Keeping your hanging baskets nice and hydrated

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I'm Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. It's hot outside
talking about yardening. Let's kick it off with a cup
of Joe. It's the Joe Streker, Executive producer. But it's
hot outside. Find out what's going on in his lawn
and landscape. Not a lot because it's hot outside. Our website,
Ryan Wilson online dot com Facebook page. In the Garden
with Ron Wilson. Good morning, sir. Yes, it is very

(00:22):
hot outside. That's you're loving it. I'm loving it. And
you know because because it's so hot, you don't have
to do much outside. But it's a good excuse not
to do anything outside. That's besides water. That's it. Yeah,
that's it. Are you watering?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
What?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Are you ready for this? I'm not watering. What. How'd
your neighbor's new landscape turnout? It looked really, it's really
it's it's really nice. Good. Yeah, they did a good job. Good,
they did a good job. Did you Apparently you did
a drive by? I did, and you saw my yard
look good? It looks like it's terrible. Well, the grass

(01:03):
look good, the weeds look good. The weeds look good. Well,
got to redo that strip, little thing between a sidewalking
I don't know if i'm I'm I'm thinking about just
making it on again, making it what making it grass again? Oh,
that'd be hard to mow at least, just malch it.
I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do
with everything out maulch it. I don't know what I'm

(01:25):
gonna do with that yet, either either multch it or
or put rocks. We may have to take a look
at that this fall. Good little project there. Yeah, Joey's
in the afternoon. Get some volunteers to stop by. Well,
since the garden ferry is kind of in retirement, he
can come over to my house. Yeah, anytime, just anytime,
just swing by. Yeah, even at a dingo in their

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front yard moving stuff around. Yeah, they were, they were
working hard. They were, they're really working hard. And trust
my dogs hated it, did they because they want to
go out there and bark at them? Did they just
work on the front they know, they run him back
and and lots of evergreen screens between the two of you. No,
not really, but the but but the dogs they they saw,

(02:08):
I mean they heard and they saw and they were
just like, we want to go out there and bark
at them because they're not supposed to be there, and
that's what dogs do. Yes they do, but no, no,
they stayed inside. Good you guys work. I thought you'd
be surprised. I I know, I was surprised for a second.
I know what you're talking about. But then yeah, it's like, oh, yeah,
there's two weeks ago. Two weeks. Wasn't this week? It

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was last week? Was this week too? Oh they're still there.
They were. They were there a couple of weeks ago,
right before the holiday, and they were there this week. Okay,
to I guess finish. I saw a fish, so they
were the plants and had it. Didn't go run across
the yard to get that. Yeah, she's a nice lady.

(02:53):
Good good. So yeah, it's hot and that's pretty much it.
And I can report that your banana is about four
feet tall? Four foot tall? Yeah, why'd you stand next
to it? Yeah, I'll walk your yard. No you did not.
You did not if you walk, if you walked my yard,
my dogs would have noticed. No I didn't. I'm quiet.

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I'm like, I'm like a ninja. I'm like a ninja.
The yard boy ninja. Then people say that your gardening
guy was here today and they say, I didn't have
a I don't have a gardening guy. Well there was
a truck here with a gardening name on it and
he was walking around your yard. H They're like, maybe
then I slipped out. Maybe I need to make a
new graphic. You may have to gardening ninja. The gardening ninja.

(03:39):
There you go. Yeah, but it's about four and a
half feet tall. Now yeah, well great, so there you
go a little close to the house. Well that's where
it ended up. Well, I know with the bed that's there. Yeah,
so but yeah, we might have to take a look
at that kind of spruce that strip up a little bit. Well,

(04:00):
when you're up, I don't know when you're up for it,
I don't know. I'm just don't do low maintenance. Take
it easy. Well yeah, I'm all about roses there. I
learned that from Sally. Oh yeah absolutely, but yeah, no
roses or anything like that. All low maintenance. Take everything out, Yeah,
clean it up. We could do that a couple hours.

(04:22):
All right, let's do it. Okay, let's do it. We'll
report on it. Okay, we'll do it before and after.
I mean, yeah, that'd be some great and the pictures
for the website. Yeah, there you goes. What's your budget. Uh,
let's let's talk about that. We knocked that out a
couple thousand, A couple of thousand, Okay, I guess, I

(04:46):
guess that's not good. Well five hundred for the Blackstone,
for the food to go on it, and the beer
to go in the cooler. Okay, apparently I'm buying beer.
And yeah, well you have to take care of everybody. Okay.
I was how about to stuff. It's not good for you,
but smoking stuff. And I heard them talking about another
research thing that came out about processed foods. I get it,

(05:09):
I get it. I understand it says it's going to
be processed foods. I mean it could be fresh, but
if it's smoked. See if you put it on a smoker,
it could be fresh. Uh it's that's that's smokers in
that category. Sorry, okay, let's need it anyway. Okay. I

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never I never heard of anybody ever ever, you know,
not want any sting them turn down smoked ribs or
something bacon off the grill or smoked ribs or a
brisket or something I might turn out of the ribs.
Okay anyway, saying so are we going to get rain

(05:51):
again anytime soon? I think they're saying tomorrow. Well, they
keep on saying it, and everything always misses us. We
haven't had our anything. We got a couple of showers
that came through and that's about it. I mean they
were just on Monday. On Monday when it came through,
we got like a downpour for like ten to fifteen minutes,
and they came down pretty hard. But that was it,

(06:14):
and it just made up muggy here. Oh yeah, yeah,
those quick showers. It's like, oh my god, Now you
see the steam coming off the black top. Yeah, but
it's like, oh, let's go outside. But other than that, nothing, yea.
So maybe we should get a house on that. I
think we should. What's he going to do? I don't know.
He's the he's the guy that's the amateur media rolatives.
What's he gonna do? Let's just dial up the rain, yeah,

(06:38):
cloudy bringing on. Maybe he'll call us. Yeah, maybe he
can call in give us an update. Sure, he's in
the chat room. I'm sure he is. So talking about
Ron roth House. Is there any guests today? Is he
one of them? Let's see. No he's not, but he
could be if he calls in. We've been wren happy
to talk to him. Here you go, we have one

(06:58):
specific guess now we have Gary Sullivan, we have Buggy Joe,
we have you Danny Gleeson in between, but we have
a little southern gardening today. Cool mister Gary Bachman's going
to join us. Here you go. They're getting ready now
you talk about hot, They're getting ready to go into
their heat stretch for the summer. This is where it
really cranks up. So it's like an in between of

(07:19):
their seasons. So he's gonna tell us what they do
the same of the year, be said, stay in the
house and pull the shades down. So but that guess,
are getting ready to go into that. So grow a
whole bunch of stuff in an earth boxes. Now, see,
you always talk about you want you're gonna go to
Arizona when you retire because it's hot out there. Why
didn't you ever look at Mississippi or Alabama or Florida.

(07:39):
The real reason, yeah, is that just I want to
move west. Okay, I don't want to move south. I
want to move west. Got it of course you're talking
high humidity and you're talking low humidity. I'm also talking
I can watch the Super Bowl at two o'clock local
time and then when the time the game is over

(08:01):
us to have time to have fun. There you go.
I still remember going to Tucson on a Saturday college
football and watching it, got up at eight o'clock and
watching College foot Game Day at eight in the morning,
eating eggs. Yeah, yeah, that's what I want to do. Yeah,
there you go. That is there's the that's the bottom

(08:23):
line right there. That's the goal. So that's the That's
all right. So if Gary Batman's on, I'm going to
assume he's on in the next hour he is, so
Ron Rothhouse could probably call back in white up the
next then. Yeah, go ahead, Ron, six thirty seven. He's
got the number. You've got give us an update. You've
got the number. Yeah, you go ahead. You have always welcome. Yes.

(08:47):
So the website is Ron Wilson online dot com and
the Facebook page and the Garden with Ron Wilson. And
this week's new graphic is interesting. It's on there for
the for the chat room, so check that out if
you've been checking them out every week. I know, I
work hard on those things, so I hope people appreciate him.

(09:07):
Uh this week, Buggy Joe, Yeah, but he had several
postings for you to choose from a couple of posts
about the cicados. Yeah, came through it. So that's all done.
And then there's something about that Thomas de Haes has
about about trees, so check that out. Rito's recipe of
the week is zucchini bread. Great timing it is. It

(09:30):
starts to come on now then you start thinking about
what am I going to do with all those Yeah,
I'm not a big zucchini bread fan, but I'm not either,
But how about that recipe? Oh yeah, it's definitely a
twist to the normal zucchini bread right exactly, because you know,
you can use zucchini for any kind of filler. But
I'm not, and I'm like you. But a pineapple zucchini recipe, Okay,

(09:52):
that's a different story. It is now we get the
pineapple flavor in there. It is. I just you know,
I I love those. I love breads, yeah, and I
love like nut bread and banana bread. I used to
love zucchini bread, but I just had so much of it. Yep,
I think It was one year we had so much zucchini.
I think we had zucchini bread for weeks. You know.

(10:14):
It was just like, I can't eat this anymore. So yeah,
I kind of lots the taste for it. Peaches are
my favorite fruit. They are. But my wife will go
and get from the peach truck tour those big cases,
and then we eat peaches like twice three times a day,
and I get peached out. Well. Well, and if you
don't eat them fast enough, they rot. Well. She does

(10:34):
other things with them besides eating them fresh. She cooks them.
She makes these little things that freezes, you know, so
she mixes it up. But you know it's just I
get kind of peached out. I can understand that. But
I love peaches. I love peaches too, nice little fuzzy peaches,
and shake your trees nice and all the time. Okay.

(11:02):
The plants of the week this week are can give
me a little background music, a music done? Okay. The
first one is Russian sage. Yes, that's a pollinator. It
is putting out some good flowers right now if you
want your monarchs definitely, and they stage you see it everywhere.

(11:26):
But it just keeps like that, right, on through the summer.
I mean that one just hangs right in there, so
pretty tough, pretty durable. Cut it back in the springtime.
It's all you have to do. I know one thing.
I used to have one of those in my yard,
and that thing grew and especially when I got hot,
that thing multiplied. You can watch that thing and grow.
Oh yeah, they're tough, they're durable. They and it's you know,
it's lavender purple blue flower, not purple lavender blue flower.

(11:52):
It's it's it's just tough. And there's so many different
varieties now that are more compact, more upright spreading, you know,
all of that, so you have all to choice. You
can get you can get out of the upgrade of one. Yeah,
so check that out. I like the names of those, Yeah,
they're pretty cool. Yeah. Huh huh uh. And the second one,
there's two places of the week this week. The second
one is the Mexican sunflower. I had to throw that.

(12:14):
I've been mentioning that, but I haven't had any pictures posted,
so we thought we'd better put that up there. I mean,
that thing is just is too. You probably can't find
them now in the garden centers, but put it on
your list if your garden center doesn't grow them for
next year for an annual. That thing is absolutely gorgeous.
It flowers like that all summer long, and the butterflies
and pollinators love it, butterflies especially, and you'll see hummingbirds

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all over it too. But it's big, give it plenty
of room. But man, that Mexican sunflower is something else. Tithonia.
There you go. So there you have that. All right, Well,
let's get started. Open the phone, let's and let's get
some callers on. I'm ready to go, all right, eight hundred.
I want to say that what No, I don't want
to say that, but I want to say at the

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very end, because I first want to say Joe Strecker,
Executive produced. If you like what is on our website
of Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page in the
Garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Stricker had everything to do
with it. Something that you don't like, your question you're
not really sure about. Don't blame Joe, blame doctor Z Washington,
d C. Garden eighty three, riding around his Vespa, downs
around the back, still on the back sidecar there, but

(13:17):
Bowser should be in the sidecar. The sweetheart should be
on the seat to see pictures of the sweet teart
at fourth of July. No, I did not. It was
on his Facebook page. I'm not on Facebook. He pays, well,
you have the inside. He usually sends me. He usually
sends you pictures, I know. And he didn't. She was
enjoying fireworks with Cool with doctor z Cool, so very cool.

(13:38):
Was that sparkly diamond? You couldn't You couldn't tell if
it was the diamond or the firework. Apparently he's making
a lot of money in Washington. Must be good man.
Good for him. He stoles me money. Yeah right, anyway,
remember that sub but you yeah, all right, cool, all right,
here you are yep, eight hundred eight two three two

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five five. That's our number here in the garden with
Ron Wilson and the Durango Kid. Here in the garden
with Ron Wilson. Again, that toll free number would be
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Don't
forget it. Write it down, put it on the refrigerator.
We're here to help you out to be as successful
as we can and you can in your yardening endeavors.

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And of course, if you like to share your experiences
with us. We like that even better. We love hearing
from folks that say, hey, this is what I did
and it worked for me. Or here's a plant that
I planted and it worked for me, or didn't work
for me. I'll take that too, because if it didn't
work for you, you know, don't make us go through
it and find out it doesn't work. Right. We'll find
out and we'll share that information. How about your tomatoes

(14:43):
right now? I have gotten more emails over the last
ten days or so from folks saying in our area anyway,
you it could be different where you're listening to our show,
but in our area saying, man, what is with the
lack of tomatoes? Vines look good? Unfortunately, my mom's and
you know I always plan her as several containers of
cherry tomatoes, usually experiment with one or two different ones,

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which I have the big dwarf growing at her house.
And man, that's a good looking plant. But it does
have a tomato and it's a nice ize beefsteak tomato.
One I think there were two. One was coming on
only one though, but and a few peppers and things
like that. But anyway, same way, on hers. You know,
the couple of them have gotten sup tory leaf spot

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got it early, man, and it's just kind of wiping
out those bottom leaves. But the tomatoes that are there
look good and it's not gonna affect those tomatoes. They
will ripen, but definitely not as many. Definitely not as
many flowers so far. As a matter of fact, hers
justed because we had a shade tree close by, so
they always had filtered sun. Now it's full sun. But nevertheless,

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tomatoes in our area are late. There's no doubt about it,
whether it be production or ripening or actual production of
the you know, the flowers actually forming and setting fruit.
And again, like I said, I talked to our tomato
professional tomato grower, Terry Diefenbaker last week and he said,
of all of the years, and he's been doing this forever.

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I mean, man's old, old and he's been doing it forever.
He's probably laughing right now, but he's his family's been
doing it for a long time. And you know, he said,
this is the latest ever that they have not had
ripe tomatoes. And I think they've planted the first week
of May, so it's been a little frustrating. But all
I can tell you is this, keep watering, feed as needed,

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don't overfeed him, definitely, don't overfeed him, and be patient.
They will come. Eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. That's our number here in the garden with
Ron Wilson bing at eight hundred eight three eight two
five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal
guard boy. Don't forget our websites Ron Wilson online dot com.
All kinds of great information on there for you, including

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if you're zucchinis. We're talking about tomatoes being a little
bit slow and late in our era. Yeah, if your
zucchinis are coming on strong, and you know they're the
size of that baseball bat, you can still use those,
you know. I think Olsue Extension does a share zucchini
or share Zucchini Day or put zucchini on your neighbor's
porch day, something like that. Anyway, you know, you make

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all finds, all kinds of ways to use up the zucchini.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
But she has a nice twist here, and I like
it because you know, you kind of get tired of
the zucchini. As we were talking about, you know, you
don't eat so much of it. But it's it's got
pineapple in it. No, that's a different story. Talking about
putting little pineapple with the zucchini sounds sounds pretty good
to me. Yeah, I think I can handle that. So
check it out. It's at ron Wilson online dot com

(17:40):
and Joe has a great posting there. We talk about
periodical cicadas and possible mysterious bug bites, kind of a
some of the periodicals. Let's show you about them a
little bit. But what happens this time of the year.
You're out at a picnic, all right, or maybe it's
in your own yard, and you're under an oak tree
and you're having a great time, and all of a

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sudden you realize you're starting to itch around your neck,
around your shoulders, you know, basically on the top part
of your body, starting to get break and all of
sudden're breaking out a little bit of a rash. And
it's like, what is going on here? And I still
remember my brother in law. They were somewhere and a
say perfect scenario, huge oak trees, picnic, underneath tables and

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all he came away with this huge rash on his
neck and his ears and his back and his shoulders. Well,
it's a it's a small mite that actually causes the
leaves of the oak to turn into a gull right
around the edges, and they will drop out of the tree.
And when they drop out of the tree, and if
they land on you, they will they can bite you.

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And these things are micro. I mean, he's a little
little bit guys, so you really don't notice them, but
they will land on you and bite you and cause
this big rash and it's not a pretty sight and
it doesn't feel good either. And it's like the mysterious
bug bite word and I I didn't see anything. Whatever, Well,
that's what it is, and it's interesting and this does happen,

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and it may have happened to you sometime in the past.
And you're like, I always wondered what that was. Well,
that's probably what it was. But if you want to
learn more about it, go to our website at run
Wilson online dot com and you will see periods, periodical
cicadas and possible mysterious bug bites and then then I'll
tell you all about us to be sure and check
that out. Of course, we continue to post buggy Joe

(19:26):
Boggs all the Ohio State University Extension beagles there so
you can see those. You can also get them on
their website at bygl OSU dot e du Rita's recipes.
You can always count on her recipes every week as well.
And by the way, will be with us next Saturday.
See what's going on in here her yard and garden
this time of the year. I'll tell you what it is,

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hot hot hot. It is dry, dry, dry in our area.
Right now. I planted. You know, we pretty much finished
up all the containers. And containers are one thing, you know.
You plant those containers up, water them, I really soak
them well. They'll last a couple of days. Before you
put a little soil moist in there, some core in there.
You can get them to last a couple of days

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and really soak them well, and plants start to root
in and then you're you're, you know, you're you go
to water on a regular basis, But that's because it's
container gardening. Well, I planted purposely, and I seriously did
this on purpose. I planted this week and I think
I did it on Monday. I'm pretty sure it was Monday,
maybe Tuesday. Three. American gold Rush Rebeccia. I love that plant.

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And we had a little spot in our front landscape,
established landscape, little triangular area that was open. I forget
what I had in there before, but I had taken
it out. So we planted three in there to make
a nice clumping. And so I held off purposely to
plant these because I said, you know what, they'll kind
of give me the you know, explaining to somebody as

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I go through the summer trying to keep these things
watered in this bed, and this bed is not irrigated,
I do not wish to bring I have to bring
a sprinkler out there unless we get into a serious
drought situation to water that. But it's really dry. Got implanted,
really watered, and well when I got done, soaked them
in well. But what's interesting is, and this is where

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you start to get into this fight, it's like, wait
a second, I just watered those. When you get the
surrounding soil is not moist as well, it just sucks
that out of there like a sponge. And that's why
I say, I purposely did that, just to see how
quickly and it's good soil. It's a very well prepped bed.
But man, as it sucked that out of there, and

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they're just trying to be watering that triangular area where
these are planted. I have had to do that at
least once, if not twice a day. Uh and again
wilted down by four o'clock in the afternoon it's full
sun and not the moisture's not there. It's already gone.
So you know, it just shows you how important and

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you know that you've got to stick with these. And
if I was really busy, if I had things doing,
if I wasn't paying attention to them and not watering
on a regular basis or monitoring as I needed to water,
you know, a day or two of that and those
things are toast. And that's how quickly these things can happen.
So many times I see folks that say I planted them,

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blah blah blah. Yeah, I'm watering on a regular basis.
You skip one or two this time of the year,
you know, where they're still not rooted in enough to
to you know, try to really hold their own. They're
going to be toast. I know this week, I couple
three folks emailing me about Barbary. And you know, Barbary,
I love barbary, pick me barbary, all the maroon foliage.

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I love those plants, but the one and they'll tolerate
a dry condition. They'll tolerate droughts fairly well once established.
But until that thing gets established, you know, you let
that dry out. One time, barbary dry out, one time
it's toast. It's done, and it's you know, it's it's
almost as picky as evergreens. For the first two or
three years. You've got to keep that in there. And

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if you await for a week or two or ten
days on vacation and somebody doesn't water those for you,
or you didn't pay a lot of attention to them
and didn't water, I'm telling you those things will go
into toast with And that's exactly what I was seeing.
So it's a very difficult time right now. I get
that you got to monitor, you got to stay on
top of it basically as I want, you know, looking

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at our right now and our landscape at all, my
two things are dead heading, pinching, annuals as best needed
and perennials as needed, watching for insects. Not really much
out there going on right now as far as insects
goes in our area and keeping the moisture to what
needs to be watered. And I think that's really key

(23:43):
right now as we try to get through these hot
dry period to keep these plants going. And again, like
I say, I did that on purpose because I wanted
to see what it would take, you know, And these
are tough plants again, you know, Rebeccia. Once it's established, tough, durable,
but again it's getting established, it's always fun to see
other plants who takes it the best. And I'm telling

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you and you for me, talk about these before Ruella,
which is Mexican petunia. Ruella. You give that a week
to get established in the ground or in a container
and that bad boy, you you know, it'll weld a
little bit, but not much. Perrilla, Angelonia, Liiza machia. If

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you know, if you like creeping, genning and hanging down
the side of the pots, unbelievable what they'll take as
far as drying out, still flowering and still looking good
for you. One last thing, and I'll kind of leave
this as a teaser. We have one hanging basket and
I'm not big on hanging baskets, but we got a
couple of them, Missus Wilson wanted to put on their
swing garden Swing, But anyway, it's a black Eyed Susan,

(24:49):
the vining one and having some issues with that. I'm
going to take a break and then we'll come back.
I'll tell you what I did with that. But in
the meantime we open up funds for you obviously at
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. And
I want to go to Dayton real quick and talk
to our buddy Dick.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Dick, good morning, good morning, how are you?

Speaker 1 (25:06):
I am doing great? How is the week this week?

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh? What a week? What a week?

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Good?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
I want to tell you. And Danny, the director of activities,
her and Doug came up. He's a transportation driver and
they did a evaluation on me that they liked the
people like music, so they talked to me, and I'll
be doing a lot of activities with Trey. And I

(25:34):
went to Springfield yesterday the banjo. Not Springfield, but Genia.
What a time we had. We were just going off
every song we could think and they welcomed me back.
But uh so I'm going to be you know, either
other day performed for thirty minutes or stuff. How about that.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
I knew that was as soon as they found out
your capabilities and your music talents, I knew they were
gonna grab a hold of you and have you start
the entertaining folks there.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, you were mentioning something my aunt used to in
uh Cleveland. She uh can she used to bring that
to me uh down here in Dayton, you know, Kennery,
Uh zucchini, We used to have that with uh I
think fright zucchini O good stuff.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Read that with parmersan cheese and fry that up. Mmmmmm.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
I'm lucky this week. If he's here, I'm gonna let
you talk to My cousin is coming from uh Texas.
He was from Cleveland, and he wants to get together.
We're gonna play music. So if if i'm if he's
here in the morning, I'm gonna perform some show for
you and Danny.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Excellent. I'm looking forward to it. Dan here. Okay, all right, Dick, Well,
thanks for calling. We appreciate it. We'll talk to you
next Saturday. Good week, have a good week. Pleasure Bi
bless by. All right, quick break, we come back. Phone
lines are open for you at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five talking yardening here in the
garden with Ron Wilson. Well so again that toll free

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number eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
talking about yardening. It's hot outside. There's no rain out
there in our area. Hopefully you're getting some in yours,
but it is. It's been hot this week. Uh. I
thought I used to be able to handle the heat
and I would work and I would I used to
bike a lot. I like biking, biking in the heat
of the day. But I'm not cause I used to

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be in that ead. I'm doing more of that morning
stuff and the evening stuff and hitting the pool in between.
Well I'm still working, but yeah, I actually hit the
pool yesterday. It was kind of surprised me. That's something
I don't normally do. Uh, community pool, by the way.
Uh talking about yardning, and before we went into the break,
you know, we're talking right now basically as it's the
old Manny's by walking around and you know, looking for

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insect disease, these problems dead heading, pinching out those dead flowers,
pension back plants that are starting to get a little leggy,
some of the annual starting to do that as well,
and making sure we keep them water. Well, we've got
a hanging basket, first time we've had a it's a
vining black eyed Susan. And you know, you talk about
aggressive hand, you'll find that bad boy takes over everywhere. Well,

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we hung this on the end of our garden swing,
which has you know, a lattice over the top of it,
and the goal is to get it to grow on
the side and across the top. And my wife's been
taking it and putting out of it. But anyway, there's
another one. It's in a twelve inch container that you
just cannot keep enough moisture in that container. By the end,

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you watered every day and by three o'clock it's dry
as a bone. And the problem with hanging baskets we
get into this time of the year is a lot
of times when you buy hanging baskets, you know they're
planted a little bit tighter than you normally would plant
in a landscape bed or a container whatever, because you
want a nice show. So garden centers will do that.
It's it's it happens, uh, and it's nice and tight.

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But what happens is you started getting into July and August,
those plants have all filled in, They've rooted in that
whole thing. If you if you turn it over and
pull the soil out of the pot, it'd be just
a solid mass of roots and very little soil. That's
the way it happens. And so you know, by the
time you start, you know, getting into August, some of

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those hanging baskets start to look pretty darn rough because
you just can't keep up with the watering, and of
course the nutrients levels goes down, and they're all competing
for that. It's gonna be tough. And even with this
black eyed Susan, the vining one, it's it likes a
lot of moisture anyway, and there's quite a few in
that plant, that hanging basket. And again, twelve inch baskets.

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If anybody buys anything less than twelve inch basket, I
don't know how you keep them water through the summertime.
I don't know how you do it. But anyway, so
now what I'm gonna do is we're gonna I'm gonna
go get a fourteen inch hanging basket. Those are we
can get them bigger than that as well, but fourteen
inch we'll just very gently take this off the bottom.

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We'll just very gently put a new one back on
top and reconnect the hangars to the pot. And I
will also put around the outside of that good potting
soil with a little bit of core COI R and
a little bit of soil moist mixed in with that.
And then I will go through and I'm gonna poke
some channels down with a pencil or a wooden dowl

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in that and sprinkle a little bit of soil moist
in those as well. That should help to cut down
on our water and hold a little moisture more moisture
there for us, and hopefully make that plant a little
bit happier. I'll tell you what, even though it dries
up by the end of the day, I mean, it's
just wilded. It's down, it comes right back up, and
once you water it or it starts to cool down,

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it starts to come up a little bit, but you
gotta water it. What a show if you've never grown
those before. I mean, they really produce a lot of flowers.
And this happens to be a new series that is
a citrus peel peel us, Yeah, something like that. Anyway,

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it's an it's kind of a citrusy orange, dark orange
and the dark center. Really attractive flower citrus appeal, I
think is what it's called really cool series. But man,
they put out the flowers even under the conditions of
being a drought dry, Uh, they still can produce for you.

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So keep that one in mind for a hanging basket
next year. And again if you can protect that from
the heat of the afternoon sun. They like the sun,
but it's a little bit easier on it, which I
think is pretty much true for about any plan out there,
pretty much any annual out there. Uh, you know, you're
protect them from that two to five three to you

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know somewhere in that that two to three hour period
from the heat. They usually perform a lot better for you.
But again, that's another one to put on your list
as far as annuals because it's a providing annuals. It's
great And I did We did that one, and I
also planted an individual one that's in a planter box
on a trellis and it's now pretty much filling in
the trellis and just starting to give us some color there.

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It was a small one and we're just now starting
to get some color there. But it doesn't wilt down
like the one in the hanging basket because it's not
subject to the full sun exposed dried out a lot
of plants in a small area blah blah blah. So
it shows you the difference between the banking basket and
in the ground. So anyway, as we're walking around and
managing by walking around right now, remember keep dead heading,

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keep pinching those annuals back to keep them nice and full.
Watch your watering spot treat if needed. And this is
you know what when you're walking around if you're not
doing a you know, if you're not actually running a sprinkle,
but you just need a spot treat here and there.
That's whether your dram d R a MM dram watering
wands really come in handy because that watering wand is
just they get the longest one. It's perfect. You got

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the thumb control, shut it off. Walk around, you see something,
you can turn that on. And the watering head on
a dram. Their their dram watering heads are outstanding and
there's four hundred that I think in one holes in
the end of that thing. So it makes a really nice,
strong but yet soft and gentle watering that pierces right

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into the root ball, pierces right into the soil. You
can put that right in the middle of the plant
and soak that bad boy really well and then move
on and do that. So if you kind of have
to walk around like I especially I am right now
with those rebeccas, you know that works out very nicely.
You don't have to carry anything you have to bend
over that watering one, and the same way with hanging

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baskets and all. That watering one is great. You can
poke that right in around the base of the plants.
You're not watering the foliage, you're watering the soil only,
and the way the water comes out of that is great.
As a matter of fact, in the garden centers, if
they have balden plants that are that are B and
B balden bur left trees and at the knee to
be watered, they'll take that head on a watering You
can stand there and put that head right on the

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top of the burlap, and the way the water comes
out of that head will go right through the burlap
and soak right into the root ball. But what's interesting
is if you feel it, it's a very soft and
gentle but yet very forceful. And that's what the key
is with that dram watering the watering head. I think
it's called the four O one or four to ten

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or something like that. But anyway, that and the water
one a great combination to move around in water and
water the plants, not the foliage, all right. And when
I say not the foliage, it's not because we don't
want water on the foliage. It's gonna gonna leave sunburn
on there. That doesn't work. That's a myth. That doesn't happen.
All right. You don't burn your leaves by leaving water

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on the leaves. That's not it. We don't want to
set up the leaves for fungus and problems, disease problems.
So we water the soil. We don't waste it on
the foliage. We water the soil, not the leaves. And
that dram watering one does a great job for doing
that for you. All right, another break and then we
come back. We'll continue sharing tips with you. Coming up
to the bottom of the next hour, we're gonna do
a little Southern gardening with Gary Bachman. He's gonna give

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usn update what's going on in the Southern States with
the gardening. Right now, they're getting into that heat wave.
This is there. They are like three or four weeks
that it's just absolute eight double hockey sticks bad news
down there. So we'll find out how they garden through that,
and then of course taking your calls at eight hundred
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