Now is a great time to plant fall crops

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our tour free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy talking about yardening. And not only is
he here for the cup of Joe, he is also
in the Captain's chair and he is running our show today,
ladies and gentlemen. He has our executive producer. He's in
charge of our website at Ron Wilson online dot com,

(00:21):
Facebook page, in the garden with Ron Wilson, And of course,
like I said, running the ship today, mister Joe Strecker,
Good morning, sir. Hey Ron, Oh, that's the getting of
the show. And I just took a drink of coffee
to make sure everything was nice and clear. My goodness,
how was that? Okay? What you get for trying to yell? Okay? No,

(00:44):
I'm not Are you okay? I'm fine? I mean you
could have hurt in your earphones? How yeah? How are you?
How's ever? How was your week? Not bad? Just not bad?
I'm bad? Was okay okay? And you I made it through.
It was a little hot, don't you think. Well I
didn't even bring that up because you like that, I do,

(01:08):
I do, But still it was it was hot. By
the way save your money. Because you talk about and
I didn't bring this with me, but you probably got
it too in the in the pr things. But talking
about the cities that were the most expensive to have
a lawn, Yeah, did you see that? No, I didn't
see about two of them when the top three were

(01:29):
in Arizona. Oh okay, So either you don't you don't
have a lawn, or be prepared to spend big bucks
well to have a lawn. I'm gonna I'm gonna go
with not have a lawn. There you have it. Well,
actually that would be better for you because then you
don't have to take care of it. I'm not planning

(01:49):
on it. See when when I when I retire to Arizona,
I'm not worried about lawn care. You're just moving to
the desert. Moved to a desert or or I'll have
a postage stamp, or you just have a posty stamp.
Nothing around it besides native plants and done. Yeah, a
whole bunch of cactie, cactie. No one walk in my yard.
I got a whole bunch of cacti and all kinds

(02:10):
of sedge and stuff like that. Yep. Yeah, it's the goal.
We're gonna be able to come out and visit, or
you can come out of the visit just to walk
into the lawn. We'll it be too, won't be able
to What do you mean? I'll have a pathway then
you have rattlesnakes in there and have a Lena's coming
up and he'll keep the slicterers away. That it will,

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and it would keep other people away from coming to
visit you. There you go, there you go. I have
to admit every time I went to Tucson to visit
our sister in law, I'd get up early in the
morning to do to do a little walk, and of
course she's out. She's outside of Tucson and out kind
of out in suburbans but out in the desert, and
you go for a walk, and in the desert right

(02:54):
up to the sidewalk. I was paranoid the whole time.
I kept thinking, some rattlesnakes gonna jump out, and that
doesn't happen. But you know, still there. But when that
sun peeks up over top of that mountain, wait, just
pierces right through your clothes. You'll love it. I can't wait,
I can't wait, he says, Well, my my My goal

(03:16):
is to uh you know, like I said, watch the
Super Bowl and in the morning, in the middle of
the day and not have to worry about going to bed.
You uh, well, what difference does it make here and
be working? No matter, that's the goal. So I'm curious, Uh,
after some of your recent endeavors, are you up for
an rv AM. I for an r V Yeah, to

(03:40):
get more into the camping world. Maybe maybe not me driving, No,
I don't know if you have gotten all little bit
of that camping in your blood. And it was it
was definitely interesting last week Joe went camping. Yeah, we
didn't really discuss it. It was deaf only very interesting.

(04:02):
We'll just say that. Is that the first time you've camped?
Oh gosh, unless unless you count going to like an
overnight you know, soccerning as camping, that was the first
time I've ever camped. This was legitimate camping. Yeah, campground everything,
sleeping bags, all that stuff. Oh yeah, wow, air mattress,
but ye, air mattress, sleeping bag. Cook it on the stove,

(04:26):
fire pit, some'mores.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
We didn't have smores, but we did have a fire pit.
I brought my blackstones. We had nice. We didn't have
to wear grill, so yeah, nice. It was fun. It
was it, We'll just it was. It was very interesting
because the the we went to we went to a
concert in Upper Ohio for those who are familiar, it's

(04:53):
called Neon Nights. It's like a two night concert. But
it's in the middle of Amish country. Okay, so there's
really nothing out there other than this this big field.
I mean it was at it was at like a
like a camping resort kind of thing, and I mean

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they had it was I mean they had a lake
and they had you know, you can swim and stuff.
But yeah, it was just really interesting hanging out with
the with the Amish people up there. This was kind
of a rock rock collection. The first night was rock,
second night was country. Got it, h it was. It

(05:35):
was a fun time. I mean it was definitely a
fun time, very very interesting, a lot of a lot
of people watching, and yeah, it was. It was fun.
But bye. By the time Sunday rolled around and about
you know, eight nine o'clock in the morning, I was
ready to get back home. And you went up on Friday. Yeah,
so you had two nights under your belt in a
couple of days and Friday night, Saturday night? How did

(05:57):
you cook on the Blackstone? I did not cook. M
you just took the Blackstone. I just took it. I
was not in charge of cooking. Got it? Was there
any slip of its involved?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
No?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Not not not slim of it's There was no slow events.
There was there was alcohol, but it was not sliwant okay,
just curious. So after it's all said and done, r
V nowhere.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
In the.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
R v's are expensive. So yes they are so well
what about trailers? Camping trailers? Uh? Maybe you know what.
I'm not going to make a commitment right now yet,
kind of like that pool in the backyard. Oh well,
we'll see, oh what, but we'll see what I remember

(06:42):
Joe Strecker fifteen years ago or longer, when there was
not gonna be one dog in the Streker household. How
many you have now? Four? Mm hmm, okay, not going
to have a yeah, never know, never never know. I

(07:04):
love it so well. Anyway, it's good to have you here.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
It is.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
It was taking some time off, using up some vacation. Yep. Yeah,
I'm taking some time off next week and I also
got some time off planned for September and then I'm
free and clear until the holidays. Good for you. You
used to You're you're like me, You used to not
use that vacation up. Well, it's because I will always

(07:28):
forget to. Yeah. And the next thing you know, it's
the end of the year. Yeah, and I got oh,
I got three and a half weeks I gotta worry
about here and it's the last week of the year. Yeah.
So yeah, let's pack it all in one week, right, right,
So let's let's let's let's take a break early here
and then well we'll talk about everything. So I don't
want to pack everything in your here into the get late,

(07:48):
got it. I love it when you're when you're in
the captains chair, we always go to the first break.
You always say, let's take a break and then we'll
get into the Cup of Joe. Yep. Notice how that
changes when you're in the captains chair. Well, Dan cold times,
and Dan's not pushing us along to get off the stop.
Time take a break. It up, all right, we'll take
a quick break. We come back. We have Cup two

(08:09):
of the Cup of Joe here in the garden with
Ron Wilson. Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Time for Cup two with a cup of Joe. Mister
Joe Strekker, our executive producer, finding out what's going on
our website, Ron Wilson Online dot com, Facebook page. In
the Garden with Ron Wilson and Joe is in the
captain's chair today because he is running the ship. He
is our producer. So it's a good time. So who

(08:30):
do we have? He's on the show today. On the
show today, we will have Joe Strecker. He's going to
do two parts. As a matter of fact, we have
Rita or Rita Barbie Bletcher. Rita Barbie Bletcher is going
to join us at the top of the hour. We're
gonna get a b update from the summer. I think
they had a really good honey harvest in our area.
But where we are with all the major losses and

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then now we're looking at the fall season round and
third and heading for home and I'm sorry and I
I this is a tough time, can be a tough time.
We'll talk to Barb about that and how we can
help our bees and pollinators out there, and then of
course Gary Sullivan for a little home improvement and then
Buggy Joe. Gary Sullivan is on location today. Wait he

(09:14):
where is he? He is in his vacation home. Oh
is he? Yes? Oh he's not even he's not even
so local today. Look at that he's on his vacation
home and he still does his show. I know that
steady can that man is deady. I just wish one
day I could be just like Gary. We all want
to be like Gary. So the website is Ron Wilson
online dot com. In the Facebook page in the Garden

(09:36):
with Ron Wilson. And I'm still waiting for feedback on
the pictures. I have gotten very very little feedback. I
think they're hilarious. So I don't know. Maybe I'll stop
doing it and we'll see if people notice. I think
they're hilarious. And I don't think you need to stop, Okay,
I think do it because you enjoy it. You know
how nice is I enjoy it? Okay, So yeah, don't stop,

(09:59):
just you just keep it going. I got a special
one plan for two weeks from now. Two weeks from now. Yeah,
you know what two weeks from now is? Right now?
What is it? Uh? There's a there there's a big
game in uh oh, yeah, I forgot about that big
game coming up here in two weeks. Yes, that's right.
I got a special one plan for that day. Can
you believe that's starting? And I guess a week and

(10:21):
a half, right, because then they start like on Wednesday
or Thursday. Yeah, but but the big game isn't until
Saturday Sturday. Absolutely. Were you surprised, I know this has
nothing to do with gardening. That what their rankings were
when the AP rankings came out, I'm not surprised. You know,
all those teams are closed. You could have flipped the
coin and put any of those in the top ten

(10:43):
that you could have ranked them completely different. Are so close.
I thought that was surprise. Alabama wasn't there in the
top five. I'm not surprised Alabama there because they're terrible. Well,
we'll see. You never know what teams like that? Hey,
and when with with all the new players and then
I l Now, I mean, you have no idea what
you have until That's what I'm saying. You have no idea.

(11:03):
You have no idea to like at least game three
or four, staffelling them together and see what you got. Yeah,
I mean your your weight, you don't even know what
you have into like game three or four. Yeah, so
it's different. I mean, I mean, look look at what
happened to High and State last year. They didn't even
gel until what game six or seven? Yep, after that

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Nebraska game that was awful. Yep. So but yes, I'm
looking forward to it. So I can't wait to see
that whatever you got coming up your sleeve for that one,
we'll see it's it's a special one. So hopefully everyone
will enjoy that one. Good. So on the website, Buggy Joe,
I guess is was cleaning out, cleaning off all the
stuff off of his h off his desktop. There was

(11:49):
a couple a ton of Buggy Joe stuff this week. Yes,
So if you want to know about robber flies, my
favorite bug I love that. I got a picture on
my desk on the wall of robber sign it. Uh no, no,
but it's one of his pictures and I framed that
because he mislabeled that about twenty five, twenty fifteen years ago.
No way, Yeah, he misidentified it and it's still a

(12:13):
robber fly, but it's a different name than what he
thought it was. Ah okay, but they didn't know a
lot about him, and now they do, so we've updated it.
But yeah, it's one of my favorite bugs. I think
it's the coolest looking, nasty looking no neck heads just
right there on his shoulders and there's a reason for that. Yeah, okay,
cool bug. So there's robber flies, there's an Asian longhor

(12:36):
beatle update yes, long jawed spider, yes, and the funnel spiders.
A little bit of a little bit of everything there
with spiders, webworms, and there's a whole bunch of good
stuff on there. So if you check out the website
read all the tips and stuff from Buggy Joe. So
who you're ready for a couple hours from now? Excellente.
Of course you never know what he's going to talk about,

(12:58):
so could be all that, could be none of them.
I'm gonna go with the ladder. I'm gonna go with
the ladder. Also, so, uh Rita's recipe looks yummy. I've
made this, not specifically this recipe, but I've made this
form of this kind of recipe many many times because

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I was lazy. Yeah, but it's good, But it's really
really good. It's crockpot zd with her little twist on
it as usual, and it's a it's a quick one too,
I mean a recipe that's a not much to it,
but it's show is good. Yep, four was it? Four ingredients?

(13:38):
Can't beat that? Four ingredients in a crockpot? Even Gary
like that because it's all about easy, all about easy.
That's the Sullivan Special. We should we should rename it
Rita's Back to School Gary Sullivan ZD or just bike
Gary ZD Gary ZD, Gary ZD. Yeah, Pat and pending.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
The plan of the week is the seven sunflower. Seven sunflower?
You know that would nice in your front yard. That's
susn not Son. Yes, you are correct, and it's a
plant that not a lot of people know, but starting
to get more and more popularity. I think I picked
this way back about in eight I don't know, August
or September of probably eighteen nineteen twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen,

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trying to get some popularity out there because here is
a shrub that just flowers like its head off late August,
and then in September every pollinator in the street loves it.
But it's after that when those bracs turn that red
color that it's absolutely spectacular. And again it's it's not
it's not a plant for everybody, but it's a really

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cool plant. It's an oldie, but goody. It's hepticodium or
commonly known as seven sunflower. And be sure and check
it out. Great for the pollinators. All right, Well, two
cups are down and let's get ready to go that it. Yep,
you sir, All right. Joe struck our executive producer. And
of course, if you like what you see on our website,
run Wilson online dot com and the Facebook page. In
the garden with Ron Wilson. Joe Strecker had everything to

(15:04):
do with it. But if there's something on there you
don't like, something you don't Yeah, your question, not my fault,
it's not his fault. Who are gonna blame? Doctor Z
Doctors Z eighty three pictures this week. I didn't have anything.
I didn't see any either. He's kind of quiet. He's
on vacation in Iceland again again, Doctor Z in Washington,
d C. Garden eighty three, Garden eighty three, riding around

(15:25):
on his with uh the Sweetheart in the sidecar and
Bow Bow Bow on the back seat. You know, my
brother in law used to collect vest words. He did. Yes,
he used to have. Is that is that the one
that had that owns a megawealth Uh no, no, no,
my brother in law. Okay, yeah, kind I guess anyway

(15:48):
he did. He used to have a whole bunch of one.
Don't know what he did with all of this. Guy
he still has a couple of them his motorcycle garage.
So anyway, all right, thanks Joe, and I'm looking forward
to uh running the show today with you can't wait home?
All right, right, appreciate old lines are open. Boat lines
are open at eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five talking about yardening, and I got a lot

(16:08):
of tips to share with you today and again go
to our website run Wilson online dot com to check
everything out there as well, so far as all the posts,
and we will work our way through those two. It
has been kind of a hot and unexpected showers here
and there. I don't know about you, but we've had
some very timely showers. It was getting pretty dry as
a matter of fact, in the Joe Streker's area locally

(16:29):
here and the iberdoc Ron Roethlis has been very dry
at his area too. In our area about fifteen eighteen
miles north of them. We've had some fairly timely showers.
So again important time of the year as we start
to wind down the summer, looking at the fall season,
keep watching that rain gage so you're watering as needed
as we start to go into the fall season. Don't

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want those plants under stress at that point, and definitely
don't want them understressed as we go through the fall
and getting close to the winter season as well. Can't
believe or already saying that A two three eight two
five five, that's our number here in the garden with Ron.
Will soon welcome back here in the garden with Ron
Wilson again that toll free number eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five talk in the yardning as

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we start to wind down the summer season. The start
of the meteorological falls is right around the corner, two
weeks away. Cannot believe that is happening to Kentucky. We
go Joe Anne, Good morning, Joe Anne, Yes, good morning.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
How can we help you?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Oh? As, I have raspberryes, but I put out three
years ago. They did wonderful last year. I didn't get any.
This year, I didn't get any and I was just wondering,
do I have to dig up the cane to get
new ones? Or is this something I'm doing wrong orhether
I'm not saying them good or whatever.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Well, but I'm disappointed. Yeah, I have pretty big huge
I'd be disappointed as well. Do you remember when you
bought them what type they were? No?

Speaker 2 (18:07):
You know, I was wondering about that too, but I
don't remember what it was.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
But I loved them.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
The first year.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
I just had them everywhere. The neighbors were coming over
with buckets, and now no one's coming over now.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
At the end of the season, after those flower, did
those canes die back?

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:28):
They did, so they died back, and also that was
the end of them.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
But they came back the leaves but not the fruit.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Okay, And so they're talling. Do you do any topic
of them? So when you go in there, go to
the top, cut them and then get that lateral growth
coming off to the side.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah, I do that.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Now they're everywhere this year, I mean everywhere, and I thought, great,
I'm going to have one sure not one?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Leaves all still look good? Yeah, well it looked great,
all right. Did you see any flowers at all on
the canes.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, not very many though, but not very many. And
I'm really discipending because everything.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, I'm just trying to think of what else could cause.
I mean, if you're you're seeing good flowers, you're you're
seeing or you're seeing some flowers. Anyway, you're good. Fold
each everything looks fine. You're cleaning up the dead wood,
you're topping those, You've got nice, good lateral growth coming
out as well. Wow, the only other you know again,
you know, we got to go back to the other

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thing too. Weather wise, if it's by chance raining or
not good weather, when those are in flower, pollinators have
a hard time pollinating the flowers to set the fruit
for you. And so if we went through a period
of time these last two years where it was extremely
wet during that time of the year or cold while

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they were in flower, that could affect the pollination. So
if we're seeing flowers, that's a good thing. So that
means that we're you know, they're there to set fruit,
but nothing's happening. If nothing happens and you don't see
any fruit at all, we don't see a fruit drop
or anything, you got to look back and say, okay,
am I getting good pollination? Do I see any bees?

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Do I see any pollinators working around those raspberries? Do
you notice that at all?

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I have a lot of bees that somewhere around.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, but not this year. I noticed I didn't have
very many this year. Well, and I mean buble right,
I have a lot of them. That could be that
could be part of the problem. Now here's what we
might want to do if the if the for some
reason the population seems to be going down, what can
we do to try to increase where those raspberries are planted? Uh,

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next spring, you might want to try planting a row,
just a nice snarrow twelve fourteen inch wide row along
the side of it with flowering annuals or perennials that
attract pollen, and let's see if we can bring more
of them in to help set the fruit on those raspberries.
If you're doing everything else culturally correct, and you're not
overfeeding them, sometimes we get them too much nitrogen. They

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put out all kinds of new growth, but they just
don't set fruit. Doesn't sound like that's what you're doing,
then I would say, if you're doing everything culturally correct,
let's do everything now that we can to encourage those
pollinators to come in and take care of the rest
of it for you. And by again, by planning just
a simple row of annuals that pollinators love, few perennials

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in there, not only do you get to enjoy the
look of those, but you get to bring them inside
for cut flowers, and the pollinators will show up and
you'll see a lot more bees in that back into
your backyard. Again. Other than that joint, I don't have
another answer for you. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Okay, Well, I want to ask you a question now.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
At the end of the season, do I cut back
the pensbody told me to do that?

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Well, it depends I didn't do it, okay.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
I thought maybe that would they wouldn't come back, but
they did come back.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Right, okay. And that's that's the thing, you know, the
canes that fruited. It depends on That's why I was
asking if you knew what type of raspberry you had,
because there is one it's called heritage, which is very common.
It's considered an ever bearing, so you get two sets
of fruit off of it each year. But the easiest
way to handle that is to just cut it off

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at the end. Of the year and let them sprout
back up and you'll get a late summer blooming and
it's late summer summer blooming and a late set of fruit.
And that's a lot of folks will do. It's real
easy to take care of. Otherwise, if you have some
of the older varrieties, once they fruit on that cane,
that cane is done and you won't get any more

(22:44):
fruit on that. So that's why I was asking if
you go through and clean out those dead canes or
the spent canes, either in the fall or in the springtime,
to get those out of the way so the new
canes can come up, and then you know, you start
a succession of having primal canes and flora canes, which
are the canes are gonna fruit for you, and the

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canes are gonna fruit for you next year, so you
get two sets going. So it depends on what type
you have. If by chance, you get really frustrated and
can't figure it out, take a look at if you
ever look to replace them, look at heritage raspberries, and
they're probably the easiest one to grow because all you
have to remember to do Joanna is either cut them

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back to the ground in the fall, or cut them
back to the ground in the springtime before they start
to regrow, and you'll get one crop later in the
season and it's piece of cake. You don't have to
worry about it. All right, good talking with you. We're
gonna take a quick break. We come back phone line
roping for you at eight hundred eight two three eight
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lends Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson
again that toll free number eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five taking your calls. You got comments
things that did well for you. How'd your tomatoes do
this year? Man? All of a sudden last two weeks,
I've just gotten some horrible reports. Weather's been kind of
depending on where you live, crazy on a lot of tomatoes.

(24:09):
Leaf spot like crazy, that's the other day with the
like white spot or clear spots like water spots going up.
And of course there's a back. There's a bacteria that
causes that. There's a couple you know, fruit diseases. But
also what happens is squash bugs love those and they

(24:32):
pierced the side of that tomato and suck out the juices,
and where they do that, you'll see the little pierce
mark and then you'll get this round circle around it
that looks like it's empty because they suck the juice
out and a lot of times you don't see them
do that. Uh, and that can cause some serious issues.
But leaf diseases like crazy blossom and rod as usual,

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always getting complaints about that. But boys, some folks just
have had a great season so far, and some of
just at this stage lost of their tomato plants, so
kind of crazy. But if you've lost your tomato plants
or you've cleared out areas in your garden and you've
got the empty space right now, don't forget. Those are
great areas to come back in and do fall crops.

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And now's a great time for planting all kinds of
fall crops. Greens, Asian greens, cilantro, some of the fast
growing maturing cucumbers and squash, some of the fast maturing
beans can be planted right now. So there's a lot
of greens, your radishes. If you can still find onion
bowl as sets or the bulbs, those can be planted

(25:36):
right now. So again, fill in those spaces with other
types of vegetables. I mean, if you've got a large area,
I'll think you something you can try it's pretty cool
is get yourself a small pack of buckwheat seeds and
plant a little bit of buckwheat and it's pretty cool
plant and it's a great cover crop for you too,
and you'll get the flowers out of that. Pollenaters will

(25:57):
love it late in the season. But that's a pretty
cool one as well. But again, take advantage of those areas.
But have having some issues with tomatoes, there's no doubt.
Just in the last couple weeks or so, quite a
few emails. By the way. One thing I want to
mention about talking about those raspberries. If you decide you
want to plant raspberries or blackberries or purple raspberries or

(26:19):
whatever you decide you want to plant, whether it be
you know, fruit trees, whatever, do your homework first of
all before you plant these and realize, and I've said this,
I say this all the time because I'm just trying
to be honest, realize the type of care that's involved
to being successful when growing fruits and berries. You know,

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it's one of those things in most cases you don't
just plant the plants and let them do their thing
and your harvest from them every year. They typically require
some timely pruning, maybe some timely sprays, mostly funge of
sidle sprays versus insecticidal sprays, but to keep the diseases
off of the fruits and berries. And again, like I
said that the rooting, it can be very especially when

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it gets into brambles, and it can be a little
confusing as far as how you prone those. Some canes
you know that are come up or for uh, will
flower later. Some have the flowers for the early spring.
Like I said, the heritage or the ever berrings do
it twice, so you get two sets of flowers on
those canes. And then the easiest thing to do is
just cut them down and only get one set. But

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you know, do your homework and learn about these so
that you know what is detailed and what you're gonna
have to do to be successful for growing these these
fruits and berries. A couple of things if you want
just some general information, which I think is outstanding. There's

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a mail order catalog that supplies mostly berries, and it's
called Indiana Berry Company Indiana Berry, and their website is
Indiana Berry dot com. Indiana Berry dot com and go
there and request their catalog and their catalog or you

(28:03):
can download it, but requested, they'll mail you one. It's
probably one of the nicest catalogs with instructions on how
to grow and what it takes, and how to prune
and harvest, and they of course list of different varieties,
which you also want to remember what varieties you have
when you plant them, so make sure you sign them
or market down somewhere so you know what that is,

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What type of grape do I have, what type of
fraspberry do I have strawberry? Et cetera, et cetera, so
that you can reference back and we know you know
what you're growing. But this particular catalog, which is absolutely free,
it's one of the most best instructional catalogs I think
I've ever seen. But it's Indiana Berry. Indiana Berry dot
com as their website and order it whether you get

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the twenty five one yet or twenty twenty six, but
it certainly helps you understand what is involved when it
comes to growing most of these berries and help to
walk you through. But again it's not something you typically
just plant and then walk away and in harvest when
they come on, It typically takes a little more than that.
And do remember these can all be grown in raised beds,

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and a lot of these do very well in larger containers.
If you just have a patio area you want to
grow some dwarf blueberry something like that, there are dwarf
varieties that do quite nicely growing in containers. Annie in Cincinnati, Any,
good morning.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Good morning, Hi Von. I had a very lopsided tomato
crop this year. I'm sorry, go ahead, Well, are.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
You gonna say started out good or started out bad?

Speaker 3 (29:38):
No, just depended on the vriety.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Oh. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
I planted two new ones this year that I've never
used before. I planted the song Yes and the Giant Dwarf. Yes,
two of those. The two of the Giant Dwarfs, they
were tall and thin plants and gave me two tomatoes.
That's it, Yep and the and they turned yellows, so
I took them out. The songs produced the ugliest tomatoes

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I've ever seen, but they were absolutely delicious.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Good.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
I almost threw a white because I thought they were
rotting at the bottom. Yeah, they just don't write them
all over. The bottom kind of turns black, right, and
the top is pink.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
They were amazing, but they didn't last very long either.
They're already done well.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
That the thought now I don't remember because I actually
I requested that we grow that one about it. We
started growing out about two years ago, and and the
tomato itself had a great flavor. I don't remember being delicious, yeah,
as much as far as production, but a great flavor,
and you're right, not very not a very attractive tomato.
The big dwarf, for the Giant Dwarf, was a new

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one that I had heard several good reports about. So
we grew them this year, I think for the first time.
And you're right, nice, upright, stocky as heck, beautiful, foolish early,
but only about three three tomatoes, yep, and that was
about it. And they were nice. They were beef steak
type tomatoes. But then that was it. And that was

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so the production we found out on those big dwarfs
or Giant dwarfs not all that much. But it did
produce a beef steak tomatoes. So I'm with you on
now both of those as far as definitely on the
dwarf when I was a little.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Disappointed, well, I also planted for better bush. Yes, I
do all my tomato gardening and really large round containers.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Good.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
They have produced hundreds of tomatoes.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Good.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
They are delicious, and they're still I can't tell you
how many I still have on the line. They are
just doing amazing.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yep, you know, I go ahead.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
It just really depended on the specific plant this year. Yeah,
they were right next to the other ones that got
all yellow, and the disease never transferred to the better bush.
They were great.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yep. And see when you get into some of the
heritage or the heirloom varieties, they aren't a disease resistant
or very rarely are the disease resistance. So we always
that's why I've always suggested the folks plant heirlooms, because
you like the heirlooms, but plant some hybrids as well.
So because the hybrids are typically bred to be you know,
more disease and virus and you know resistant. And there's

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better bush. You know those have been around. You got
the cherry and the regular and those have been around forever.
Determined tomatoes, but man, they just you don't even have
to steak them. They're beautiful and heavy producers. Then all
a sudden they just stop and they're done. And then
then and you what, You've really got a nice production
out of them?

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Oh I've got. I still have probably on the four plants,
I probably have at least one hundred green tomatoes still left.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh, good for you, Good for you.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
They are just amazing.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Let me let me tell you. I was gonna say,
let me throw one in there for you to try
next year. If you haven't tried it before, try fourth
of July. Now that's that's a hybrid. The tomatoes are
a medium sized tomato and they're in a cluster of
like three or four like when you see them at
Kroger or whatever. You get that cluster, that's what that's
what you're gonna look at. But I have not found

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anybody yet that has not had six good success with
fourth of July. It's a fifty four day producer, so
it starts producing early. But it is it is a
it is an indeterminate, so you've got to stake it
so it gets you know, because it's going to get
some height to it. But they do exceptionally well at containers.
Great flavor, solid tomato, you'll absolutely love it, and a

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good producer right until the frost finally takes them out.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Sounds great, I'll look for it. I did not plant
early girls this year like I normally do, because last
year they stopped ripening. And when I asked you about it,
you thought it might be the heat. Yeah, And you know,
they just they just rotted on the vine after like
mid July.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Now, did they ever start, Did they ever lose the
dark color green?

Speaker 3 (33:40):
No?

Speaker 1 (33:41):
They never, you know, And sometimes when you get into
the heat, and I'm surprised I didn't get more complaints
about that from folks this year when we got into
that really hot spell when it first started, that tomatoes
has stopped at that point. And sometimes they will literally
now we're finding out if it's hot enough for a
longer period, long enough period of time, they'll just stop
and they just don't do anything. And then you know
the exact Yeah, they wind up being sliced and the

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breaded and the fried.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yeah. I guess I just left them on the vine
too long, assuming that they would eventually get right that
they never did. No, they don't do it black.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah. Yeah, I'll tell you one last thing. Any and
if you've got green tomatoes on there and you get
to a point where you just can't use them all.
You're not gonna do fried green tomatoes or whatever. Pickle
green tomatoes I think are outstanding. But if they break
that dark green color and start to turn into the
lighter green, but not gonna make it red. If you've
never done this before, cut a couple of those up,
dice them up, put them in a salad. Outstanding, absolutely outstanding.

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So dice it up and anybody listen to it. Take
some time and take the green tomato that's a darker
green that starts to change color. You can tell they
lose that and they start to turn that lighter, limier green,
and then they finally start to go into the reds
or yellows or whatever it may be, and get them
at that lighter green color. My aunt did this for us.
I don't know, Ruth. Three years ago in North Carolina.

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We were having a salad and there were these small
diced up pieces of green and I couldn't figure out
what it was. And it was a green tomato. Now
you get it, like I said, you got to get
it when it gets you know, starts to starts to ripen,
but it's still green. And they were absolutely outstanding, nice
and firm, had a little crunch to the salad and
a very interesting flavor added to the salad as well,

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so you can always use those. But who doesn't like
fried green tomatoes? Readed fried little parmeersan cheese on the top, outstanding.
All right, we're gonna take a quick Andy, thanks for
the call, really appreciate it. Thanks for the update. I
love that kind of stuff. We share that information. Now.
Everybody knows that year we're not gonna grow big dwarfs

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and giant dwarfs. But I really do appreciate that, and
that's what I love to hear from our listeners. So
don't ever hesitate to give us a call and share
your opinions about things like that. I love it. Right
quick break, we come back. Barbie Bletcher here in the
Garden with Ron Wilson.