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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarding on this Saturday before Christmas. Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
But nothing? I'll just clear my throat. Oh okay, let
me clear my throat. That's kick it off. But can
you tell who's feel a little like whipper snappy this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Whipper snappy?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Little whipper snappy? Joe Strecker, our executive producer. Find out
what's going on our website at Ron Wilson online dot
com Facebook page In the garden with Ron Wilson, and
I had a lot of folks ask me, did Joe
really use his dragon weed flamer to clear off the
drive We saw the video and I said, yes, yes
he did. Even mister NATORP was listening to the show
(00:45):
and said, oh I heard you talking about that. Did
he really do that? I said, yes, yes he did.
And then I sent you a video of that guy.
Where was that in Michigan?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, that was a flamethrower that that was like, that
was a flamethrowers. That was military are great flame thrower
right there.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, but it was a slope driveway and yeah, same situation.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Did you see There was also another video that I
saw where a guy, before the snow came, put a
tarp that just happened to be the exact same size
of his driveway over his driveway.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, it makes sense. And then when the snow was done,
he just pick up one side of it, picked the
tart up, slide it away, dump it off.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, he also had one over his truck. So I wonder,
because your your driveway is pretty steep, Yeah, it's about
twenty degrees, so if you had that owner, I wonder
if it would start to slide down the tarp. I
guess it depends on how which way you'd pull it.
But I mean even while it's snowing, you know it
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starts to build up. But it also didn't start to
like it does on a roof, you know, a metal roof.
Maybe a slide.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't know. Let's try it, not at my asse
because because I know what's what would happened is then
you walk down there's a big drift right for the
garage door.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, six ft think in front of my driveway, in
front of my garage door.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Then I can't get it out the doorch damn right,
I did. I had to Piver saying, are you guys kidding?
Did he really do that? I said, no, you really
hit it. I saw it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Thirty bucks on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
There you go. I did order a snow blower, you did. Yeah,
I haven't got it yet, but it's it's on order.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So well, mine still mine. Mine's being repaired. Apparently the
issue was that one of the seals broke on the inside.
One of the seals went bad, and the guy that
was that's fixing it said I was using the wrong
grade of gas.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Huh, we'll get grade of gas do you need to use?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So he he recommended I used the good stuff, like
the high the super high octane. Yeah, because he said
there was a lot of it in there, And he
asked me, do I drain the gas every every season?
I would drain the gas out, but still there was
still sediment in there.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And you never even used the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
For a couple of years. But it wasn't like I
use it every every day, only during the big snows.
We only had a couple of big snows since I've
had it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So well, mine's battery operated, well, really batteries our.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It really sucked last year because that's what I figured
out that it wasn't working. That was when we had that.
When we had that one, it was like six to
eight inches. That was horrible. That was before I had
my blowtorch. So you had a little handheld with THO, yeah,
I think you do it by later, anything I think
did nothing to it. So I looked at those and said,
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now I'm not gonna do that. But the little hand held,
I mean I have one of those.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We whip.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Those are good for like they're called snow Joe's.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, I know snow Joe's a whole line of stuff,
but there those are good for like a couple of
Wait you get your T shirt? H Do I get
my T shirt? I don't know. I have snow.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'm still waiting for royalties from using my name for
snow Joe.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
They're all over at QVC.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's amazing. I mean, of those that are out there,
I didn't realize how many are made today, especially the
electric or the battery operator.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah. Those are good for a couple of itches.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, well, this I the one I got, good for
a couple of for more than that. He has a
metal blade from Fancy that mine's plastic yeah, this is metal.
So wow, we'll see he's got the LED headlights on it. Wow,
he's spent pretty paty I got on sale, but of
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course nobody had its getting chipped in from somewhere.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Nice so to get a yesterday, but I haven't seen
it yet, so maybe today.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well I am. I am in the process, well not
the process, but I'm gonna be getting the new lawnmower
next year. Already made the decision. Yeah, so I'm looking
for a new lawnmower. No, not a battery. I'm gonna
go gas. But I want one of those landscape ones,
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that landscape zero, not that you're sitting in, but the
bigger one, you know what I'm talking about that they're
still walk behind, but they're bigger.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, I was gonna say the forty inch or thirty
eighth six inch. Yeah, that's what I'm That's what I'm
when I get because I have I've had.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That take you about five pass passes, and.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well the thing is is that, uh, I you know,
I had back issues, as you know, and I also
had an operation earlier this year. So I had my
neighbor down the street. It's fixing this snow blower. He
came up and cut my cut my lawn. He has
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one of those, and it took him five minutes to
my backyard. So I said five passes and I was
just like, I was just like, wow, wow. I mean
I can't get I can't get like a big one.
I mean, I'd love to get a zero turn driving
around thing, but but I have a fence around my
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yard and won't get through the fence. Yeah, they get
the gate, so the thirty six incher or the forty
inch we'll get through. So that's that. That's what I
will get next year.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I know it's going to be a couple of grand
but yeah, I'm saving up for it. And that's next
that's next year's goal.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Okay, I got a couple, I got a couple of sources.
You your thoughts, your thoughts, go for it. Where you
gonna park it?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
In my shed?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay? In the shed out back? Yeah? Okay? Yeah, so I.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Knew would fit the garage. Well, I gotta clean my garage.
There'sn't barely two cars fits there right now. Where does
all that stuff come from? It's just lazy not putting
it away when I take it out. But yeah, is
what it is. So anyway, enough about me. What's on
the show? Who's Eddie guess?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Show you by a chance? Enjoy this snow this week?
You know the answer to that. Okay, just check it.
How about all the rain? The rain, you know what
on Thursday? On Thursday? Okay, so and then Friday yesterday
was stupid. You get up, it's fifty five degrees and
by ten o'clock it's down to twenty four degrees.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah. Now what's interesting about Thursday was I when I
left the radio station, it was it was drizzling, kind
of drizzled a little bit all afternoon, and then I
had to work Thursday night. So by the time I
got to where I had to go, it was it was, oh,
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so I'm doing my I was. I was working, and
then you could hear it hitting the roof, and then
when I left, when I was done, it was just nothing.
So I missed the entire storm.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
We were at the Candlelight Series concert at the Ryangeist
same way up and that upstairs thing. Yeah, huge nice
event center and same way. Also they had just gotten
started and also yours on the roof, and you see
why I look it up like wow, cool coming down. Yeah,
but you're right. About half an hour it was gone.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, I missed the whole thing, so but.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It was coming down. Yeah, we can use it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah we needed it. And they cover of a lot
of the snow. Yeah, except for the big piles. Still
a few hanging around here and there. So guess today
Are you ready for this? I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We got a lineup today. Here we go. I'm talking lineup,
Here we go. I'm talking all star lineup.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You me, Danny Gleason, of course they're out the entire
show right Ron rothis Wow rita wow em shipment from
Kids Gardening, Katie Stagliano from Katie's Crops, Gary Sullivan. Yeah.
And then like I said, Danny Gleason and me in between, Wow,
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that's a big Is that a lineup or what show?
It's a pack show right there. That's the Chris fun
Christmas Show. So we're going to talk to him and
Katie about you know, you get a little extra money
at the end of the year, you want to get
those kids involved gardening. There's a great way to donate
right there there.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You go back, get a cup of coffee or tea
to share some breakfast and listen to listen to the show.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yep, so we got let's lets people talk to today.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And uh and you know, hi to my friends in
Columbus and uh all my.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Friends in Columbus.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah. So the website you're.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
To stay on top of all used to co which
is firing things all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So the web the website.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Is Joe ron Wilson online dot com. And the Facebook
page in the garden with Ron Wilson, and.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
The chat room is up and running. Uh so and
hope hopefully people are enjoying the festive graphics. Not getting anything,
I have been not getting any feedback, so I don't know.
So there's a couple of posts, uh Christmas through the
Years that you sent me earlier this week, some quotes
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about winter. It's great. Yes, I almost didn't post it
because you know how much I love winter. Is Rita
going to talk about her bursting cheese? She is?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
She is going to talk about that. We're gonna talk
about all kind of stuff. We got a lot of
things to cover, Okay, and their quick segment, well.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Her website on the website at her burst is it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Burson Ourson or borson.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Or borson cheese dip is on there. So if you wanna.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Look at that picture twice, why wasn't sure what was
going on there? There's just like a bunch of stuff
laying on a plate with a couple of crackers sticking
up out of it. So you have to get a
little closer to say, oh, yeah, that is in there.
Here's some bursting cheese there. So that stuff's good on hamburger,
That stuff's good on anything. Spoon on your finger exactly
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someone else's finger. Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
The plant of the week is Christmas rosemary.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Let me stricker what rosemary? It is? Rosemary?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Why? Why Rosemary?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, because rosemary has been used an awful lot the
last few years now for a holiday plant. Trimmed in
shaped like a Christmas tree. There you go, little ornament's
on there. Then you get your rosemary to enjoy over
the winter. It's a harder one to grow inside. So
I've got some tips for you as far as what
I think will help you out to get to grow through.
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But the winter it's a tough one. Read over winters
hers and an unheated garage and it does fairly well.
They're very hearty, but they just don't take really cold
temperatures for a long period of time. But get some
instructions on there for you. For the Rosemary very cool
and obnestly in lavender like that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
To the Rosemary picture that I have posted on the website.
It's it's your new one where you got all your
boatoks woo great yep, So you can check that out. Yeah,
check out me with lots of botox check out. Yeah, yeah, great,
a lot of filler, great yep. And picture of rose
Joe's having so much fun. I am with all those
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creativity things that you were doing with me. Hey, hey,
I gotta have fun. Gotta have fun.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You figure how to do this, I can do that
with back to you. By the way, I like that
T shirt, vendor T shirt. Yep. You know Gary Sullivan
was born in nineteen forty six. Yeah, I can say
that because I know he's not listening. He was nineteen
forty six. I would have thought I would have thought
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earlier than that. Yeah, yeah, early forties. Okay, we'll go
with that. There you go.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
All right, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
That's it for me. Merry Christmas, everybody, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Have a very merry Christmas. That's next week, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And then now we're going to talk after Christmas, maybe
post Saturday, maybe post Christmas Saturday, maybe pre New Year's
Day Saturday.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Possibly.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay, I'll hold you to that, all right, all right,
Joe Streker, Executive producer. If you like what you see
on our website at royn Wilson online dot com Facebook
page in the Garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Shrekker had
everything to do with it. Something there you don't like,
not sure about. I think we should take it off.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I think we should take it off. Can I say
that you think Joe should take it off?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It's not his fault. Who were going to blame?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Should we keep blaming?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Doctor Z? Yeah I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was every thing. But yeah, yeah, I was shaking her head. Yes, yes, yeah,
doctor Z. Washington three Garden eighty three. What's she still
writing on that? He's still riding his Vespa sidecard car
Wither Sweetheart on Sweet Tart on the back. I wonder
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if you have to lean to the right with Bowser
because of that big rock is on the left hand side, right,
Doctor Laura Money. If she put her hand out to
signal going left, they would tip over. If that rock
is so big.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
She would stick her hand out to be like you
blind you.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
She's probably building up. I had to build up a
little work out. Now.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
She probably looks like Popeye on her left.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, carrying that finger, doctor Laura Money, Well done, Doctor
Z all right. Eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. That's our number here in the garden with
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Not only would it be, but it is that number
as well. Give us a buzz. Don't forget our website
as we were talking earlier, Ron Wilson online dot com
facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson up and
running astrong this morning as well. You know, I was
in our studios here. They had a holiday get together,
well Dan, about a week ago, ten days ago, and
they brought in some gorgeous upon Setius and they're in
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an I think they're in an eight or ten inch pot.
So they're big. I mean they're like twenty eighteen twenty
four inches high and wide, great color, great looking plants.
And remember I just said they brought him into the
studio or the offices here for the for the Christmas party.
And whether anybody waters them or not, I'm gonna say
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they probably don't. Correct And the reason they don't, I
guess say that at this stage is because most of
the green leaves are starting to fall off of these
gorgeous pon setius. My point two fold is here. One
is the green leaves fall and this is all a
part of not being watered. Bottom line, all right, you
let them dry out. It's an evergreen. Those leaves drop.
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It's done. It's toast. The plant's not dead, but the
leaves are so they're done. They fall off. And so
obviously none of these have been watered that are around here.
It's a shame to see that. But anyway, it doesn't matter.
But what's really nice is that the red bracks, pinks,
and the whites all stay on there. They don't fall off.
They're really tough. They hang on. So if you come
back and water it, you'll keep those. You can keep
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those on all along. But point being is this don't
throw those away if they do that, Okay, I've got
an answer for you what you can do to make
them look really cool for the rest of the holiday season
and through the winter time as well. So if you're
losing leaves on your point set it, don't throw it away.
I'll tell you what they do after the break here
in the garden, Ron Wilson. Welcome back here in the
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garden with Ron Wilson. And what is the answer to
those leggy points that he is where the leaves all
fall off the bottom? Go out in your and cut
off about you know, six or eight ten short pieces
tips of evergreens like juniper, taxis, boxwood, whatever, and then
a range thos. Just stick them right in the soil
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underneath the colorful bracs of the ponsetia. Now in that container,
you look like you have a holiday planter with the
greens in the bottom the colorful bracs of the pon
Setia at the top. They used to do this way
back in the old days when they normally just fell off,
and it looks like a holiday planner. It's really cool.
As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if
some of the growers started doing that and selling them
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that way. Again. You know what goes around comes around
next next to Christmas season, So anyway, don't throw them out.
Put some greens in the bottom. Those greens will stay
green like that pretty much all winter because there a
lot of times can take up that moisture that's in
that soil. Now, as I promised earlier in the show,
it is time for weather. It's the weather and in
the tree, starring our true seer of sears, here's our
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registered consulting ARBORUS boy goes on and on, Amateur Meteorologist
I SA BOARD certified Master Arburst the Whole nine Yards website,
arbordoctor dot com, Ladies and gentlemen, the arbor dock himself
Ron Rufe. So well, are you having fun?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yes, I'm having fun. Actually, I was just notified by
email last evening that I had passed the latest True
Risk Assessment Qualification Course three point zero. So I've re
upped on that for the next seven years. So keep
that on the credential list, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So you'll be still knowledgeable for seven more years.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Probably, Yeah, I'll get kind of older, so you never know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I know, Yeah, things start to fade after a while.
So anyway, we got a short segment with you today
because I wanted to get a quick update. Obviously, tomorrow
is the winter Solstice, longest day, Yeah, the longest night
of the year, and that would be tomorrow night, right
Sunday night. Yes, and then things start getting better after that.
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But we got two more weeks of December and we're
gonna go into January. So two questions for you, how
are we going to finish out the year? Does it
look like going into twenty twenty six? And of course
the ultimate question that we ask you every Saturday before Christmas?
Will we have a white Christmas? In south western Ohio?
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Have had it? Ron rothis No, it's hard to snow.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
It makes one degrees, huh, unless you're looking at a
white painted wall or white sheets. We did say, you know,
quite a while ago that we were going to have
quite a bit of cold weather, quite a bit of snow,
and the chances for a white Christmas would be higher
than in a normal year. And as you know, we've
had quite a bit of cold weather, quite a bit
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of snow. Matter of fact, it's been one of the
snowiest December on record. But it's just a timing thing
this year. The snow all fell earlier and it's all
done now, and so we're as we also predicted. I
said we'd have ups and downs this winter, and we're
definitely going to have one of the ups for Christmas Week.
In fact, Christmas Day, we could be flirting with record
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highs in the Ohio Valley and really in a decent
part of the south central part of the country, in
southeast part of the country, it could be very very
warm this Christmas. Really, you have to go out onto
the West Coast this year in Nevada's those areas Pacific
Northwest to find a great deal of snow. It's just
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going to be a very warm Christmas this year in
the United States, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
And it looks like in our area it looks like
there's even a chance of right now, they're saying for
a thunderstorm, maybe some rain on Christmas Day as well,
but hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Either at night or during the day, it's kind of
hard to tell. But going forward, you did ask about
going forward. It's like the roller coaster to some extent
is going to continue, although this one spell looks like
it's going to last for a little while, it was
looking like it was going to get cold again right
after Christmas, and that looks like it's going to be
at the very least delayed. So I'm going to enjoy,
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you know, a little bit of warm weather for a
decent bit. But it does look like eventually the temperatures
will go back down and will continue on this kind
of up and down, and it does look like we're
going to get some more really cold and snowy periods
over the course of the January February even in the
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early March time period.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Hey, I went out and actually bought a snowblower because
now I'm taking care of my mom's driveway and doing
things like that, so I actually wouldn't got a snowball unt.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Why I had sixty degrees and that, And look what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I got it after the snow, obviously, because there weren't
any available at that time. So now now I get
it in then old snow for another three or four weeks.
That's all right. I'll be waiting for it.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So so prepared, just like a boy scout.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I am prepared, Yes, I am. So We're going to
finish out the year and begin the twenty twenty sixth
season with the roller coaster there, and you're saying, by
the time we get into January and looking at February,
good chance we get back into a little bit more
cold weather again.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, possibly some significantly cold weather like we had. You
know over the past couple of weeks. I would not
be surprised to see it get back below zero again,
and I would not be surprised to see us get
a decent amount of more snow. But we are going
to have kind of ups and downs this winter, so
I would not be surprised to see another one spell too.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Wow. Well, there you have it, and you know we've
had some good rainfall over the last couple of weeks
as well. How do you feel now? You know, you
and I are always out there preaching about make sure
you're watering going into the fall and into the holiday season,
especially those evergreens. How do you feel at this stage?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
The ground is wet right now. We had a wet November.
December has actually been slightly below normal, but with the
cold weather and the lack of evaporation in the snow
cover that we had, the ground is just really really
wet right now. So the only place that I can
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imagine in anything that needs water right now in Cincinnati
in the media, Ohio Valley would be something that you
might be under an overhang or something like that. And
I'm being very careful with that because you go up
in the northeast Ohio, northern and central Indiana, they've been
in severe to extreme drought for weeks now, and it's
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gotten a little bit better with recent precipitation, but it's
been much much drier in those areas. In a lot
of parts of the United States, up and down the
East Coast, New England, the South, a lot of areas
of drought. So for those areas, watering is still something
you need to be thinking about with some of these evergreens, especially.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Watching that a lot of that drought monitor. I just okay,
I was watching that drought monitor and obviously you said
it too me Casi I go and find it as well.
But I've been watching Ohio and it's amazing how that
has kind of hung in there as far as being
fairly dry, even though they've had some snow up there,
still not where they normally should be.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, and snow snow gives moisture, but remember it's a
one inch you know, ten inches of snow to equal
one inch of rain.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Well that was my next question water.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, so, and that that's an average. I mean, a
ver very dry snow could be even less than that.
You can have twenty to one ratio. Sometimes they're very
powdery snow. So so it takes quite a lot of
snow to equal an inch of rain. And if if
you're several inches blow where you should be, then you
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need quite a lot of snow to really really get
it back where where it needs to be. So some
of those areas you know, are still really really dry.
And it's interesting how you don't have to go very far.
You know, Southwest Ohio has been pretty wet, but northwest
Ohio been in severe to extreme drought. So it's just
interesting how you can have those, you know, those differences
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over fairly short periods of time distance, no.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Doubt about it. Hey, Ron, we gotta go. We appreciate
the update, Ron, Rothis are certifying arborist, of course, and
the hobby meteorologist is website arbordoctor dot com. I know
you're chaperoning at a gymnastics meet, and I know you're
competing as well, so good luck on those parallel bars
and the pommel horse. Those are your two specials.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That would be an ugly site. But yes, the children
who are making noise in the background, even though I
told them to be quiet, they're doing it. Are going
to be competing today United States Trampling and Tumbling Association
Competition in Ryo, Grand, Ohio. And yes, they do pronounce
it Ryo Gran.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, home of Bob Evans.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yes, we're probably going to eat in the original Bob
Evans today.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
At his original table.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I don't know who knows, Ron Roth, It's always a pleasure.
We want to wish you and your family are very
very merry Christmas. Appreciate all that, yeah, all that you
do for us during the year, and we will probably
talk to you by the end of the season. End
of the year.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Sounds great to me.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
All right, thanks, Ron, take care of have a good
time at the gymnastics. All right, before we take a break,
let's go to Dayton, Ohio. Deck, come oningy, good morning.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I liked your guests today. He was good.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
He Ron's all. He's good at the he knows his
trees and he knows his weather.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Oh he was great, so great.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So you all set up for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yep, all set up, all ready to get up, all
ready to go. My friend over at uh Oak Creek
had a really nice party. It was we had olders
and they had a little country band in there. It
was good boy.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
It was rough.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
So there's probably seventy fight eighty people that when I
went there Thursday.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That was nice. If you go somewhere and they have
a band that's playing and they find out that Dick
from Dayton's in the audience, do they have you come
up on the stage and play with him?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I actually Uh, they had a little they were passing
out like jingle bells. I was playing the tambourine a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
How about that the tambourine, Yeah, it was nice. The
green tambourine, man tambourine.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It was yeah. But I want to thank everybody. There's
a couple that knew me at the library. I think
it's Scott and Julie sent me a card and they
said they hear hear me on your show. Uh, I
always talk It's nice. He's nice. Scott always talked to me.
And yeah, but I'm thinking, I don't know. I'll take
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the Bengals, but they better play better.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Come on, I hope they better. So what's your prediction?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Twenty three twenty the Bengals, But I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Know, all right, well, well but twenty three twenty got it, Dan,
twenty three twenty Bengals. All right, hey, you.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Have any very wait happy, I'll talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
They have a very merry Christmas, Dick, and we will
talk to you later, okay, bye bye, all right, take care,
quick break we come back. Phone lines are open for you.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Coming
up the top of the hour, rita hike and fel
that's right, we're gonna be are you urbally experienced? And
then of course at the bottom of the hour, m shipman,
we're gonna talk to Katie stag Leiano and all in
between you and me talking yardning again. Eight hundred eight
(28:32):
two three eight two five five Here in the garden
with Ron Wilson eight two three eight two five five.
Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. Unfortunately,
we're not going to get any snow for Christmas Day.
It's going to be in the sixties, low sixties, maybe
some rain. It is what it is, uh, it's you know,
what it is what's interesting about. But if it's really
(28:55):
cold and snoway on Christmas Day, sometimes that can be
kind of pooh pooish because you know, then it's cold
to get out and get to go to the maybe
to another family's house or whatever. It could be a
little bit tougher. So if it's a little warmer, it
can be a little bit more easy on the family.
But we'll take it. Whatever it is is what we're
gonna get. But I know it's nice seven a little
bit of that white on the ground on Christmas morning.
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That's that's pretty cool because we reflect back dobvioshly to
the Christmas Story and all the nash Lampoon vacation and
the snow and all that stuff with which I have
not dan seen one Christmas special so far, and I'm
running out of time. You are, yes, because after Christmas
they're not as funny. I like watching them, but you know,
you gotta watch usually.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Watched like Christmas Vacation like six times. Well yeah, yet
I haven't even watched it yet either.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I would see I usually watch Christmas Story at least once,
Christmas Vacation at least twice, you know, and then you
go on from there. I like the Santa Claus. I
think Christmas Special I got to do that once. Yeah,
but the Santa Claus I didn't. I haven't you know,
I haven't seen that at all. And I like that
that that was a whole what was there three series
of that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
So yeah, do you know here's a little trivia for
you ready for this? Yes, the scene where Santa falls
off the roof and dies. Did you know that the
original script called for him to shoot Santa accidentally as
an intruder and kill him.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah. Disney saw that and said, nah, I don't think
we're gonna be anybody's gonna be shooting Santa Claus. So
they changed the script and made it so he slipped
and fell off the roof like there you go and died.
So I thought that was kind of weird. Shoot him
all right?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
I hope you got my tip about the pond setia.
It really does work. Tried it out last week because
I never even thought of this. I read an article
where they said, you know, back in the old days,
many many years ago, you know, with the pon Setia
is growing. Uh, some of the older selections they didn't
hold up very well and you'd lose those green leaves
on the bottom. And that's why sometimes they put the
(30:53):
sleeves on the bottom, because those foiled sleeves twofold one
is made it look more efestive and and too is
it kind of covered up those bottom steps. And I
tell you what I love. Have you ever seen pont
set of trees where they actually limb them up and
grow them like trees. I think they're gorgeous. I think
the first time I ever saw that was when we
were watching this especially on Christmas at the White House
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and they had the interior decorator for the holidays had
brought in Christmas pon setia trees as well as the
bush form, and they were gorgeous. Now, it takes a
couple of years to grow the tree form so it
looks like a tree, but they were really cool. So
that's nice. But you know, you got these at home,
like the ones here in our office and their leaves
are all falling off. Just stick those evergreen small branches
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in the bottom and make it look like a holiday planner.
You can even put you know, some berries in it,
you know, or whatever at the bottom, some artificial berries
or whatever. And as you're watering the pon setia and
keeping it evenly moist through the winter, that also keeps
those evergreen branches evenly moist. And they usually hang right
in there for you right on through the holiday season
as well into the winter and and on forward. So
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don't throw them out.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Use that.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And isn't it interesting looking at the Christmas and the
holiday season how it's really focused around horticulture. And you know,
somebody brought this up the other day and I said,
you know, you think about it, and every holiday has
something like Valentine's Day with roses, you know, that type
of thing. But look at the Christmas season. And you
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got the Christmas tree, whether it's cut or live or artificial.
But you got the you know, the Christmas tree, you
got the pont setia, you got the amarillis, you got
the Christmas cactus. You have all the Christmas flowers, the
paper white kits that you can get out there. I mean,
you look at it just goes on and on and on,
the wreaths and roping the bowels, all of that. The
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grave blankets, which I never I never came up with
the history. There's so many different stories about grave blankets,
and in our area gray blankets are not used. I
mean you see one every now and then, but not
very often. And you get further north, like when I
was going to the Ohio State University working at a
garden center there, Solemon's Garden Center, we made a ton
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of grave blankets swags no lighting, you know, four or
five feet long with ornaments on it that you lay
on the grave, pin it down and then let it
lay there over the you know, during the holiday seasons
at all, and then take that off at the seasons.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Row.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
A lot of cemeteries don't like those, and a lot
of them have been banned from doing that because it
can shade out the grass and cause some issues there.
So they really a lot of them don't like to
do that anymore, but it boy at one time that
was a major thing. We're grave blankets, uh kind of
And again looking up the history U you know, there's
a lot of stories behind it as far as you know,
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keeping the grave warm and things like that or decorad know,
it's a great way to decorate because it's down on
the ground. But you know, most people today use the
tripod and the wreath on top doesn't affect the grass.
But man, we used make a ton of those things.
But you look at the holiday season and it really
is and obviously we know what the true meaning of
Christmas is all about, but it is as far as
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the decorations and all a holiday that is really focused
around the horticulture industry. With all the great plants that
are out there, so pretty interesting, uh looking at that.
But again, Christmas cactus. You know, if you like that plant,
and I do, it's an easy plant to grow indoors.
It flowers fairly consistently for us. Uh, hanging basket or
reunning container. You see those going on sale, it's scarf
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for those things up and h and use those amarillis.
Right now, as I've been looking around this past week,
plant place, especially places that don't normally sell a lot
of plants, but they bring Amarillis kids in paperwhite kids
in Uh they're now on sale. I'm telling you, right now,
they got them on sale. They want to get rid
of those things. Uh, this is great. We scarf them
up now. If you here's a little tip if you're
(34:52):
looking to buy amarillis kits in the boxes, open it
up and look at the ball before you buy the kit.
Make sure the ball is solid, and make sure it's
not growing. Now. Sometimes they'll start to sprout out a
little bit in that box. I the answer too isn't
too bad. But if it starts to get more, we're
starting to curl around the box. I usually shy away
from those. So kit when it's still fairly dormant or
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just starting to show a little growth on the top,
solid should be good to go. The bigger the bulb,
the more flowers you get, and it takes about six
to eight weeks from the time you pot them up.
So hot one up maybe this weekend. Six to eight weeks.
That puts us into what into January, you'll start to
get some color. Two more weeks. Pot another one up,
put you into February. Two more weeks. Put another one
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up put you into the first of March. Carries you
right through the winter season at a really good price.
Amarroll's Paperway kitch. You can't go wrong, quick break, we
come back. It's tifer. Are you urbally experienced with Rita
Hikenfeld Here in the garden with Ron Wilson
One hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarding on this Saturday before Christmas. Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
But nothing? I'll just clear my throat. Oh okay, let
me clear my throat. That's kick it off. But can
you tell who's feel a little like whipper snappy this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Whipper snappy?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Little whipper snappy? Joe Strecker, our executive producer. Find out
what's going on our website at Ron Wilson online dot
com Facebook page In the garden with Ron Wilson, and
I had a lot of folks ask me, did Joe
really use his dragon weed flamer to clear off the
drive We saw the video and I said, yes, yes
he did. Even mister NATORP was listening to the show
(00:45):
and said, oh I heard you talking about that. Did
he really do that? I said, yes, yes he did.
And then I sent you a video of that guy.
Where was that in Michigan?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, that was a flamethrower that that was like, that
was a flamethrowers. That was military are great flame thrower
right there.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, but it was a slope driveway and yeah, same situation.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Did you see There was also another video that I
saw where a guy, before the snow came, put a
tarp that just happened to be the exact same size
of his driveway over his driveway.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, it makes sense. And then when the snow was done,
he just pick up one side of it, picked the
tart up, slide it away, dump it off.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, he also had one over his truck. So I wonder,
because your your driveway is pretty steep, Yeah, it's about
twenty degrees, so if you had that owner, I wonder
if it would start to slide down the tarp. I
guess it depends on how which way you'd pull it.
But I mean even while it's snowing, you know it
(01:48):
starts to build up. But it also didn't start to
like it does on a roof, you know, a metal roof.
Maybe a slide.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't know. Let's try it, not at my asse
because because I know what's what would happened is then
you walk down there's a big drift right for the
garage door.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, six ft think in front of my driveway, in
front of my garage door.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Then I can't get it out the doorch damn right,
I did. I had to Piver saying, are you guys kidding?
Did he really do that? I said, no, you really
hit it. I saw it.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Thirty bucks on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
There you go. I did order a snow blower, you did. Yeah,
I haven't got it yet, but it's it's on order.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So well, mine still mine. Mine's being repaired. Apparently the
issue was that one of the seals broke on the inside.
One of the seals went bad, and the guy that
was that's fixing it said I was using the wrong
grade of gas.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Huh, we'll get grade of gas do you need to use?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So he he recommended I used the good stuff, like
the high the super high octane. Yeah, because he said
there was a lot of it in there, And he
asked me, do I drain the gas every every season?
I would drain the gas out, but still there was
still sediment in there.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And you never even used the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
For a couple of years. But it wasn't like I
use it every every day, only during the big snows.
We only had a couple of big snows since I've
had it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So well, mine's battery operated, well, really batteries our.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It really sucked last year because that's what I figured
out that it wasn't working. That was when we had that.
When we had that one, it was like six to
eight inches. That was horrible. That was before I had
my blowtorch. So you had a little handheld with THO, yeah,
I think you do it by later, anything I think
did nothing to it. So I looked at those and said,
(03:52):
now I'm not gonna do that. But the little hand held,
I mean I have one of those.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We whip.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Those are good for like they're called snow Joe's.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, I know snow Joe's a whole line of stuff,
but there those are good for like a couple of
Wait you get your T shirt? H Do I get
my T shirt? I don't know. I have snow.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'm still waiting for royalties from using my name for
snow Joe.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
They're all over at QVC.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's amazing. I mean, of those that are out there,
I didn't realize how many are made today, especially the
electric or the battery operator.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah. Those are good for a couple of itches.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, well, this I the one I got, good for
a couple of for more than that. He has a
metal blade from Fancy that mine's plastic yeah, this is metal.
So wow, we'll see he's got the LED headlights on it. Wow,
he's spent pretty paty I got on sale, but of
(04:52):
course nobody had its getting chipped in from somewhere.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Nice so to get a yesterday, but I haven't seen
it yet, so maybe today.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well I am. I am in the process, well not
the process, but I'm gonna be getting the new lawnmower
next year. Already made the decision. Yeah, so I'm looking
for a new lawnmower. No, not a battery. I'm gonna
go gas. But I want one of those landscape ones,
(05:21):
that landscape zero, not that you're sitting in, but the
bigger one, you know what I'm talking about that they're
still walk behind, but they're bigger.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, I was gonna say the forty inch or thirty
eighth six inch. Yeah, that's what I'm That's what I'm
when I get because I have I've had.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That take you about five pass passes, and.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well the thing is is that, uh, I you know,
I had back issues, as you know, and I also
had an operation earlier this year. So I had my
neighbor down the street. It's fixing this snow blower. He
came up and cut my cut my lawn. He has
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one of those, and it took him five minutes to
my backyard. So I said five passes and I was
just like, I was just like, wow, wow. I mean
I can't get I can't get like a big one.
I mean, I'd love to get a zero turn driving
around thing, but but I have a fence around my
(06:26):
yard and won't get through the fence. Yeah, they get
the gate, so the thirty six incher or the forty
inch we'll get through. So that's that. That's what I
will get next year.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I know it's going to be a couple of grand
but yeah, I'm saving up for it. And that's next
that's next year's goal.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Okay, I got a couple, I got a couple of sources.
You your thoughts, your thoughts, go for it. Where you
gonna park it?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
In my shed?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay? In the shed out back? Yeah? Okay? Yeah, so I.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Knew would fit the garage. Well, I gotta clean my garage.
There'sn't barely two cars fits there right now. Where does
all that stuff come from? It's just lazy not putting
it away when I take it out. But yeah, is
what it is. So anyway, enough about me. What's on
the show? Who's Eddie guess?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Show you by a chance? Enjoy this snow this week?
You know the answer to that. Okay, just check it.
How about all the rain? The rain, you know what
on Thursday? On Thursday? Okay, so and then Friday yesterday
was stupid. You get up, it's fifty five degrees and
by ten o'clock it's down to twenty four degrees.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah. Now what's interesting about Thursday was I when I
left the radio station, it was it was drizzling, kind
of drizzled a little bit all afternoon, and then I
had to work Thursday night. So by the time I
got to where I had to go, it was it was, oh,
(08:01):
so I'm doing my I was. I was working, and
then you could hear it hitting the roof, and then
when I left, when I was done, it was just nothing.
So I missed the entire storm.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
We were at the Candlelight Series concert at the Ryangeist
same way up and that upstairs thing. Yeah, huge nice
event center and same way. Also they had just gotten
started and also yours on the roof, and you see
why I look it up like wow, cool coming down. Yeah,
but you're right. About half an hour it was gone.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah, I missed the whole thing, so but.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It was coming down. Yeah, we can use it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah we needed it. And they cover of a lot
of the snow. Yeah, except for the big piles. Still
a few hanging around here and there. So guess today
Are you ready for this? I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We got a lineup today. Here we go. I'm talking lineup,
Here we go. I'm talking all star lineup.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You me, Danny Gleason, of course they're out the entire
show right Ron rothis Wow rita wow em shipment from
Kids Gardening, Katie Stagliano from Katie's Crops, Gary Sullivan. Yeah.
And then like I said, Danny Gleason and me in between, Wow,
(09:21):
that's a big Is that a lineup or what show?
It's a pack show right there. That's the Chris fun
Christmas Show. So we're going to talk to him and
Katie about you know, you get a little extra money
at the end of the year, you want to get
those kids involved gardening. There's a great way to donate
right there there.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You go back, get a cup of coffee or tea
to share some breakfast and listen to listen to the show.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yep, so we got let's lets people talk to today.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And uh and you know, hi to my friends in
Columbus and uh all my.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Friends in Columbus.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah. So the website you're.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
To stay on top of all used to co which
is firing things all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So the web the website.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Is Joe ron Wilson online dot com. And the Facebook
page in the garden with Ron Wilson, and.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
The chat room is up and running. Uh so and
hope hopefully people are enjoying the festive graphics. Not getting anything,
I have been not getting any feedback, so I don't know.
So there's a couple of posts, uh Christmas through the
Years that you sent me earlier this week, some quotes
(10:37):
about winter. It's great. Yes, I almost didn't post it
because you know how much I love winter. Is Rita
going to talk about her bursting cheese? She is?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
She is going to talk about that. We're gonna talk
about all kind of stuff. We got a lot of
things to cover, Okay, and their quick segment, well.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Her website on the website at her burst is it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Burson Ourson or borson.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Or borson cheese dip is on there. So if you wanna.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Look at that picture twice, why wasn't sure what was
going on there? There's just like a bunch of stuff
laying on a plate with a couple of crackers sticking
up out of it. So you have to get a
little closer to say, oh, yeah, that is in there.
Here's some bursting cheese there. So that stuff's good on hamburger,
That stuff's good on anything. Spoon on your finger exactly
(11:28):
someone else's finger. Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
The plant of the week is Christmas rosemary.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Let me stricker what rosemary? It is? Rosemary?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Why? Why Rosemary?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, because rosemary has been used an awful lot the
last few years now for a holiday plant. Trimmed in
shaped like a Christmas tree. There you go, little ornament's
on there. Then you get your rosemary to enjoy over
the winter. It's a harder one to grow inside. So
I've got some tips for you as far as what
I think will help you out to get to grow through.
(12:05):
But the winter it's a tough one. Read over winters
hers and an unheated garage and it does fairly well.
They're very hearty, but they just don't take really cold
temperatures for a long period of time. But get some
instructions on there for you. For the Rosemary very cool
and obnestly in lavender like that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
To the Rosemary picture that I have posted on the website.
It's it's your new one where you got all your
boatoks woo great yep, So you can check that out. Yeah,
check out me with lots of botox check out. Yeah, yeah, great,
a lot of filler, great yep. And picture of rose
Joe's having so much fun. I am with all those
(12:43):
creativity things that you were doing with me. Hey, hey,
I gotta have fun. Gotta have fun.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You figure how to do this, I can do that
with back to you. By the way, I like that
T shirt, vendor T shirt. Yep. You know Gary Sullivan
was born in nineteen forty six. Yeah, I can say
that because I know he's not listening. He was nineteen
forty six. I would have thought I would have thought
(13:10):
earlier than that. Yeah, yeah, early forties. Okay, we'll go
with that. There you go.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
All right, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
That's it for me. Merry Christmas, everybody, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Have a very merry Christmas. That's next week, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And then now we're going to talk after Christmas, maybe
post Saturday, maybe post Christmas Saturday, maybe pre New Year's
Day Saturday.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Possibly.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Okay, I'll hold you to that, all right, all right,
Joe Streker, Executive producer. If you like what you see
on our website at royn Wilson online dot com Facebook
page in the Garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Shrekker had
everything to do with it. Something there you don't like,
not sure about. I think we should take it off.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I think we should take it off. Can I say
that you think Joe should take it off?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It's not his fault. Who were going to blame?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Should we keep blaming?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Doctor Z? Yeah I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was every thing. But yeah, yeah, I was shaking her head. Yes, yes, yeah,
doctor Z. Washington three Garden eighty three. What's she still
writing on that? He's still riding his Vespa sidecard car
Wither Sweetheart on Sweet Tart on the back. I wonder
(14:19):
if you have to lean to the right with Bowser
because of that big rock is on the left hand side, right,
Doctor Laura Money. If she put her hand out to
signal going left, they would tip over. If that rock
is so big.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
She would stick her hand out to be like you
blind you.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
She's probably building up. I had to build up a
little work out. Now.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
She probably looks like Popeye on her left.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, carrying that finger, doctor Laura Money, Well done, Doctor
Z all right. Eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. That's our number here in the garden with
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would be eight hundred eight three eight two five five.
(15:02):
Not only would it be, but it is that number
as well. Give us a buzz. Don't forget our website
as we were talking earlier, Ron Wilson online dot com
facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson up and
running astrong this morning as well. You know, I was
in our studios here. They had a holiday get together,
well Dan, about a week ago, ten days ago, and
they brought in some gorgeous upon Setius and they're in
(15:25):
an I think they're in an eight or ten inch pot.
So they're big. I mean they're like twenty eighteen twenty
four inches high and wide, great color, great looking plants.
And remember I just said they brought him into the
studio or the offices here for the for the Christmas party.
And whether anybody waters them or not, I'm gonna say
(15:46):
they probably don't. Correct And the reason they don't, I
guess say that at this stage is because most of
the green leaves are starting to fall off of these
gorgeous pon setius. My point two fold is here. One
is the green leaves fall and this is all a
part of not being watered. Bottom line, all right, you
let them dry out. It's an evergreen. Those leaves drop.
(16:08):
It's done. It's toast. The plant's not dead, but the
leaves are so they're done. They fall off. And so
obviously none of these have been watered that are around here.
It's a shame to see that. But anyway, it doesn't matter.
But what's really nice is that the red bracks, pinks,
and the whites all stay on there. They don't fall off.
They're really tough. They hang on. So if you come
back and water it, you'll keep those. You can keep
(16:30):
those on all along. But point being is this don't
throw those away if they do that, Okay, I've got
an answer for you what you can do to make
them look really cool for the rest of the holiday season
and through the winter time as well. So if you're
losing leaves on your point set it, don't throw it away.
I'll tell you what they do after the break here
in the garden, Ron Wilson. Welcome back here in the
(16:52):
garden with Ron Wilson. And what is the answer to
those leggy points that he is where the leaves all
fall off the bottom? Go out in your and cut
off about you know, six or eight ten short pieces
tips of evergreens like juniper, taxis, boxwood, whatever, and then
a range thos. Just stick them right in the soil
(17:13):
underneath the colorful bracs of the ponsetia. Now in that container,
you look like you have a holiday planter with the
greens in the bottom the colorful bracs of the pon
Setia at the top. They used to do this way
back in the old days when they normally just fell off,
and it looks like a holiday planner. It's really cool.
As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if
some of the growers started doing that and selling them
(17:35):
that way. Again. You know what goes around comes around
next next to Christmas season, So anyway, don't throw them out.
Put some greens in the bottom. Those greens will stay
green like that pretty much all winter because there a
lot of times can take up that moisture that's in
that soil. Now, as I promised earlier in the show,
it is time for weather. It's the weather and in
the tree, starring our true seer of sears, here's our
(17:58):
registered consulting ARBORUS boy goes on and on, Amateur Meteorologist
I SA BOARD certified Master Arburst the Whole nine Yards website,
arbordoctor dot com, Ladies and gentlemen, the arbor dock himself
Ron Rufe. So well, are you having fun?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yes, I'm having fun. Actually, I was just notified by
email last evening that I had passed the latest True
Risk Assessment Qualification Course three point zero. So I've re
upped on that for the next seven years. So keep
that on the credential list, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So you'll be still knowledgeable for seven more years.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Probably, Yeah, I'll get kind of older, so you never know.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I know, Yeah, things start to fade after a while.
So anyway, we got a short segment with you today
because I wanted to get a quick update. Obviously, tomorrow
is the winter Solstice, longest day, Yeah, the longest night
of the year, and that would be tomorrow night, right
Sunday night. Yes, and then things start getting better after that.
(19:10):
But we got two more weeks of December and we're
gonna go into January. So two questions for you, how
are we going to finish out the year? Does it
look like going into twenty twenty six? And of course
the ultimate question that we ask you every Saturday before Christmas?
Will we have a white Christmas? In south western Ohio?
(19:30):
Have had it? Ron rothis No, it's hard to snow.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
It makes one degrees, huh, unless you're looking at a
white painted wall or white sheets. We did say, you know,
quite a while ago that we were going to have
quite a bit of cold weather, quite a bit of snow,
and the chances for a white Christmas would be higher
than in a normal year. And as you know, we've
had quite a bit of cold weather, quite a bit
(19:57):
of snow. Matter of fact, it's been one of the
snowiest December on record. But it's just a timing thing
this year. The snow all fell earlier and it's all
done now, and so we're as we also predicted. I
said we'd have ups and downs this winter, and we're
definitely going to have one of the ups for Christmas Week.
In fact, Christmas Day, we could be flirting with record
(20:19):
highs in the Ohio Valley and really in a decent
part of the south central part of the country, in
southeast part of the country, it could be very very
warm this Christmas. Really, you have to go out onto
the West Coast this year in Nevada's those areas Pacific
Northwest to find a great deal of snow. It's just
(20:39):
going to be a very warm Christmas this year in
the United States, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
And it looks like in our area it looks like
there's even a chance of right now, they're saying for
a thunderstorm, maybe some rain on Christmas Day as well,
but hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Either at night or during the day, it's kind of
hard to tell. But going forward, you did ask about
going forward. It's like the roller coaster to some extent
is going to continue, although this one spell looks like
it's going to last for a little while, it was
looking like it was going to get cold again right
after Christmas, and that looks like it's going to be
at the very least delayed. So I'm going to enjoy,
(21:16):
you know, a little bit of warm weather for a
decent bit. But it does look like eventually the temperatures
will go back down and will continue on this kind
of up and down, and it does look like we're
going to get some more really cold and snowy periods
over the course of the January February even in the
(21:38):
early March time period.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Hey, I went out and actually bought a snowblower because
now I'm taking care of my mom's driveway and doing
things like that, so I actually wouldn't got a snowball unt.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Why I had sixty degrees and that, And look what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I got it after the snow, obviously, because there weren't
any available at that time. So now now I get
it in then old snow for another three or four weeks.
That's all right. I'll be waiting for it.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So so prepared, just like a boy scout.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I am prepared, Yes, I am. So We're going to
finish out the year and begin the twenty twenty sixth
season with the roller coaster there, and you're saying, by
the time we get into January and looking at February,
good chance we get back into a little bit more
cold weather again.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, possibly some significantly cold weather like we had. You
know over the past couple of weeks. I would not
be surprised to see it get back below zero again,
and I would not be surprised to see us get
a decent amount of more snow. But we are going
to have kind of ups and downs this winter, so
I would not be surprised to see another one spell too.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Wow. Well, there you have it, and you know we've
had some good rainfall over the last couple of weeks
as well. How do you feel now? You know, you
and I are always out there preaching about make sure
you're watering going into the fall and into the holiday season,
especially those evergreens. How do you feel at this stage?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
The ground is wet right now. We had a wet November.
December has actually been slightly below normal, but with the
cold weather and the lack of evaporation in the snow
cover that we had, the ground is just really really
wet right now. So the only place that I can
(23:16):
imagine in anything that needs water right now in Cincinnati
in the media, Ohio Valley would be something that you
might be under an overhang or something like that. And
I'm being very careful with that because you go up
in the northeast Ohio, northern and central Indiana, they've been
in severe to extreme drought for weeks now, and it's
(23:37):
gotten a little bit better with recent precipitation, but it's
been much much drier in those areas. In a lot
of parts of the United States, up and down the
East Coast, New England, the South, a lot of areas
of drought. So for those areas, watering is still something
you need to be thinking about with some of these evergreens, especially.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Watching that a lot of that drought monitor. I just okay,
I was watching that drought monitor and obviously you said
it too me Casi I go and find it as well.
But I've been watching Ohio and it's amazing how that
has kind of hung in there as far as being
fairly dry, even though they've had some snow up there,
still not where they normally should be.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, and snow snow gives moisture, but remember it's a
one inch you know, ten inches of snow to equal
one inch of rain.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Well that was my next question water.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, so, and that that's an average. I mean, a
ver very dry snow could be even less than that.
You can have twenty to one ratio. Sometimes they're very
powdery snow. So so it takes quite a lot of
snow to equal an inch of rain. And if if
you're several inches blow where you should be, then you
(24:50):
need quite a lot of snow to really really get
it back where where it needs to be. So some
of those areas you know, are still really really dry.
And it's interesting how you don't have to go very far.
You know, Southwest Ohio has been pretty wet, but northwest
Ohio been in severe to extreme drought. So it's just
interesting how you can have those, you know, those differences
(25:13):
over fairly short periods of time distance, no.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Doubt about it. Hey, Ron, we gotta go. We appreciate
the update, Ron, Rothis are certifying arborist, of course, and
the hobby meteorologist is website arbordoctor dot com. I know
you're chaperoning at a gymnastics meet, and I know you're
competing as well, so good luck on those parallel bars
and the pommel horse. Those are your two specials.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That would be an ugly site. But yes, the children
who are making noise in the background, even though I
told them to be quiet, they're doing it. Are going
to be competing today United States Trampling and Tumbling Association
Competition in Ryo, Grand, Ohio. And yes, they do pronounce
it Ryo Gran.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, home of Bob Evans.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yes, we're probably going to eat in the original Bob
Evans today.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
At his original table.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I don't know who knows, Ron Roth, It's always a pleasure.
We want to wish you and your family are very
very merry Christmas. Appreciate all that, yeah, all that you
do for us during the year, and we will probably
talk to you by the end of the season. End
of the year.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Sounds great to me.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
All right, thanks, Ron, take care of have a good
time at the gymnastics. All right, before we take a break,
let's go to Dayton, Ohio. Deck, come oningy, good morning.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I liked your guests today. He was good.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
He Ron's all. He's good at the he knows his
trees and he knows his weather.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Oh he was great, so great.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So you all set up for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yep, all set up, all ready to get up, all
ready to go. My friend over at uh Oak Creek
had a really nice party. It was we had olders
and they had a little country band in there. It
was good boy.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
It was rough.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
So there's probably seventy fight eighty people that when I
went there Thursday.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That was nice. If you go somewhere and they have
a band that's playing and they find out that Dick
from Dayton's in the audience, do they have you come
up on the stage and play with him?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I actually Uh, they had a little they were passing
out like jingle bells. I was playing the tambourine a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
How about that the tambourine, Yeah, it was nice. The
green tambourine, man tambourine.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It was yeah. But I want to thank everybody. There's
a couple that knew me at the library. I think
it's Scott and Julie sent me a card and they
said they hear hear me on your show. Uh, I
always talk It's nice. He's nice. Scott always talked to me.
And yeah, but I'm thinking, I don't know. I'll take
(27:48):
the Bengals, but they better play better.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Come on, I hope they better. So what's your prediction?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Twenty three twenty the Bengals, But I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Know, all right, well, well but twenty three twenty got it, Dan,
twenty three twenty Bengals. All right, hey, you.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Have any very wait happy, I'll talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
They have a very merry Christmas, Dick, and we will
talk to you later, okay, bye bye, all right, take care,
quick break we come back. Phone lines are open for you.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Coming
up the top of the hour, rita hike and fel
that's right, we're gonna be are you urbally experienced? And
then of course at the bottom of the hour, m shipman,
we're gonna talk to Katie stag Leiano and all in
between you and me talking yardning again. Eight hundred eight
(28:32):
two three eight two five five Here in the garden
with Ron Wilson eight two three eight two five five.
Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. Unfortunately,
we're not going to get any snow for Christmas Day.
It's going to be in the sixties, low sixties, maybe
some rain. It is what it is, uh, it's you know,
what it is what's interesting about. But if it's really
(28:55):
cold and snoway on Christmas Day, sometimes that can be
kind of pooh pooish because you know, then it's cold
to get out and get to go to the maybe
to another family's house or whatever. It could be a
little bit tougher. So if it's a little warmer, it
can be a little bit more easy on the family.
But we'll take it. Whatever it is is what we're
gonna get. But I know it's nice seven a little
bit of that white on the ground on Christmas morning.
(29:15):
That's that's pretty cool because we reflect back dobvioshly to
the Christmas Story and all the nash Lampoon vacation and
the snow and all that stuff with which I have
not dan seen one Christmas special so far, and I'm
running out of time. You are, yes, because after Christmas
they're not as funny. I like watching them, but you know,
you gotta watch usually.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Watched like Christmas Vacation like six times. Well yeah, yet
I haven't even watched it yet either.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I would see I usually watch Christmas Story at least once,
Christmas Vacation at least twice, you know, and then you
go on from there. I like the Santa Claus. I
think Christmas Special I got to do that once. Yeah,
but the Santa Claus I didn't. I haven't you know,
I haven't seen that at all. And I like that
that that was a whole what was there three series
of that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
So yeah, do you know here's a little trivia for
you ready for this? Yes, the scene where Santa falls
off the roof and dies. Did you know that the
original script called for him to shoot Santa accidentally as
an intruder and kill him.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Yeah. Disney saw that and said, nah, I don't think
we're gonna be anybody's gonna be shooting Santa Claus. So
they changed the script and made it so he slipped
and fell off the roof like there you go and died.
So I thought that was kind of weird. Shoot him
all right?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
I hope you got my tip about the pond setia.
It really does work. Tried it out last week because
I never even thought of this. I read an article
where they said, you know, back in the old days,
many many years ago, you know, with the pon Setia
is growing. Uh, some of the older selections they didn't
hold up very well and you'd lose those green leaves
on the bottom. And that's why sometimes they put the
(30:53):
sleeves on the bottom, because those foiled sleeves twofold one
is made it look more efestive and and too is
it kind of covered up those bottom steps. And I
tell you what I love. Have you ever seen pont
set of trees where they actually limb them up and
grow them like trees. I think they're gorgeous. I think
the first time I ever saw that was when we
were watching this especially on Christmas at the White House
(31:15):
and they had the interior decorator for the holidays had
brought in Christmas pon setia trees as well as the
bush form, and they were gorgeous. Now, it takes a
couple of years to grow the tree form so it
looks like a tree, but they were really cool. So
that's nice. But you know, you got these at home,
like the ones here in our office and their leaves
are all falling off. Just stick those evergreen small branches
(31:39):
in the bottom and make it look like a holiday planner.
You can even put you know, some berries in it,
you know, or whatever at the bottom, some artificial berries
or whatever. And as you're watering the pon setia and
keeping it evenly moist through the winter, that also keeps
those evergreen branches evenly moist. And they usually hang right
in there for you right on through the holiday season
as well into the winter and and on forward. So
(32:01):
don't throw them out.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Use that.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And isn't it interesting looking at the Christmas and the
holiday season how it's really focused around horticulture. And you know,
somebody brought this up the other day and I said,
you know, you think about it, and every holiday has
something like Valentine's Day with roses, you know, that type
of thing. But look at the Christmas season. And you
(32:23):
got the Christmas tree, whether it's cut or live or artificial.
But you got the you know, the Christmas tree, you
got the pont setia, you got the amarillis, you got
the Christmas cactus. You have all the Christmas flowers, the
paper white kits that you can get out there. I mean,
you look at it just goes on and on and on,
the wreaths and roping the bowels, all of that. The
(32:47):
grave blankets, which I never I never came up with
the history. There's so many different stories about grave blankets,
and in our area gray blankets are not used. I
mean you see one every now and then, but not
very often. And you get further north, like when I
was going to the Ohio State University working at a
garden center there, Solemon's Garden Center, we made a ton
(33:11):
of grave blankets swags no lighting, you know, four or
five feet long with ornaments on it that you lay
on the grave, pin it down and then let it
lay there over the you know, during the holiday seasons
at all, and then take that off at the seasons.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Row.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
A lot of cemeteries don't like those, and a lot
of them have been banned from doing that because it
can shade out the grass and cause some issues there.
So they really a lot of them don't like to
do that anymore, but it boy at one time that
was a major thing. We're grave blankets, uh kind of
And again looking up the history U you know, there's
a lot of stories behind it as far as you know,
(33:48):
keeping the grave warm and things like that or decorad know,
it's a great way to decorate because it's down on
the ground. But you know, most people today use the
tripod and the wreath on top doesn't affect the grass.
But man, we used make a ton of those things.
But you look at the holiday season and it really
is and obviously we know what the true meaning of
Christmas is all about, but it is as far as
(34:09):
the decorations and all a holiday that is really focused
around the horticulture industry. With all the great plants that
are out there, so pretty interesting, uh looking at that.
But again, Christmas cactus. You know, if you like that plant,
and I do, it's an easy plant to grow indoors.
It flowers fairly consistently for us. Uh, hanging basket or
reunning container. You see those going on sale, it's scarf
(34:31):
for those things up and h and use those amarillis.
Right now, as I've been looking around this past week,
plant place, especially places that don't normally sell a lot
of plants, but they bring Amarillis kids in paperwhite kids
in Uh they're now on sale. I'm telling you, right now,
they got them on sale. They want to get rid
of those things. Uh, this is great. We scarf them
up now. If you here's a little tip if you're
(34:52):
looking to buy amarillis kits in the boxes, open it
up and look at the ball before you buy the kit.
Make sure the ball is solid, and make sure it's
not growing. Now. Sometimes they'll start to sprout out a
little bit in that box. I the answer too isn't
too bad. But if it starts to get more, we're
starting to curl around the box. I usually shy away
from those. So kit when it's still fairly dormant or
(35:13):
just starting to show a little growth on the top,
solid should be good to go. The bigger the bulb,
the more flowers you get, and it takes about six
to eight weeks from the time you pot them up.
So hot one up maybe this weekend. Six to eight weeks.
That puts us into what into January, you'll start to
get some color. Two more weeks. Pot another one up,
put you into February. Two more weeks. Put another one
(35:33):
up put you into the first of March. Carries you
right through the winter season at a really good price.
Amarroll's Paperway kitch. You can't go wrong, quick break, we
come back. It's tifer. Are you urbally experienced with Rita
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