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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The same way.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
We need it big time. So yes, it's kind of
tough digging unless you've got a power planter.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
That that is true.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I mean, honestly, that was the most well said snippet ever.
So kudo's on that one. And I mean, that's what
we do. We've been doing this since my grandfather started
it in nineteen eighty eight, and I mean it fits
in anybody's cordless drill.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I think the key to it, though, is the cordless.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Drill part of it just for safety, because it's got
a clutch, so if you hit something underground, it's gonna
stop spinning. But other than that, your efficiency is gonna
go through the roof compared to any of those little
hand contraptions. And I always like to say we slice
the ground rather than shopping at it. So the easy
comparison is is we like to slice cheese or we
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like to slice the potato.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We don't sit there and you know, just stab it
to death and in augur is the same thing.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Whereas a shovel you're literally just jabbing as hard as
you can into the ground and hoping for great results,
which is just painful and takes forever.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh, yeah, real quick. So folks understand, of course us
made third generation. Why was Grandpa making these augurs.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, it's a kind of a long story, but i'll
give you a short version.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So Grandpa was making August since nineteen sixty for farmers
to actually move material like corn and fertilizer and things
like that. And a gentleman at the local university, University
of Illinois, approached him because he had just a boatload
of tulips to put in the ground around campus and said, Wayne,
everybody says that you're the local auger guy, why can't
we do something, you know, to make my life easier
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and move some soil up and out of the ground.
And so Grandpa went to work and voila power planner
was born.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And Grandpa ran it kind of word of mouth.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Until I came back and took over in twenty thirteen.
And since then, we've added different models we've made. We've
got our standard stuff. We've also made heavy duty models
now for landscapers or the homeowner that has incredibly tough
soil or clay or rocky stuff to be able to
handle that abrasion and abuse.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And so to your.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Point, we just kind of keep creating and everything's based
on a solution for whatever somebody's need is. Really as
of late, we got as of late we got into
some landscapers and holders something like this too. We got
into some anchor systems as well, so we all love
in the fall, we go to you know, put some
leaves on the tarp, and the tart blows away.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
When we get it half full, you know, we get
to start all over again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So we've got some anchoring systems that are basically augurs
that screw right into the ground and they're reusable.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
We're using for trees to stake trees all the time
now and things like that as well.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So we kind of keep evolving and coming up with
new stuff wherever the need arises.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, I can't you know. When we you and I
first talked, it may have been twenty thirteen or so
talking about power planners, when they really were starting to
come onto the market. You know, you had a nice
selection of power planners. But of course today it's just
grown unbelievable how many different sizes and types that you have.
And I think the thing, you know a lot of
folks go into local independent garden centers and they've always
had garden augers in there. You know, they've always been around,
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no big you know, it's always been there, but uh
never held up.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
You buy one of those things and it just ought you, well,
you'd bend it easily. If you hit a root or something,
you know, it would bend it easily. And this power
these power augers, and it come in all different sizes.
We'll talk about that, but I think that's the unique
thing about this is that there eight you were able
to still put them on your hand drill, heavy duty drill,
and you guys get into that as well. But when
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you hit something, that thing hangs in there with you.
You're not gonna you're not gonna ruin your power planner.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah yeah, I mean we make the augers, and kudos
to Granpa for this one. We make them to be
a generational tool. It's great for the owner of our
power planners. It's not so good for business other than
I can honestly say that, hey, it's gonna last a lifetime.
But it's not a loaf of bread that you're going
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to go through two or three or four like some
of those other ones that you know, you might see
it somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And so that combined with.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The drill and safety, and you really do have kind
of a tool of the old school yesteryear mentality, which
is pretty unheard of.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's really unheard of.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You can still say it's made in the United States,
and it's fun for my staff and myself. We absolutely
love when people call in with questions because I'll be honest.
You can get on our website and it's a fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Website, outstanding, but we have just so many options.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You know, whether you want a two inch hole, an
eight inch hole, a nine inch hole, or you want
seven inches of length or fifty four inches of length
plus extensions available. So we love to talk to people
and help. And so I mean our phone this time
of year is rather busy, but we actually love it.
You don't have to call and hit one or two
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or five or anything else. It's just it rings in
a human answers. So we really do run pretty old school.
We always have we probably always will to.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Be honest, and you'll again you'll find them in many locations,
but you'll find a lot of your locally owned independent
garden centers as well. You can go to the websites
Outstanding website you guys, just keep updating this thing all
the time powerplanter dot com and learn more about it.
You'll see all the different sizes, and again it can
be a little confusing if you see their displays in
the garden centers or wherever you may see the power Planter.
(05:27):
I'm usually as a nice assortment, but there are so
many different sizes besides what's available in those display units.
You need to check it out and the course, as
Greg said, they're there to help you out as far
as choosing which one that you want to or need
to use for whatever the project may be. So you know,
over the years since the first time we talked, you know,
the number of sizes and types of augurs that you
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have has quadrupled. I would say, in selection, how.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Do you choose?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
What makes you determine that you need this style or
this new type of vlog or a different size or whatever.
What's helped to determine which direction you've gone with these?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You know, it really is need in a solution for
the end user.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I think the perfect example or examples is the heavy
duty variations of some of the larger styles, like the
four inch through nine inch diameters. We started having some
customers on the East Coast and the Carolina is that
their red clay is literally made, you know, and it
makes bricks, and you know, some of those comments came
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back that hey, we're having some issues and things like that.
So we went to work and figured out some solutions
and sent some samples out and they're like.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Holy smokes, this is a ticket. So it was all
out of need.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The two inch by fifty four inch came out of
need from a company that does soil moisture probes in
the agriculture world. They needed a way to put these
moisture probes into farmers fields. But then at the same time,
I happen to have one at a show in a
landscape looked at and he goes, you know, he goes,
I don't know what you're supposed to use that for.
He says, I could really use that to bore for
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irrigation and lighting underneath my customer sidewalks.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I was like, yeah, you could absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Lay that thing on its side and instead of pounding
a steel rod underneath the sidewalk or whatever you're normally
doing now, yeah, you could absolutely just drill a hole
and then run your line or your PVC. So I
mean that's kind of the evolution of how things come
about is generally a phone call or too, or an
inquiry or two, and then just to look like does
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this actually meet you know, more than one person's need,
And oftentimes it does, and it just takes somebody you know,
to pick up the phone and call or send an
email and say, hey, I think this would be really
cool or this really helps me out.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Then from there the rest is kind of history.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, unbelievable. It's again great product. Go to their webs
So we're gonna take a break. We're gonna find out
what can you put these on your regular home drills? Absolutely,
but we're gonna learn more from great going how to
do that, what to use. Their website is powerplanter dot com.
Be sure and check it out. And again, like I say,
you'll find these a lot of your locally owned independent
garden centers, hardware stores, et cetera, et cetera. Absolutely outstanding.
(08:13):
Maybe a little bit more expensive, but they are worth it.
And like you said, it's a one time that you
want you buy them, it's gonna last your lifetime. Quick break.
We come back more with Greg Kneewold Power Planter Here
in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Not gardening questions. Ron has the answer at one eight
hundred eighty two three.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Tak Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
We're trying to get you to work smarter, not harder.
It's all about easy and if you want to make
it easier on yourself when it comes to planting, whether
it's bulbs, annuals, perennials, tree shrubs, whatever it may be,
have you considered using a power planter. These are steel
(08:53):
drill augers that do an outstanding job. Can be attached
to your drill or more heavy duty drills if needed.
As a matter of fact, gregnee Wald, from a power planter,
you have some of these that actually you don't have
to bend over the standing shafts and kind of stand
up and drill at the same time, so when you're
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doing a lot of ball planting doesn't hurt you back.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Absolutely, we I mean, if you're gonna go out and
do a bunch of bulbs, I'm six foot two, so
I really like the one that's thirty six inches long.
I think the easiest rule of thumb when you're figuring
out height because we offer when you get to that
conversation of I don't want to crawl around, we have
a seven inch of twelve inch, and then we jump
to twenty four, then thirty, then thirty six, and then
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forty eight. So here the easy rule of thumb is
for folks is if you're at seven inches or twelve,
you're gonna crawl around. However, the standard kitchen table is
thirty inches tall. So if you stand at your kitchen
table and you put your hand about three four inches
above it, that would be your starting height at say
the thirty inch ogger. If you go below it, then
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you're at say the twenty four So people always, we
get lots of calls about that exact topic.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
How long should I get?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And the simple roal thumb is just go stand next
to your kitchen table and if that is a comfortable
standing height to go to start at for drilling holes, then.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Get a thirty inch.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
If you want a little bit higher, then do like
a thirty six. I tell tons of people don't do
forty eight inches long. I mean, I'm six foot two
and thirty six is perfect for me. You know, forty
eight inches is going to be the middle of my
chest or close to it, right, So.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, I mean any size you know, really help people.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
My own mother's had seven or eight back surgeries and
neck surgeries at this point, and her passion on five
acres is gardening.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The only way she can garden now is with one
of our augers.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
She cannot jam down on a shovel and then, you know,
get up and down like a twenty year old anymore.
So the only way she can do it is to
stand up, go drill tons and tons of holes, and
in some cases my own kids go help her plant stuff.
So you know, it really is a solution for healthy
folks as well as people with ailments that just want
to get back out in.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The garden and do stuff well.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Absolutly agree to one hundred percent. Again, it's called power Planters.
Go to the website powerplanter dot com. Now you I'm
assuming folks are listening to. Okay, so I've got a
my dwalt drill or whatever out in the garage. Will
that work on my cordless dualt drill?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So the short answer is yes, our augers work with
any I don't care what color or flavor of drill
it is as long as it's just a standard cordless drill.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It does not need to be a hammer drill.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It will not work on an impact like you would
put screws in your deck that makes that big loud,
ratcheting sound.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Type of thing.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Just any eighteen or twenty volt cordless drill for tipic
go homeowner gardening and you're.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Off to the races.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Now you have taken that step. You have tied in
with Dewault, and you have bundles that people can buy.
If you don't have the drill, you can supply them
with that as well.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
That is we We do sell two different dualult drills
and we do bundle them up with our augers kind
of by use or purpose. And the drills that we
sell are pretty much the nicest models they have one
because that kind of fits with our mantra.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We have the nicest augurs bar none in the market.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And so the drills that we have they have the
side handle, which is extra nice just for a little
bit extra stability.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Uh. They have very large capacity batteries.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
So by the time that battery runs out, you've got
gobs and gobs and gobs and holes that you can
go back and back fill while that battery charges, or
you can just go in the house and relax for
an hour if you want to white charges.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But it's about longevity.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So batteries we do have the big capacity batteries and
the drills are the highest quality that they have. And
again we sell the Walt de Walt, you know, wanted
to work with us. We wanted to work with them
as who they are. But if somebody's got a different
brand or flavor, as I like to say, go for it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh absolutely, But I think you know again, I think
it's interesting you tied in with them and make it
really easy. It's a one time, one stop shop if
you're interested in doing this. Again, it's Powerplanter dot com
is a website and this is for a down the
road another topic. We'll talk about this may as we
get close to the spring. But I noticed you had
on your website you're now, you know, the plant supports
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and all that doing the spirals and the twisters. I
saw those at the trade show. I thought those were
absolutely out outstanding. And I see you've got those on
your website, so folks want to check that out as well.
But again it's powerplanter dot com. Powerplanter dot com. Gregnewald
always a pleasure man. You guys have just exploded and
you made our gardening a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, thank you, Ron, I really appreciate it. Thanks to
you and all your listeners. You guys have a great
fall and a great winner, and any question drining, just
reach out to us, happy to help and be safe
and happy gardening.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
There you go, Greg, I appreciate it. Greg knee Waald. Again,
it's a power planter, and they, like I said, there
may be a little bit more expensive, but they are
worth the price. Once you buy them, you got them.
They're going. You're not gonna mess these things up. There
there to work for you, and you work smarter, not harder,
with these power augers. And if again a few power planners,
if you get confused about it, just give them a call.
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They'll help walk you through. And of course you'll see
a lot of these also at your locally owned independent
garden centers, some of the hardwares and all, and they'll
tell you about that on their website as well. But
if you want to work smarter in your garden, like
you said with his moms, you can go through with
these augers and just joe holes for anything small annuals, perennials.
You got a two gallon nursery plant you're gonna plant,
Take that auger and just drill about seven times in
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that hole. Take it all loose, and you got to
get yourself a nice hole. The soil is already kind
of fine for you. It's outstanding. But again check it out.
Powerplanter dot com is powerplanner dot com. Coming up next,
we're gonna talk about garlic. Now's the time to plant garlic.
Which ones do you plant? How do you plan it?
How do you harvest it? Why is there such a
big thing about garlic? Is it really that good for you?
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We're gonna find out. Neo Bevilaqua is going to join us.
He knows more about garlic than garlic knows about garlic.
Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson. Welcome back here
in the Garden with Ron Wilson. A couple of years ago.
And of course, you know we talk about trying to
make gardening easier, right, Uh, you know, work smarter, not
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harder when we're out in the gardens, and uh and
and we try to find tools and things that make
it easier for all of us. And a couple of
years ago at the set show up in the or
the Cultivate show up in Columbus, Ohio, I saw a
tool there with a young man and was demonstrating the
tool I thought was outstanding, and it was called the
Earthlifter Tool. And so after I saw that and kind
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of you know, saw the demonstration, got one used it,
loved it, and got old this young man to be
on our show and talk us about how he developed
the Earthlifter Tool. And our website is earthlifter dot com.
And everybody I know that has bought an Earthlifter Tool
has absolutely loved it and thank me for pointing in
that direction. But since then, I've gotten to know this
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gentleman a little bit better. And this guy knows more
about garlic and the benefits of garlic and staying healthy
then garlic knows about garlic. So I want to make
sure I mentioned the Earthlifter Tool because that's what got
us started. And trust me, if you're looking for something
to make it easier for you in the garden, check
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it out. It's earthlifter dot com. But today we're going
to talk about one of the things he loves he
and his wife love to grow. As a matter of fact,
he says, garlic may be the most magnificent gift you
can give yourself when you can consider choosing one plant
embodying the essence of what a gift truly is. Who
is that, gentleman, is mister Neil bevla bevla Aqua. I've
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been trying to practice that all week. You know, last
time I just called you mister Bevil because it's a
lot easier. But bevl Aqua and Neil. Great to have
you on the show this morning.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Good morning, Ryan, thank you, please call me and Neo. Okay,
So you mentioned a couple of things that are really interesting.
And my main, let's say, desire in life is for health.
And so when I tried to understand many years ago,
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let's let's let's go back. I'm a little older than
you think I am. So I've been studying basically psychology
for I go before they years. And one of the
things that I've done is I've been a research scientist
for eleven years and I've been studying actually neuro transmit
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brain psychology, you know, brain chemical psychology, and so that
that led me to understand uh, you know depression. I
studied depression actually, and when I studied depression, you know,
the main drug or chemical that people use to study
it is serotonin. Right, So when I studied looked at
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the serotonin, I find out that it is made in
the gut biome. So then I studied that the gut biome,
and that it just opened up the whole world. It's
basically everything, everything that goes on in your body, every
chemical hormone, every transmitter, everything comes out of your gut biome.
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So then I said to myself, well, what wow, this is.
This is the center. They call it the second brain
in psychology because it tells the brain or tells the
body what it needs and then it produces it. So
think about the biome, the gut biome as parallel to
your soil, to your to your you know, to the
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you know, the the medium that you grow things in. Okay,
So the idea that everything that goes on in your
body kind of comes out of your gut biome. So
you have twenty seven hundred and three thousand different little
microbes it's called microbiota growing there and they control you know,
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your your your your sugar levels, your heart rate everything.
So I wanted to find out, well, if this is
the garden that's in our body, what is the best
fertilizer for our garden let's call the garden. And so
then I looked into all the different you know, inputs.
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You know. You know, you can eat tail, you can
eat you know, crimini, mushrooms, you can you know, all
these different things. Then then I said, well, what is
the absolute best, most important. It's called the pre biotic. Okay,
a pre biotic is think about it as a fertilizer
for the probiotics you always hear about, you know, yogurts
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and probiotics, but a pre biotic is considered think of
it as a fertilizer. So there I went on a
great search for many years to figure out how do
you make the best gallic in the world, which is
you know, obviously kind of a fool as everyone, but
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I try. I try. I'm I do think I make things.
I try things. So so basically that's that's kind of
the beginning point here. Okay. So, so I don't want
to like, we have only a certain period of time
and this is your show. I want you to ask me,
interrupt me, whatever you want to call it, you know,
whenever you want anything, I.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Have to tell you. Last week we were at my
daughters and they ordered up a couple of pizzas from
a local pizza place and they're they're known for the
great pizzas. But anyway, one of their ingredients that they
add to pizza is a thin sliced garlic clothes. So
they took their they took their garlic clothes and actually
slice them so they were about eighth of an inch thick,
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and then put those as a topping on the pizza.
It was outstanding and I felt better, I think after
I ate that thing. But I thought I thought of
you the whole time, because I mean this garlic saying, oh, mister,
mister Bevilaca would love this pizza because all the garlic
one there. But you know, it was a great flavor.
And of course garlic is you know, coming on so
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strong now and we're all realizing it and of course
learning more from you about the importance of garlic in
our in our health and what it can do. But
I think the thing and and and again. Folks can
learn more about all of this on his website at
earthlifter dot com. Not only you've learned about the tool,
but go to his blog and all this is He's
written all this out for you. It's amazing to read
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all of what mister Neil has done here as far
as the research. But I kind of wanted to get
you on today also not only to promote this the benefits,
but also you're such an experienced garley grower and right
now is a great time for planting garlic. Garlic one
of the best times to kind of pick your brain
as far as and I think you told me you
and your wife have grown over forty cultivars of garlic
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out there, which I had no idea there were so
many out there. But kind of give us some pointers
because you're very successful at growing garlic. Kind of give
us some pointers on which ones you like the best.
I think you're mostly a hardneck garley grower, so I'd
like to if we can share some of your tips
on how to grow garlic successfully.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Okay, okay, so do that in if we can in
an let's let's call it in a sequence, because what
what you have to first understand is that gallic is
extremely unique plant. Let's call it the plant it's a
or it's actually a plant.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
So in the world of googs, there is what's called
soft neck and hot neck. All right. Soft neck is
the stuff you get into soup in supermarkets and like
about seventy or so. It's actually grown in China, and
it's it's kind of grown under dubious conditions. Uh we
you know, they use fertilizers that we wouldn't use in
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the United States, right, And but what it is is
it's it's a lot of tiny cloak. So a head
of soft gallogs will have a fifteen twenty little little cloths,
and uh, the taste is not very good to me
or to any people. I have a very very high
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level gormonds and chefs and you know, very and you
know my my, Uh, I don't be bragging or anything,
but the stuff that I grow is much more nutritious
and delicious for various reasons. Kind of let me s
you asked about how it grows. So one of the
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things that people don't understand or you know people you
know some device is that garlic has very very short
roots and gallic evolved to be seven biotic with something
called my celium or micorizio soil. So basically they have
a partnership. And what that means is that when you
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establish a bed, it has all these filamists they're called
hyphene that extend like you know, can the twenty feet
away from the actual plants, and they have this relationship
that the gallic gets photosynthesis, makes a surtarce puts it,
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brings it down to its roots, and then the mycelium
brings minerals and water and nutrients to the roots and
they exchange it. So some plants, other plants do that,
not like galic garlic is is it has like sixteen
town roots and so, but it has like every feet
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of let's say, friends that supply it with minerals and nutrients.
So that's that's one thing why galic has. It has
one hundred and thirty sulfur compounds, it has numerous minerals
and many nutrients within it, and it's evolved to be
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a a sink for all the nutrients around it. So
the garlic itself is uh is full of nutrients. Now,
one of the things that when you said you had
on pizza sliced on pizza, what are the other unique
aspects about gog If you take a club of glic
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and you smell it. Just just just take it off
and smell it. You'll smell anything if you eat it.
If you eat it, just throw down your throat.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You won't get any nutrients or anything out of it.
The unique part about golic is that it evolved or somehow.
The chemical I say expression is this thing called alison.
Alison is called that is the healthy is everything basically
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and how it's made. Think of epoxy. If you have
two components of epoxy and you have me sitting next
to each other, they won't do anything. It's not it's
not blue. But if you mix them together then and
then you wait. So golic has two sizes of cell
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that when crushed, sliced or somehow mashed together and you
have to wait. You have to wait ten to fifteen minutes.
Then the it's called the epoxy becomes or the you know,
the chemical becomes Allison. That is the healthy, nutritious. That
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that's everything about golic. So people should know that, I
mean your your clients, your guests should know that when
you make when you have golic, you should always crush
it or slice it up somehow and then wait. You
have to wait, and then then you have real golic.
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That's the real that's the real trick.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
We got to take a quick break. We're gonna come
we'll learn more about growing garlic. Well, when we come back,
I want to know what you use in your soil mix,
what kind of a base do you use for growing
your garlic. We'll take a quick break, we'll come back
more with mister Neil talking about garlic. And the website
is earthlifter dot com. Be sure and check it out.
You'll learn more about the tool and garlic as well.
(28:19):
Here in the garden with Ron.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Wilson, Landscaping ladiesier with your personal yard boy.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
He's in the gardens and he's Ron Wilson.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson's special
guest this morning is mister Garlic, Neil Bevilaqua, and of
course he is the inventor of the Earthlifter tool. Check
it out earthlifter dot com. But you'll also learn an
awful lot about the benefits of growing garlic. And now's
the time to plant garlic. This is a great October
is a great month for planning it in your gardens,
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raised beds, containers, whatever it may be. So we're talking
to him. One is about the many benefits, which we
kind of know, but this guy really knows the benefits
of garlic, and what are the secrets because he grows
so many different types and is so successful. What some
of the tips, mister Neil for your success in growing garlic?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
All right, So just to just to kind of just
not to correct it, but I actually grow grew fifty
seven fifty seven different varieties. There you go over the
over thirty five years now, I have tried many, many
different ways and different types. Now there's eleven main main
types of hard neck. I grow hard neck because they're
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more delicious and they are one. They're they're they're they're wonderful.
But of the eleven types, I only grow four, uh
and actually five because of my climate. Now, everyone in
your audience, I'm not sure how how how far south,
how far north right? But I'm in a rough area.
(29:53):
I'm in the upstate New York mountains. You know, a
couple of thousand feet up in the air. So my
climate U uh, certain ones, certain types, certain families that
are actually called uh you know, purple stripe, you know,
porcelain rock and boli. Certain families grow best in my climates.
(30:15):
So let's start from the beginning. If you asked about
how if you have a perfect world, I see, I
try to think of extremes. So in a perfect world,
if you were to, let's say, uh, inoculate your bed
with my celium. Now, my celium is uh, it's it's
it's it's basically what the uh the substrate is for mushrooms.
(30:41):
It's basically it's the stuff that lives in the earth.
And it's just like in our gut biome, we have
all these microbes. So your soil has all kinds of
microbes also. So you're talking about doing it the easy way.
I'm trying to, uh do everything the easy way, because
(31:03):
if you do it not easy, you do it the
way that it's not onerous or not difficult. This is
why this is why I invented that tool, because I
couldn't uh you know, uh it's for people who have
you know, uh, strength problems, or age problems, or or
just any kind of problems. It makes it easier. So
in terms of the soil, I'm we can trying to
(31:26):
figure a way of you know, you've heard about regenitive agriculture. Well,
this is kind of regenerative fertilizing. So if the if
the if the high feed, the micarasio of the my
cilium soil is going out and grabbing the nutrients for
you for the plants, and they're bringing them in. Now,
(31:48):
what what does the plants feed on? They need they
need certain nutrients to feed on. And so we use uh,
you know once a and the mycilium base. It is
a I don't want to say products with you because
I'm not sure what you know.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
But okay, well you know there's.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
A product called you know, pro mix b X which
has a my cilium base to it, which is we
use it, okay, But I also I also I have
a very big background in another area, which is cobby
graph ie, and I know about carbon pretty well. And
there's a there's a a anaerobic way of heating up
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wood or organic materials that make something called biochart right
now bio biochart.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And and just so you know, we've got about two
minutes to go, so we're.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Gonna okay, so I try to leave a storage uh
I try to uh put in the earth something that
is regenerative. So biochart, if it's charged, will keep your
regenerate nutrients in your garden for one hundred years. Basically,
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we also use something you know, we use our salth
our salfa like but you you know, organic alfalfa pellets,
but you feed horses basically because of nitrogen in there.
And we use wood ash for a kind of a stimulant,
and also, you know, for other reasons. And we for
some reason, the all look like seafood. So you know,
(33:29):
it's funny. It's a you know, so that there are
mixes with seafood, seaweed, shells kelp. And then okay, so
we use that when we first plant like next like
I'm planting tomorrow actually, and I planted a couple of
days ago because I'm planting two thousands heads. All right,
So it's so you know, fishy motion when the when
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the plants emerge. Fishing motion is a very good thing
to add to it.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
All right, We're and we're running out of time, and
I tell you what I want to tell everybody. Go
to the website earthlifter dot com. You'll learn about the tool.
You'll learn all about this because he's written all of
this out for you to follow along, as far as
all the great things that he does. And if you've
got questions you can email them, do whatever. He'll help
you out as much as possible.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Neil.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Mister Neil, thank you so much for spending time with us.
You you are mister garlic. Can we really appreciate it?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Well? Well, you being you being in the garden, you're
doing a great service. Also, people should be outside.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
All right, there you go, Neil, Bebulolacua and then check
it out again. It's Earthlifter dot Com quick Break. We
come back taking your calls at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five Here in the Garden with
Ron Wilson
The same way.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
We need it big time. So yes, it's kind of
tough digging unless you've got a power planter.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
That that is true.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I mean, honestly, that was the most well said snippet ever.
So kudo's on that one. And I mean, that's what
we do. We've been doing this since my grandfather started
it in nineteen eighty eight, and I mean it fits
in anybody's cordless drill.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I think the key to it, though, is the cordless.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Drill part of it just for safety, because it's got
a clutch, so if you hit something underground, it's gonna
stop spinning. But other than that, your efficiency is gonna
go through the roof compared to any of those little
hand contraptions. And I always like to say we slice
the ground rather than shopping at it. So the easy
comparison is is we like to slice cheese or we
(00:45):
like to slice the potato.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We don't sit there and you know, just stab it
to death and in augur is the same thing.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Whereas a shovel you're literally just jabbing as hard as
you can into the ground and hoping for great results,
which is just painful and takes forever.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Oh, yeah, real quick. So folks understand, of course us
made third generation. Why was Grandpa making these augurs.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, it's a kind of a long story, but i'll
give you a short version.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So Grandpa was making August since nineteen sixty for farmers
to actually move material like corn and fertilizer and things
like that. And a gentleman at the local university, University
of Illinois, approached him because he had just a boatload
of tulips to put in the ground around campus and said, Wayne,
everybody says that you're the local auger guy, why can't
we do something, you know, to make my life easier
(01:33):
and move some soil up and out of the ground.
And so Grandpa went to work and voila power planner
was born.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And Grandpa ran it kind of word of mouth.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Until I came back and took over in twenty thirteen.
And since then, we've added different models we've made. We've
got our standard stuff. We've also made heavy duty models
now for landscapers or the homeowner that has incredibly tough
soil or clay or rocky stuff to be able to
handle that abrasion and abuse.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And so to your.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Point, we just kind of keep creating and everything's based
on a solution for whatever somebody's need is. Really as
of late, we got as of late we got into
some landscapers and holders something like this too. We got
into some anchor systems as well, so we all love
in the fall, we go to you know, put some
leaves on the tarp, and the tart blows away.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
When we get it half full, you know, we get
to start all over again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So we've got some anchoring systems that are basically augurs
that screw right into the ground and they're reusable.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
We're using for trees to stake trees all the time
now and things like that as well.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So we kind of keep evolving and coming up with
new stuff wherever the need arises.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, I can't you know. When we you and I
first talked, it may have been twenty thirteen or so
talking about power planners, when they really were starting to
come onto the market. You know, you had a nice
selection of power planners. But of course today it's just
grown unbelievable how many different sizes and types that you have.
And I think the thing, you know a lot of
folks go into local independent garden centers and they've always
had garden augers in there. You know, they've always been around,
(03:06):
no big you know, it's always been there, but uh
never held up.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
You buy one of those things and it just ought you, well,
you'd bend it easily. If you hit a root or something,
you know, it would bend it easily. And this power
these power augers, and it come in all different sizes.
We'll talk about that, but I think that's the unique
thing about this is that there eight you were able
to still put them on your hand drill, heavy duty drill,
and you guys get into that as well. But when
(03:31):
you hit something, that thing hangs in there with you.
You're not gonna you're not gonna ruin your power planner.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah yeah, I mean we make the augers, and kudos
to Granpa for this one. We make them to be
a generational tool. It's great for the owner of our
power planners. It's not so good for business other than
I can honestly say that, hey, it's gonna last a lifetime.
But it's not a loaf of bread that you're going
(03:58):
to go through two or three or four like some
of those other ones that you know, you might see
it somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And so that combined with.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The drill and safety, and you really do have kind
of a tool of the old school yesteryear mentality, which
is pretty unheard of.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's really unheard of.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You can still say it's made in the United States,
and it's fun for my staff and myself. We absolutely
love when people call in with questions because I'll be honest.
You can get on our website and it's a fantastic.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Website, outstanding, but we have just so many options.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You know, whether you want a two inch hole, an
eight inch hole, a nine inch hole, or you want
seven inches of length or fifty four inches of length
plus extensions available. So we love to talk to people
and help. And so I mean our phone this time
of year is rather busy, but we actually love it.
You don't have to call and hit one or two
(04:56):
or five or anything else. It's just it rings in
a human answers. So we really do run pretty old school.
We always have we probably always will to.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Be honest, and you'll again you'll find them in many locations,
but you'll find a lot of your locally owned independent
garden centers as well. You can go to the websites
Outstanding website you guys, just keep updating this thing all
the time powerplanter dot com and learn more about it.
You'll see all the different sizes, and again it can
be a little confusing if you see their displays in
the garden centers or wherever you may see the power Planter.
(05:27):
I'm usually as a nice assortment, but there are so
many different sizes besides what's available in those display units.
You need to check it out and the course, as
Greg said, they're there to help you out as far
as choosing which one that you want to or need
to use for whatever the project may be. So you know,
over the years since the first time we talked, you know,
the number of sizes and types of augurs that you
(05:50):
have has quadrupled. I would say, in selection, how.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Do you choose?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
What makes you determine that you need this style or
this new type of vlog or a different size or whatever.
What's helped to determine which direction you've gone with these?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
You know, it really is need in a solution for
the end user.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I think the perfect example or examples is the heavy
duty variations of some of the larger styles, like the
four inch through nine inch diameters. We started having some
customers on the East Coast and the Carolina is that
their red clay is literally made, you know, and it
makes bricks, and you know, some of those comments came
(06:32):
back that hey, we're having some issues and things like that.
So we went to work and figured out some solutions
and sent some samples out and they're like.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Holy smokes, this is a ticket. So it was all
out of need.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The two inch by fifty four inch came out of
need from a company that does soil moisture probes in
the agriculture world. They needed a way to put these
moisture probes into farmers fields. But then at the same time,
I happen to have one at a show in a
landscape looked at and he goes, you know, he goes,
I don't know what you're supposed to use that for.
He says, I could really use that to bore for
(07:06):
irrigation and lighting underneath my customer sidewalks.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I was like, yeah, you could absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Lay that thing on its side and instead of pounding
a steel rod underneath the sidewalk or whatever you're normally
doing now, yeah, you could absolutely just drill a hole
and then run your line or your PVC. So I
mean that's kind of the evolution of how things come
about is generally a phone call or too, or an
inquiry or two, and then just to look like does
(07:34):
this actually meet you know, more than one person's need,
And oftentimes it does, and it just takes somebody you know,
to pick up the phone and call or send an
email and say, hey, I think this would be really
cool or this really helps me out.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Then from there the rest is kind of history.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, unbelievable. It's again great product. Go to their webs
So we're gonna take a break. We're gonna find out
what can you put these on your regular home drills? Absolutely,
but we're gonna learn more from great going how to
do that, what to use. Their website is powerplanter dot com.
Be sure and check it out. And again, like I say,
you'll find these a lot of your locally owned independent
garden centers, hardware stores, et cetera, et cetera. Absolutely outstanding.
(08:13):
Maybe a little bit more expensive, but they are worth it.
And like you said, it's a one time that you
want you buy them, it's gonna last your lifetime. Quick break.
We come back more with Greg Kneewold Power Planter Here
in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Not gardening questions. Ron has the answer at one eight
hundred eighty two three.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Tak Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
We're trying to get you to work smarter, not harder.
It's all about easy and if you want to make
it easier on yourself when it comes to planting, whether
it's bulbs, annuals, perennials, tree shrubs, whatever it may be,
have you considered using a power planter. These are steel
(08:53):
drill augers that do an outstanding job. Can be attached
to your drill or more heavy duty drills if needed.
As a matter of fact, gregnee Wald, from a power planter,
you have some of these that actually you don't have
to bend over the standing shafts and kind of stand
up and drill at the same time, so when you're
(09:13):
doing a lot of ball planting doesn't hurt you back.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Absolutely, we I mean, if you're gonna go out and
do a bunch of bulbs, I'm six foot two, so
I really like the one that's thirty six inches long.
I think the easiest rule of thumb when you're figuring
out height because we offer when you get to that
conversation of I don't want to crawl around, we have
a seven inch of twelve inch, and then we jump
to twenty four, then thirty, then thirty six, and then
(09:39):
forty eight. So here the easy rule of thumb is
for folks is if you're at seven inches or twelve,
you're gonna crawl around. However, the standard kitchen table is
thirty inches tall. So if you stand at your kitchen
table and you put your hand about three four inches
above it, that would be your starting height at say
the thirty inch ogger. If you go below it, then
(10:01):
you're at say the twenty four So people always, we
get lots of calls about that exact topic.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
How long should I get?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And the simple roal thumb is just go stand next
to your kitchen table and if that is a comfortable
standing height to go to start at for drilling holes, then.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Get a thirty inch.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
If you want a little bit higher, then do like
a thirty six. I tell tons of people don't do
forty eight inches long. I mean, I'm six foot two
and thirty six is perfect for me. You know, forty
eight inches is going to be the middle of my
chest or close to it, right, So.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, I mean any size you know, really help people.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
My own mother's had seven or eight back surgeries and
neck surgeries at this point, and her passion on five
acres is gardening.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The only way she can garden now is with one
of our augers.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
She cannot jam down on a shovel and then, you know,
get up and down like a twenty year old anymore.
So the only way she can do it is to
stand up, go drill tons and tons of holes, and
in some cases my own kids go help her plant stuff.
So you know, it really is a solution for healthy
folks as well as people with ailments that just want
to get back out in.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The garden and do stuff well.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Absolutly agree to one hundred percent. Again, it's called power Planters.
Go to the website powerplanter dot com. Now you I'm
assuming folks are listening to. Okay, so I've got a
my dwalt drill or whatever out in the garage. Will
that work on my cordless dualt drill?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So the short answer is yes, our augers work with
any I don't care what color or flavor of drill
it is as long as it's just a standard cordless drill.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It does not need to be a hammer drill.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It will not work on an impact like you would
put screws in your deck that makes that big loud,
ratcheting sound.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Type of thing.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Just any eighteen or twenty volt cordless drill for tipic
go homeowner gardening and you're.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Off to the races.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Now you have taken that step. You have tied in
with Dewault, and you have bundles that people can buy.
If you don't have the drill, you can supply them
with that as well.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
That is we We do sell two different dualult drills
and we do bundle them up with our augers kind
of by use or purpose. And the drills that we
sell are pretty much the nicest models they have one
because that kind of fits with our mantra.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We have the nicest augurs bar none in the market.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And so the drills that we have they have the
side handle, which is extra nice just for a little
bit extra stability.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Uh. They have very large capacity batteries.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
So by the time that battery runs out, you've got
gobs and gobs and gobs and holes that you can
go back and back fill while that battery charges, or
you can just go in the house and relax for
an hour if you want to white charges.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But it's about longevity.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So batteries we do have the big capacity batteries and
the drills are the highest quality that they have. And
again we sell the Walt de Walt, you know, wanted
to work with us. We wanted to work with them
as who they are. But if somebody's got a different
brand or flavor, as I like to say, go for it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh absolutely, But I think you know again, I think
it's interesting you tied in with them and make it
really easy. It's a one time, one stop shop if
you're interested in doing this. Again, it's Powerplanter dot com
is a website and this is for a down the
road another topic. We'll talk about this may as we
get close to the spring. But I noticed you had
on your website you're now, you know, the plant supports
(13:39):
and all that doing the spirals and the twisters. I
saw those at the trade show. I thought those were
absolutely out outstanding. And I see you've got those on
your website, so folks want to check that out as well.
But again it's powerplanter dot com. Powerplanter dot com. Gregnewald
always a pleasure man. You guys have just exploded and
you made our gardening a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, thank you, Ron, I really appreciate it. Thanks to
you and all your listeners. You guys have a great
fall and a great winner, and any question drining, just
reach out to us, happy to help and be safe
and happy gardening.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
There you go, Greg, I appreciate it. Greg knee Waald. Again,
it's a power planter, and they, like I said, there
may be a little bit more expensive, but they are
worth the price. Once you buy them, you got them.
They're going. You're not gonna mess these things up. There
there to work for you, and you work smarter, not harder,
with these power augers. And if again a few power planners,
if you get confused about it, just give them a call.
(14:35):
They'll help walk you through. And of course you'll see
a lot of these also at your locally owned independent
garden centers, some of the hardwares and all, and they'll
tell you about that on their website as well. But
if you want to work smarter in your garden, like
you said with his moms, you can go through with
these augers and just joe holes for anything small annuals, perennials.
You got a two gallon nursery plant you're gonna plant,
Take that auger and just drill about seven times in
(14:57):
that hole. Take it all loose, and you got to
get yourself a nice hole. The soil is already kind
of fine for you. It's outstanding. But again check it out.
Powerplanter dot com is powerplanner dot com. Coming up next,
we're gonna talk about garlic. Now's the time to plant garlic.
Which ones do you plant? How do you plan it?
How do you harvest it? Why is there such a
big thing about garlic? Is it really that good for you?
(15:18):
We're gonna find out. Neo Bevilaqua is going to join us.
He knows more about garlic than garlic knows about garlic.
Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson. Welcome back here
in the Garden with Ron Wilson. A couple of years ago.
And of course, you know we talk about trying to
make gardening easier, right, Uh, you know, work smarter, not
(15:39):
harder when we're out in the gardens, and uh and
and we try to find tools and things that make
it easier for all of us. And a couple of
years ago at the set show up in the or
the Cultivate show up in Columbus, Ohio, I saw a
tool there with a young man and was demonstrating the
tool I thought was outstanding, and it was called the
Earthlifter Tool. And so after I saw that and kind
(16:02):
of you know, saw the demonstration, got one used it,
loved it, and got old this young man to be
on our show and talk us about how he developed
the Earthlifter Tool. And our website is earthlifter dot com.
And everybody I know that has bought an Earthlifter Tool
has absolutely loved it and thank me for pointing in
that direction. But since then, I've gotten to know this
(16:25):
gentleman a little bit better. And this guy knows more
about garlic and the benefits of garlic and staying healthy
then garlic knows about garlic. So I want to make
sure I mentioned the Earthlifter Tool because that's what got
us started. And trust me, if you're looking for something
to make it easier for you in the garden, check
(16:46):
it out. It's earthlifter dot com. But today we're going
to talk about one of the things he loves he
and his wife love to grow. As a matter of fact,
he says, garlic may be the most magnificent gift you
can give yourself when you can consider choosing one plant
embodying the essence of what a gift truly is. Who
is that, gentleman, is mister Neil bevla bevla Aqua. I've
(17:12):
been trying to practice that all week. You know, last
time I just called you mister Bevil because it's a
lot easier. But bevl Aqua and Neil. Great to have
you on the show this morning.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Good morning, Ryan, thank you, please call me and Neo. Okay,
So you mentioned a couple of things that are really interesting.
And my main, let's say, desire in life is for health.
And so when I tried to understand many years ago,
(17:46):
let's let's let's go back. I'm a little older than
you think I am. So I've been studying basically psychology
for I go before they years. And one of the
things that I've done is I've been a research scientist
for eleven years and I've been studying actually neuro transmit
(18:12):
brain psychology, you know, brain chemical psychology, and so that
that led me to understand uh, you know depression. I
studied depression actually, and when I studied depression, you know,
the main drug or chemical that people use to study
it is serotonin. Right, So when I studied looked at
(18:33):
the serotonin, I find out that it is made in
the gut biome. So then I studied that the gut biome,
and that it just opened up the whole world. It's
basically everything, everything that goes on in your body, every
chemical hormone, every transmitter, everything comes out of your gut biome.
(18:57):
So then I said to myself, well, what wow, this is.
This is the center. They call it the second brain
in psychology because it tells the brain or tells the
body what it needs and then it produces it. So
think about the biome, the gut biome as parallel to
your soil, to your to your you know, to the
(19:19):
you know, the the medium that you grow things in. Okay,
So the idea that everything that goes on in your
body kind of comes out of your gut biome. So
you have twenty seven hundred and three thousand different little
microbes it's called microbiota growing there and they control you know,
(19:44):
your your your your sugar levels, your heart rate everything.
So I wanted to find out, well, if this is
the garden that's in our body, what is the best
fertilizer for our garden let's call the garden. And so
then I looked into all the different you know, inputs.
(20:05):
You know. You know, you can eat tail, you can
eat you know, crimini, mushrooms, you can you know, all
these different things. Then then I said, well, what is
the absolute best, most important. It's called the pre biotic. Okay,
a pre biotic is think about it as a fertilizer
for the probiotics you always hear about, you know, yogurts
(20:25):
and probiotics, but a pre biotic is considered think of
it as a fertilizer. So there I went on a
great search for many years to figure out how do
you make the best gallic in the world, which is
you know, obviously kind of a fool as everyone, but
(20:45):
I try. I try. I'm I do think I make things.
I try things. So so basically that's that's kind of
the beginning point here. Okay. So, so I don't want
to like, we have only a certain period of time
and this is your show. I want you to ask me,
interrupt me, whatever you want to call it, you know,
whenever you want anything, I.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Have to tell you. Last week we were at my
daughters and they ordered up a couple of pizzas from
a local pizza place and they're they're known for the
great pizzas. But anyway, one of their ingredients that they
add to pizza is a thin sliced garlic clothes. So
they took their they took their garlic clothes and actually
slice them so they were about eighth of an inch thick,
(21:28):
and then put those as a topping on the pizza.
It was outstanding and I felt better, I think after
I ate that thing. But I thought I thought of
you the whole time, because I mean this garlic saying, oh, mister,
mister Bevilaca would love this pizza because all the garlic
one there. But you know, it was a great flavor.
And of course garlic is you know, coming on so
(21:48):
strong now and we're all realizing it and of course
learning more from you about the importance of garlic in
our in our health and what it can do. But
I think the thing and and and again. Folks can
learn more about all of this on his website at
earthlifter dot com. Not only you've learned about the tool,
but go to his blog and all this is He's
written all this out for you. It's amazing to read
(22:11):
all of what mister Neil has done here as far
as the research. But I kind of wanted to get
you on today also not only to promote this the benefits,
but also you're such an experienced garley grower and right
now is a great time for planting garlic. Garlic one
of the best times to kind of pick your brain
as far as and I think you told me you
and your wife have grown over forty cultivars of garlic
(22:35):
out there, which I had no idea there were so
many out there. But kind of give us some pointers
because you're very successful at growing garlic. Kind of give
us some pointers on which ones you like the best.
I think you're mostly a hardneck garley grower, so I'd
like to if we can share some of your tips
on how to grow garlic successfully.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Okay, okay, so do that in if we can in
an let's let's call it in a sequence, because what
what you have to first understand is that gallic is
extremely unique plant. Let's call it the plant it's a
or it's actually a plant.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
So in the world of googs, there is what's called
soft neck and hot neck. All right. Soft neck is
the stuff you get into soup in supermarkets and like
about seventy or so. It's actually grown in China, and
it's it's kind of grown under dubious conditions. Uh we
you know, they use fertilizers that we wouldn't use in
(23:41):
the United States, right, And but what it is is
it's it's a lot of tiny cloak. So a head
of soft gallogs will have a fifteen twenty little little cloths,
and uh, the taste is not very good to me
or to any people. I have a very very high
(24:04):
level gormonds and chefs and you know, very and you
know my my, Uh, I don't be bragging or anything,
but the stuff that I grow is much more nutritious
and delicious for various reasons. Kind of let me s
you asked about how it grows. So one of the
(24:26):
things that people don't understand or you know people you
know some device is that garlic has very very short
roots and gallic evolved to be seven biotic with something
called my celium or micorizio soil. So basically they have
a partnership. And what that means is that when you
(24:51):
establish a bed, it has all these filamists they're called
hyphene that extend like you know, can the twenty feet
away from the actual plants, and they have this relationship
that the gallic gets photosynthesis, makes a surtarce puts it,
(25:12):
brings it down to its roots, and then the mycelium
brings minerals and water and nutrients to the roots and
they exchange it. So some plants, other plants do that,
not like galic garlic is is it has like sixteen
town roots and so, but it has like every feet
(25:33):
of let's say, friends that supply it with minerals and nutrients.
So that's that's one thing why galic has. It has
one hundred and thirty sulfur compounds, it has numerous minerals
and many nutrients within it, and it's evolved to be
(25:56):
a a sink for all the nutrients around it. So
the garlic itself is uh is full of nutrients. Now,
one of the things that when you said you had
on pizza sliced on pizza, what are the other unique
aspects about gog If you take a club of glic
(26:20):
and you smell it. Just just just take it off
and smell it. You'll smell anything if you eat it.
If you eat it, just throw down your throat.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You won't get any nutrients or anything out of it.
The unique part about golic is that it evolved or somehow.
The chemical I say expression is this thing called alison.
Alison is called that is the healthy is everything basically
(26:52):
and how it's made. Think of epoxy. If you have
two components of epoxy and you have me sitting next
to each other, they won't do anything. It's not it's
not blue. But if you mix them together then and
then you wait. So golic has two sizes of cell
(27:13):
that when crushed, sliced or somehow mashed together and you
have to wait. You have to wait ten to fifteen minutes.
Then the it's called the epoxy becomes or the you know,
the chemical becomes Allison. That is the healthy, nutritious. That
(27:33):
that's everything about golic. So people should know that, I
mean your your clients, your guests should know that when
you make when you have golic, you should always crush
it or slice it up somehow and then wait. You
have to wait, and then then you have real golic.
(27:55):
That's the real that's the real trick.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
We got to take a quick break. We're gonna come
we'll learn more about growing garlic. Well, when we come back,
I want to know what you use in your soil mix,
what kind of a base do you use for growing
your garlic. We'll take a quick break, we'll come back
more with mister Neil talking about garlic. And the website
is earthlifter dot com. Be sure and check it out.
You'll learn more about the tool and garlic as well.
(28:19):
Here in the garden with Ron.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Wilson, Landscaping ladiesier with your personal yard boy.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
He's in the gardens and he's Ron Wilson.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson's special
guest this morning is mister Garlic, Neil Bevilaqua, and of
course he is the inventor of the Earthlifter tool. Check
it out earthlifter dot com. But you'll also learn an
awful lot about the benefits of growing garlic. And now's
the time to plant garlic. This is a great October
is a great month for planning it in your gardens,
(28:49):
raised beds, containers, whatever it may be. So we're talking
to him. One is about the many benefits, which we
kind of know, but this guy really knows the benefits
of garlic, and what are the secrets because he grows
so many different types and is so successful. What some
of the tips, mister Neil for your success in growing garlic?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
All right, So just to just to kind of just
not to correct it, but I actually grow grew fifty
seven fifty seven different varieties. There you go over the
over thirty five years now, I have tried many, many
different ways and different types. Now there's eleven main main
types of hard neck. I grow hard neck because they're
(29:31):
more delicious and they are one. They're they're they're they're wonderful.
But of the eleven types, I only grow four, uh
and actually five because of my climate. Now, everyone in
your audience, I'm not sure how how how far south,
how far north right? But I'm in a rough area.
(29:53):
I'm in the upstate New York mountains. You know, a
couple of thousand feet up in the air. So my
climate U uh, certain ones, certain types, certain families that
are actually called uh you know, purple stripe, you know,
porcelain rock and boli. Certain families grow best in my climates.
(30:15):
So let's start from the beginning. If you asked about
how if you have a perfect world, I see, I
try to think of extremes. So in a perfect world,
if you were to, let's say, uh, inoculate your bed
with my celium. Now, my celium is uh, it's it's
it's it's basically what the uh the substrate is for mushrooms.
(30:41):
It's basically it's the stuff that lives in the earth.
And it's just like in our gut biome, we have
all these microbes. So your soil has all kinds of
microbes also. So you're talking about doing it the easy way.
I'm trying to, uh do everything the easy way, because
(31:03):
if you do it not easy, you do it the
way that it's not onerous or not difficult. This is
why this is why I invented that tool, because I
couldn't uh you know, uh it's for people who have
you know, uh, strength problems, or age problems, or or
just any kind of problems. It makes it easier. So
in terms of the soil, I'm we can trying to
(31:26):
figure a way of you know, you've heard about regenitive agriculture. Well,
this is kind of regenerative fertilizing. So if the if
the if the high feed, the micarasio of the my
cilium soil is going out and grabbing the nutrients for
you for the plants, and they're bringing them in. Now,
(31:48):
what what does the plants feed on? They need they
need certain nutrients to feed on. And so we use uh,
you know once a and the mycilium base. It is
a I don't want to say products with you because
I'm not sure what you know.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
But okay, well you know there's.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
A product called you know, pro mix b X which
has a my cilium base to it, which is we
use it, okay, But I also I also I have
a very big background in another area, which is cobby
graph ie, and I know about carbon pretty well. And
there's a there's a a anaerobic way of heating up
(32:34):
wood or organic materials that make something called biochart right
now bio biochart.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And and just so you know, we've got about two
minutes to go, so we're.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Gonna okay, so I try to leave a storage uh
I try to uh put in the earth something that
is regenerative. So biochart, if it's charged, will keep your
regenerate nutrients in your garden for one hundred years. Basically,
(33:04):
we also use something you know, we use our salth
our salfa like but you you know, organic alfalfa pellets,
but you feed horses basically because of nitrogen in there.
And we use wood ash for a kind of a stimulant,
and also, you know, for other reasons. And we for
some reason, the all look like seafood. So you know,
(33:29):
it's funny. It's a you know, so that there are
mixes with seafood, seaweed, shells kelp. And then okay, so
we use that when we first plant like next like
I'm planting tomorrow actually, and I planted a couple of
days ago because I'm planting two thousands heads. All right,
So it's so you know, fishy motion when the when
(33:52):
the plants emerge. Fishing motion is a very good thing
to add to it.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
All right, We're and we're running out of time, and
I tell you what I want to tell everybody. Go
to the website earthlifter dot com. You'll learn about the tool.
You'll learn all about this because he's written all of
this out for you to follow along, as far as
all the great things that he does. And if you've
got questions you can email them, do whatever. He'll help
you out as much as possible.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Neil.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Mister Neil, thank you so much for spending time with us.
You you are mister garlic. Can we really appreciate it?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Well? Well, you being you being in the garden, you're
doing a great service. Also, people should be outside.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
All right, there you go, Neil, Bebulolacua and then check
it out again. It's Earthlifter dot Com quick Break. We
come back taking your calls at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five Here in the Garden with
Ron Wilson
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