In The Garden Hour 1 10-18-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Acting as it is.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Eight eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personally yard boy talking about yarding.
Let's kick off our show with the cup of Joe,
mister Joe Strecker, executive producer. We're not gonna find out
what's going on his landscape because it's usually nothing exactly,
but we'll find out what's going on our website at
Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page in the Garden
with Ron Wilson as well. Good morning, sir, little chili

(01:31):
this week, chili today, hot to money. Yeah, and we're
going to get some good rain tomorrow. I hope so.
Well tonight and tomorrow tonight tomorrow, I hope so. And
then the Colt's supposed to come in. Would you see
the storms on the East Coast? Yeah, they got holylies.
Not a pretty sight. Glad. I went to Florida when
I went, Oh my gosh, did it hit Florida too?

(01:55):
I don't think so. I mean, because they're more up
to the Northeast coast. They got they got Jersey, they
got weather, but they didn't get like that nasty weather. Yea.
Both coasts were getting hit the same time. Yeah, and
I didn't know anything about the thing in Alaska? How
did you not know that? Did you not know that
until I saw the Well, I mean I didn't know

(02:15):
that there was like some storm brewing I didn't know
or whatever that was going to hit. And then all
of a sudden, it's like Alaska's wiped off the map
or something. I didn't know either, So and it's like
where did that come from? So anyway, that looked pretty
nasty too. Yeah, so are you getting darn weather? Are
you getting ready for Halloweens? Uh? No, no, No, not

(02:40):
decorated anything. We haven't yet. But my wife said that
she wants to dig out all the Halloween stuff that
we have and put it up this year. Wait a minute,
for once, so she wants to dig out all the
Halloween stuff. She wants you to dig out all the
Halloween stuff and you put it put it up. Okay,

(03:00):
that's just one time. Then then we're going to clear
out well we don't want, well she doesn't want, and
donate the rest, so we clarify. Yeah, so we're I
don't know, I guess we're gonna be digging some of
this stuff out this weekend. Fun. That sounds like fun. Yeah,
thank you so much. I'm Since it was my birthday

(03:22):
earlier this week, it was oh well, happy birthday to you,
thank you very much. Since it was on a Monday,
we didn't really do much because it was a Monday,
so I have to do with anything. So Monday two birthday,
people work and stuff like that, so you can't really celebrate.
So we're celebrating today. We're going to go to a

(03:43):
pumpkin festival and then after that we're going to go
out to eat and a pumpkin festival. Yeah, we're in
I think it's Hamilton. Theirs was last weekend. I think
it was. It's in that general area. Yeah. Well there's
a bunch of them. They're all around. Yeah, and uh,
it's so we're gonna go over there. Cool, and then

(04:04):
we're gonna go to eat afterwards, and yeah, just enjoy.
We're not going to eat. That's really what I wanted
for my birth I don't want presents. I just want
I'm with family and friends, exactly. We're not gonna eat. Uh,
the lady is gonna lady friend is going to cook. Oh.

(04:24):
So she asked me what I wanted and and I
told her what I wanted and Italian as in spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti,
meat balls, spaghetti. Well, she's gonna make spaghetti carbonara. What's
it it's Uh is that a bake? It's got No,

(04:45):
it's spaghetti with bacon and cheese sauce. It's not more
like Alfredo and you can put chicken in it. Oh yeah,
So she's going to do that and uh yeah mm hmm.
So what time should Dan and I be there? Huh?
What time? Yeah? What? What? I don't know what you're

(05:05):
talking about? Was was Dan and I invited? So what's
going on with the website? Okay, you're gonna salad with
that before we did? Uh, it's up to her. Garlic bread,
probably garlic bread. I don't know about salad, dessert. I

(05:26):
don't know. Okay, I just I just told you know,
I just left it up to her. Good, just told
her Italian. Good. Well that's what Happy birthday week, Thank
you very much. So who's the guests to? Who is
the guest today? We have two guests today? Yes, Greg
knee Wold. Greg has been on our show many times,

(05:49):
well any times? Who are three times? At least three?
He is the inventor of power planters. The heavy duty
augers and of course they've be's just blown up expanded,
and then all that they have mixed gardening so much easier. Uh,
just put those power planters on there and just drill
the holes, drill it all. And then we're gonna have
Neil Bevla Bevla aqua. And Neil's been on with this

(06:10):
a couple of times as well. He's the inventor or
the Earthlifter tool, which is a really cool tool, and
this thing has exploded as well. But we're gonna talk
about growing garlic. This guy is it's just mister garlic,
mister Garland. Does he have a shirt that says mister garlic.
I think he probably does have multiple shirts to say
mister garlic. Everything's garlic. He grows eighteen different types of garlic.

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Does he have a website? Yes he does. Maybe is
it mister garlic dot com? No, but it should be.
So we're gonna talk about two things, which garlic should
you be planting? Of course now's a good time to
plant and how to plant garlic. And then we're gonna
talk about which garlic should be the spaghetti carbonole? Why
why is garlic? So you know why are we eating
more garlic? Why is garlic?

Speaker 3 (06:53):
So?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I mean, it's like, right the high at the top
of the list of things that are good for you
to eat. And he's gonna talk a little bit about
that as well. This guy knows his garlic. I know
my mom, she really likes garlic, and I don't think
I don't know if she does it much anymore, but
I still remember when I was a kid, she would
just have bread and clothes of garlic on top of

(07:14):
the bread, right, and just eat it like a sandwich. Yep.
We had a pizza a couple of weeks ago with
Megan's and it had slices of the clothes on the
pizza and it wasn't too overbearing, but it was good.
It was a nice, good tasting and yeah, it was
very tasty. You always knew when Mamma had her garlic sandwiches,
but they knew. She knew for a reason. Not only

(07:34):
do they like the flavor, but she knew that was
good for you. Oh. She's also was born in Romania,
so she's a keep waiting up to the vampires. Yes,
we're not talking about wearing it around your neck. Well, anyway,
I love you, mom, she of course not, as is

(07:57):
she wear that Halloween all the time all the time. Yeah,
okay all the time? So cool. But yeah, those are
two guests for today, and mister Garlic and and mister
Sullivan and of course Buggy Joe and yeah, Buggy Joe.
I mean, what what's going he is like, he's totally slacking.
Usually around this time we have, like, even though it's

(08:20):
it's kind of wearing mid October, even though it's wearing down,
we usually get at least three or four things. He
only sent two things this week. I don't know what
to tell you. I don't know what to tell you.
He's slacking down, I must be. Is that Buggy Joe
texting me? That's him right there? Man? So is his
favorite his his very favorite bug the ant lions? Oh yeah,

(08:43):
he loves and uh. I used to have a ton
of ant lions in one of my planning beds and
then I started putting stuff in there and they're not
there anymore because it's not dry, right, dry soil. And yeah,
so but those things are cool. And beach blight, yes,
the beach blight aphed that kind of looks like, yeah,

(09:03):
it kind of looks like if you have. I don't
know if you're if your tree's got dandruff cotton cotton
growing on them the stems. But when you walk up
to him, they dance and do a little jig for huh. Yeah,
got video of that boogie Willie. Yeah. As a matter
of fact, As a matter of fact, about three weeks ago,

(09:24):
we actually had one of our listeners send me a
video of these things that they saw on their beach tree.
And they walked up and it was a video, and
then walked up to it and they all started going
back and forth. So I sent it to joke because
that's the why they called a boogie woogie beachafed as
they do the boogie woogie. So he was impressed with
the videos. Yes, I was just making a drop and

(09:47):
apparently a surprise surprise exactly. Uh. This week, Rita's recipe
of the week is ugus try it again, rug salad pair.
I love arugula. I'm okay with for now. Yeah, I
mean I kind of like all those except kale. Yeah,
I do not like kale, but a arugula's got that

(10:09):
peppri yeah taste to it, very distinct. And then of
course you got a rugul with sobby it has the
horse radish flavored, every last horse radish. There you go.
So she's got a salad this week with made with
a arugula and pears. And she said, and she claims
she picked these pears from her neighbor's tree, probably in

(10:31):
the darkness of night. Whence she come in with So
the neighbors didn't know that she picked them. What wasn't
she coming in with her potions? I don't know. She's
on the show next Saturday, tell us about the warm
up for the for Halloween. So I don't know, maybe
she'll bring them in. Acquiring minds want to know. Really,

(10:54):
So once you give her her your dress and then
maybe when she's out flying on Hallow night she could
drop just to kind of drop those off at your house. Yeah. Yeah,
So then you wake up in the morning and there's
a bag on the front of the ball bag of
hopefully some lemon schillo. There. Yes, the plant of the

(11:16):
week is the winterberry. What winterberry? Why would you want
to winterberry? Well, isn't that the holly that they you
put in those porch pots. Yeah, you'll see them in
the porchpots. But now the leaves are starting to fall
off plants, you'll start to see these nice big shrubs
that have these huge red berries on them, and I
mean they're brilliant, and the birds don't eat untill later

(11:38):
in the year, so they stay on there for a
while and they use them a lot at Christmas time
in your holiday porchpots. But it's a nice big shrub
for like screening and in your mass plantings and things
like that. But it's a holly that loses the leaf,
so it's a deciduous holly, and it's male and female,
just like the evergreen hollies. But the berries are phenomenal,
as you can see with the picture there. So yes,

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so that's my plan of the week this week. And
there are many different ones to choose from as well,
so even some that have yellow berries. Does the does
the garden fairy have those me personally or the garden ferry? Yes?
Would you like some?

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Well?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Because because I told you I was clearing out that front,
I needed something you don't want that there? Why we
need a male and female to get the berries. Oh okay,
so you'd have to have a place to plant the
male also, he doesn't get berries, He just takes care
of pollinating for the berries, she'd have to plant him
somewhere close by. So see, when you do a mass planning,

(12:41):
you work in the one male and then you get
four or five females planning mass planting. He kind of
gets hidden in there. Get that one, you got, that
one doesn't flower, and all the rest of them do. Gotcha? Okay,
Southern Gentleman is one of the never mind longest flowering ones.
For Hallo, that's ironic. I used to be my nickname gentleman.

(13:06):
All right, that's it for the West Side. The Facebook
page is Rocket and Rolling. And did I send you
pictures from ron rothis this week? Yeah, New Zealand? Was
he ruding? Was that a camel? It was on a camel,
camel jockey doing a little camel jockeying out there, and then
he saw, Oh you gotta believe this. He was. He's
now in New Zealand. All right, Yeah, he's walking through

(13:27):
this garden, hanging out with hobbits. I don't know, but
he's and he was got a picture in the mountains
of Snowy. But he's walking through this botanical garden next
to their hotel. Guess who he sees in New Zealand.
Gary Bauchman in No in the garden Tim back? What? Yes?

(13:50):
He said? He sent me a picture him and Tim's
to each other. He said, I walking through this garden
and I look up and it's Tim Back from back
Tree Service. Holy cow? What's he doing in New Zealand
doing the same thing where I was doing? Wow? Drop
riding camels? Yeah? I would be in camel jockeys or whatever.
I don't know, but yeah, okay, what a small it

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just the world gets smaller and smaller all the time. Alright, alright,
got to go home and get ready to go to
the pumpkin fest. Do you like pumpkin? Do I like pumpkin?
The flavor? Pump flavor? It's okay, But I mean you're
not like the pumpkin spice coffee. No, no, okay, no,

(14:32):
not at all. Pumpkin pie. I'm not really a big
pumpkin pie guy either. Well then, what do you what
do you like about pumpkin? I just go to the
pumpkin fest because it's cool to Okay, to the festival,
right and see all the other stuff that goes on.
But you'll try things that are pumpkin flavored. Yeah, yeah,
So Yeah. My favorite pumpkins are the the little pumpkins

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that you get that kind of look like candy corn.
Those are the best. Okay, that you pop in your
mouth and actually, yes, all right, then it tastes like marshmallow. Remember,
don't eat too much at the pumpkin festival. Why because
you have a nice dinner coming up. Yeah, yeah, I mean, well,

(15:15):
leave room for the great birthday dinner. There's got there's
at least one funnel cake will probably be eating and well,
and probably one of those really big lemonades that they
hand squeeze. That's good too. Yeah, watch out for the
yellow jackets, they're still out there. We'll do that and
I'll bring some maybe some Teeto's and put it in

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the lemonade. Great funnel can funnel cake, Yeah, I love
funnel cake. Who doesn't like funnel ca And you have
to get it a powdered sugar so you can get
it all over your sho Oh my gosh, y has
all over your shirt, your face down on your shoes. Yeah,
oh absolutely, that's part of the whole experience. Then I
don't share mine either, sare I know by two or three,

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but I'm not sharing mine. Exactly got it all right,
Joe Strecker, our executive producer. If you like it, we
see on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com
Facebook page. In the Garden with Ron Wilson Joe Strecker. Well,
he had everything to do with it. But if there's
something on there you don't like, you don't you question that,
you're not sure she'd be there. Not my fault, it's
not Joe's fault. That all has to do with doctor Z,
doctor Z, even though he's in Washington, d C. Garden

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eighty three at Garden eighty three with run around over
his vest, little vesta with bowser in the side, sidecar
on the side and the Sweetheart on the back. Sweetheart
on the back showing her rock using the rock once
she used that one. It's like, does she do a
little turn signals for him? Yeah, like going left, put
the rock out there, turn right the rock out there.

(16:40):
Absolutely so reflects the headlines from behind. Yep, it's so huge, man,
Doctor Laura, money must be really good. Let's be eight
hundred and eight two three eight two five five Here
in the Garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker and the
durringo kid green time or not.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Ron can help at one eight hundred eight two three talk.
This is in the garden with Ron Wilson News Radio
six ten WTVN.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
We're talking yardening at eight hundred eight two three, eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. And of course you don't forget our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com. Yeah, and looking at our
weather forecast for us here we are in a dry
spell right now, but we have showers. That storm is

(17:47):
hitting us. It's I guess severe weather everywhere coming through
and hitting us tonight and tomorrow. Talking about some pretty
heavy rains, lots of winds, and I don't like the wind,
but you know, the rain we need and I want
to continue to push the fact that we need that
rain badly. And you know, again, if this is an

(18:07):
all night rain that we get or an all day
shower that we get, rain that we get that counts,
that counts. If it's a blow through shower, quick end,
quick out. Even if it's an inch or two inches
a rain, they don't count. I put those down as
bonus waterings. But otherwise, you know, you build on those.

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But the other ones if they're an all day soaker,
all night soaker, absolutely outstanding, but so important. Right now,
I'm telling you Key, you know we talk about planting.
You know, right plant, right place, obviously really important, very important.
Get the right plant to fit the right spot, soil conditions,
lighting conditions, exposures, things like that. Pick the right tree,

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the right shrub, the right perennial, the right evergreen for
the right location. That's your first step of success when
it comes to planting trees, shrubs, evergreens, perenial, whatever it
may be. Proper planting procedures. Then following along behind that,
and depending on where you live, soil amendments, obviously adding
organic matter if you can that million dollar hole, you know,

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et cetera, et cetera. Show me the root flare when
you're planting these plants, so the root flair is at
the top of the soil, not buried down in the
ground deeper only dig the hole as deep as you
need to. All of those practices very very important to
get these trees and shrubs and perennials and all in
the ground and plant it correctly. And then of course

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watering and whether you use a root stimulant or not.
And a lot of garden centers when you're buying plants
will show you a furlough root stimulator, you know, things
like that that you can use water soluble to help
get It's a light easy feeding. You could dump the
whole bottle on top of the plant. Wouldn't cause any problem.
But it's a light water soluble easy feed help get

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those roots started. Fertilizer that's great if you use that,
but if you don't, it's okay. The key right now
for this fall is then watering. And I'm talking soaking
that plant when you first water it, when you're done,
or when you're soaking the plant with first water, yeah,
but when you're soon as you're done, planting is really
soaking that thing in. I'm talking so that that hole

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you dug actually fills up with water, soaks the root ball,
fills up the hole with water, soaks all the soil
around it, and then starts to run out the top outstanding.
Do it again tomorrow. Back to back soakings. This is
really key. I'm not kidding, really key. Back to back
soakings and then take it from there as far as

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your regular watering process of I like to keep them
kind of evenly moist for the first couple of weeks,
and then you back off where you soak it, let
it dry, soak it, let it dry. And as plants
start to shut down going into the fall season, leafy plants,
deciduous plants, as they lose their leaves, you know, good soaking.
You can take it a little bit longer in between waterings,

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but again tying waterings right up until the holidays. Evergreens,
you gotta stick with them. You gotta stick with them.
Soak them dry, soak them dry, soak them dry right
up to the holidays. And I'm telling you, you get
into January and February, if the temperature stay warmer, you
don't get any rainfall or snowfall, and it's dry. Remember
they're still losing moisture out of those needles and out

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of those leaves that are still on the plant. So
if they don't have moisture in the ground to take
it up, that's where a lot of this winter burn
comes from. So I recommend it in some cases, you know,
of taking five gallon buckets and filling those up and
on a day above freezing, going out and dumping that
right in the middle of that rootball, down the middle
of the plant, and into that root ball to make

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sure we've got moisture down in the ground. So watering
in the fall is key for about anything that you do,
whether it's grass seeding, fertilizing, planting, whatever, and being successful
with evergreens. And I can't stress it enough, all right,
I can't push it enough. Again, don't let rain showers
fool you. One last thing about this planting. I had

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a couple of emails this week. And I kind of
take this for granted sometimes but that folks just know.
But a couple of emails this week saying, you know,
I know you've talked about and where I bought the plants.
They said something about loosening up the roots. Well, I
took the plant out of the container and it's pretty
solid with roots in there. I'm afraid that I'm going
to damage the plant by trying to loosen those roots up.

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In many cases where annuals and perennials, a lot of
times you can do that with your hands and your fingers.
This massage it. Next thing, you know, you get those loose.
Because we don't want those those roots growing in a
circle like they're growing inside that pot. You want to
take those loose. Otherwise I have taken plants out of
the ground have been on the ground three or four
or five years and still be growing in a circle
with the roots where they were in that original container.

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So you've got to loosen that up. It also opens
it up for air to penetrate and for water to penetrate.
Times when we think we're doing a good watering job,
if we didn't do a good planting job, loosening up
those roots so that the water can flow into that rootball.

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The plants are nice and moist around the outside of
the rootball, but nothing penetrates into the immediate root ball.
The container that was around it would hold that, you know,
bring that moisture to the rootball and make it go
down through the root ball. Right, So, once you took
that off, there's no more container. So now we got
to open up channels for that to flow back and forth.

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So you've got to loosen that up. So don't be
too scared to get in there and really dig in.
This is where your soil knife. You hear me talking
about soil knives, how important they are that it's a
tool that I think every gardener needs at whatever level
you were at. Soil knives really come in handy in

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a situation like this where you can really get in
there and cut in a couple inches or so and
open that up, you gotta do it. If you do,
you're not going to be successful with that plant. It's
not going to work. And especially the watering, it just
rolls to the outside, does not penetrate the root ball.
So don't be too afraid to loosen it up. And
if you're not sure, at your local garden center, have

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them take one out and show what show you what
they would do, and they'll slide it back in the pot.
Take it home, plant it. It'll already be loosened up
for you. But that is key. I can't stress how
important it is to loosen the roots of the plant.
When I'm planting annuals, I'll take them and tear that
small pot of the root ball in the bottom in half.
A lot of times I'll just pull it in half

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at the bottom to open that up to get those
roots so they start to get stimulated to go to
the outside and water penetrates that rootball. So from annuals
to perennials to trees, and shrubs to roses to evergreens.
If they're growing in a container and you've got you know,
you pull them out of there, and then you've got
that nice thicker root system. You gotta loosen that up
before you plant them, all right. Or you can set

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them down on the hole and then start working around
the outer edge of it. And that's where a really
ar squarespade can help you. Or that's soil knife. And
if you're looking for Christmas presents for young gardeners, new gardeners,
older gardeners that doesn't have a soil knife, get them
a soil knife. Harry Curry's, Harry Curry's, Hory Corey's sometimes

(25:18):
they're called also. I get mine from am Leonard. They're
not a sponsor of our show, but I like AM
Leonard's products. Uh Gardener's Edge, I think is their retail catalog.
But that's that's the soil knife that I use, and
I'm telling you it's something that really can come in
handy for all the different things that you do out
there when it comes to gardening. But loosening those roots,

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finding that root flare, proper planting besiegers, and then following
up with proper watering key, proper watering key, carrying that
through the fall season to getting the success from these
plants for next spring. And don't forget with evergreens, you're
kind of with them for a couple first couple of
years until they get themselves rooted in litle bit better

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that they can get out there and grab some of
that moisture in the soil. And even when even at
that point when it's dry, you need water Evergreens. I
can't stress again how important that even moisture is throughout
the season. Before we take a break, Dick from Dayton,
good morning, Good morning, how are you? I am great.
What's for breakfast?

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Well, let's see, I'll probably well I usually stop. Oh
sometimes I'll go over to McDonald's and get the what
is it? The breakfast sandwich is good? Yeah, pretty good.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Get a hash brown with that. Yeah, I'll get a
hash brown little coffee.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah. Oh the coffee's good at McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Oh yeah, you know it's cheap too. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
A lot of friends up there. Eddie and Mary come
over and see me, and then the whole group Calm
and Tam and we just have a little gathering there
were either talked well, we talked football, and we talk,
you know, just about everything. You know. It's kind of nice.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Good.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Hey, I couldn't believe it. The Bengals looked pretty good.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Were you screaming and yellow at that last veel going?

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Jeez, man, I couldn't believe it. They just they were
just red hot.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Those two old quarterbacks put on a pretty nice show.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yes they did.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I mean yes, they did. Two oldest quarterbacks in the league,
and they did a nice job. It was fun watching
them both.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was just I was kind of
happy for him, you know, it's good. I heard from
a couple of my friends from Lowe's and I got
a call and they asked me if I wanted to,
you know, maybe work part time. How about that?

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, are you going to do it?

Speaker 3 (27:54):
No? No, you know, I'm too busy, you know what
the other thing you're you're.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Having fun doing all the other stuff. No sense going
back to work.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
No, but I'll tell you what, I'd love that place.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
I knew a lot of people there and they came
to see me, and it just you just get different ideas.
And I did. To hear from my cousin Carla, Yes,
and she's been doing through the yard. You know what
it means.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Sure going to Uncle John's up in Olmsteed Falls. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
great garden center up there. All right, we gotta go, Dick.
Always a pleasure, Okay, we'll talk to you next week.
Dick from Dayton Ladies and gentlemen. And that is Olmsted Falls,
Uncle John's PlantForm one of the nicest garden centers in
the Cleveland area. Check it out if you're ever in

(28:46):
Cleveland or Olmsteed Falls. Eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. That's our number here in the garden
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Speaker 3 (28:57):
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With Ron. Wilson our plant of the week, winterberry great
plant that's a deciduous holly loses the, leaves big bulky.
Plant some there's some smaller varieties available, today some yellow
berries as, well but mostly all the red. Varieties they're
male and. Females you have to have a male and
then all the. Females somebody again a great email question,

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said you, know when we're doing things like this where
we need a male and then you know the to
pollinate the, females you, know how many males per female
and how close does the male have to be to
the female so that you get good. Pollination and you,
know it's a great. Question it depends on the plant
but a one to maybe five ratio usually can work fairly,

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well and it's nice to keep him, within you, know
as close as you. Can, actually if you're having the
same planting as, outstanding you, know it's the bees and
the pollinators that have to carry. It so the further
away the male is from the, females the bigger chance
you're going to have of them not getting properly pollinated
or fully pollinated for the berries on the. Females so you,

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know fifty feet thirty, feet the closer you can, get you,
know the great and when you're doing mass plantings like
you would with like these winter, berries which that's where
they really put on a. Show if you've got a
screen planting or you know something like, that or a border,
planting or you can plant three or four of the
five of the females and one male in with. Them

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kind of tuck him into the back somewhere because you
know he's not going to have any, berries so he's
just there to. Pollinate good looking, plant but he's just
there to. Pollinate then you've got the berries of the
females out. Front they're all right there, together easy for
the bees and the pollinators to take care of the,
situation and then you're good to. Go but, again a
bees flying distance would be a general answer for, you

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or pollinator flying, distance but the closer the. Better about
one to five something like that is a great ratio
in a situation like. That but check out the winter.
BERRIES i think it's another one of those deciduous plants
that's way underused in our, landscapes and beautiful berries in the,
fall and you can use those for decorations for the,
holidays and the birds will lead them off That after the,

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holidays they typically leave those particular berries alone for some,
reason like. Hawthorns they leave those berries alone and eat
them a little bit later into the. Season SO i
don't know if they like. Them weathered a little bit
or whatever it may. Be but they have a tendency
to stay on the plant a little longer in the.
Season big, berries bright, colors but, eleaks verticalata or verticleta

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or deciduous, hollies AND i think you will really like. Them,
again a good looking, shrub but but good and mass
plantings and things like. That To ohio we, Go, matt good, Morning.

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Good.

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Morning how are you?

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Man i'm doing? Great how about?

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Yourself, hey SO i bought one of those planners two
years ago AND i planted some hands and chicks in.

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It you.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Know it's one of those planners that has the holes
in the side and the top.

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Open old strawberry. Crocs, okay, well the.

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The plant at the top of the has two sprouts coming,
out AND i can transplant them either the sprout or
go down to the root and pull it, out not transplant.

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Separated that's WHAT i meant to.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Say so you've got to see them sucking instead are
growing in. Those that's what that. Is the. Plant, yeah, okay.
Yeah as a matter of, fact right now at The wilson,
household my wife has oh probably three or four of
those with different succulents in. Them and they're originally those
were strawberry, crocks and that's how they grew, strawberries and

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containers were strawberry, crocks and so they put strawberries in
those holes and then the strawberries would wine out over
the top and cover over the pot and get. Strawberries
and it's pretty. Cool but, now of course we use
them for all kinds of, things especially the. Succulents and
she's got the same way several of them that have
started to come out sept you, know grown babies sent

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them out off the. Side so she is in a
process at this stage of collecting all of. Those and
as long as you've got a small stem on the
bottom of, that you don't have to grab all the
roots of small stem that you can stick in soil
or in, water they'll root from. That as a matter of,
Fact i've taken some of those setams and succulents and
where they just broke off and put them right on

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top of the soil and kind of you, know just
kind of nestle them in and use a toothpick or
something to attach to kind of hold them in and
they'll root right into. That so they're very easy to.
Do so doing and doing it this time of the
year and bringing them inside is a great thing to.
Do so if you can get roots with, it, Great
but if you, don't and you've got a little bit
of a stem that you can stick in the water

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or stick in the, soil great and they transplant nicely
and they make great house plants as.

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Well, yeah, okay, YEAH i didn't even think about sticking
them in.

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WATER i just, yeah, okay take it small like a shot.
Glass shot glasses are really good for, that and just
set them right on the top of that and have
that little stem in. There next, thing you, know you
get little roots. Developing then you put them in the
soil and you're good to.

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Go, awesome thank, you.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
All, Right, matt good. Talking we did good luck with.
Everything and that's what we are going through at The
wilson household right. Now Missus wilson this year has just
exploded into container, gardening all kinds of. Succulents that's what
she's into. Now AND i can't think of the, term
but she's now doing the where you make the root
ball out of soil and then you put string and

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twine around it and so it's an all natural you,
know there's not in a. Pot it's all by, itself
and there's a oh my, GOSH i can't Think i'm
drawing a. Blank but, anyway she's doing some of. That
but what's really fun is that many years ago we
were in The amish country up in Northeastern ohio and
we were at a small store the hell kinds of

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stuff in. It but, anyway the lady that was there
was a, gardener and she had taken all kinds of
small glass vases and tubes chemistry tubes in that and
it really creatively put them on, things wire things and
hung them on the walls or hanging from the. Ceiling
and in those it was in the. Fall she had
taken cuttings from her annual plantings and had stuck them

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in there as far as the, flowers and two of
them that were, outstanding and THAT'S i remember talking about
this way back, then and now we're doing it at
our house Were, colius which is my favorite, annual and
the ornamental sweet potato. Vine and you take cuttings from
those stick. Them they make a great vase of sordid.
Colors we've got vases of colias all around our house right.

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Now been given away as. Gifts but sweet potato vine
the same, way and you stick them in that, water
they start to, root they start to, grow and they'll
actually grow in the, water kind of hang in there
for you over the wintertime and give you a great color.
Indoors so as you're taking and cutting back your annuals and,
things keep that in. Mind if they've got nice, foliage
especially colius and ornamental sweet potato, vine to do that

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in a water like that in the house makes a
really nice, show nice gift as. Well by the, way
if you find those ornamental sweet potatoes when you're digging those,
up they are, edible very, bland but very. Edible coming up,
next we're gonna talk To Neil bevla Bell beva Lock,
up and we're also gonna talk to the polks From
Power planter here in The garden With Ron. Wilson