June 6, 2025 • 4 mins
Rick Vuyst, Host of Gardening Simplified joins us with a preview of this weekend's show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just do it. That's what our friend Rick Weiss says
from Gardening Simplify. This is West Michigan's morning News Steve Kelly,
Brett Makita, and Laurence Smith and man, we are in
prime growing season. Rick, Let's light this candle as it were.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh boy, I'm with you, Steve. I tell you what
Stacy and I on the Gardening Simplified show this weekend,
We're going to give you permission to just do it.
What a great weekend Summers at our doorstep. We had
a weather roller coaster ride this spring. It was one
of the most beautiful Mother's Day weekends I've ever seen.
(00:38):
And then the week following was one of the most
miserable spring weeks I had ever seen. So just a
wild roller coaster ride. But you know, I want to
remind people that you know, spring is not the end all.
A gardening season is a full year. We have plenty
(00:58):
of time to be working in our landscapes and enjoying
our gardens. Was thinking about that the other day. You know,
the Right brothers flying their airplane in nineteen o three,
and we put a man on the moon in nineteen
sixty nine, So it took us sixty six years to
get there. You know, don't feel this pressure that you've
(01:20):
got to get it done today or even this weekend.
And so on the show this weekend, we tell you
what to do and give you permission to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So talk to us a little bit about where we
are in this growing season. I don't know about you all,
but my garden looks lush and it doesn't seem to
have been affected at all by this weird spring.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, absolutely, Steve. As a matter of fact, what we're
seeing is it has affected your tender plants. So your
landscape plants, I'm with you, absolutely lush and gorgeous. We've
had sufficient rainfall. But as far as tender plants are concerned,
(02:03):
so I'm talking tomatoes, peppers, some of your flowering annuals.
Even as recent as a few days ago, in some areas,
primarily north of Grand Rapids, we saw some pretty cold temperatures,
some frost, I lost some basil. I saw it on
the peppers and the cucumbers. They were not happy with me.
(02:26):
And so that's kind of where we saw it. But
it looks like the weather's finally going to make a
turn for the better.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
That's exactly what I wanted to ask because a friend
of mine had done her garden and was sad to
wake up and see that frost. How do you know
if you've lost them or if they might bounce back
through problematic times.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's a great question, because I have seen this before.
If the soil is cold, or we've had some cold temperatures,
sometimes you can see these plants that love warm weather,
even hot weather like basil or peppers, go beyond pout.
They'll be stunted and you can see some of the
(03:09):
wilting of the foliage. But yes, you can tell if
you've lost the plants all together. But in many cases
it's just stunted their growth. Maybe they're a little bit discolored.
But feeding those plants and with some sunshine and some
warm weather, we can get them to snap back.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Rick real quick. We've got about thirty seconds left them.
Just wondering did that early frost at all is to
have any effect on the fruit season and up on
the ridge there because I have a blueberry bush I love.
It seems to be all right, But you know, what
are the acts of summer that people love? Picking strawberries,
picking raspberries, eventually picking blueberries.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Right, yeah, no, and you're right. But what we had
was we had a spring that was really great for
that purpose, Brett, because there was a slow warm up.
We didn't have a really warm let's say March or
April where we had a week of eighty degree temperatures
and then the temperatures plummeted, but rather we had a
slow wake up. So I would say pretty good year
(04:07):
as far as that's concerned. It's primarily the people who
put tender annuals in the ground around Mother's Day that
maybe struggled a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You will hear Rick tomorrow morning, nine am on Wood Radio,
Gardening Simplified on air dot com. Rickwist is always thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Have great weekend.
Just do it. That's what our friend Rick Weiss says
from Gardening Simplify. This is West Michigan's morning News Steve Kelly,
Brett Makita, and Laurence Smith and man, we are in
prime growing season. Rick, Let's light this candle as it were.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh boy, I'm with you, Steve. I tell you what
Stacy and I on the Gardening Simplified show this weekend,
We're going to give you permission to just do it.
What a great weekend Summers at our doorstep. We had
a weather roller coaster ride this spring. It was one
of the most beautiful Mother's Day weekends I've ever seen.
(00:38):
And then the week following was one of the most
miserable spring weeks I had ever seen. So just a
wild roller coaster ride. But you know, I want to
remind people that you know, spring is not the end all.
A gardening season is a full year. We have plenty
(00:58):
of time to be working in our landscapes and enjoying
our gardens. Was thinking about that the other day. You know,
the Right brothers flying their airplane in nineteen o three,
and we put a man on the moon in nineteen
sixty nine, So it took us sixty six years to
get there. You know, don't feel this pressure that you've
(01:20):
got to get it done today or even this weekend.
And so on the show this weekend, we tell you
what to do and give you permission to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So talk to us a little bit about where we
are in this growing season. I don't know about you all,
but my garden looks lush and it doesn't seem to
have been affected at all by this weird spring.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, absolutely, Steve. As a matter of fact, what we're
seeing is it has affected your tender plants. So your
landscape plants, I'm with you, absolutely lush and gorgeous. We've
had sufficient rainfall. But as far as tender plants are concerned,
(02:03):
so I'm talking tomatoes, peppers, some of your flowering annuals.
Even as recent as a few days ago, in some areas,
primarily north of Grand Rapids, we saw some pretty cold temperatures,
some frost, I lost some basil. I saw it on
the peppers and the cucumbers. They were not happy with me.
(02:26):
And so that's kind of where we saw it. But
it looks like the weather's finally going to make a
turn for the better.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
That's exactly what I wanted to ask because a friend
of mine had done her garden and was sad to
wake up and see that frost. How do you know
if you've lost them or if they might bounce back
through problematic times.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's a great question, because I have seen this before.
If the soil is cold, or we've had some cold temperatures,
sometimes you can see these plants that love warm weather,
even hot weather like basil or peppers, go beyond pout.
They'll be stunted and you can see some of the
(03:09):
wilting of the foliage. But yes, you can tell if
you've lost the plants all together. But in many cases
it's just stunted their growth. Maybe they're a little bit discolored.
But feeding those plants and with some sunshine and some
warm weather, we can get them to snap back.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Rick real quick. We've got about thirty seconds left them.
Just wondering did that early frost at all is to
have any effect on the fruit season and up on
the ridge there because I have a blueberry bush I love.
It seems to be all right, But you know, what
are the acts of summer that people love? Picking strawberries,
picking raspberries, eventually picking blueberries.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Right, yeah, no, and you're right. But what we had
was we had a spring that was really great for
that purpose, Brett, because there was a slow warm up.
We didn't have a really warm let's say March or
April where we had a week of eighty degree temperatures
and then the temperatures plummeted, but rather we had a
slow wake up. So I would say pretty good year
(04:07):
as far as that's concerned. It's primarily the people who
put tender annuals in the ground around Mother's Day that
maybe struggled a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You will hear Rick tomorrow morning, nine am on Wood Radio,
Gardening Simplified on air dot com. Rickwist is always thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Have great weekend.
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