that's right below it, which is the compass plant.
Which is the compass plant, which is Buggy Joe Boggs,
one of his favorites, and again another good prairie plant,
great pollinator plant. And the leaves are situated so it
helps the direct to north and south. So as they
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were going across the prairie, they could look take a
look at the compass plant figure where they were going.
So but yeah, when you see those in mass plant things,
they are spectacular, very cool. But the wildlife loves them
cool and you can grow them in your own perennial garden. Well,
I'm off to the store to get some cherries. So
you already have the bounce, right, I got plenty of bounce,
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I just need the cherry. I wonder what shlive of
its that bounce would be like, might be interesting, that
could be a that could be something to try.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Man's live. It's is so expensive I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
There's no cheap there's no cheap slive. And then the
cherry shlivovitz burn all the way down to your toes.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Still, wow, that's expensive experiment.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It is. Remember when I went and bought your bottle
one time for Christmas, I was like.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Wow, yeah, it's not Yeah, you definitely got to take
out a bring a co signer with you when you
get some.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So all right, all right, all right, have a great weekend. Relax,
try to get some sleep. I know you didn't sleep
much this week, so get some sleep, all right, all right.
Joe Shrecker our executive producer, producer. If you like, we
see on our website, Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook
page in the Garden with Ron Wilson. Joe Strucker had
everything to do with it. For something on there you
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don't like. You don't see him, by the way, you're
gonna blame it on doctor Z because you're not gonna
blame you. He's in Mexico this week with the sweet tart.
M hm. Send us a picture on the beach. Yeah,
the reflection of the ring on the left hand was
so much I could barely see either one of them
from that diamond. Well, he he must be being He
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must be very successful because for them, because he went
to Iceland a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Now he's going to ball.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Games to get engaged in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
She's like a twenty four.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
There's a rock on her ten pound diamond on her finger.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, wow, Doctor Laura must be paying him well anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Don't blame Joe, blame doctor Z. Three Garden eighty three, Washington,
d C. With UH riding around his vestment on the beach,
on the beach with a sidecar.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Hopefully the sweet starts on the back somewhere.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And Bowser ain't there.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Bowser's at home, he's Bowser's.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
In the kennel. Yes, but yeah, so have fun, doctor Z.
Thank you, Joe. Yes, eight hundred eight two three eight
two fivey five Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson,
Strucker and the do Ringo kid. Good morning, Welcome back
here in the garden with Ron Wilson again that toll
free number. Eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five talking about yarding and as Joe and I were
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talking earlier, very timely we've had we've lucked out in
our our yard. We've had very timely showers over the
last seven days or so. Uh and they've been good,
you know, pretty good soakers too. And once we've got
the moisture in the ground, it's kind of been sticking there.
We've had to water a couple containers that don't get
exposed to it quite as much, but otherwise we've been
pretty good. But again, as we look, you know, I've
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got to you can continue to physically check, to use
your moisture meters, to use your rain gauges, and see
how much rain you got that they came through as well.
And again I say, consider all the rain showers that
come through as a bonus, build on top of them.
Don't count on those rain showers. As a matter of fact,
if you look at our forecasts, don't know about from
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where you are, But if you look at our forecasts
for the next seven to ten days, I think every
day has a chance of showers, you know, the pop
up afternoon showers, and the temperatures get just right, and
the humidity gets right, and the monkey gets tight and
they all get together and what was that song anyway,
and you know, and that's when all of a sudden
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they just pop Dan Gary Sullivan home and prun Buggy,
Joe Boggs and myself all live kind of in a
same line, several miles apart, but kind of the same line,
so a lot we kind of share the fronts. That
camp come across from west to east.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It missed me.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I think he came from the south southwest up and
so the way it came up has been coming up lately.
It has been missing Dan but catching the other three
of us. So it's been really weird. But anyway, point
being is watch your rain gages physically check to see
how much moisture you did get in the ground. You know,
one of my tell tales out in the yard is
I'll take my square spade.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I have a very.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Sharp, square, all aluminum am Leonard D shaped handles spade
that I've had for years and you'll never break it.
And it's a one time purchase. It's outstanding. But anyway,
and get a go rainfall, take that out in the
yard and throw it down. You know. Now you throw
a shovel down and get it a stick into the ground,
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not a record round point, but a square spade. And
if it hits the ground and goes ting and then
bounces back, I know we didn't get very much rainfall.
But if it goes down and he goes boop and
it sticks, then I know we did. And then I
can just kind of pull that back. I looked down,
see how deep it went into the ground. Gives me
a good It takes me twenty seconds to do that
gives me a good indicator as far as what's going on.
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So again, you know, check those as they come through. Physically,
look look at your rain gages, use your moisture meters. Remember,
newly planted trees and shrubs many times do not benefit
from some of these showers unless the surface water actually
runs to them and down into the hole. But otherwise
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a lot of times, and if it's mounded, of course
it'll go around the outside of it, and if it's mounded,
it runs off the outside of it as well. But
you know, again physically check. This is a very important
time right now, as it is anytime during the year obviously,
but you know, to make sure we keep this good
even moisture as we work our way through probably the
hottest time of the summer over over these next few weeks.
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So stick with it. Uh. I'm still seeing some things,
you know, the leaf diseases popping up like crazy, powdery, mildew,
brown patch in the lawns, all kinds of leaf diseases
in the lawns is crazy. I think I mentioned last
week the folks from OSU Turf saying if there's anything
out there that you can get in your lawn, it's
getting it right now, brown pats for most of us.
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If you have like a turf type off rescue or
several of the other grasses as well. Seeing a little
bit of that right now. Not a lot you can
do at this point. We'll talk more about that after
the break. Got lots of tips to share taking your
calls eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
here in the Garden with Talk at your yardening at
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning,
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard. Well, we don't
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forget our website Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page
in the Garden with Wilson used a little chatting going
on there on Saturday mornings, so be sure and check
that out as well. And of course talking about the weather,
which when we're out working in the yard and garden,
what is the topic out there besides how beautiful things
look or in some cases how bad they might be
looking because of the weather. Weather's always at the top
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of the list, so you know, you deal with it. It's
one of those things I've always said, you know, I've
been in this business, the green industry, all my life
for the most part, and working with something that you
have no control over. You can do everything else that
you want to do right, but you have no control
over the weather. But you learn how to work around
it and do other things. But again counting those blow
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through showers as a bonus showers, you know, and then
physically checking. And then of course I was talking about
lawn diseases before he went into the break and we
are seeing some brown patch especially, and it's really hard
to tell some of these things. I mean, Joe Boggs
probably pretty good if he had a lens, his lens
and get down to take a look at it. But
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a lot of times you have to have samples and
let somebody identify it. And those services are available if
you want to go to that point and have these identified.
Most states go to your extension service and they'll direct
you to a lab that can help to diagnose and
sometimes there's a fee, sometimes there's not, but diagnose what's
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going on with your plans, and I'll tell you how
to wrap them up and send them so that they
stay fresh set up. A lot of times they can
do that, especially with turf. A lot of professional lawn
care companies will do that because it's very hard to
identify it. There's no way I can brown patch when
I see it pretty much know what that is. A
red thread. You can understand that one and a few others,
but it's hard to separate them out. But anyway, seeing
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a lot of brown patch for sure, in a lot
of the homeowner's lawns, and I think the thing to remember,
which was kind of ironic. And I don't know if
I brought this up last week or not, but I'm
sitting in a traffic light and I'm looking at this
yard and it's a beautiful lawn. It's got the brown,
hazy patches all throughout the yard, and they had irrigation
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going on both sides. It was in the morning on
both sides of the corners, just soaking the heck out
of that thing. Well, one of the things to not
do when you have brown patch is to over irrigate,
especially in the morning. You know, you want to do
it early enough that it dries as soon as it
starts drying su as the sun comes up, and you
only do it if absolutely necessary. So you know, you're
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trying to keep the turf as dry as possible to
get through this brown patch. And yeah, you can apply
a funge aside. There are some out there to help
get it into check. But remember fungicides are preventators, preventatives,
preventors preventatives rather than curatives in many cases. So you
can kind of get it into check by using a
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fung a side. But there are cultural things too. Don't
feed it right now that type of a thing, keep
mowing on a higher level and all of that. But again,
the water, you actually want to cut back and here
and it's a natural reaction again. You know, you see
plants starting to yell and lose leaves. What do you do?
You water more? It's just a natural reaction. And there
they were, and I should have actually just left them
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a note. I don't think anybody was home. I think
they had it on a timer. But I should have
left the note, but I didn't. But again, if you
can try to find out or get a general idea
of what it is, check with your local garden center,
local law care company, local extension office to get a
better feel for it, and then take it from there. Also,
seeing right now where folks have planted plants last year
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or the year before last year especially and you know
last spring, and you've got a whole year, a season
and a half under your belt, you know. And I
think people think that once you get into that point,
you don't have to water like you were doing when
you first planted the plant, you know, the first year. Well,
in many cases you do, especially when you get into
a dry situation, hot and dry, and right now I'm
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seeing a lot of plants that put out a lot
of foliage. I was looking at a magnolia yesterday, but
then for a year and two, a year and a
half and looking great, new growth, looking great, leaves look great.
Just I mean it was dense, but starting to lose
yellow leaves on the inside of the plant. Now they're
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going to send me pictures to make sure we don't
have any magnolia scale, but may cause it to happen.
But otherwise, my first question was, you know, what's the
water schedule been like, And the answer was, it's been
raining all spring. We really haven't watered it because you know,
it's been in for year and a half. You know,
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we figured it was established, blah blah blah. Well it's not,
and more than likely it's a reaction to the lack
of moisture, especially when you see those leaves dropping to
the inside like that. That's one thing that leafy plants,
deciduous plants have the opportunity to do, and that is
to lose leaves to compensate for the lack of moisture,
so they can drop some of those inner leaves, less transpiration,
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less lose being lost out of the leaves, less moisture
needed to supply to those leaves, so they can do that.
Where evergreens obviously can't do that, and that's why it's
so important we talk about watering those evergreens on a
regular basis, especially during the dry times of the year.
So again, you know, it's a physical check. Moisture meters
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don't count on the rainfalls count consider those a bonus
check to see how much you got each time it
came through, how far did it penetrate newly? And you
know what the other thing is a lot of times,
especially with evergreens, look after a shower comes through, look
at the mulch underneath the plant. A lot of times
you'll see a ring where the drip line where the
leaves go out. You'll see a ring underneath that where
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it's still dry on the mulch but wet all the
way around it. They can be their own umbrella. Sometimes yeah,
they collect water also and push it to the inside,
but sometimes it can be an umbrella as well. So
again it's just important to keep watching that monitor that
do it on a regular basis. If you're having problems
with the lawn right now, looked really good up until
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this point. Look at the weather, look at the way
things are right now. There are a lot of lawn
diseases that are running pretty rampid right now. Check with
your local extension, check with your local lawn care. Maybe
take samples and send them into a lab to be
tested to see what it is. But in most cases
you may not be able to do anything about it
at this stage, or if you do, spray a fund
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just side kind of get it into check. And of
course you've got we're about a month and a half
away where we start looking at what can you believe
I'm just gonna say this September, and of course that's
the best time they'll go back in and start renovating
the lawn core, aer rating, seating, feeding, and bringing it
back to life again. If that's the case, Before we
take a break, Thick from Dayton, good.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Morning, Hey, good morning, how are you.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I am great house, things going good, good good.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Well. My cousin's coming from He was from Alaria, Yeah,
you know, near Lorraine.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
There.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
He was part of the family that played music. He's
gonna come see uh with my friends Eddie and Mary
and my other friend. But that's gonna be nice. He's
supposed to get here about four o'clock today. Isn't that nice?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
That is nice. That is something for you to look
forward to. Just visit.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Uh. He said he might stay a couple of days.
Good to see what was I hope? So, but I went,
uh see what's the other day or yesterday? Bob picked
me up back to the spring Begers in Xenia and
we had a good time there. Chris plays, he plays you,
he teaches you. And I know one thing he told
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me that Sue from the Strummers, you know, the ukulele
group Dick. Yeah, they missed me quite a bit. You know,
there was a big show. I couldn't go, but you know,
you know what, you hit around and I'm meeting more people.
I'm gonna be part time on the activities director. We
play like and me and Heather and what's her name? Lexi? Uh?
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She she just you know, when when there's music, I'll
probably do a couple of songs. So I've been entertaining
the people outside when it's been nice.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Good about that.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think that's outstanding. You know. I told you my
grandson was in a ukulele group at their middle school,
and I guess that's becoming more and more popular, getting
kids involved playing the ukulele because it's baby how to
play the yeah, yeah, and a great instructor.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah. I go on Sunday morning, they have a couple. Well,
I go to a couple of Bible studies, and I
met a lady down there, her and her and her
husband or she's a uh he was Italian and uh
she's a gardener. And she said, dick my up. My
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friends listen to Ron Wilson and and my friends here
you every Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
All right, all right, that's good for you and good
for us too.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yes it is. But it's always great, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So it's always great here to have a good week,
good and have a good visit with your friends. And
I hope they stick around with you for a few
days and share a few stories and all of that,
and we'll talk to you next Saturday. Have a great day,
all right, Dick, good talking with you as always. Bye bye,
bye bye Dick from Dayton right there. Now, we're gonna
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have to get a see if this community has a
community garden or maybe container gardens, and we can get
Dick involved with growing some tomatoes and peppers and things
like that. How are your tomatoes doing, by the way,
so far, finally starting to come on in our area,
finally starting to get some reports of blossom in rod.
I'll talk about that after the breaking of course, taking
(26:58):
your calls. At eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five, don't forget coming up the top of the hour,
Rita Hike and fell we're gonna go in the garden
with Rita talk about her recipe, which is absolutely outstanding.
They always are, yes, sir, because it's Cherity Bounced Time.
It's one of her roast requested recipes out there, Cherry
Bounce Time. And at the bottom of the hour, we're
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gonna try it one more time. We're gonna go down
south talk to our southern gardener, mister Gary Buckman here
in the garden with Ron Wilson. Eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. That is our number. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yardening as we move our way through the Are you
ready for this to the summer? Can you believe it?
I just said something about, you know, a month and
(27:42):
a half away and we're into uh September. Yes, I
tell you what. It goes by in a flash. But
in the meantime, dealing with these pop up showers and
the hot temperatures in the humidity and sets you up
for some leaf diseases and issues with plants and gets
a little you know, it gets a little frustrating sometimes,
but stay with it, stick with it, and you know
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who really likes this kind of weather. Weeds things you
don't want growing in the beds that you have other
things growing, and they love it. And like Joe Strecker
was saying earlier, he could certainly use a landscape company
to come in and help weed because they've just gotten
out of control. And it's easy for a lot of
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different ways to do that. And one of the big
old posts that we have on our website at Ron
Wilson online dot com is titled stop the Seeds, and
it's a good tip sheet to remind you that even
though you have weeds out there. Let's say you look
out and there's weeds all over the place. The one
thing you don't want them to do. Okay, you don't
have time to go out and maybe pull them all,
(28:45):
weed them out, spray, do whatever, but is you don't
want them to go to seed. You don't want them
to flower, and you don't want them to seed. And
sometimes folks will send us a picture of a plant
that came up in their bed that they didn't plant,
and it's hard to tell what it is is, so
we kind of stick with them for a while. Give
me another shot, ten days, another shot in today's or
if it starts to flower, give me a shot of
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the picture. But once it starts the flower, we're gonna
I want to see the picture. Then we can tell
for sure what it is. But then you get rid
of the flower, or you get rid of the weed.
But you don't want these to flower and set seed.
It's like the winter annuals, and we talk about those
coming out of the winter and end of the springtime,
the harry bittercress, and the chick weed and the hen
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bit and the purple dead netal you know, all of
those that their goal they're any annual. They germinate in
the fall, which is unusual, kind of hanging in there
over the winter. As soon as it starts to warm
and the spring they grow like a weed, all right.
They grow as fast as they can. They flower, they seed,
they throw seeds everywhere, and they die. And guess what,
You're now stuck with more seeds than you had at
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the beginning of the year. And that makes it even
harder to get them under control. Pre emerging herb besides,
obviously can help you to stop those weed seeds from
being able to grow. But again, you know, if we
can get rid of the seeds first, that's a great
way to stop the spread and then work from there.
So again, great article about it. You can find out
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it on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com.
So we've got to keep the weeds down. Don't let
them get it taking over. Don't let them take over
in your vegetable garden. Not a good thing because a
lot of them not only for the seeding, and some
can be at perennial. So once they get themselves rooted in,
not only you're dealing with the seeds, but coming back
up from the root system as well, makes them harder
to get rid of. So you know, again, stay on
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top of the weeds as best you can. And I
know it's tough during the heat of the summer, but
you got to stick with them. Don't let them get
a foothold, all right, stay with him. And they can
also one other thing. They can harbor disease and they
can harbor insect There's a lot of insects that love
to get on your vegetable plants, that hang out in
the weeds and then you know, benefit from the weeds
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and then get onto your plants and go from there.
Keeping debris and weeds down around your vegetables is a
real good step and keeping a lot of insects and
disease situations lower because you don't give them a place
to hang out, a place to breed, a place to
multiply or whatever, and then get into your vegetable gardens.
So keep that in mind as well. Speaking of vegetables, Oh,
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one last thing. With all the moisture, a lot of
emails this week with folks looking in their mulch and
looking at that mulch and seeing these blobs showing up,
specially in shredded hardwood especially in the shredded fine hardwood,
the really fine stuff. Boy, this really does it great.
But it'll show up at almost any mulch, but hardwoods
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are its favorite. And you get these blobs of oranges
and yellows and whites, and if they sit there for
a day or two, they start to turn tan and
then brown and kind of crust up and go away.
It looks like somebody threw up there, like a dog,
you know, with that foami how dog throws up. Thus
the common name dog vomit fungus or dog barf fungus.
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It's a slime mold. It happens when the humidity and
the moisture and that mulch is just right, these slime
molds will start to grow. They are not harmful to you,
They are not harmful to the pets. They are not
harmful to the kids. But they look bad, They look funny.
So the best way to get rid of them is
either scoop them up and throw them away, or just
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keep fluffing up that mulch. And if you can keep
it airy, keep it fluffed up, you'll see a lot
less of this. I used a kid all the time.
If I got it and I don't use hardwood anymore,
but when I did, I would scoop it up and
put it around my neighbor's front door, then knock on
the door and ask everybody's okay, or if the dog's
sick or whatever. But it's called slime mold, and it
will actually climb and move, thus the name slime mold.
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Move up the side of a tree. She had to
kind of go up the side six or eight inches.
Somebody sent me a picture the other day they had
someone on the mulch around the base of their ornamental
grasses and it actually climbed up some of the stems
on the ornamental grass as well. Again, no harm to you,
no harm to the pets, no harm to the plants. Uh,
fluff it up, scoop it up, whatever it may be.
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But it's called slime mold, or commonly known as dog
vomit fungus or dog bar fungus. A true plantsman. One
of my heroes, my idol when it comes to plantsmen,
along with Steve Folts and many others, is mister Kevin
O'Dell when he's with us. This morning, Kevin, and good morning.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Good morning Ron. It was wonderful seeing you the.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Other day, good seeing you have a friend.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
They're so full of exciting new plants and things. My gosh,
I just love that show.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Don't you almost your You almost have a headache when
you leave that thing. There's so many new plants and
things you want to Oh, I tell you it's crazy. Yep.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I hate to disagree with Joe there and you said
it very nicely, but try to never ever use or
gravel permult oh. Yeah, comes from below the ground. The
most implants come from above the ground.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And it's just more and more and more and more
ron and it just makes me. It doesn't make me sick,
but pretty close to it. And you know, a lot
of it's used professionally. People say I want to use gravel.
You never hit their remulch. Use plants and you don't
hit the remulch, you know, like our area is plant mulch.
And you know this gravel is getting out of control.
(34:18):
I mean we we've you know, my company has spent
much more time getting rid of gravel than we have
or ever.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Have put it down. I'm with you. And the thing
of it is, you know it looks you know, you
look at it and say oh man, maintenance free. And
when I have to ever put it down again, well,
over time silt starts to build up in those rocks,
and weed seeds start to grow in the rocks too.
It's no different than in the mulch, plus all the
non benefits of putting a gravel down. I'm with you, uh,
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you know, And I always just suggest to folks, you know,
think about it two or three or four times before
you make that final decision. But I'm with you hundred percent.
Spend more time taking it up than you do putting
it down. Actually excellent information.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Plant fell't grow in gravel.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Let the plants fill it up for you. Yeah, they
don't grow and gravel. Let the plants fill it up
for you. Don't worry about the gravel or the mulch.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Kevin, Fine day, sir Kevin.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Always a pleasure, my man. Quick break, we come back
rid a hike and Feld we'll be with us. We're
going to talk about her herbs and her recipe cherry Bounce.
It's that time of the year. Cherry Bounce the most
requested read a recipe. I think of all of her recipes.
At the bottom of the hour, we're going to travel south.
We'll see if we can get him. Gary Bachman, our
southern guard GeV. He's awake to find out what's going
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on in our southern states who are also experiencing some
real heat and some storms. Right now, it's all happening
here in the Garden with Ron Wilson
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy talking about yarding.
Rainy days, hot days, stormy days, thunder days, lightning days,
sunny days. Yeah, it's been all over the board and that,
and it's all been one thing along with all of those.
It's been hot, and that means that Joe'strekker is still
a happy camper. Let's kick it off with our cup
(00:25):
of Joe, Miss Joe Strekker, our executive producer. Final was
going to his lawn, his landscape, of course, our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page, in the garden
with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's been hot and sticky. But I'm gonna say something
that's probably gonna shock you that.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Wait a second, let me hang onder the Okay, got
a hold of the arms on my chair. All the
rain that we had this week, you got none. I
got barely any. Yeah, it's just been really isolated.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I mean I think we got a little bit on Thursday,
just a little bit on Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Now, what's it? All the other rain missed us. We've
been getting pretty good showers.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But I know another Kentuck he got hammered on.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
They're still why is that they're they're getting that that
front of those frontes come up stay right below the
Ohio River kind of tiptoe up into Cincinnati a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And I watched the radar because because I mean, roth
House might be amateur meteorologists, but I like watching them.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You still watching radar. You're just looking for lightning strikes.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Though, And so I'm watching and I'm watching and watching it,
and I'm just like, oh, here it comes here, come there,
it goes. It just for some reason, it right as
soon as it hits in.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But you're watching for lightning strikes and thunder.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I mean, I'm got into it just from doing this
job and and over the years, you know, talking to
meteorologists like you know, the ones that we work.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
With, and non meteorologists like Pat Berry, who was great
at that he was he was I'm not I like
Pat Berry.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
He was.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He was the best. Miss that man, he was the greatest.
But yeah, I mean, we you know, start doing this job,
you kind of watched the weather and you learn how
to what to see because it affects her job. And
but still I was just watching that radar and it's
just nothing, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, yeah, it has been pretty isolated, but we we've
lucked out. We've gotten it. So we really haven't water
too much this week. Even our containers haven't add to
water too much a couple of times, but not much.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Hopefully we'll get some today, especially in in the on
the west side of town. I mean they I think,
I think a shower came through this morning. But how's
your neighbor's landscape. You've been able to get out in
the water through all this, No, her her her kids
come over and water and water. So yeah, yeah, I
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mean that it's been that's been done just goes to
show you you can put landscaping in the military. I
just need to. I'm you know, I'm seriously I might.
I might get with whoever with the people that did
are landscaping and and try to contract that out because
one thing I hate doing other than mowing the lawn
is weeding. I cannot stand weeding. Yeah, I hate it.
(03:19):
I get it. So I mean need some weeding.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
That's why they that's why they make kills all with
a pump tank. And I might need a as you
can just walk along. I'm gonna need I'm gonna need
like a vat of kills. All I need a tank
truck full. Yeah, just yeah, it's pretty bad. But I
did notice kind of there that stripped between the sidewalk
(03:45):
in the driveway. Well, I mean that's why I said
last week, I said, we need to get on that
right away.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, it's it's pretty nasty.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Fifteen minutes we have they cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Really. Okay, you're hired. I'll see you later. I'll have well,
well forget you get that stuff on the grill. I'll
be happy to have cold beverages. Be happy to have
a couple of a couple of slives, little Willie Nelson
slives and uh some steaks. So yeah, if you want
to do that. Playing in the background, m hm, you
(04:21):
heard that America. Ron Wilson's gonna.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Come over my garden. Yeah, hard time weeding my own. Yeah,
that's what I said. You need a thing of pump
spray with a spray water.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I might need fire.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We can get you one of those the dragon torch.
Uh wow, little well, put a little broke pint tank
on there, walk around, burn them off.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Dragon fairy, the dragon fairy, the garden fairy.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Drop it off. See that was that was another one
of those we always try to get on the show,
so the one of us could buy one of those
real cheap and get you know, yeah, share that bad boy. Wow,
that didn't light up, light the mulch on fire and
burn your house down. I think I'm gonna tear.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Out that that that whole area and just put rocks
in there, and think twice about the rocks.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Why but you put him there. It's hard to get
rid of him, and you got it. Scoop them all
out again. I'm not playing on putting anything there anymore.
All right, we'd eventually come up through rocks.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, but I don't have to fluff fluff up, and
you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I don't go to get a crusty's, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't have to fluff anything up, and I don't
have to put new malt new rocks down every couple
of years.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So do you have any guests today? Now that I'm depressed,
do you have any guests today? Yeah? Last week we
had the Gary Bakman scheduled and as soon as you
working out, mister Bachman uh overslept because he was too busy.
(05:57):
Well I told you, but he forgot He totally for anyone.
Oh my gosh, I am so embarrassed. So anyway, he
is if you follow him on Facebook, he's like a
he's like the work, always on the go, always on
the go. But yeah, so we we got him rescheduled
for it. I said, let's just give another try. So
I'm pretty sure he'll make it this time. And then
readers with us this morning. Cool, So we'll talk about
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her recipe, which you're going to talk about here in
a minute, and what is going on in her garden
as well. So those are our two guests, Garry Sol
and Buggy Joe Boggs, You, Danny Gleeson and me in
between Facebook page in the Garden with run Wilson. The
website I Ron Wilson online dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And there's a couple of alerts from from Buggy Joe.
Did you get the one posted about the weeds and
pals the seeds? Yeah, yes, I got that one posted.
See that's when you should read don't let your weeds
go to seed. It's a little late now for that,
how important that is. And there's a couple other cool
little tip sheets and stuff going on. Things that are
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happening right now cool. So there's a lot going on.
There's a lot going on now. Read is going to
be on later like you said, and it's time to
get it started. I knew you'd get fired up with
that recipe. Yes, it's the cherry bounce season. You gotta
get it started because you got to get it going
for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I think Barbie Bletcher started hers about a month ago.
She got to early jump on it. As soon as
the cherries are ready. She was out buying cherries and
there you go, get it started. They were. They showed
me bottles of stuff. They're going to experiment with the
three stingers. Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's so it's cherry bounce season, yep. And her cherry
side therefore you, I hope. So that is the best
lemon cello I ever had. It is so smooth you
don't even taste it, and it's very it's very it's
it's very dangerous, yes, because it tastes just.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Like I just remember watching you the first time she
brought that in. You were like, oh, I mean you
can't even taste it. It was so smooth. Not that
you're doing it in the studios. I don't know what
you're talking about. That's what I said you'd step out,
But yeah, it was. It was very smooth.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Well so it was a cherry bounce and she did
peach bounce one time, and that was really good.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I remember, gosh, this was it's had it been five
years ago when we used to do the Thanksgiving special
and she brought in the cherry bounce that was made
with the bourbon from that that restaurant Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The that Teresa Parker sent you the recipe for that. Yeah,
I forget the name of the rest of the movie.
Cherry's a Fire, okay, and that's something to do with that.
I've never been there. That was pretty darn good. Yeah,
pretty darn good.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
And I actually have, uh not last year's cherry bounce
because I didn't get any, uh but the year before
when I actually got some cherry bounce, I took out
some of that.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well you said you just occasionally open and go take
a little sip. Hey, it's it stays, it stays good. Yeah,
oh I know. But I'm just saying, you don't just
drink it. You no, no, you can't make it last.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Chug it. You gotta get that. Yeah, you sip that. Yeah,
I appreciate it. Is cherry bounce down and pull a
cherry out of there, Yes, very much so. So if
you're if you want to make some cherry bo or
if you don't have any idea what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That most people make cherry bounce. Enjoy the cherry bounce. Yes,
once you get started, the enjoy the extra that's left over.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Uh. The plants of the week, Yes, the first one
is the Indian cup plant. Yes, it kind of looks like, uh,
like some flower almost kind of tell us about the
Indian cup plant.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You know that picture that's on there. I think it's
some Ron Roths' backyard. It is, and that's one of
his favorite plants. It's a prairie plant. And what's cool
about that you get the flowers for the pollinators, but
the way the leaves come together on that stem and
they're cupped, it holds water. Indian cup got it, so
the Indians actually would use that for a source of
water because it held water. Plus the birds and the
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wildlife does the same thing because of the water. There.
So really cool looking plant. And it coincides with the
one that's right below it, which is the compass plant.
Which is the compass plant, which is Buggy Joe Boggs,
one of his favorites, and again another good prairie plant,
great pollinator plant. And the leaves are situated so it
helps the direct to north and south. So as they
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were going across the prairie, they could look take a
look at the compass plant figure where they were going.
So but yeah, when you see those in mass plant things,
they are spectacular, very cool. But the wildlife loves them
cool and you can grow them in your own perennial garden. Well,
I'm off to the store to get some cherries. So
you already have the bounce, right, I got plenty of bounce,
(10:46):
I just need the cherry. I wonder what shlive of
its that bounce would be like, might be interesting, that
could be a that could be something to try.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Man's live. It's is so expensive I wouldn't want to.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
There's no cheap there's no cheap slive. And then the
cherry shlivovitz burn all the way down to your toes.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Still, wow, that's expensive experiment.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It is. Remember when I went and bought your bottle
one time for Christmas, I was like.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Wow, yeah, it's not Yeah, you definitely got to take
out a bring a co signer with you when you
get some.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So all right, all right, all right, have a great weekend. Relax,
try to get some sleep. I know you didn't sleep
much this week, so get some sleep, all right, all right.
Joe Shrecker our executive producer, producer. If you like, we
see on our website, Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook
page in the Garden with Ron Wilson. Joe Strucker had
everything to do with it. For something on there you
(11:44):
don't like. You don't see him, by the way, you're
gonna blame it on doctor Z because you're not gonna
blame you. He's in Mexico this week with the sweet tart.
M hm. Send us a picture on the beach. Yeah,
the reflection of the ring on the left hand was
so much I could barely see either one of them
from that diamond. Well, he he must be being He
(12:05):
must be very successful because for them, because he went
to Iceland a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Now he's going to ball.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Games to get engaged in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
She's like a twenty four.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
There's a rock on her ten pound diamond on her finger.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, wow, Doctor Laura must be paying him well anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Don't blame Joe, blame doctor Z. Three Garden eighty three, Washington,
d C. With UH riding around his vestment on the beach,
on the beach with a sidecar.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Hopefully the sweet starts on the back somewhere.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And Bowser ain't there.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Bowser's at home, he's Bowser's.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
In the kennel. Yes, but yeah, so have fun, doctor Z.
Thank you, Joe. Yes, eight hundred eight two three eight
two fivey five Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson,
Strucker and the do Ringo kid. Good morning, Welcome back
here in the garden with Ron Wilson again that toll
free number. Eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five talking about yarding and as Joe and I were
(13:03):
talking earlier, very timely we've had we've lucked out in
our our yard. We've had very timely showers over the
last seven days or so. Uh and they've been good,
you know, pretty good soakers too. And once we've got
the moisture in the ground, it's kind of been sticking there.
We've had to water a couple containers that don't get
exposed to it quite as much, but otherwise we've been
pretty good. But again, as we look, you know, I've
(13:24):
got to you can continue to physically check, to use
your moisture meters, to use your rain gauges, and see
how much rain you got that they came through as well.
And again I say, consider all the rain showers that
come through as a bonus, build on top of them.
Don't count on those rain showers. As a matter of fact,
if you look at our forecasts, don't know about from
(13:46):
where you are, But if you look at our forecasts
for the next seven to ten days, I think every
day has a chance of showers, you know, the pop
up afternoon showers, and the temperatures get just right, and
the humidity gets right, and the monkey gets tight and
they all get together and what was that song anyway,
and you know, and that's when all of a sudden
(14:07):
they just pop Dan Gary Sullivan home and prun Buggy,
Joe Boggs and myself all live kind of in a
same line, several miles apart, but kind of the same line,
so a lot we kind of share the fronts. That
camp come across from west to east.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
It missed me.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I think he came from the south southwest up and
so the way it came up has been coming up lately.
It has been missing Dan but catching the other three
of us. So it's been really weird. But anyway, point
being is watch your rain gages physically check to see
how much moisture you did get in the ground. You know,
one of my tell tales out in the yard is
I'll take my square spade.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I have a very.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Sharp, square, all aluminum am Leonard D shaped handles spade
that I've had for years and you'll never break it.
And it's a one time purchase. It's outstanding. But anyway,
and get a go rainfall, take that out in the
yard and throw it down. You know. Now you throw
a shovel down and get it a stick into the ground,
(15:06):
not a record round point, but a square spade. And
if it hits the ground and goes ting and then
bounces back, I know we didn't get very much rainfall.
But if it goes down and he goes boop and
it sticks, then I know we did. And then I
can just kind of pull that back. I looked down,
see how deep it went into the ground. Gives me
a good It takes me twenty seconds to do that
gives me a good indicator as far as what's going on.
(15:29):
So again, you know, check those as they come through. Physically,
look look at your rain gages, use your moisture meters. Remember,
newly planted trees and shrubs many times do not benefit
from some of these showers unless the surface water actually
runs to them and down into the hole. But otherwise
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a lot of times, and if it's mounded, of course
it'll go around the outside of it, and if it's mounded,
it runs off the outside of it as well. But
you know, again physically check. This is a very important
time right now, as it is anytime during the year obviously,
but you know, to make sure we keep this good
even moisture as we work our way through probably the
hottest time of the summer over over these next few weeks.
(16:11):
So stick with it. Uh. I'm still seeing some things,
you know, the leaf diseases popping up like crazy, powdery, mildew,
brown patch in the lawns, all kinds of leaf diseases
in the lawns is crazy. I think I mentioned last
week the folks from OSU Turf saying if there's anything
out there that you can get in your lawn, it's
getting it right now, brown pats for most of us.
(16:34):
If you have like a turf type off rescue or
several of the other grasses as well. Seeing a little
bit of that right now. Not a lot you can
do at this point. We'll talk more about that after
the break. Got lots of tips to share taking your
calls eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
here in the Garden with Talk at your yardening at
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning,
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard. Well, we don't
(16:55):
forget our website Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page
in the Garden with Wilson used a little chatting going
on there on Saturday mornings, so be sure and check
that out as well. And of course talking about the weather,
which when we're out working in the yard and garden,
what is the topic out there besides how beautiful things
look or in some cases how bad they might be
looking because of the weather. Weather's always at the top
(17:17):
of the list, so you know, you deal with it. It's
one of those things I've always said, you know, I've
been in this business, the green industry, all my life
for the most part, and working with something that you
have no control over. You can do everything else that
you want to do right, but you have no control
over the weather. But you learn how to work around
it and do other things. But again counting those blow
(17:41):
through showers as a bonus showers, you know, and then
physically checking. And then of course I was talking about
lawn diseases before he went into the break and we
are seeing some brown patch especially, and it's really hard
to tell some of these things. I mean, Joe Boggs
probably pretty good if he had a lens, his lens
and get down to take a look at it. But
(18:01):
a lot of times you have to have samples and
let somebody identify it. And those services are available if
you want to go to that point and have these identified.
Most states go to your extension service and they'll direct
you to a lab that can help to diagnose and
sometimes there's a fee, sometimes there's not, but diagnose what's
(18:23):
going on with your plans, and I'll tell you how
to wrap them up and send them so that they
stay fresh set up. A lot of times they can
do that, especially with turf. A lot of professional lawn
care companies will do that because it's very hard to
identify it. There's no way I can brown patch when
I see it pretty much know what that is. A
red thread. You can understand that one and a few others,
but it's hard to separate them out. But anyway, seeing
(18:46):
a lot of brown patch for sure, in a lot
of the homeowner's lawns, and I think the thing to remember,
which was kind of ironic. And I don't know if
I brought this up last week or not, but I'm
sitting in a traffic light and I'm looking at this
yard and it's a beautiful lawn. It's got the brown,
hazy patches all throughout the yard, and they had irrigation
(19:07):
going on both sides. It was in the morning on
both sides of the corners, just soaking the heck out
of that thing. Well, one of the things to not
do when you have brown patch is to over irrigate,
especially in the morning. You know, you want to do
it early enough that it dries as soon as it
starts drying su as the sun comes up, and you
only do it if absolutely necessary. So you know, you're
(19:29):
trying to keep the turf as dry as possible to
get through this brown patch. And yeah, you can apply
a funge aside. There are some out there to help
get it into check. But remember fungicides are preventators, preventatives,
preventors preventatives rather than curatives in many cases. So you
can kind of get it into check by using a
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fung a side. But there are cultural things too. Don't
feed it right now that type of a thing, keep
mowing on a higher level and all of that. But again,
the water, you actually want to cut back and here
and it's a natural reaction again. You know, you see
plants starting to yell and lose leaves. What do you do?
You water more? It's just a natural reaction. And there
they were, and I should have actually just left them
(20:13):
a note. I don't think anybody was home. I think
they had it on a timer. But I should have
left the note, but I didn't. But again, if you
can try to find out or get a general idea
of what it is, check with your local garden center,
local law care company, local extension office to get a
better feel for it, and then take it from there. Also,
seeing right now where folks have planted plants last year
(20:34):
or the year before last year especially and you know
last spring, and you've got a whole year, a season
and a half under your belt, you know. And I
think people think that once you get into that point,
you don't have to water like you were doing when
you first planted the plant, you know, the first year. Well,
in many cases you do, especially when you get into
a dry situation, hot and dry, and right now I'm
(20:56):
seeing a lot of plants that put out a lot
of foliage. I was looking at a magnolia yesterday, but
then for a year and two, a year and a
half and looking great, new growth, looking great, leaves look great.
Just I mean it was dense, but starting to lose
yellow leaves on the inside of the plant. Now they're
(21:19):
going to send me pictures to make sure we don't
have any magnolia scale, but may cause it to happen.
But otherwise, my first question was, you know, what's the
water schedule been like, And the answer was, it's been
raining all spring. We really haven't watered it because you know,
it's been in for year and a half. You know,
(21:39):
we figured it was established, blah blah blah. Well it's not,
and more than likely it's a reaction to the lack
of moisture, especially when you see those leaves dropping to
the inside like that. That's one thing that leafy plants,
deciduous plants have the opportunity to do, and that is
to lose leaves to compensate for the lack of moisture,
so they can drop some of those inner leaves, less transpiration,
(22:02):
less lose being lost out of the leaves, less moisture
needed to supply to those leaves, so they can do that.
Where evergreens obviously can't do that, and that's why it's
so important we talk about watering those evergreens on a
regular basis, especially during the dry times of the year.
So again, you know, it's a physical check. Moisture meters
(22:23):
don't count on the rainfalls count consider those a bonus
check to see how much you got each time it
came through, how far did it penetrate newly? And you
know what the other thing is a lot of times,
especially with evergreens, look after a shower comes through, look
at the mulch underneath the plant. A lot of times
you'll see a ring where the drip line where the
leaves go out. You'll see a ring underneath that where
(22:45):
it's still dry on the mulch but wet all the
way around it. They can be their own umbrella. Sometimes yeah,
they collect water also and push it to the inside,
but sometimes it can be an umbrella as well. So
again it's just important to keep watching that monitor that
do it on a regular basis. If you're having problems
with the lawn right now, looked really good up until
(23:07):
this point. Look at the weather, look at the way
things are right now. There are a lot of lawn
diseases that are running pretty rampid right now. Check with
your local extension, check with your local lawn care. Maybe
take samples and send them into a lab to be
tested to see what it is. But in most cases
you may not be able to do anything about it
at this stage, or if you do, spray a fund
(23:29):
just side kind of get it into check. And of
course you've got we're about a month and a half
away where we start looking at what can you believe
I'm just gonna say this September, and of course that's
the best time they'll go back in and start renovating
the lawn core, aer rating, seating, feeding, and bringing it
back to life again. If that's the case, Before we
take a break, Thick from Dayton, good.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Morning, Hey, good morning, how are you.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I am great house, things going good, good good.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Well. My cousin's coming from He was from Alaria, Yeah,
you know, near Lorraine.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
There.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
He was part of the family that played music. He's
gonna come see uh with my friends Eddie and Mary
and my other friend. But that's gonna be nice. He's
supposed to get here about four o'clock today. Isn't that nice?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
That is nice. That is something for you to look
forward to. Just visit.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Uh. He said he might stay a couple of days.
Good to see what was I hope? So, but I went,
uh see what's the other day or yesterday? Bob picked
me up back to the spring Begers in Xenia and
we had a good time there. Chris plays, he plays you,
he teaches you. And I know one thing he told
(24:44):
me that Sue from the Strummers, you know, the ukulele
group Dick. Yeah, they missed me quite a bit. You know,
there was a big show. I couldn't go, but you know,
you know what, you hit around and I'm meeting more people.
I'm gonna be part time on the activities director. We
play like and me and Heather and what's her name? Lexi? Uh?
(25:08):
She she just you know, when when there's music, I'll
probably do a couple of songs. So I've been entertaining
the people outside when it's been nice.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Good about that.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think that's outstanding. You know. I told you my
grandson was in a ukulele group at their middle school,
and I guess that's becoming more and more popular, getting
kids involved playing the ukulele because it's baby how to
play the yeah, yeah, and a great instructor.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah. I go on Sunday morning, they have a couple. Well,
I go to a couple of Bible studies, and I
met a lady down there, her and her and her
husband or she's a uh he was Italian and uh
she's a gardener. And she said, dick my up. My
(26:01):
friends listen to Ron Wilson and and my friends here
you every Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
All right, all right, that's good for you and good
for us too.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yes it is. But it's always great, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So it's always great here to have a good week,
good and have a good visit with your friends. And
I hope they stick around with you for a few
days and share a few stories and all of that,
and we'll talk to you next Saturday. Have a great day,
all right, Dick, good talking with you as always. Bye bye,
bye bye Dick from Dayton right there. Now, we're gonna
(26:36):
have to get a see if this community has a
community garden or maybe container gardens, and we can get
Dick involved with growing some tomatoes and peppers and things
like that. How are your tomatoes doing, by the way,
so far, finally starting to come on in our area,
finally starting to get some reports of blossom in rod.
I'll talk about that after the breaking of course, taking
(26:58):
your calls. At eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five, don't forget coming up the top of the hour,
Rita Hike and fell we're gonna go in the garden
with Rita talk about her recipe, which is absolutely outstanding.
They always are, yes, sir, because it's Cherity Bounced Time.
It's one of her roast requested recipes out there, Cherry
Bounce Time. And at the bottom of the hour, we're
(27:19):
gonna try it one more time. We're gonna go down
south talk to our southern gardener, mister Gary Buckman here
in the garden with Ron Wilson. Eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. That is our number. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yardening as we move our way through the Are you
ready for this to the summer? Can you believe it?
I just said something about, you know, a month and
(27:42):
a half away and we're into uh September. Yes, I
tell you what. It goes by in a flash. But
in the meantime, dealing with these pop up showers and
the hot temperatures in the humidity and sets you up
for some leaf diseases and issues with plants and gets
a little you know, it gets a little frustrating sometimes,
but stay with it, stick with it, and you know
(28:03):
who really likes this kind of weather. Weeds things you
don't want growing in the beds that you have other
things growing, and they love it. And like Joe Strecker
was saying earlier, he could certainly use a landscape company
to come in and help weed because they've just gotten
out of control. And it's easy for a lot of
(28:23):
different ways to do that. And one of the big
old posts that we have on our website at Ron
Wilson online dot com is titled stop the Seeds, and
it's a good tip sheet to remind you that even
though you have weeds out there. Let's say you look
out and there's weeds all over the place. The one
thing you don't want them to do. Okay, you don't
have time to go out and maybe pull them all,
(28:45):
weed them out, spray, do whatever, but is you don't
want them to go to seed. You don't want them
to flower, and you don't want them to seed. And
sometimes folks will send us a picture of a plant
that came up in their bed that they didn't plant,
and it's hard to tell what it is is, so
we kind of stick with them for a while. Give
me another shot, ten days, another shot in today's or
if it starts to flower, give me a shot of
(29:06):
the picture. But once it starts the flower, we're gonna
I want to see the picture. Then we can tell
for sure what it is. But then you get rid
of the flower, or you get rid of the weed.
But you don't want these to flower and set seed.
It's like the winter annuals, and we talk about those
coming out of the winter and end of the springtime,
the harry bittercress, and the chick weed and the hen
(29:27):
bit and the purple dead netal you know, all of
those that their goal they're any annual. They germinate in
the fall, which is unusual, kind of hanging in there
over the winter. As soon as it starts to warm
and the spring they grow like a weed, all right.
They grow as fast as they can. They flower, they seed,
they throw seeds everywhere, and they die. And guess what,
You're now stuck with more seeds than you had at
(29:49):
the beginning of the year. And that makes it even
harder to get them under control. Pre emerging herb besides,
obviously can help you to stop those weed seeds from
being able to grow. But again, you know, if we
can get rid of the seeds first, that's a great
way to stop the spread and then work from there.
So again, great article about it. You can find out
(30:10):
it on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com.
So we've got to keep the weeds down. Don't let
them get it taking over. Don't let them take over
in your vegetable garden. Not a good thing because a
lot of them not only for the seeding, and some
can be at perennial. So once they get themselves rooted in,
not only you're dealing with the seeds, but coming back
up from the root system as well, makes them harder
to get rid of. So you know, again, stay on
(30:31):
top of the weeds as best you can. And I
know it's tough during the heat of the summer, but
you got to stick with them. Don't let them get
a foothold, all right, stay with him. And they can
also one other thing. They can harbor disease and they
can harbor insect There's a lot of insects that love
to get on your vegetable plants, that hang out in
the weeds and then you know, benefit from the weeds
(30:52):
and then get onto your plants and go from there.
Keeping debris and weeds down around your vegetables is a
real good step and keeping a lot of insects and
disease situations lower because you don't give them a place
to hang out, a place to breed, a place to
multiply or whatever, and then get into your vegetable gardens.
So keep that in mind as well. Speaking of vegetables, Oh,
(31:14):
one last thing. With all the moisture, a lot of
emails this week with folks looking in their mulch and
looking at that mulch and seeing these blobs showing up,
specially in shredded hardwood especially in the shredded fine hardwood,
the really fine stuff. Boy, this really does it great.
But it'll show up at almost any mulch, but hardwoods
(31:36):
are its favorite. And you get these blobs of oranges
and yellows and whites, and if they sit there for
a day or two, they start to turn tan and
then brown and kind of crust up and go away.
It looks like somebody threw up there, like a dog,
you know, with that foami how dog throws up. Thus
the common name dog vomit fungus or dog barf fungus.
(31:58):
It's a slime mold. It happens when the humidity and
the moisture and that mulch is just right, these slime
molds will start to grow. They are not harmful to you,
They are not harmful to the pets. They are not
harmful to the kids. But they look bad, They look funny.
So the best way to get rid of them is
either scoop them up and throw them away, or just
(32:19):
keep fluffing up that mulch. And if you can keep
it airy, keep it fluffed up, you'll see a lot
less of this. I used a kid all the time.
If I got it and I don't use hardwood anymore,
but when I did, I would scoop it up and
put it around my neighbor's front door, then knock on
the door and ask everybody's okay, or if the dog's
sick or whatever. But it's called slime mold, and it
will actually climb and move, thus the name slime mold.
(32:43):
Move up the side of a tree. She had to
kind of go up the side six or eight inches.
Somebody sent me a picture the other day they had
someone on the mulch around the base of their ornamental
grasses and it actually climbed up some of the stems
on the ornamental grass as well. Again, no harm to you,
no harm to the pets, no harm to the plants. Uh,
fluff it up, scoop it up, whatever it may be.
(33:04):
But it's called slime mold, or commonly known as dog
vomit fungus or dog bar fungus. A true plantsman. One
of my heroes, my idol when it comes to plantsmen,
along with Steve Folts and many others, is mister Kevin
O'Dell when he's with us. This morning, Kevin, and good morning.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Good morning Ron. It was wonderful seeing you the.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Other day, good seeing you have a friend.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
They're so full of exciting new plants and things. My gosh,
I just love that show.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Don't you almost your You almost have a headache when
you leave that thing. There's so many new plants and
things you want to Oh, I tell you it's crazy. Yep.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I hate to disagree with Joe there and you said
it very nicely, but try to never ever use or
gravel permult oh. Yeah, comes from below the ground. The
most implants come from above the ground.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And it's just more and more and more and more
ron and it just makes me. It doesn't make me sick,
but pretty close to it. And you know, a lot
of it's used professionally. People say I want to use gravel.
You never hit their remulch. Use plants and you don't
hit the remulch, you know, like our area is plant mulch.
And you know this gravel is getting out of control.
(34:18):
I mean we we've you know, my company has spent
much more time getting rid of gravel than we have
or ever.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Have put it down. I'm with you. And the thing
of it is, you know it looks you know, you
look at it and say oh man, maintenance free. And
when I have to ever put it down again, well,
over time silt starts to build up in those rocks,
and weed seeds start to grow in the rocks too.
It's no different than in the mulch, plus all the
non benefits of putting a gravel down. I'm with you, uh,
(34:45):
you know, And I always just suggest to folks, you know,
think about it two or three or four times before
you make that final decision. But I'm with you hundred percent.
Spend more time taking it up than you do putting
it down. Actually excellent information.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Plant fell't grow in gravel.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Let the plants fill it up for you. Yeah, they
don't grow and gravel. Let the plants fill it up
for you. Don't worry about the gravel or the mulch.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Kevin, Fine day, sir Kevin.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Always a pleasure, my man. Quick break, we come back
rid a hike and Feld we'll be with us. We're
going to talk about her herbs and her recipe cherry Bounce.
It's that time of the year. Cherry Bounce the most
requested read a recipe. I think of all of her recipes.
At the bottom of the hour, we're going to travel south.
We'll see if we can get him. Gary Bachman, our
southern guard GeV. He's awake to find out what's going
(35:30):
on in our southern states who are also experiencing some
real heat and some storms. Right now, it's all happening
here in the Garden with Ron Wilson
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