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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard board. We are
talking about yardning and let's kick it off as we
always do, with a cup of Joe. Now y' all
know who Joe is, right, Joe Strecker, our executive producer.
Will find out what's going on in his Nope, we won't.
We'll find out what's going on our webisode mode this week.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We found out website at Ron Wilson online dot com
facebook page. In the garden with Ron Wilson, The Long
got mode this morning. Good morning sir.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
By the way, I also took out the wood border,
so it's getting ready for it'll be ready for rocks.
And there the wood border.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh out front, Yeah, you're ready for rocks, I see,
going to rock route. Told you I was. I just
said go on the rock route. They didn't have a
question mark on it, going to rock route, going the
rock route, rock route and garden art put down landscape
fabric down below that. Uh sure, no you won't. No,
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just probably just rocks on top. Yeah, okay, So that's
the only time I ever recommend besides the pathway or
vegetable garden. Okay, that's good the news. Then they don't
sink down into the soil.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's good. The stays on top. Maybe the barrier. Maybe
the garden fairy can come over and help me. Not
I didn't think. So Okay, something got beer? Yeah, you
can get some. Can you do it in the afternoon.
I'm in for yourself, not for me. Well, whatever can
you do in the afternoons? Depends?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
During the week depends. Okay, No, I don't have those either.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We'll have to funk to solo it about that the
old man.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yes, I might be able to help you in an afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, okay, well, well well we'll we'll see. Okay. Now,
before we get started, you seem anxious. Well, there's something
that bugs me, and I think we you know what
I'm going to talk about. I don't know. Okay. So
I started seeing the annual kissing bugs story on all
the TV stations. Oh yes, now, and they make it
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sound like this is an epidemic of kissing bugs. It's
gonna be like locusts in the Bible. Yes, you're if
you if you get bit by one of these things,
you're gonna die. Right if when your dog gets bit
by one of these things. It's kids die, it's it's ridiculous. Yes,
it happens every single year, and they and they make
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it seem like it's something that that that's just oh
it's this is a freakish thing. It's like, no, it's
been going on for I mean, how many one years
I've been talking about the kissing bugs? Ten years, fifteen years?
Area it's not an issue. It's yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And who always comes to the rescue, Buggy Joe, Buggy
Joe cutting everybody off, says time out.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Exactly, I don't know. And it's just in the the
you know, the news, they'll interview somebody that has absolutely
no idea what they're talking about. Oh yeah, this is
really really bad. You better it's like, no, it's not. No,
it's not. So if you're on Facebook or TikTok or whatever,
we're watching the news or whatever, you see these stories
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about kissing bugs, it's all bull crap and there you
have it there. But don't you think like you know
that they're looking at saying, you know, well people didn't
see this on TV on our show last year, so
we can do it now. Maybe the anchors weren't there
last year. Maybe the producers weren't part of the thing
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last year, so they're not from given the news turnover,
that wouldn't surprise me. But still you would think that
that doesn't happen. And there is a kissing bug, and
it can cause problems, but not here. And the problems
it causes exactly are not the problems that they're saying.
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You know, it's not going to kill you if you
get kissed by a kissing bug. It's not going to
kill your dog if your dog eats a kissing bug.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
There we have it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I mean, all they're doing is trying to find this.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wake Joe up right now?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, better, he better talked about kissing this.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Call him right now and wake him up.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
What's the number, Daniel, get him on the phone.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I wonder if you even can talk this early in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I doubt it. He doesn't have his Mathra coffee yet.
But well, it really got you fired up? Yeah, well
because I saw that, and it's just it's it just
bugs me. It really does bug me. That in the
in the almanac, so so the Old Farmer's Almanac, the
one that's Ben Franklin says it's going to be cold
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and snowy in our area. Right, But then the Farmer's
Almanac says, now it's going to be on season, be warm.
Who are you gonna pick? Well, it's almost like they
do that on purpose, so that at least one of
them is right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So some makes me right at the end of the season. Yeah,
I'm gonna go off the Farmer's Almanac, but I'll take
the cool you know, you know where I'm going. Oh,
but you know, that's just that's another thing that bugs
me too. And ladies and gentlemen, that is your cup
of Joe Joe Streker is his email address would be.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
My email address is doctor z at Premiere at XM
radio dot com. You go Washington, d C. Washington, DC's
phone numbers and guard eight two o two. But yeah,
that just that just bothers me. I get it every year,
every single year. Ye, and I'm sure it'll be emails.
(05:36):
Oh well they're really really bad, but no they're not. Sorry,
quit listening to the propaganda. There, Ego leader, there you go,
Joe Strekker. Now, now I don't think breath Now, I
don't think they're going to score seventy today. But I'm
going to guess at least forty two.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I said forty one. Okay, well we'll see. So the
over I think, I said, what's the over? Seventeen?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You think that? You think Ohio's going to score seven
and six? Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I think they're gonna I think they're gonna score at
least one touchdown.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
What are they going to have the fifth string? Are
they going to start bringing people in from the stands?
Their defense is incredible, I know it's pretty good. Last week,
pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm saying. I'm saying that they will yeah, yeah, Ohio
will score. Okay, but it's gonna be low. I'm going sixteen.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You think it's gonna be forty one to sixteen? Seven?
Well thirteen. This state is favored by thirty, right, So
that's why I'm gonna think it's gonna be forty two
to take the spread forty two to three to three.
I'll get three.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay, it's a running back this time or running quarterback
this time, so we'll see throw a little something at him.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I don't know, We'll just hand the ball bo Jackson.
I love I loved that last week po Jackson. Jackson
handed off the bow.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Who's the guy who's a guy from West Virginia came there.
I can't think of his name.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh gosh, I'm drawing a blank. Doing well, but he's
doing well as well, So gonna be You're gonna be tough.
That game on Peacock Yep, yep, make sure you have
I don't get to watch. If you're nice, I'll give
you my passes.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So I listened to listen to on the radio Paul.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, if you're nice, I'll send you my password. We'll share,
you know, I'll do that, at least publicly. We're not
allowed to do that anyway. To what guests do you
have on?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Guess?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Are you done? Those are two things I guess if
my I'm done? If my rant on that, those are
two things. Those are my two things I had to
get out. Okay, uh, guess who would that be? Oh? No, readers,
last week wasn't she. I'm just kidding you. The wild
winged wonder Yes will join us today. Cool talking about
(08:03):
birds as we go into the fall season, migratory birds
and what's going on, what to do with them. Of course,
the way we are right now, all of Ohio now
is in a slight to moderate drought getting worse. No
rainfall in the next ten days or so. We're gonna
talk to Ron Roethis. But we're going to talk to
Ron not only about the weather, but we're going to
talk about trees that have been planted too deep and
(08:24):
how can we can correct how he corrects that and
saves those trees lives, and how what you need to
look for to make sure your ears aren't planning too
deep either. So I have both of them on you,
Gary Sullivan and then Buggy Joe Boggs, And maybe he
will address the better kissing Bug story. He better because
that tips she is posted on your website, or for real,
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the tip sheet is on your website. There you go.
So the kissing Bug, the kissing Bug tip sheet or
the sheet that Buggy Joe does is on there. There
you go. Rita's recipe of the week. Yes, is she's
getting ready for our October fest? Yes she was, And
she has a chicken schnitzel and spetzla rest you Now
(09:08):
some people call it spatzel, but you but it's but
German people call it spetsle.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yes, remember you try to teach me that last year?
Yeah and get it?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And yeah, well yeah, mom, made it, and I've made
it the chicken. Yeah, I've made chicken schnitzel with and
I've made spetsula. But I'm going to tell you this,
the best schnitzel and spetsla I ever had was when
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my aunt came over from Germany. God rest her soul.
She passed away, gosh ten years now, but she made
it from scratch, and it was the best schnitzel and
spetsla I've ever had. And there's nothing that can top it.
I mean, it was so tender, it was work tender,
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didn't even need a knife to cut it. And now
Rita when she makes her spets last, she rolls the
dough out and cuts some little pieces and everything. What
my aunt did was she got a huge calendar and
the dough was was still running, and she put the
dough in the calendar, and when it dripped out, she
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put cold water. She put cold water underneath. And that's
how she made her noodles. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And what was the beer your uncle when he came
over here from Germany? What was the beer he went for?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh? He likes Paul Honor, he likes weisbeer. OK. Yeah,
I'm not a I don't like weisbeer. I'm more of
a lagger.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
But he was looking at some of the German beers
we had and he's like, no, no, you don't drink that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah. Well he's like well yeah, He's like, well, he said,
he really doesn't like Warsteiner and over there, over here
people drink Warsteiner and lacked like it's really exotic. It's
like in Germany, Warsteiners like bud light. Okay, he just
laughs at it. But he's a big pol honor. He's
a big poln fan. They couldn't remember. But he likes
the wheat beer. And I don't like the wheat beer.
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I'm not a big beer I just don't like the
taste of it. I love sours, yeah, and and the
uh and you know, the the rat the ratter beers.
Now I'm starting to get into the ones that have
the juice, right, Like when we have the Octoberfest, people
come in. They had they bring the grapefruit beer in
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and you know, the raspberry beer, and those are ratters,
and I know I'm kind of getting into those. Look
at you. So my palates as I get older.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It always changes, it's ever changing.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah. But anyway, Rita is her her recipe is for
a chicken stenzel and spetsula or spasil or whatever want
to say it. It's just little noodles. And there's also
a picture of Rito when she went to Munich to serving.
So if you want to check out Rita and what
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she looks like serving beers at October Fest, go check
out the web website. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There you have it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
There you have it. So in the plane of the week,
I almost forgot the plane of the week, it's weeds.
It's fall perennials, weeds, the weeds, iron weed. There are
weeds we picked up for this iron weed, sneeze weed.
I'm gonna skip the next one. Milk weed and Joe
Pye weed.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And Joe pie weed. How to get Joe in there?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
To get me in there? A cup of Joe Pye weed.
Took a cup of Joe pie weed. I might, you know,
I might not go all rocks. I might put some
milk weed in the back, just for the just for
the butterflies. Oh, there we go in the cover of that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Duke thing. But the meter that'saiduke meter. Yeah, so that
would be nice. But yeah, but it's going to be rocks.
And maybe maybe milky. It all depends on how my mood,
so we can make it appollinator garden.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, I'm just gonna have the milkweed, so okay, all right,
that someone's going to come over and prove it dead headed,
hit it up and do all kinds of stuff's not
going to be me.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Okay, So we're just going to rocks then I think
the rocks are gonna be quite the answer.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
There you go, all right, all right, I'm done. I
gotta go.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That's it. Ye gotta go and relax after all that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Gotta go and uh get ready all ten stuff here,
get ready for the game.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
All right, Thank you. Joe Streker, welcome, appreciate it. Joe Strecker,
executive producer. Like what you see on our website, Ron
Wilson Online dot com, Facebook page in the Garden with
Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker had everything to do with it.
Something there you don't like. Guess what it's doctors E's fault.
It's not Joe's fault, doctor Z.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Doctor Z at XM radio dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
There you go. Uh yeah, riding around DC on his
little vestpa with a sidecar. I saw a sidecar the
other day, guy was taking his kid to the soccer game,
had him in a sidecar. Okay, so we'll get that
little kid down in there with his helmet on stuff,
got out soccer outfit on. Yep, So kind of interesting
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hows are in the sidecar and that sweet tart on
the back. Tard on the back, Bow bowbo, Thank you sir. Yeah.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five Here
in the Garden with Ron Wilson and the du Rango Kid.
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number. Eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Joe and I kind of rambled on
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a little bit there too long. The other one got
about a minute and a half to go before we take
a break. At the bottom of the hour. I just
want to say real quick that, you know, after all
the things that have happened this week, and and not just
this week, but it just gets it just seems like
it's getting worse and worse all the time out there.
I just want to throw out to everybody that you know,
if I have a suggestion for you. You know, gardening can
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be a really good way to relieve the stress. Gardening
can be a really good way to get out there
and forget about other things that are going on and
enjoy mother nature and enjoy things that you can do
visiting garden centers. You don't have to buy anything. Just
go visit a garden centers. Like walking through a garden,
walking through the park. Go to the park, walk through
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the park, go to the woods, go to the woods
and do a little chinrin yoku, shen yarin yoku. I
have talked about this for years. Forest bathing. It's been
around for thousands of years. To go and just sit
in the woods and enjoy mother nature, all the different
depths and colors and wildlife in the atmosphere and the
whole nine yards. To relax your brain, to relax your soul,
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all right, kind of just get rid of all of
this crap that's going on out there right now, release
it out and just chill out out.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But I sincerely put down for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, and my last thing was I was going to say,
I sincerely suggest that you leave the cell phone in
the car when you do that, all right, I get it,
keep it around for protection. She can call somebody. I
understand that. But let's just let's just drop those for
a while. Except for that. Yeah, except for that, and
let's enjoy mother nation. Let's get outside. Take your shoes
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off right now, walk through the grass. When's the last
time you did that? Just walk through the grass barefoot.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But I'll be back in about five minutes.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Do it, Danny, You'll love it, But I'm serious. Get
out there. Let mother nature help, maybe heal some of
these wounds, maybe help you feel better as well. That's
why I love guarding so much. Eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five Here in the garden with
Ron Wilson, fucking yarding at eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, and I've
got during this segment, I've got three alerts for you,
or alerts that I need you to pay attention to. Okay,
I think is very important. One and everything we talk
about on here is important. Right One, If you are
planting trees, and we're going to talk about this later
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with Ron rothis at our next hour. But if you
are planting trees as fall, and you should be all right,
you know, and we talk about all the proper procedures
and making sure you get the malting around that tree
at least four to six feet in diameter, and get
the right tree to bright place, and get it planted
properly and watered in properly, and got yourself a schedule
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or water that as needed through the rest of the
fall season. That's great, but I don't want you to
walk away from that tree. Don't take your hand off
of that tree until you put a tree trunk protector
on the tree to protect it from a buck deer
coming in and rubbing its antlers on your tree. For
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some reason, they love newly planted trees. They love the
smaller trees four inch diameters smaller. They'll take on larger trees,
but they love those. And I have had folks that
have planted, you know, God in the gardens center on
Saturday by two or three nice trees two inch diameter,
take them home, spend the afternoon getting them planted, maltted
and watered in. Get up in the morning with a
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cup of coffee, only to look at their trees and
they've all been rubbed and the bark rubbed off the
trees from a buck deer. So do not walk away
from your tree. I'm serious. Don't walk away from your
tree until you put a tree trunk protector. If you've
got deer within fifty miles of your house, who doesn't,
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make sure you put a tree trunk protector on that
and keep it on that from now through about the
first of April, and then you can take it off,
and then we'll come back and put it back on
sometime mid August, the latter part of August. Then go
from there. We've seen buck rubbing already. Used to be September,
now as early as mid August. All right, that's warning
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number one. Protect your investment in your trees by putting
a tree trunk protector. Have existing trees in your yard,
I would still be doing small ones. I'd still be
doing it to those as well, because they'll rub on
those two. They may not come through your yard for
a couple of years and all of a sudden come
through and boom done deal. And after that happens, if
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they rub more bark off than a halfway around the
trunk of that tree, it's pretty low chances that your
tree is going to survive. Now. I've seen some trees
take a pretty good hit and continue on, but it's
a time we'll tell. And all you can do then
is just sit back and wait and see what's going
to happen. And so many times you can stunt the tree,
you know it get some other issues. So don't let
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it happen, all right, don't let it happen to your trees.
Protect your tree trunks this fault starting right now with
tree trunk protectors. Put it from the ground up to
the bottom branch, all right, ground to the bottom branch
at the ground. That tree trunk protector also protects the
tree trunk from getting chewed on by rabbits, voles and
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field mice because they'll do that over the winter time
as well. Keep your mulch away from the tree trunk
about six inches or so. Make it look like a doughnut.
Make sure that ring is four to six feet at
least in diameter, with mulch and no grass up against
the tree, and water as needed through the rest of
fall season. That's warning number one or alert number one,
Alert number two. Last week we posted on our website
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ron Wilson online dot com that yellowjackets are active and
that's the name of the of the posting yellowjackets are
active and right now yellowjackets become more noticeable for a
couple reasons. One is they are now looking to make nests,
and a lot of them do it in the ground,
and they'll use like vacated burrows from a mole or
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a vole or something that's kind of dug down in
or a hole down in the ground that they can
get into. And they love to do it where there's
a little bit of foliage there to kind of hide them,
some kind of groundcover or whatever, and then they'll put
that hole right down in the side.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
They'll do that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And there's several types of yellow jackets, by the way,
and the German yellow jacket. They like to get more
in cracks and crevices and walls that and they'll even
go in the crack around your heat vent or something
going into the foundation of the home. If they can
get into that where it's not coked or properly around that,
they'll build their nest inside your basement or wherever that
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comes in right at that point, they like doing it.
Gary Salivan, our home improvement expert, it's on every Saturday
morning funny thing. Two or three years ago, his wife
noticed a couple wasp or yellow jackets flying around the house.
Finally went downstairs and yelled for Gary, and and Gary,
is this supposed to be here? And it was a
nest of German yellowjackets, which you had to get rid of.
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So you've got to be very cautious. But they are
very active right now. They're building these nests. Now they
still die out over the wintertime, but they build these
nests build up the population. So while they're doing that,
they're also they're eating habits changed from meat. They're a
caterpillar eater. They love meat and things, and you'll see
them on the dead things on the road as well,
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eating that kind of meat. But they do a nice
job in your garden taking care of most of the
caterpillars if they can. But now they go to the sugars.
And that's why. Now when you're sitting outside as your
favorite restaurant or whatever and you're trying to have a
marger eat or a coke or whatever it may be,
you got yellowjackets all over because they're after the sugar.
Now they're going for the pro that the sugar, the
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high energy sugar to finish out the rest of the season.
So you're gonna see them very active as a matter
of fact, I'm sitting here right now itching my left
hand in the area between my index finger and my
thumb were slightly swollen. Yesterday, my neighbor was out doing
something in the front yard and realize that there is
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a horn or a yellowjacket nest in front of their
window well. And there's a low groundcover of uanamus six
inches high growing in front of this window well. And
they had created a small hole right through that U wanted,
it says, perfect cover and down a small depression down
the front of that window well. And there were a
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ton of them. So somebody tried to drown it out
with water, and they're still They're still very there and
very active. So I went and got a can of
the foaming yellow jacket and hornet spray. Now, I don't know,
I'm going to do a little investigating here, and I'm
not going to say the brand name. But when I
got there and started to spray, all right, it didn't foam.
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It looked like I was spraying white paint. And I
just I kept hitting the hole and I kept waiting
for the foam because the old foamers would foam up
like a six to eight inch ball around the top
of that hole, and they couldn't fly out of the
out of the ground, which was great. And by the
time they crawled through that they were toast. They couldn't
get up in the air whole nine yards. Well, this
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didn't do that, and surprisingly enough I got stung on
the hand by one, but I got away, No big deal,
and today I'm itchinguite crazy. Was itching all night last night.
Not that big of a deal, all right, But it
does happen, and it could be a serious situation. So
if you are not comfortable doing that type of thing,
call in the exterminators and let them take care of
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it for you. But again, uh, go and look at
this the bulletin that's from last week on our website,
and it says yellowjackets are active. The hole that you
see there that he's got an example of in that
groundcover is exactly what it looked like at my neighbor's
house in front of their window. Well, and so last
night I went with it. I went and got another
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foaming one from another manufacturer. It didn't foam up like
the old foams used to as well. So now I'm
going to do a little investigating here. I'm gonna buy
whole bunch of them and find out which one is
the best foamer, because it's the foam that knocks them
down and don't it doesn't let them come after you.
It was count on that, but it didn't do the job.
But they were not very active at eight o'clock last night,
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and so I think we knocked quite a few of
them out, and maybe I got enough in there to
kill out the nest. I don't know, but it's a
very such serious situation. So as you are working in
your foundation plantings, groundcovers and things, cleaning out and doing
whatever you're doing getting into the fall season, I always
turn the rake around and take the stick and you know,
the hand them kind of poke around a little bit,
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just to make sure there's no activity with the wasps,
hornets or yellow jackets in those shrubs before I start
sticking my hands in there. Spiders the same way. Some
of those funnel spiders can be pretty big and pretty scary.
Last but not least all right, it is dry. We
in Ohio for the most part. We're going to talk
to Ron ROTHEUS about this in our next hour. Are
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in a moderate slightly to moderate drought situation. Not as bad,
I don't think as it was last year. At this time,
it's dry falls a great time for planting. I urge
you to continue to keep planting, keep your watering going.
It's important to water right now, especially the evergreens, but
it is really dry. And again, as you're planting new
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trees and shrubs and evergreens, make sure you stick with them,
soaking that root ball, surrounding soil around it on a
regular basis. Hopefully we'll get some rainfalls coming through here.
Get moisture back in the ground. If you're trying to
do lawn renovation, moisture is the key. So you're gonna
have to do some irrigation or sprinkling or whatever to
keep moisture in the ground. If you're looking to do
lawn renovation, which a lot of us did not get
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to do last year because it stayed dry so long
into the season we were kind of waiting it out.
So you're gonna have to do that. And I can't
stress enough evergreens. Watering evergreens during the dry times of
the year is key to the success success of those
evergreens and all the plants, but evergreens especially and especially
going into the fall and going into the winter season.
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If they go into the winter under a drought stress,
not a good thing. Planting new evergreens right now and
you don't water on a regular basis, or you skip
a couple of waterings, not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So those are my three alerts for you today. One
is deer protection for your trees, younger trees around those trunks.
Number two, yellowjackets are definitely very active right now building
their nests at all, and they're looking for sugars. So
watch your drinks, what's your food as you're eating, Watch
as your gardening. They are building nests in the ground,
(27:28):
things like that, so be careful with that as well.
If you do use the foam sprays, test it first.
Before I didn't. I just took it off as stoopid
me and just started spraying and it didn't foam anyway.
Check that out as well, so make sure you're cautious
about that. And number three, your plants are thirsty, join
them for a drink. Eight hundred eight two three eight
(27:50):
two five five Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
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 you are all kinds of
things going on out there right now. If you've got magnolias,
not so much the southern or the sweet bays, but
all the other varieties, check them out for magnolia scale.
(28:11):
Those crawlers are active right now, and this is the
time to go after them. Should you have magnolia scale,
and you would use like insecticidal soap or horticultural oil
to spray on there about once every seven to ten days,
two or three times to try to kill the crawlers.
That's one of the best ways to start to suppress those.
You can also use a soil drench systemic. It's too
(28:35):
late to do that now, but you could do that
in the springtime after they're finished flowering, or anytime in
the summertime to get that up inside the plant. That
helps as well. And then that horticultural oil, which does
a great job and it's all natural for controlling those crawlers,
can also be used as a dormant spray. Late fall,
(28:57):
you know, when the temperatures get more consistently down into
the forty forty five degrees, leaves are gone, the plant's
pretty much gone dormant. You can use it at that time.
You can also use it in late winter early spring
as a dormant spray to go after some of the
ones that are still attached to your magnolia. And of course,
right now, if you've got magnolia scale, you'll see those
(29:19):
bumps on the stems. Sometimes you'll notice high activity of bees, wasps, hornets,
flies hanging out because they love the honeydew, the excrement
from the scale, which is just I call it scale poop,
but excrement. And if they don't eat all of that
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very sweet, it molds and it's called sooty mold, and
it turns your plants black and anything underneath them as well,
and it does weather off. So if you've got that
on there, just don't worry about it. It'll vsually go away.
But again, check your magnolia's out as you're walking around
a little bit, you know, the manage by walking around.
I'm also asking you to look at weeds. What's grown
(30:00):
right now? Is it flowering? Is it trying to set seed?
Get rid of weeds right now, whether it's physical removal,
spot treating with a non selective vegetation killer, whatever it
may be, but you need to get rid of weeds now.
Do not let them reced and get a foothold in
your vegetable garden, perennial garden, wherever it may be. If
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you have some spotty weeds here and there in the
turf in the lawn, let's hold off spot treating for
those until when mid to late October. That's the best
time to go after spot treating weeds in your lawn
the most effective time, especially for some of the harder
(30:42):
to kill, harder to get rid of weeds. Broad leaf
weeds to show up in your lawn, Annual weeds like
crabgrass in that will naturally die because of the frost
that actually takes them out, and they come back from
seed next year. And our goal for all of those,
of course, is to get that lawn as thick as
we can so that the weeds have no room to
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grow and can't compete with that turf. And we all
know where the weeds pop up is where the turf
is not growing or it's very thin. Harry Bittercrest sometimes
can work his way up through some pretty thick turf,
but for the most part, that's why you see that
so again, September for cool season grasses is turf month,
(31:24):
and of course, being dry that it is right now
and most of our areas around here, you're gonna you know,
watering again is going to be key. Pre watering before
you do any seating, you know, get moisture in the
ground for core aer rators to work all of that.
You're gonna do a little bit of watering. And of
course if you're seating and you want to get it
up and growing right away, you got to keep watering.
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This is a situation right. Two things I bring up.
One is if you do core air rache your core area,
your longer vertical mult your beds or whatever, put organic
matter back in those holes. When you do that, you're
creating a more horse surface area. And every time it
does rain or you do water, your your soil is
(32:07):
more apt to capture that and put it down into
the turf. So every time you can do that, really
it's gonna help your turf out down the road, especially
in situations like we're in right now. So when you
core air rate, take that second step and put that
compost back in those holes, you're gonna find out how
well that helps you down the road, So do keep
that in mind. If by chance you put down seed
(32:27):
and fertilizer and you're not able to water it, that's
just gonna sit there. Uh, don't panic, it's just gonna
sit there. Nothing's gonna happen. It's just gonna sit there,
and as soon as it gets moisture, it'll react to
that at that time and hopefully will get some down
the road. If you're not gonna water and some folks
are just gonna hold out and wait to see what happens.
We've got through the month of September and early October
(32:50):
to get it taken care of. But the sooner, obviously
the better. And my other point would be irrigation, not
that you would use all the time, but that you
would use when needed if you want to keep that turf,
you know, good and healthy, eaching, good cultural practices were
watering during drought times were coming handy. An irrigation system
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might not be a bad idea for you. A long
run and manually turn it on and off. Don't put
it on a timer. Manually turn it on and off
as needed. Might want to keep that in mind before
we go to the break.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Dick from Dayton, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I am good. How about those redsband are a game
and a half out?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yeah, I know, I haven't followed them much. This week
I got to go to up with the Strummers. I
mean not the Strummers, but the the thing in Zene.
It was good and they had a talent show here
and I was coming and I'll tell you and Danny
and everybody. They had a little I played a couple
of songs and I got a little plaque. It bent nice.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
All right, were you like the voted the best?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, it just said the best. Well she didn't know.
She thought she thought it was the band Joe. I
told her to you, oh little band Joe. It was
Kid And yeah, it's just been pretty nice. Yeah. They've
been having a little show and stuff. And then I
got to prove for They took me one of my caseworkers. Come.
(34:19):
The Buffs will come around this area, you know, like
by the Dayton Mall or all around. So all I
gotta do is call them up and I get to
go places. But I can't go to Green County or
you know, it'd just be around here. But it's nice.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Well, yeah, at least you got some transportation to get around.
So that's good. And don't forget your tell your coordinator
there that Ron Wilson said, you got to get going
on those container gardens. So everybody has a garden work with.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, yeah, all right, hey twenty twenty eight, twenty one.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Twenty eight, twenty one. Obviously you're picking the Bengals. Yeah,
all right, Dick, Thanks always a pleasure. All right, take
care boy, buddy. All Right, we have a break coming back.
We're gonna talk to.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
But you want to talk to ros.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You wanna talk to Ron Roths. Let's talk to Ron rothis.
We're gonna find out about the weather. We're gonna talk
about watering, we're gonna talk about proper tree planting. What
if you planted it wrong and he comes out and
discovers that his planet too deep? Can he save your tree?
I think he can. We'll find out how here in
the garden with Ron Wilson.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard board. We are
talking about yardning and let's kick it off as we
always do, with a cup of Joe. Now y' all
know who Joe is, right, Joe Strecker, our executive producer.
Will find out what's going on in his Nope, we won't.
We'll find out what's going on our webisode mode this week.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We found out website at Ron Wilson online dot com
facebook page. In the garden with Ron Wilson, The Long
got mode this morning. Good morning sir.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
By the way, I also took out the wood border,
so it's getting ready for it'll be ready for rocks.
And there the wood border.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh out front, Yeah, you're ready for rocks, I see,
going to rock route. Told you I was. I just
said go on the rock route. They didn't have a
question mark on it, going to rock route, going the
rock route, rock route and garden art put down landscape
fabric down below that. Uh sure, no you won't. No,
(00:58):
just probably just rocks on top. Yeah, okay, So that's
the only time I ever recommend besides the pathway or
vegetable garden. Okay, that's good the news. Then they don't
sink down into the soil.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's good. The stays on top. Maybe the barrier. Maybe
the garden fairy can come over and help me. Not
I didn't think. So Okay, something got beer? Yeah, you
can get some. Can you do it in the afternoon.
I'm in for yourself, not for me. Well, whatever can
you do in the afternoons? Depends?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
During the week depends. Okay, No, I don't have those either.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We'll have to funk to solo it about that the
old man.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yes, I might be able to help you in an afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, okay, well, well well we'll we'll see. Okay. Now,
before we get started, you seem anxious. Well, there's something
that bugs me, and I think we you know what
I'm going to talk about. I don't know. Okay. So
I started seeing the annual kissing bugs story on all
the TV stations. Oh yes, now, and they make it
(02:07):
sound like this is an epidemic of kissing bugs. It's
gonna be like locusts in the Bible. Yes, you're if
you if you get bit by one of these things,
you're gonna die. Right if when your dog gets bit
by one of these things. It's kids die, it's it's ridiculous. Yes,
it happens every single year, and they and they make
(02:28):
it seem like it's something that that that's just oh
it's this is a freakish thing. It's like, no, it's
been going on for I mean, how many one years
I've been talking about the kissing bugs? Ten years, fifteen years?
Area it's not an issue. It's yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And who always comes to the rescue, Buggy Joe, Buggy
Joe cutting everybody off, says time out.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Exactly, I don't know. And it's just in the the
you know, the news, they'll interview somebody that has absolutely
no idea what they're talking about. Oh yeah, this is
really really bad. You better it's like, no, it's not. No,
it's not. So if you're on Facebook or TikTok or whatever,
we're watching the news or whatever, you see these stories
(03:12):
about kissing bugs, it's all bull crap and there you
have it there. But don't you think like you know
that they're looking at saying, you know, well people didn't
see this on TV on our show last year, so
we can do it now. Maybe the anchors weren't there
last year. Maybe the producers weren't part of the thing
(03:32):
last year, so they're not from given the news turnover,
that wouldn't surprise me. But still you would think that
that doesn't happen. And there is a kissing bug, and
it can cause problems, but not here. And the problems
it causes exactly are not the problems that they're saying.
(03:52):
You know, it's not going to kill you if you
get kissed by a kissing bug. It's not going to
kill your dog if your dog eats a kissing bug.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
There we have it.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I mean, all they're doing is trying to find this.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Wake Joe up right now?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, better, he better talked about kissing this.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Call him right now and wake him up.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
What's the number, Daniel, get him on the phone.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I wonder if you even can talk this early in
the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I doubt it. He doesn't have his Mathra coffee yet.
But well, it really got you fired up? Yeah, well
because I saw that, and it's just it's it just
bugs me. It really does bug me. That in the
in the almanac, so so the Old Farmer's Almanac, the
one that's Ben Franklin says it's going to be cold
(04:41):
and snowy in our area. Right, But then the Farmer's
Almanac says, now it's going to be on season, be warm.
Who are you gonna pick? Well, it's almost like they
do that on purpose, so that at least one of
them is right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So some makes me right at the end of the season. Yeah,
I'm gonna go off the Farmer's Almanac, but I'll take
the cool you know, you know where I'm going. Oh,
but you know, that's just that's another thing that bugs
me too. And ladies and gentlemen, that is your cup
of Joe Joe Streker is his email address would be.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
My email address is doctor z at Premiere at XM
radio dot com. You go Washington, d C. Washington, DC's
phone numbers and guard eight two o two. But yeah,
that just that just bothers me. I get it every year,
every single year. Ye, and I'm sure it'll be emails.
(05:36):
Oh well they're really really bad, but no they're not. Sorry,
quit listening to the propaganda. There, Ego leader, there you go,
Joe Strekker. Now, now I don't think breath Now, I
don't think they're going to score seventy today. But I'm
going to guess at least forty two.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I said forty one. Okay, well we'll see. So the
over I think, I said, what's the over? Seventeen?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You think that? You think Ohio's going to score seven
and six? Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I think they're gonna I think they're gonna score at
least one touchdown.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
What are they going to have the fifth string? Are
they going to start bringing people in from the stands?
Their defense is incredible, I know it's pretty good. Last week,
pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I'm saying. I'm saying that they will yeah, yeah, Ohio
will score. Okay, but it's gonna be low. I'm going sixteen.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You think it's gonna be forty one to sixteen? Seven?
Well thirteen. This state is favored by thirty, right, So
that's why I'm gonna think it's gonna be forty two
to take the spread forty two to three to three.
I'll get three.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Okay, it's a running back this time or running quarterback
this time, so we'll see throw a little something at him.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I don't know, We'll just hand the ball bo Jackson.
I love I loved that last week po Jackson. Jackson
handed off the bow.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Who's the guy who's a guy from West Virginia came there.
I can't think of his name.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh gosh, I'm drawing a blank. Doing well, but he's
doing well as well, So gonna be You're gonna be tough.
That game on Peacock Yep, yep, make sure you have
I don't get to watch. If you're nice, I'll give
you my passes.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
So I listened to listen to on the radio Paul.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, if you're nice, I'll send you my password. We'll share,
you know, I'll do that, at least publicly. We're not
allowed to do that anyway. To what guests do you
have on?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Guess?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Are you done? Those are two things I guess if
my I'm done? If my rant on that, those are
two things. Those are my two things I had to
get out. Okay, uh, guess who would that be? Oh? No, readers,
last week wasn't she. I'm just kidding you. The wild
winged wonder Yes will join us today. Cool talking about
(08:03):
birds as we go into the fall season, migratory birds
and what's going on, what to do with them. Of course,
the way we are right now, all of Ohio now
is in a slight to moderate drought getting worse. No
rainfall in the next ten days or so. We're gonna
talk to Ron Roethis. But we're going to talk to
Ron not only about the weather, but we're going to
talk about trees that have been planted too deep and
(08:24):
how can we can correct how he corrects that and
saves those trees lives, and how what you need to
look for to make sure your ears aren't planning too
deep either. So I have both of them on you,
Gary Sullivan and then Buggy Joe Boggs, And maybe he
will address the better kissing Bug story. He better because
that tips she is posted on your website, or for real,
(08:45):
the tip sheet is on your website. There you go.
So the kissing Bug, the kissing Bug tip sheet or
the sheet that Buggy Joe does is on there. There
you go. Rita's recipe of the week. Yes, is she's
getting ready for our October fest? Yes she was, And
she has a chicken schnitzel and spetzla rest you Now
(09:08):
some people call it spatzel, but you but it's but
German people call it spetsle.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yes, remember you try to teach me that last year?
Yeah and get it?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And yeah, well yeah, mom, made it, and I've made
it the chicken. Yeah, I've made chicken schnitzel with and
I've made spetsula. But I'm going to tell you this,
the best schnitzel and spetsla I ever had was when
(09:40):
my aunt came over from Germany. God rest her soul.
She passed away, gosh ten years now, but she made
it from scratch, and it was the best schnitzel and
spetsla I've ever had. And there's nothing that can top it.
I mean, it was so tender, it was work tender,
(10:01):
didn't even need a knife to cut it. And now
Rita when she makes her spets last, she rolls the
dough out and cuts some little pieces and everything. What
my aunt did was she got a huge calendar and
the dough was was still running, and she put the
dough in the calendar, and when it dripped out, she
(10:21):
put cold water. She put cold water underneath. And that's
how she made her noodles. Interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And what was the beer your uncle when he came
over here from Germany? What was the beer he went for?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh? He likes Paul Honor, he likes weisbeer. OK. Yeah,
I'm not a I don't like weisbeer. I'm more of
a lagger.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
But he was looking at some of the German beers
we had and he's like, no, no, you don't drink that.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah. Well he's like well yeah, He's like, well, he said,
he really doesn't like Warsteiner and over there, over here
people drink Warsteiner and lacked like it's really exotic. It's
like in Germany, Warsteiners like bud light. Okay, he just
laughs at it. But he's a big pol honor. He's
a big poln fan. They couldn't remember. But he likes
the wheat beer. And I don't like the wheat beer.
(11:09):
I'm not a big beer I just don't like the
taste of it. I love sours, yeah, and and the
uh and you know, the the rat the ratter beers.
Now I'm starting to get into the ones that have
the juice, right, Like when we have the Octoberfest, people
come in. They had they bring the grapefruit beer in
(11:31):
and you know, the raspberry beer, and those are ratters,
and I know I'm kind of getting into those. Look
at you. So my palates as I get older.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It always changes, it's ever changing.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah. But anyway, Rita is her her recipe is for
a chicken stenzel and spetsula or spasil or whatever want
to say it. It's just little noodles. And there's also
a picture of Rito when she went to Munich to serving.
So if you want to check out Rita and what
(12:08):
she looks like serving beers at October Fest, go check
out the web website. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
There you have it.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
There you have it. So in the plane of the week,
I almost forgot the plane of the week, it's weeds.
It's fall perennials, weeds, the weeds, iron weed. There are
weeds we picked up for this iron weed, sneeze weed.
I'm gonna skip the next one. Milk weed and Joe
Pye weed.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And Joe pie weed. How to get Joe in there?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
To get me in there? A cup of Joe Pye weed.
Took a cup of Joe pie weed. I might, you know,
I might not go all rocks. I might put some
milk weed in the back, just for the just for
the butterflies. Oh, there we go in the cover of that.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Duke thing. But the meter that'saiduke meter. Yeah, so that
would be nice. But yeah, but it's going to be rocks.
And maybe maybe milky. It all depends on how my mood,
so we can make it appollinator garden.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, I'm just gonna have the milkweed, so okay, all right,
that someone's going to come over and prove it dead headed,
hit it up and do all kinds of stuff's not
going to be me.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Okay, So we're just going to rocks then I think
the rocks are gonna be quite the answer.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
There you go, all right, all right, I'm done. I
gotta go.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That's it. Ye gotta go and relax after all that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Gotta go and uh get ready all ten stuff here,
get ready for the game.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
All right, Thank you. Joe Streker, welcome, appreciate it. Joe Strecker,
executive producer. Like what you see on our website, Ron
Wilson Online dot com, Facebook page in the Garden with
Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker had everything to do with it.
Something there you don't like. Guess what it's doctors E's fault.
It's not Joe's fault, doctor Z.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Doctor Z at XM radio dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
There you go. Uh yeah, riding around DC on his
little vestpa with a sidecar. I saw a sidecar the
other day, guy was taking his kid to the soccer game,
had him in a sidecar. Okay, so we'll get that
little kid down in there with his helmet on stuff,
got out soccer outfit on. Yep, So kind of interesting
(14:22):
hows are in the sidecar and that sweet tart on
the back. Tard on the back, Bow bowbo, Thank you sir. Yeah.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five Here
in the Garden with Ron Wilson and the du Rango Kid.
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number. Eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Joe and I kind of rambled on
(14:43):
a little bit there too long. The other one got
about a minute and a half to go before we take
a break. At the bottom of the hour. I just
want to say real quick that, you know, after all
the things that have happened this week, and and not just
this week, but it just gets it just seems like
it's getting worse and worse all the time out there.
I just want to throw out to everybody that you know,
if I have a suggestion for you. You know, gardening can
(15:06):
be a really good way to relieve the stress. Gardening
can be a really good way to get out there
and forget about other things that are going on and
enjoy mother nature and enjoy things that you can do
visiting garden centers. You don't have to buy anything. Just
go visit a garden centers. Like walking through a garden,
walking through the park. Go to the park, walk through
(15:28):
the park, go to the woods, go to the woods
and do a little chinrin yoku, shen yarin yoku. I
have talked about this for years. Forest bathing. It's been
around for thousands of years. To go and just sit
in the woods and enjoy mother nature, all the different
depths and colors and wildlife in the atmosphere and the
whole nine yards. To relax your brain, to relax your soul,
(15:53):
all right, kind of just get rid of all of
this crap that's going on out there right now, release
it out and just chill out out.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But I sincerely put down for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, and my last thing was I was going to say,
I sincerely suggest that you leave the cell phone in
the car when you do that, all right, I get it,
keep it around for protection. She can call somebody. I
understand that. But let's just let's just drop those for
a while. Except for that. Yeah, except for that, and
let's enjoy mother nation. Let's get outside. Take your shoes
(16:26):
off right now, walk through the grass. When's the last
time you did that? Just walk through the grass barefoot.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But I'll be back in about five minutes.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Do it, Danny, You'll love it, But I'm serious. Get
out there. Let mother nature help, maybe heal some of
these wounds, maybe help you feel better as well. That's
why I love guarding so much. Eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five Here in the garden with
Ron Wilson, fucking yarding at eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, and I've
got during this segment, I've got three alerts for you,
or alerts that I need you to pay attention to. Okay,
I think is very important. One and everything we talk
about on here is important. Right One, If you are
planting trees, and we're going to talk about this later
(17:13):
with Ron rothis at our next hour. But if you
are planting trees as fall, and you should be all right,
you know, and we talk about all the proper procedures
and making sure you get the malting around that tree
at least four to six feet in diameter, and get
the right tree to bright place, and get it planted
properly and watered in properly, and got yourself a schedule
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or water that as needed through the rest of the
fall season. That's great, but I don't want you to
walk away from that tree. Don't take your hand off
of that tree until you put a tree trunk protector
on the tree to protect it from a buck deer
coming in and rubbing its antlers on your tree. For
(17:57):
some reason, they love newly planted trees. They love the
smaller trees four inch diameters smaller. They'll take on larger trees,
but they love those. And I have had folks that
have planted, you know, God in the gardens center on
Saturday by two or three nice trees two inch diameter,
take them home, spend the afternoon getting them planted, maltted
and watered in. Get up in the morning with a
(18:18):
cup of coffee, only to look at their trees and
they've all been rubbed and the bark rubbed off the
trees from a buck deer. So do not walk away
from your tree. I'm serious. Don't walk away from your
tree until you put a tree trunk protector. If you've
got deer within fifty miles of your house, who doesn't,
(18:40):
make sure you put a tree trunk protector on that
and keep it on that from now through about the
first of April, and then you can take it off,
and then we'll come back and put it back on
sometime mid August, the latter part of August. Then go
from there. We've seen buck rubbing already. Used to be September,
now as early as mid August. All right, that's warning
(19:01):
number one. Protect your investment in your trees by putting
a tree trunk protector. Have existing trees in your yard,
I would still be doing small ones. I'd still be
doing it to those as well, because they'll rub on
those two. They may not come through your yard for
a couple of years and all of a sudden come
through and boom done deal. And after that happens, if
(19:22):
they rub more bark off than a halfway around the
trunk of that tree, it's pretty low chances that your
tree is going to survive. Now. I've seen some trees
take a pretty good hit and continue on, but it's
a time we'll tell. And all you can do then
is just sit back and wait and see what's going
to happen. And so many times you can stunt the tree,
you know it get some other issues. So don't let
(19:43):
it happen, all right, don't let it happen to your trees.
Protect your tree trunks this fault starting right now with
tree trunk protectors. Put it from the ground up to
the bottom branch, all right, ground to the bottom branch
at the ground. That tree trunk protector also protects the
tree trunk from getting chewed on by rabbits, voles and
(20:04):
field mice because they'll do that over the winter time
as well. Keep your mulch away from the tree trunk
about six inches or so. Make it look like a doughnut.
Make sure that ring is four to six feet at
least in diameter, with mulch and no grass up against
the tree, and water as needed through the rest of
fall season. That's warning number one or alert number one,
Alert number two. Last week we posted on our website
(20:26):
ron Wilson online dot com that yellowjackets are active and
that's the name of the of the posting yellowjackets are
active and right now yellowjackets become more noticeable for a
couple reasons. One is they are now looking to make nests,
and a lot of them do it in the ground,
and they'll use like vacated burrows from a mole or
(20:51):
a vole or something that's kind of dug down in
or a hole down in the ground that they can
get into. And they love to do it where there's
a little bit of foliage there to kind of hide them,
some kind of groundcover or whatever, and then they'll put
that hole right down in the side.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
They'll do that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
And there's several types of yellow jackets, by the way,
and the German yellow jacket. They like to get more
in cracks and crevices and walls that and they'll even
go in the crack around your heat vent or something
going into the foundation of the home. If they can
get into that where it's not coked or properly around that,
they'll build their nest inside your basement or wherever that
(21:28):
comes in right at that point, they like doing it.
Gary Salivan, our home improvement expert, it's on every Saturday
morning funny thing. Two or three years ago, his wife
noticed a couple wasp or yellow jackets flying around the house.
Finally went downstairs and yelled for Gary, and and Gary,
is this supposed to be here? And it was a
nest of German yellowjackets, which you had to get rid of.
(21:48):
So you've got to be very cautious. But they are
very active right now. They're building these nests. Now they
still die out over the wintertime, but they build these
nests build up the population. So while they're doing that,
they're also they're eating habits changed from meat. They're a
caterpillar eater. They love meat and things, and you'll see
them on the dead things on the road as well,
(22:09):
eating that kind of meat. But they do a nice
job in your garden taking care of most of the
caterpillars if they can. But now they go to the sugars.
And that's why. Now when you're sitting outside as your
favorite restaurant or whatever and you're trying to have a
marger eat or a coke or whatever it may be,
you got yellowjackets all over because they're after the sugar.
Now they're going for the pro that the sugar, the
(22:30):
high energy sugar to finish out the rest of the season.
So you're gonna see them very active as a matter
of fact, I'm sitting here right now itching my left
hand in the area between my index finger and my
thumb were slightly swollen. Yesterday, my neighbor was out doing
something in the front yard and realize that there is
(22:50):
a horn or a yellowjacket nest in front of their
window well. And there's a low groundcover of uanamus six
inches high growing in front of this window well. And
they had created a small hole right through that U wanted,
it says, perfect cover and down a small depression down
the front of that window well. And there were a
(23:12):
ton of them. So somebody tried to drown it out
with water, and they're still They're still very there and
very active. So I went and got a can of
the foaming yellow jacket and hornet spray. Now, I don't know,
I'm going to do a little investigating here, and I'm
not going to say the brand name. But when I
got there and started to spray, all right, it didn't foam.
(23:33):
It looked like I was spraying white paint. And I
just I kept hitting the hole and I kept waiting
for the foam because the old foamers would foam up
like a six to eight inch ball around the top
of that hole, and they couldn't fly out of the
out of the ground, which was great. And by the
time they crawled through that they were toast. They couldn't
get up in the air whole nine yards. Well, this
(23:55):
didn't do that, and surprisingly enough I got stung on
the hand by one, but I got away, No big deal,
and today I'm itchinguite crazy. Was itching all night last night.
Not that big of a deal, all right, But it
does happen, and it could be a serious situation. So
if you are not comfortable doing that type of thing,
call in the exterminators and let them take care of
(24:17):
it for you. But again, uh, go and look at
this the bulletin that's from last week on our website,
and it says yellowjackets are active. The hole that you
see there that he's got an example of in that
groundcover is exactly what it looked like at my neighbor's
house in front of their window. Well, and so last
night I went with it. I went and got another
(24:38):
foaming one from another manufacturer. It didn't foam up like
the old foams used to as well. So now I'm
going to do a little investigating here. I'm gonna buy
whole bunch of them and find out which one is
the best foamer, because it's the foam that knocks them
down and don't it doesn't let them come after you.
It was count on that, but it didn't do the job.
But they were not very active at eight o'clock last night,
(25:01):
and so I think we knocked quite a few of
them out, and maybe I got enough in there to
kill out the nest. I don't know, but it's a
very such serious situation. So as you are working in
your foundation plantings, groundcovers and things, cleaning out and doing
whatever you're doing getting into the fall season, I always
turn the rake around and take the stick and you know,
the hand them kind of poke around a little bit,
(25:23):
just to make sure there's no activity with the wasps,
hornets or yellow jackets in those shrubs before I start
sticking my hands in there. Spiders the same way. Some
of those funnel spiders can be pretty big and pretty scary.
Last but not least all right, it is dry. We
in Ohio for the most part. We're going to talk
to Ron ROTHEUS about this in our next hour. Are
(25:47):
in a moderate slightly to moderate drought situation. Not as bad,
I don't think as it was last year. At this time,
it's dry falls a great time for planting. I urge
you to continue to keep planting, keep your watering going.
It's important to water right now, especially the evergreens, but
it is really dry. And again, as you're planting new
(26:10):
trees and shrubs and evergreens, make sure you stick with them,
soaking that root ball, surrounding soil around it on a
regular basis. Hopefully we'll get some rainfalls coming through here.
Get moisture back in the ground. If you're trying to
do lawn renovation, moisture is the key. So you're gonna
have to do some irrigation or sprinkling or whatever to
keep moisture in the ground. If you're looking to do
lawn renovation, which a lot of us did not get
(26:32):
to do last year because it stayed dry so long
into the season we were kind of waiting it out.
So you're gonna have to do that. And I can't
stress enough evergreens. Watering evergreens during the dry times of
the year is key to the success success of those
evergreens and all the plants, but evergreens especially and especially
going into the fall and going into the winter season.
(26:54):
If they go into the winter under a drought stress,
not a good thing. Planting new evergreens right now and
you don't water on a regular basis, or you skip
a couple of waterings, not a good thing.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So those are my three alerts for you today. One
is deer protection for your trees, younger trees around those trunks.
Number two, yellowjackets are definitely very active right now building
their nests at all, and they're looking for sugars. So
watch your drinks, what's your food as you're eating, Watch
as your gardening. They are building nests in the ground,
(27:28):
things like that, so be careful with that as well.
If you do use the foam sprays, test it first.
Before I didn't. I just took it off as stoopid
me and just started spraying and it didn't foam anyway.
Check that out as well, so make sure you're cautious
about that. And number three, your plants are thirsty, join
them for a drink. Eight hundred eight two three eight
(27:50):
two five five Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
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 you are all kinds of
things going on out there right now. If you've got magnolias,
not so much the southern or the sweet bays, but
all the other varieties, check them out for magnolia scale.
(28:11):
Those crawlers are active right now, and this is the
time to go after them. Should you have magnolia scale,
and you would use like insecticidal soap or horticultural oil
to spray on there about once every seven to ten days,
two or three times to try to kill the crawlers.
That's one of the best ways to start to suppress those.
You can also use a soil drench systemic. It's too
(28:35):
late to do that now, but you could do that
in the springtime after they're finished flowering, or anytime in
the summertime to get that up inside the plant. That
helps as well. And then that horticultural oil, which does
a great job and it's all natural for controlling those crawlers,
can also be used as a dormant spray. Late fall,
(28:57):
you know, when the temperatures get more consistently down into
the forty forty five degrees, leaves are gone, the plant's
pretty much gone dormant. You can use it at that time.
You can also use it in late winter early spring
as a dormant spray to go after some of the
ones that are still attached to your magnolia. And of course,
right now, if you've got magnolia scale, you'll see those
(29:19):
bumps on the stems. Sometimes you'll notice high activity of bees, wasps, hornets,
flies hanging out because they love the honeydew, the excrement
from the scale, which is just I call it scale poop,
but excrement. And if they don't eat all of that
(29:39):
very sweet, it molds and it's called sooty mold, and
it turns your plants black and anything underneath them as well,
and it does weather off. So if you've got that
on there, just don't worry about it. It'll vsually go away.
But again, check your magnolia's out as you're walking around
a little bit, you know, the manage by walking around.
I'm also asking you to look at weeds. What's grown
(30:00):
right now? Is it flowering? Is it trying to set seed?
Get rid of weeds right now, whether it's physical removal,
spot treating with a non selective vegetation killer, whatever it
may be, but you need to get rid of weeds now.
Do not let them reced and get a foothold in
your vegetable garden, perennial garden, wherever it may be. If
(30:20):
you have some spotty weeds here and there in the
turf in the lawn, let's hold off spot treating for
those until when mid to late October. That's the best
time to go after spot treating weeds in your lawn
the most effective time, especially for some of the harder
(30:42):
to kill, harder to get rid of weeds. Broad leaf
weeds to show up in your lawn, Annual weeds like
crabgrass in that will naturally die because of the frost
that actually takes them out, and they come back from
seed next year. And our goal for all of those,
of course, is to get that lawn as thick as
we can so that the weeds have no room to
(31:02):
grow and can't compete with that turf. And we all
know where the weeds pop up is where the turf
is not growing or it's very thin. Harry Bittercrest sometimes
can work his way up through some pretty thick turf,
but for the most part, that's why you see that
so again, September for cool season grasses is turf month,
(31:24):
and of course, being dry that it is right now
and most of our areas around here, you're gonna you know,
watering again is going to be key. Pre watering before
you do any seating, you know, get moisture in the
ground for core aer rators to work all of that.
You're gonna do a little bit of watering. And of
course if you're seating and you want to get it
up and growing right away, you got to keep watering.
(31:44):
This is a situation right. Two things I bring up.
One is if you do core air rache your core area,
your longer vertical mult your beds or whatever, put organic
matter back in those holes. When you do that, you're
creating a more horse surface area. And every time it
does rain or you do water, your your soil is
(32:07):
more apt to capture that and put it down into
the turf. So every time you can do that, really
it's gonna help your turf out down the road, especially
in situations like we're in right now. So when you
core air rate, take that second step and put that
compost back in those holes, you're gonna find out how
well that helps you down the road, So do keep
that in mind. If by chance you put down seed
(32:27):
and fertilizer and you're not able to water it, that's
just gonna sit there. Uh, don't panic, it's just gonna
sit there. Nothing's gonna happen. It's just gonna sit there,
and as soon as it gets moisture, it'll react to
that at that time and hopefully will get some down
the road. If you're not gonna water and some folks
are just gonna hold out and wait to see what happens.
We've got through the month of September and early October
(32:50):
to get it taken care of. But the sooner, obviously
the better. And my other point would be irrigation, not
that you would use all the time, but that you
would use when needed if you want to keep that turf,
you know, good and healthy, eaching, good cultural practices were
watering during drought times were coming handy. An irrigation system
(33:11):
might not be a bad idea for you. A long
run and manually turn it on and off. Don't put
it on a timer. Manually turn it on and off
as needed. Might want to keep that in mind before
we go to the break.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Dick from Dayton, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I am good. How about those redsband are a game
and a half out?
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yeah, I know, I haven't followed them much. This week
I got to go to up with the Strummers. I
mean not the Strummers, but the the thing in Zene.
It was good and they had a talent show here
and I was coming and I'll tell you and Danny
and everybody. They had a little I played a couple
of songs and I got a little plaque. It bent nice.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
All right, were you like the voted the best?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, it just said the best. Well she didn't know.
She thought she thought it was the band Joe. I
told her to you, oh little band Joe. It was
Kid And yeah, it's just been pretty nice. Yeah. They've
been having a little show and stuff. And then I
got to prove for They took me one of my caseworkers. Come.
(34:19):
The Buffs will come around this area, you know, like
by the Dayton Mall or all around. So all I
gotta do is call them up and I get to
go places. But I can't go to Green County or
you know, it'd just be around here. But it's nice.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Well, yeah, at least you got some transportation to get around.
So that's good. And don't forget your tell your coordinator
there that Ron Wilson said, you got to get going
on those container gardens. So everybody has a garden work with.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, yeah, all right, hey twenty twenty eight, twenty one.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Twenty eight, twenty one. Obviously you're picking the Bengals. Yeah,
all right, Dick, Thanks always a pleasure. All right, take
care boy, buddy. All Right, we have a break coming back.
We're gonna talk to.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
But you want to talk to ros.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You wanna talk to Ron Roths. Let's talk to Ron rothis.
We're gonna find out about the weather. We're gonna talk
about watering, we're gonna talk about proper tree planting. What
if you planted it wrong and he comes out and
discovers that his planet too deep? Can he save your tree?
I think he can. We'll find out how here in
the garden with Ron Wilson.
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