April 26, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:38):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yardning on this post Arbor Day Saturday, post Arbor Day Saturday.
And what do you say we kick it off from
the kind of a stranger. We haven't seen him for
a couple of weeks. Birthday this week?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Two?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Why'd you have to bring that up?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Sorry? Go ahead, I interrupted, you go keep going.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Poor Arbor Day. It's the Rodney dangerfield of holidays awareness holidays.
Well I knew it was Arbor Day because because what
you did right away. I said Arbor Day and you said,
well what about Earth Day? Just Joe Strack, our executive
producers find out what's going on. Now, we're not going
to find out what's going on as long landscape. We'll
find out what's going on our website at Ron Wilson
online dot com, Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Where you been?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I don't even know where I'm at?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Is?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
This is this the studio? This is the studio. Wow, Hey,
I'm all alone and you're all alone. So I come
to stare to the walls talking come back, and I
feel like I'm talking to the to myself.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Are you imagining that I'm sitting there?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I am like I have my eyes closed, thinking to
a better time, Like in two thousand and two when
your very first show.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
WHOA Okay, well we're both excited that morning. We were
because the last state university just won the national football champion. Yeah, first,
like the third since we've been working together, two or
three something like that. We're just so many it's hard
to count, right. So yeah, he's been gone for a
couple of weeks, So welcome, sir.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I'm back. Shady's back till you're a friend good again.
Here we go, Joey's back. No one gets that reference
how some people do good good?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Looking forward to We're going to be a nursery that
has nothing but big trees called Columbus trees up in Sunbury.
So yeah, looking forward to it now.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I celebrated Arbor Day by putting an inflatable tree in
my front yard. Yeah right, I didn't plan flatable tree.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Didn't you do a Halloween inflatable because you I used
to talk about never doing.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
About we put up a Halloween inflatable And I also
have a couple Christmas inflatables. Okay, I remember a time,
There was a time when you was in no way. Well,
times change.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We used to still never put up a live never mind.
So anyway talking, Yes, I'm in Columbus, so thank you
for coming in to share your cup of joe with
us this morning. Yes, I post get tired of here
and ramball for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I got bored and I had nothing else better to do.
So great to come in. Good, that's wonderful. Danny appreciates
it too, by the way. Yes, my my lawn's been
mowed twice. Yes, so don't say nothing's been happen by Well,
I've had an operation, so I know. I said I can't.
That's a look. He does a way better job than
(03:32):
I do. I may have to keep on keeping.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
The door, hiring somebody to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah. Oh yeah, both my girls, I mean, well, Grace
after she had her issue, she can't walk very well
still and Bethany's busy all the time because she's now
nineteen years old. Changes she's nineteen years old. Now she's
got you know, she's doing you know, she's a kid,
(04:00):
so she's got she's busy all the time. So yeah,
so we hired it out.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Good, so good as you get smote on a regular
basis you always did anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, so yeah, now I just gotta Now I just
got to hire someone to pull the weeds in the
beds and the dud stuff in the beds. So are
you busy? You're busy when you get back. Yeah, yeah,
I'm busy of course, washing your hair. So yeah, that's nails.
That's kind of watching the draft. So that's yeah, it's good,
(04:34):
it is. So that's been what's going on? So you're
feeling all right, I'm doing all right? Look looking great?
I do go you look great. I must look. I
think I'm looking so great. You're even noticing me from Columbus.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh me?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
All right? So anyway, yes, so what's what's going on?
What kind of guests do we have on today? Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Today? Are you kidding me? I'm just asking. Rita is
back again. You know, we were doing every other week
with Rita, but she's back today important because it well
it's in very timely too, because now we're really into
the season. Spring is sprung, the weather's broken, so now
we're into a big time. So today we want to
talk about highlighting an herb every week. She's going to talk.
(05:19):
There's such an interest now with backyard chicken.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, since since the eggs are fifteen bucks for an egg.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Those people that started that a long time ago, and
I'm glad that they did. The backyard chickens talking about herbs.
Believe it or not, they're good for chickens. Chickens not
just to put on top of the not when you
cook them. While you're raising you're.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Raising them kind of herbs. And if you read the
tip sheet, which is on Ron Wilson online dot com,
it tells you what herbs and what it does to
the eggs, yeah, or the chicken or whatever, chicken or whatever. Yeah,
and then if you want.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
To use those herbs on the grill when you're grilling
the chickens, that could be a little very helpful dish
she'll do addition to the fine flavoring.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That you definitely very helpful.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So anyway, Yeah, she'll join us and then Barbie Butcher's
going to join us this morning to give us an
update on the Well, we'll find out if that's part
of the problem. But I got a funny feeling right now.
It still looks like it's just a cocktail of things.
But it's a major hit. So she's gonna give us
update there. And of course we have Buggy Joe Buggs. Yes,
so he'll give it a mister Sully van vacation. Yes
(06:30):
this week. Yes, so no mister self this.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Week compared to what if his thirty seven weeks of vacation.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He always cracks me, well, I don't know. He always
cracks me up when he does it. Show he's a
venus fly trap. But you know that cranks it back,
puts his feet up on the counter, pulls a microphone
over to his face, lower lights, just answers home improvement.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well, when he used to be in the coming to
the studio all the time, I remember he would always
do something with the the blind, the blind. I would
do it perfect. Oh yeah, well I'd do it for him.
So I started doing it for him. Well, but so.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I low him down, get him just right, lighting level,
just right, light a couple of candles.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
He never paid you for that, No he did not,
of course not. They even say thank you. Of course not.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
He just walked in and sat down and put his
feet up and started going. Expected he did. He just
expected it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It was a serve.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's just the way it was. It was an honor
to be able to do it for us the most
listened to home shoot room show hosting the entire solar.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
System GARRISI yes, I actually got autographic.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And of course last weekend was important for the Sullies
because of the Sullies.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, yeah, of course I was on the.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Columbus Show last last Friday a little bit, and uh,
you know what they asked me about tell us about
these sullies. It's become worldwide.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It's yeah, it's it's a it's a trend. It's trend. Yeah,
TikTok so. In addition to this, what else is on
Ron Wilson online dot com?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
What's our plan of the week? Got two of them?
Two of them a burr oak tree in honor of
Arbor Day yesterday and the London plane tree. Yeah the exclamation,
I love both the two becoming the Burroke's my most
favorite tree of all Japanese maples green leave ginko right
there at the top and this exclamation is absolutely outstanding.
(08:17):
But again in honor of Arbor Day, which was yesterday,
which is the most ignored I think awareness holiday. As
Joe just brought up earlier, what about earth Day?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
What about Earth Day?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Scott Stanley still did one of the best commercials ever
if you remember that for Earth Day. He had all
of the holiday icons mascots or whatever, and they were
having a therapy session. Yeah, and the guy was from
Father's Day talking about whatever, and the Easter Buddy was
there and all that, and so was Arbor Day. And
he said something to somebody about, oh, yeah, you don't
(08:53):
you get more more respect than Arbor Day? And the
Arbor Day says, hey, I'm sitting right here, and then
of says, so get more respect than Arbor Day. I said, up,
sudding right here.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I think it's pretty good that with Scott's bets. So,
but it's right, nobody it's Earth Day takes over all
the precedent this week, and everybody forgets about Arbor Day exactly.
Also root it together.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Also, there's a thing from the from the Beagle about
mystery seeds.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yes, remember that happened a few.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Years ago, a couple of years and yeah, it's back.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, all of a sudden people are getting these packs
of seeds that are showing up. You didn't order them.
It's like what is this? And if you didn't order
them and you have no idea where they came from,
don't open it up, don't use them. Seal it back
up and take it to local extension office, saw the
water or something like that. They'll tell you what to
do with them.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
On there.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Let them take a look because we don't know who's
doing it. Could they be invasive seeds something on them
or whatever, So don't use them. Let them take a
look at them and find out what's going on exactly.
But yeah, all of a sudden, that's that's kind of
become popular again.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Isn't that awesome? Yeah, that's great. People are just doing
that stuff. Thank you, sending stuff. How come they send
seeds but they don't send money or checks? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You know, set up packet of seats to seven the
three bucks. Yeah, then I'll get my own seats. Yeah. See. Yeah, anyway,
listen to Joe, Yes, listen to me. So all right,
I'm gonna head on out and let you continue your
fun and games from Columbus.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yep, that's all all.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Right, ladies and gentlemen. Mister Joe Strecker, our executive producer.
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Okay, I talked doctor Z everything he knows.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh me, he's probably just shaking his head right now.
He's probably not even listening, probably not even listening. He
does listen, he does yeah on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh hi, doctor Z. Yeah he does listening.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
He's busy playing pinball the in bowser. Yes, okay, we
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Before we go any further, let's go
to Ohio. Talk to Brett. Brett, Good morning, Hey, how
you doing good in yourself?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Good?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Good?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Hey, I'm from Ohio. I'm in Ohio and for years
I've had crab grass in my grass. I have a
guy come and, you know, spray and my grass looks great.
But it don't even touch that crab grass.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Are you well, let's back up a second. Are you
sure it's crab grass?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
First of all, well, I don't know what it. I
call it crab grass.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I don't know what it does.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It die out over there.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
It's wide, wide leaves and uh, you know, I can
pull it out by the root. It's it's real tough.
It's real tough to pull out. But if you catch it,
early you can get it, so it's probably not crabgrass,
but that's what I call it, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And the reason I asked that is that you know
there are annual wheaty grasses like crabgrass that dies out
at the end of the season and then regrows in
the springtime from seed. And there's also perennial weaty grasses
that have that wide blade that come up every year
and have to be treated totally different than the crabgrass,
And a lot of those aren't affected by your broad
(16:33):
leaf weed killers, whereas they would go on in spray and
crabgrass would be affected by that, but some of your
other perennial grasses would not be affected by that, and
they would actually have to come in and use a
vegetation killer which would kill everything to get rid of it.
Do you see it right now? Oh yeah, right, okay,
(16:53):
So if you're seeing it right now, Brett, what that
tells you is it's not crabgrass, because crabgrass has just
started to germinate from the seeds, so crabgrass is really
small right now. So now we know it's not crabgrass,
it's something else, and that would more than likeness that
means if it stayed green over the winter, that means
(17:13):
that you've got some type of a perennial weedy grass
that they're gonna have to take a look at that
and spot treated if they can with a non selective
vegetation killer to kill that out, then come back in
and recede or resaw those areas and start over. And
that's why they're not getting rid of it. They're treating
for crab grass and annual weeds and that's not going
(17:35):
to take care of what you're seeing there. So if
they can't identify that, Brett, send me a couple pictures
of it. I'll try to identify it for you. Or
when you dig up a clump like that, take it
with you, put it into plastic bag, take it with
you to a local garden center or nursery and maybe
somebody can identify what it is. Then we know for sure,
(17:56):
and then we can tell you what you need to do.
But more than likely and I can't, I think you
know what you're doing saying crag grass that happens all
the time, and everybody you know says it's crag grass,
And then you got to figure out which which grass
is it really and in that case, that's why they're
not getting rid of it, because they have to treat
it totally different from what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
So can I just buy something, you know, at a
big box store to spray.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But yeah, you yeah, without yeah, without knowing. But if
it's if you're just looking for a non selective vegetation killer,
you know, you would just look for a roundup or
fertiloms kills all anything like that that that kills everything
you spray it on. And so remember when you spray it,
spray it just on that clump, not on your regular grass,
(18:40):
because it's going to kill anything that it fault that
that sprays on. And then you get rid of that,
then you come back in those areas, rake it out
and recede and start all over again.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
All right, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Hey, Brett, good talking to you. Appreciate you listening to
our show. And again that's one of those things about
you know, trying to get things ident before we try
to take care of it, and in there we kind
of work backwards and we know it's not crab grass,
so it's one of those other you know, perennial grasses.
It could be even it could be just Kentucky thirty
one fescue with that real wide blade, strong clump, and
(19:15):
you get that in a like a bluegrass lawn or
even in some of the times the turf type tall
rescue lawns, it'll stand out because it's so thick and
it's such a wide blade. You got to orchard grass,
Johnson grass, you got all kinds of the other grasses
that will come up and do that. So identifying what
it is first if you can, and that's what you
that's where you take advantage of your local independent garden centers.
(19:36):
They've got the pros there and hopefully you can take
a clump of that up, show them what it is
and get identified. If not even try a try a
law care service or your extension office in your county,
something like that to get an identification. And again if
you get a good couple of good pictures of it.
Sometimes I can tell looking at the picture, sometimes I can't,
(19:56):
but we can give it a shot. But then we
know for sure, and then we know how how to
approach it and go after it. Same way with insects
all the weeds. Find out what it is first, then
we approach it as far as what's the best way
to go after it, most environmentally friendly way to go
after it?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Do we need to go after it and then take
it from there. It's like ants. I get calls, especially
right now, ants are starting to become active, and I
get you know, I got all of a sudden, I've
got these ants crawling all over my whatever it may be,
and ants are gonna destroy it. They're gonna blah blah blah.
And it's typically not the ants issue because they don't
eat the plants. They're there for other reasons. I'll tell
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Speaker 1 (23:05):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that total free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking about yarning on this post Arbor Day,
the Rodney danger Field of all awareness days, and that
would be Arbor Day, and probably I think you know
obviously Earth Day, uh gets more recognition and a lot
of projects for Earth Day. I get it. I'm behind
(23:26):
it one hundred percent totally. Everything I understand, but it's
I think it's unfortunate for Arbor Day because Earth Day
usually comes a couple of days before Arbor Day, so
everybody focuses on on on the Earth Day, and by
the time you get to Arbor Day, it's just like okay.
And there's a lot of places that still give away
free ceilings and all, but they have a tendency to
(23:48):
tie that in with Earth Day rather than Arbor Day. Uh.
You know, you know how I am at the end
of every show, I'm talking about getting down planning a
treer two or three because I still think it has
It's one thing that we all can do to have
the most impact on this Earth and our climate and
Mother Nature in the whole nine yards, and that's planting trees.
(24:10):
And I you know, I've been saying that from the
get go to have the opportunity to host this garden show,
and so I've always looked at Arbor Dad and about
I don't know, three or four years ago, one of
our producers here that doesn't used to do a lot
of the commercials and things great sense of humor. Scott
Stanley did a a commercial where they had like these
(24:32):
I was telling Joe early and if you heard that,
I don't mean to repeat it, but had all they
like the Easter Bunny and the father the guy from
Father's Day and all that, and they were all talking
at like a psycho therapy meeting, and so two references like,
you know, well, you could be arbor day and not
get any respect at all. And it's like, hey, I'm
still sitting here, and it's true. It's funny. Commercial. I
(24:52):
should have got into the dance so we could have
played it this morning. But it's funny, but it's true,
and you know, it just doesn't get the play and
the recognition that it deserves. And of course it was
developed rightfully so out in Nebraska where they didn't have
any trees at all, to get people to start planting
trees and it's just gone from there. So again, get
(25:13):
out to your local independent garden centers and nurseries this weekend.
If you've got a place in the yard that you're
looking to plant a new tree or two or three,
make sure it's the right tree for the right location.
Don't just grab a tree because you like it, because
you like the flowers, whatever it may be, make sure
it fits the situation in your particular yard and garden.
And of course, if your yard is full you can't
(25:34):
use any more trees, find other places that could use
a tree and donate it. Maybe your neighbors need a
new tree. Now, don't plant the tree in your neighbor's
yard without asking first. But you know again, the church,
the schools, local parks, they all would love to have trees.
And this is a great way for you to continue
(25:56):
to plant. Get the family involved. Go plant the tree,
have them plan to put a plaque by it. Come
back by twenty years from now, because you're planting forward,
you're planting for the future. You're planning for your kids
and your grandkids and their grandkids and their kids in
the whole nine yards. But put a plaque there instead.
You can come back and say, we planted this back
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Can you believe that? Remember when we did that? What
a great thing to do. And go back and look
at those trees, and you know you do that when
you were a kid growing up and you maybe moved
to two or three homes and your dad or whatever
was planting trees and the new landscape and all. And
then you go back, you know, twenty thirty years and
look at them and said, wow, look at the size
of those trees from when we planted those thirty or
(26:35):
forty years ago. So again, you know, if anything at all,
used today as the awareness just to get your attention
that you know how important it is to get out
and plant trees.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Please.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And again i'm not right tree, right location, and as
Ron rothis are certified arbist. You and I were talking
a couple of weeks ago about planting trees. I've always said,
you know, get out and plant a tree or two
or three. And then I heard somebody say, one time,
get out and grow a tree. Don't just plant a tree,
but grow it. It's easy to go out and plant
a tree and walk away and leave the tree on
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its own, and in you know, many cases, you need
to do everything you can to help that tree get
itself established, mostly watering, but you know, to get it
established and then you can kind of walk away, but
you know, we've got to stick with it. So get
out and figure out where you're going to plant and
grow a tree or two or three. Now, before we
went into the break, we were talking about ants, and
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for the next several weeks I will get plenty of
ant questions about I'm looking at my plants and answer
all over it and the plant's wilted down, the foliage
looks horrible, losing color, not doing so well, and the
answer just destroying. I'm seeing ants going I'm down my
tree and they're just destroying my tree. Well, just remember
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that ants typically don't eat plants, all right, They're there
for other reasons. So ants, in most cases, when you
see them on other on plants are an indicator that
something else is going on. If you see carpenter ants
going in and out of the trunk of your tree,
what does that tell you? Your tree is decaying for
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whatever reason it may be on the inside, and they're
using that decaying cavity as a nesting area. Carpenter Ants
don't kill your tree. They're going in there and using
that action that's set up because it's a great nesting
area for them. They love it. Now, termit should go
in and clean it out and eat it, and they
can cause problems, but carpenter ants are just using it
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for a nesting ground. But it's an indicator to you
that something's wrong with your tree. So it's time to
get an arbist out to take a look at that
to find out is the cavity big? Is it causing
structural problems? Do I need to do something about it?
You know, you can kill the carpenter ants and get
rid of them. They usually they'll come back over time
because they are their nests everywhere. It's hard to find
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all their nests, but you can do that and help
to control it. But they're telling you that something's up there.
All right, as far as there's something wrong. If I
see ants crawling all over my pa andies, here's a
real misconception. It's like my p andies don't flower because
I don't have a lot of ants going all over. Well,
that's not not true. The reason the ants are on
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p andies is not an indicator that there's a problem.
But they feed on that. If you look at the
p andy flower bud, they're real shiny and sticky, and
that's a nectar that's on the outside and it's attractive
to ants. They love feeding on that. So they have
nothing to do with the flowers. And how while they
perform or whatever. But they're attracted to the nectar. Again,
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the ants aren't there for the to eat the p
and e or cause problems. They're there to feed on
the nectar. Had an email about I got ants crawling
all over my rhubarb. You know what's going on? They're
going to ruin my rub barb blah blah blah. What
do I spray with? And of course the fireback is
go and look at the underside of the leaves of
the rhubarb and tell me what you see, because more
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than likely if you turn those leaves over, you'll find it.
They're probably right now with all the new foliage coming out.
If you remember last year, it was to hear of
the aphians. I've never seen so many aphens in my
entire life on everything and anything. And there's all different
kinds of aphis, all different colors, blacks and browns and
greens and whatever. And they are a sucking insect that
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loves new foliage on just about anything roses, especially rhubarb,
woody trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, they love it. Fruits
and berries, they just love it because it's very tender,
very succulate. They're sucking insects, so it's easy to pierce.
Lots of sap going there right now, And so you
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get masses of these aphens on this new growth, which
causes it to wrinkle and curl and distort and in
some cases die because the populations get high enough they're
taking all the nutrients and the sap away from that
new growth. It just curls up and dies. Rarely do
they kill up one, but they can certainly affect that
new growth. Well, guess what ants secrete honeydew? Right and
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so and so ants, I mean the APH's secrete honeydew.
So ants love to feed on that sweet honeydew that
they secrete. As a matter of fact, they've been known
to carry their eph and eggs and hide them somewhere
or put them on a plant. Ants have and actually
graze them like cattle. I'm not kidding. So again I
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see ants crawling up and down. You know it's not
the ants is causing any problem. Look closely, and you
typically will find another issue. They become the indicator that
something else is going on, and right now it's typically
the aphis. They'll actually scale any of the scales that
start secreting the honeydew. A lot of them will feed
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on that as well. You get bees and other insectsal
feed on it, flies as well. But ants again a
good indicator that there's an issue with something else. It's
generally percent of the time not the ants, but something else.
And they're just telling you that something's going on. All right,
before we take a break. Dick and Dayton, Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
Good morning, Good morning. How are you?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I am great in yourself?
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Good good. I went to Ritgers yesterday with Bob and
I guess there's some folk playing in Cincinnati. I was
gonna go with Chris. Chris led the group, but I've
been having some fun there. And then my friends took
me to Let's see the Dulsimer group, but we had
to play downstairs because somebody they were filming a movie.
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But uh, one of my friends bought a guitar, and
I'm looking for Bob's gonna have some old music, you know,
like rock and roll, bluegrass and stuff. He's got a
he got a lot of it up there at the Cedarville.
There was a guitar show up there, so I'm gonna
get I'm gonna get some copies of some of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
You know, how good for you. I thought of you.
This past week was that a one of our grandson's
school had a little concert and they had the string court,
the quartet, and they had uh the brass band, and
then they had a ukulele band and he played in
the Yeah I didn't know this, but he played the ukuleley?
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Did he?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah about it? He was really good. They had about
ten kids that have volunteered to learn how to play
the ukuleley and they did a great job. And I said, boy,
Dick from Dayton would love this.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's kind of nice. Hey. I didn't
get to see the draft, did Danny or you see it?
Did the bigals get some good people? I didn't. I asleep.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I didn't watch the first night. I did watch the
last night because I was doing something at the house.
And I don't remember who they picked. But he seemed
to be very happy, So you know, we'll see what happens.
But uh, I did watch a little bit of it
last night. It's kind of fun to watch every now
and then.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
So I, well, I've talked to a little bit. I
called Uh. I like him I'm glad to see him back.
Tom Brittleman, Yeah good.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I met him. I actually met him the first time
in person yesterday at the studio. Is a nice guy.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Yeah yeah. Well listen, have a good week, all.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Right, Dick. Good talking to you, Dick from Dayton. Always
a pleasure. All right. We're gonna take it. We're gonna
take a break and we come back. Hang on if
you're if you call her, I'm gonna go right back
to you after the break, all right, So stick with
us taking your calls at eight hundred eight two three
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Ron Wilson. It is post arbor day. Get out and
plant a tree or two or three and grow it.
Plant and grow a tree or two or three and
make sure it's the right tree for the right spot.
But keep planting those trees very very important every year.
Make it up may just make it on your bucket list.
Every year you're gonna plant at least one tree somewhere.
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Make it two or three, but one tree somewhere, park, church, school, neighbors, whatever.
It may be your own yard if you've got room
for that, but promise yourself that you'll plan at least
one tree every year. So important check with the cities.
I mean, they're always looking for trees to be planted
in vacant lots and things like that, and downtown areas
and city areas that you know that can really use
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the trees. And they're so beneficial. And we do know
that where you know, where there are no trees, the
crime rate once they plant trees and start to get
them to grow, actually kind of go down from the
because of the just having the trees that are planted
and growing there. So you know, there's so many benefits
for trees. It's phenomenal, all right. And I always get
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on about you know, Earth Day getting all the credit
and Arbor Day, you know, the Rodney dangerfield, but I
think you know, they're close enough, they are really kind
of rooted together. But you know, by the time we
get to the Arbaday, it kind of disappears. Anyway to Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
We go all, good morning, good morning, How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Good fresh wood chips or good iv or multing in
the garden?
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Can you use it? Yes? You can not as it
now here's the deal, not as a soil amendment, so
you can't till it into the soil. But if you're
using it as a top dressing, you can do that.
Now if there's any walnut involved there. Remember there is
a toxin in the bark and wood of walnuts that
can hurt some trees, so you want to be cautious
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about that. But otherwise, yeah, and we used to and
we still do. If you can get that composted for
a while, I think that's great to just let it
sit for you know, six months and compost a bit, uh,
and then use it. But a lot of research has
been done now and yes, those fresh chips can go
in and go right on the top of the ground.
But you cannot or you don't want to use them,
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or you would till it into the soil. Reason being
is as those break down, they take nutrients out of
the soil for the decomposing process, and it takes all
the nutrients away from the plants. So yeah, as a
top dressing not an issue. As a soil amendment, fresh
wood chips, that is an issue.
Speaker 8 (39:13):
So we'll keep moisture from giving into the soil. Or
will it for moisture?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Oh yeah, it'll give you all the same benefits of
using a you know, even a composted mulch. It's going
to help to keep the soil cooler. You know it
wants the moisture gets through it into the soil, or
help to retain moisture, helps to keep the weeds down.
So you know, all of the benefits you have from
using a wood mult you're all still there. It's just
that you're using fresh chips, and like I say, just
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don't use it as a soil amendment or try to
till it into the ground. You can do that at
the end of the year because then it's been sitting
there for a year, but otherwise not, not when they're fresh.
I don't like to put mulch down more than three
inches deep, and it's in the in the landscape, I'm
very shadow. I'm an inch inch and a half maybe
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two at the max. Around larger trees, evergreens, you can't
go as much as three inches without any problem, and
that's usually those wood chips are nice and coarse, and
that's a good thing. That's another thing the research is
showing now is that the more coarse the bark, actually
the better off it is because it allows the soil
to breathe, it allows water to penetrate. It's just a
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little bit better than having that really fine shredded mulch
that can pack down, become pressed, can kind of bake
and actually cause moisture to run off to the side.
So yeah, that course, mult it's all good. And again,
like I say, I just stress the fact that just
don't use it as a soil amendment.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Okay, So it's okay for plant Oh I use.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I use it around in the vegetable garden. And here's
what I would do in the vegetable garden. I would
sprinkle a little bit of fertilizer in that mulch when
you're done to help because, like I say, it's still
going to be taking some nutrients away from the soil.
But I would do that in the mault just the
regular tomato food or whatever you're us in the garden,
just to kind of help compensate for anything that it
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may take out of the soil. But otherwise no problem.
Just make sure there's no black wallnut in there.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
All right, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
All right, Ill, good talking with you. And again, yeah,
we're finding more and more good research about that. I
used to it, you know, as a no no, don't
ever use freshly ground mulch, you know, around anything, you know,
unless you're using it on a pathway or something. Let
it compost for six months and then use it. And
that's a great thing to do if you got time
to do that, that's absolutely outstanding. But then research was
(41:38):
done and taking a look at it and saying, hey,
you know what, yeah, it may take a few little
bit from the very top of the soil, so when
you put it down, just put a little fertilizer in
with it to help compensate. But otherwise on the top
of the ground, not an issue. If you tilt it
into the soil, definitely would be an issue. It's like
when we talk about it, and I had a lot
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of questions about this for some reason. This week, folks
are taking a lot of dead trees down, trees that
got damaged over the wintertime, grinding out the stump and
then wanting to replant in the exact same spot, and
the important thing is to get those chips out of
that soil before you replant. A lot of times it's
easier just to take all that out of there, put
it somewhere else, bring in new soil. This is one
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time where you can actually bring in new native soil
and put back in the hole. But you want to
get those chips away because as they break down, it
takes nutrients away from and the plants that you would
plant there, makes it hard for them to get established.
I've seen where folks have had the stump ground out,
level it all out, you know, pack it down, puts
grass seed on the top, can't get grass seat to
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grow there, just sucking everything out of the soil and
the grass just won't grow. But you get all those
chips out of there, so it's just mostly you know,
regular soil, you're good to go. So again, research has
shown it. I used to be one that said no, no, no,
don't use it either, but now they're showing yep, you
can use that, and it's being done a lot again.
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Ron Roethlis are certified arbust highly recommends getting those fresh chips.
A lot of times free.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
The only the only drawback, as I said earlier, would
be watching for black walnut to be in that that
would not be a good thing. That can cause is
shoes to not all plants, but some plants, uh for
a period of time until that jug loans actually leeches
out and goes away. But otherwise you should be good
to go. And it's especially around larger tree shrubs the
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landscape and in the garden as well. Just using as
a top dressing, sprinkle a little bit of fertilizer with
it as well. When you put it down, you're you're
good to go. Or we're gonna take a little break.
And then when we come back, rita hiking Fell's going
to join us this morning, we're gona talk about herbs.
But guess what the herbs are for your chickens? And
I got a feeling that the chicken the herbs that
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we're gonna feed to the chickens can also be used
when it comes to barbecuing or cooking the chickens as well.
We'll find out. We've got that list on our website
at Ron Wilson online dot com. Be sure and check
that out at the bottom of the hour Barbie Butletcher,
our Queen Bee. We're gonna find out where are we
standing right now with this massive be loss that we
experienced over the wintertime and early this spring, all coming
up in the next hour here in the garden with
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Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Help.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
So let's do it yourself, gardener at one eight hundred
eighty two three talk You're in the garden with Ron Wilson.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yardning on this post Arbor Day Saturday, post Arbor Day Saturday.
And what do you say we kick it off from
the kind of a stranger. We haven't seen him for
a couple of weeks. Birthday this week?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Two?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Why'd you have to bring that up?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Sorry? Go ahead, I interrupted, you go keep going.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Poor Arbor Day. It's the Rodney dangerfield of holidays awareness holidays.
Well I knew it was Arbor Day because because what
you did right away. I said Arbor Day and you said,
well what about Earth Day? Just Joe Strack, our executive
producers find out what's going on. Now, we're not going
to find out what's going on as long landscape. We'll
find out what's going on our website at Ron Wilson
online dot com, Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Where you been?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I don't even know where I'm at?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Is?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
This is this the studio? This is the studio. Wow, Hey,
I'm all alone and you're all alone. So I come
to stare to the walls talking come back, and I
feel like I'm talking to the to myself.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Are you imagining that I'm sitting there?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I am like I have my eyes closed, thinking to
a better time, Like in two thousand and two when
your very first show.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
WHOA Okay, well we're both excited that morning. We were
because the last state university just won the national football champion. Yeah, first,
like the third since we've been working together, two or
three something like that. We're just so many it's hard
to count, right. So yeah, he's been gone for a
couple of weeks, So welcome, sir.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I'm back. Shady's back till you're a friend good again.
Here we go, Joey's back. No one gets that reference
how some people do good good?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Looking forward to We're going to be a nursery that
has nothing but big trees called Columbus trees up in Sunbury.
So yeah, looking forward to it now.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I celebrated Arbor Day by putting an inflatable tree in
my front yard. Yeah right, I didn't plan flatable tree.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Didn't you do a Halloween inflatable because you I used
to talk about never doing.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
About we put up a Halloween inflatable And I also
have a couple Christmas inflatables. Okay, I remember a time,
There was a time when you was in no way. Well,
times change.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We used to still never put up a live never mind.
So anyway talking, Yes, I'm in Columbus, so thank you
for coming in to share your cup of joe with
us this morning. Yes, I post get tired of here
and ramball for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I got bored and I had nothing else better to do.
So great to come in. Good, that's wonderful. Danny appreciates
it too, by the way. Yes, my my lawn's been
mowed twice. Yes, so don't say nothing's been happen by Well,
I've had an operation, so I know. I said I can't.
That's a look. He does a way better job than
(03:32):
I do. I may have to keep on keeping.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
The door, hiring somebody to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah. Oh yeah, both my girls, I mean, well, Grace
after she had her issue, she can't walk very well
still and Bethany's busy all the time because she's now
nineteen years old. Changes she's nineteen years old. Now she's
got you know, she's doing you know, she's a kid,
(04:00):
so she's got she's busy all the time. So yeah,
so we hired it out.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Good, so good as you get smote on a regular
basis you always did anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, so yeah, now I just gotta Now I just
got to hire someone to pull the weeds in the
beds and the dud stuff in the beds. So are
you busy? You're busy when you get back. Yeah, yeah,
I'm busy of course, washing your hair. So yeah, that's nails.
That's kind of watching the draft. So that's yeah, it's good,
(04:34):
it is. So that's been what's going on? So you're
feeling all right, I'm doing all right? Look looking great?
I do go you look great. I must look. I
think I'm looking so great. You're even noticing me from Columbus.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh me?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
All right? So anyway, yes, so what's what's going on?
What kind of guests do we have on today? Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Today? Are you kidding me? I'm just asking. Rita is
back again. You know, we were doing every other week
with Rita, but she's back today important because it well
it's in very timely too, because now we're really into
the season. Spring is sprung, the weather's broken, so now
we're into a big time. So today we want to
talk about highlighting an herb every week. She's going to talk.
(05:19):
There's such an interest now with backyard chicken.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, since since the eggs are fifteen bucks for an egg.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Those people that started that a long time ago, and
I'm glad that they did. The backyard chickens talking about herbs.
Believe it or not, they're good for chickens. Chickens not
just to put on top of the not when you
cook them. While you're raising you're.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Raising them kind of herbs. And if you read the
tip sheet, which is on Ron Wilson online dot com,
it tells you what herbs and what it does to
the eggs, yeah, or the chicken or whatever, chicken or whatever. Yeah,
and then if you want.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
To use those herbs on the grill when you're grilling
the chickens, that could be a little very helpful dish
she'll do addition to the fine flavoring.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That you definitely very helpful.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So anyway, Yeah, she'll join us and then Barbie Butcher's
going to join us this morning to give us an
update on the Well, we'll find out if that's part
of the problem. But I got a funny feeling right now.
It still looks like it's just a cocktail of things.
But it's a major hit. So she's gonna give us
update there. And of course we have Buggy Joe Buggs. Yes,
so he'll give it a mister Sully van vacation. Yes
(06:30):
this week. Yes, so no mister self this.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Week compared to what if his thirty seven weeks of vacation.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He always cracks me, well, I don't know. He always
cracks me up when he does it. Show he's a
venus fly trap. But you know that cranks it back,
puts his feet up on the counter, pulls a microphone
over to his face, lower lights, just answers home improvement.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well, when he used to be in the coming to
the studio all the time, I remember he would always
do something with the the blind, the blind. I would
do it perfect. Oh yeah, well I'd do it for him.
So I started doing it for him. Well, but so.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I low him down, get him just right, lighting level,
just right, light a couple of candles.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
He never paid you for that, No he did not,
of course not. They even say thank you. Of course not.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
He just walked in and sat down and put his
feet up and started going. Expected he did. He just
expected it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It was a serve.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's just the way it was. It was an honor
to be able to do it for us the most
listened to home shoot room show hosting the entire solar.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
System GARRISI yes, I actually got autographic.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And of course last weekend was important for the Sullies
because of the Sullies.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, yeah, of course I was on the.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Columbus Show last last Friday a little bit, and uh,
you know what they asked me about tell us about
these sullies. It's become worldwide.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It's yeah, it's it's a it's a trend. It's trend. Yeah,
TikTok so. In addition to this, what else is on
Ron Wilson online dot com?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
What's our plan of the week? Got two of them?
Two of them a burr oak tree in honor of
Arbor Day yesterday and the London plane tree. Yeah the exclamation,
I love both the two becoming the Burroke's my most
favorite tree of all Japanese maples green leave ginko right
there at the top and this exclamation is absolutely outstanding.
(08:17):
But again in honor of Arbor Day, which was yesterday,
which is the most ignored I think awareness holiday. As
Joe just brought up earlier, what about earth Day?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
What about Earth Day?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Scott Stanley still did one of the best commercials ever
if you remember that for Earth Day. He had all
of the holiday icons mascots or whatever, and they were
having a therapy session. Yeah, and the guy was from
Father's Day talking about whatever, and the Easter Buddy was
there and all that, and so was Arbor Day. And
he said something to somebody about, oh, yeah, you don't
(08:53):
you get more more respect than Arbor Day? And the
Arbor Day says, hey, I'm sitting right here, and then
of says, so get more respect than Arbor Day. I said, up,
sudding right here.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I think it's pretty good that with Scott's bets. So,
but it's right, nobody it's Earth Day takes over all
the precedent this week, and everybody forgets about Arbor Day exactly.
Also root it together.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Also, there's a thing from the from the Beagle about
mystery seeds.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yes, remember that happened a few.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Years ago, a couple of years and yeah, it's back.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, all of a sudden people are getting these packs
of seeds that are showing up. You didn't order them.
It's like what is this? And if you didn't order
them and you have no idea where they came from,
don't open it up, don't use them. Seal it back
up and take it to local extension office, saw the
water or something like that. They'll tell you what to
do with them.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
On there.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Let them take a look because we don't know who's
doing it. Could they be invasive seeds something on them
or whatever, So don't use them. Let them take a
look at them and find out what's going on exactly.
But yeah, all of a sudden, that's that's kind of
become popular again.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Isn't that awesome? Yeah, that's great. People are just doing
that stuff. Thank you, sending stuff. How come they send
seeds but they don't send money or checks? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You know, set up packet of seats to seven the
three bucks. Yeah, then I'll get my own seats. Yeah. See. Yeah, anyway,
listen to Joe, Yes, listen to me. So all right,
I'm gonna head on out and let you continue your
fun and games from Columbus.
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That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yep, that's all all.
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Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson again
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two five five. Before we go any further, let's go
to Ohio. Talk to Brett. Brett, Good morning, Hey, how
you doing good in yourself?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Good?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Good?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Hey, I'm from Ohio. I'm in Ohio and for years
I've had crab grass in my grass. I have a
guy come and, you know, spray and my grass looks great.
But it don't even touch that crab grass.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Are you well, let's back up a second. Are you
sure it's crab grass?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
First of all, well, I don't know what it. I
call it crab grass.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I don't know what it does.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It die out over there.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
It's wide, wide leaves and uh, you know, I can
pull it out by the root. It's it's real tough.
It's real tough to pull out. But if you catch it,
early you can get it, so it's probably not crabgrass,
but that's what I call it, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And the reason I asked that is that you know
there are annual wheaty grasses like crabgrass that dies out
at the end of the season and then regrows in
the springtime from seed. And there's also perennial weaty grasses
that have that wide blade that come up every year
and have to be treated totally different than the crabgrass,
And a lot of those aren't affected by your broad
(16:33):
leaf weed killers, whereas they would go on in spray and
crabgrass would be affected by that, but some of your
other perennial grasses would not be affected by that, and
they would actually have to come in and use a
vegetation killer which would kill everything to get rid of it.
Do you see it right now? Oh yeah, right, okay,
(16:53):
So if you're seeing it right now, Brett, what that
tells you is it's not crabgrass, because crabgrass has just
started to germinate from the seeds, so crabgrass is really
small right now. So now we know it's not crabgrass,
it's something else, and that would more than likeness that
means if it stayed green over the winter, that means
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that you've got some type of a perennial weedy grass
that they're gonna have to take a look at that
and spot treated if they can with a non selective
vegetation killer to kill that out, then come back in
and recede or resaw those areas and start over. And
that's why they're not getting rid of it. They're treating
for crab grass and annual weeds and that's not going
(17:35):
to take care of what you're seeing there. So if
they can't identify that, Brett, send me a couple pictures
of it. I'll try to identify it for you. Or
when you dig up a clump like that, take it
with you, put it into plastic bag, take it with
you to a local garden center or nursery and maybe
somebody can identify what it is. Then we know for sure,
(17:56):
and then we can tell you what you need to do.
But more than likely and I can't, I think you
know what you're doing saying crag grass that happens all
the time, and everybody you know says it's crag grass,
And then you got to figure out which which grass
is it really and in that case, that's why they're
not getting rid of it, because they have to treat
it totally different from what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
So can I just buy something, you know, at a
big box store to spray.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But yeah, you yeah, without yeah, without knowing. But if
it's if you're just looking for a non selective vegetation killer,
you know, you would just look for a roundup or
fertiloms kills all anything like that that that kills everything
you spray it on. And so remember when you spray it,
spray it just on that clump, not on your regular grass,
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because it's going to kill anything that it fault that
that sprays on. And then you get rid of that,
then you come back in those areas, rake it out
and recede and start all over again.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
All right, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Hey, Brett, good talking to you. Appreciate you listening to
our show. And again that's one of those things about
you know, trying to get things ident before we try
to take care of it, and in there we kind
of work backwards and we know it's not crab grass,
so it's one of those other you know, perennial grasses.
It could be even it could be just Kentucky thirty
one fescue with that real wide blade, strong clump, and
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you get that in a like a bluegrass lawn or
even in some of the times the turf type tall
rescue lawns, it'll stand out because it's so thick and
it's such a wide blade. You got to orchard grass,
Johnson grass, you got all kinds of the other grasses
that will come up and do that. So identifying what
it is first if you can, and that's what you
that's where you take advantage of your local independent garden centers.
(19:36):
They've got the pros there and hopefully you can take
a clump of that up, show them what it is
and get identified. If not even try a try a
law care service or your extension office in your county,
something like that to get an identification. And again if
you get a good couple of good pictures of it.
Sometimes I can tell looking at the picture, sometimes I can't,
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but we can give it a shot. But then we
know for sure, and then we know how how to
approach it and go after it. Same way with insects
all the weeds. Find out what it is first, then
we approach it as far as what's the best way
to go after it, most environmentally friendly way to go
after it?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Do we need to go after it and then take
it from there. It's like ants. I get calls, especially
right now, ants are starting to become active, and I
get you know, I got all of a sudden, I've
got these ants crawling all over my whatever it may be,
and ants are gonna destroy it. They're gonna blah blah blah.
And it's typically not the ants issue because they don't
eat the plants. They're there for other reasons. I'll tell
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Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that total free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking about yarning on this post Arbor Day,
the Rodney danger Field of all awareness days, and that
would be Arbor Day, and probably I think you know
obviously Earth Day, uh gets more recognition and a lot
of projects for Earth Day. I get it. I'm behind
(23:26):
it one hundred percent totally. Everything I understand, but it's
I think it's unfortunate for Arbor Day because Earth Day
usually comes a couple of days before Arbor Day, so
everybody focuses on on on the Earth Day, and by
the time you get to Arbor Day, it's just like okay.
And there's a lot of places that still give away
free ceilings and all, but they have a tendency to
(23:48):
tie that in with Earth Day rather than Arbor Day. Uh.
You know, you know how I am at the end
of every show, I'm talking about getting down planning a
treer two or three because I still think it has
It's one thing that we all can do to have
the most impact on this Earth and our climate and
Mother Nature in the whole nine yards, and that's planting trees.
(24:10):
And I you know, I've been saying that from the
get go to have the opportunity to host this garden show,
and so I've always looked at Arbor Dad and about
I don't know, three or four years ago, one of
our producers here that doesn't used to do a lot
of the commercials and things great sense of humor. Scott
Stanley did a a commercial where they had like these
(24:32):
I was telling Joe early and if you heard that,
I don't mean to repeat it, but had all they
like the Easter Bunny and the father the guy from
Father's Day and all that, and they were all talking
at like a psycho therapy meeting, and so two references like,
you know, well, you could be arbor day and not
get any respect at all. And it's like, hey, I'm
still sitting here, and it's true. It's funny. Commercial. I
(24:52):
should have got into the dance so we could have
played it this morning. But it's funny, but it's true,
and you know, it just doesn't get the play and
the recognition that it deserves. And of course it was
developed rightfully so out in Nebraska where they didn't have
any trees at all, to get people to start planting
trees and it's just gone from there. So again, get
(25:13):
out to your local independent garden centers and nurseries this weekend.
If you've got a place in the yard that you're
looking to plant a new tree or two or three,
make sure it's the right tree for the right location.
Don't just grab a tree because you like it, because
you like the flowers, whatever it may be, make sure
it fits the situation in your particular yard and garden.
And of course, if your yard is full you can't
(25:34):
use any more trees, find other places that could use
a tree and donate it. Maybe your neighbors need a
new tree. Now, don't plant the tree in your neighbor's
yard without asking first. But you know again, the church,
the schools, local parks, they all would love to have trees.
And this is a great way for you to continue
(25:56):
to plant. Get the family involved. Go plant the tree,
have them plan to put a plaque by it. Come
back by twenty years from now, because you're planting forward,
you're planting for the future. You're planning for your kids
and your grandkids and their grandkids and their kids in
the whole nine yards. But put a plaque there instead.
You can come back and say, we planted this back
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Can you believe that? Remember when we did that? What
a great thing to do. And go back and look
at those trees, and you know you do that when
you were a kid growing up and you maybe moved
to two or three homes and your dad or whatever
was planting trees and the new landscape and all. And
then you go back, you know, twenty thirty years and
look at them and said, wow, look at the size
of those trees from when we planted those thirty or
(26:35):
forty years ago. So again, you know, if anything at all,
used today as the awareness just to get your attention
that you know how important it is to get out
and plant trees.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Please.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
And again i'm not right tree, right location, and as
Ron rothis are certified arbist. You and I were talking
a couple of weeks ago about planting trees. I've always said,
you know, get out and plant a tree or two
or three. And then I heard somebody say, one time,
get out and grow a tree. Don't just plant a tree,
but grow it. It's easy to go out and plant
a tree and walk away and leave the tree on
(27:09):
its own, and in you know, many cases, you need
to do everything you can to help that tree get
itself established, mostly watering, but you know, to get it
established and then you can kind of walk away, but
you know, we've got to stick with it. So get
out and figure out where you're going to plant and
grow a tree or two or three. Now, before we
went into the break, we were talking about ants, and
(27:30):
for the next several weeks I will get plenty of
ant questions about I'm looking at my plants and answer
all over it and the plant's wilted down, the foliage
looks horrible, losing color, not doing so well, and the
answer just destroying. I'm seeing ants going I'm down my
tree and they're just destroying my tree. Well, just remember
(27:51):
that ants typically don't eat plants, all right, They're there
for other reasons. So ants, in most cases, when you
see them on other on plants are an indicator that
something else is going on. If you see carpenter ants
going in and out of the trunk of your tree,
what does that tell you? Your tree is decaying for
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whatever reason it may be on the inside, and they're
using that decaying cavity as a nesting area. Carpenter Ants
don't kill your tree. They're going in there and using
that action that's set up because it's a great nesting
area for them. They love it. Now, termit should go
in and clean it out and eat it, and they
can cause problems, but carpenter ants are just using it
(28:32):
for a nesting ground. But it's an indicator to you
that something's wrong with your tree. So it's time to
get an arbist out to take a look at that
to find out is the cavity big? Is it causing
structural problems? Do I need to do something about it?
You know, you can kill the carpenter ants and get
rid of them. They usually they'll come back over time
because they are their nests everywhere. It's hard to find
(28:53):
all their nests, but you can do that and help
to control it. But they're telling you that something's up there.
All right, as far as there's something wrong. If I
see ants crawling all over my pa andies, here's a
real misconception. It's like my p andies don't flower because
I don't have a lot of ants going all over. Well,
that's not not true. The reason the ants are on
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p andies is not an indicator that there's a problem.
But they feed on that. If you look at the
p andy flower bud, they're real shiny and sticky, and
that's a nectar that's on the outside and it's attractive
to ants. They love feeding on that. So they have
nothing to do with the flowers. And how while they
perform or whatever. But they're attracted to the nectar. Again,
(29:35):
the ants aren't there for the to eat the p
and e or cause problems. They're there to feed on
the nectar. Had an email about I got ants crawling
all over my rhubarb. You know what's going on? They're
going to ruin my rub barb blah blah blah. What
do I spray with? And of course the fireback is
go and look at the underside of the leaves of
the rhubarb and tell me what you see, because more
(29:59):
than likely if you turn those leaves over, you'll find it.
They're probably right now with all the new foliage coming out.
If you remember last year, it was to hear of
the aphians. I've never seen so many aphens in my
entire life on everything and anything. And there's all different
kinds of aphis, all different colors, blacks and browns and
greens and whatever. And they are a sucking insect that
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loves new foliage on just about anything roses, especially rhubarb,
woody trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, they love it. Fruits
and berries, they just love it because it's very tender,
very succulate. They're sucking insects, so it's easy to pierce.
Lots of sap going there right now, And so you
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get masses of these aphens on this new growth, which
causes it to wrinkle and curl and distort and in
some cases die because the populations get high enough they're
taking all the nutrients and the sap away from that
new growth. It just curls up and dies. Rarely do
they kill up one, but they can certainly affect that
new growth. Well, guess what ants secrete honeydew? Right and
(31:07):
so and so ants, I mean the APH's secrete honeydew.
So ants love to feed on that sweet honeydew that
they secrete. As a matter of fact, they've been known
to carry their eph and eggs and hide them somewhere
or put them on a plant. Ants have and actually
graze them like cattle. I'm not kidding. So again I
(31:28):
see ants crawling up and down. You know it's not
the ants is causing any problem. Look closely, and you
typically will find another issue. They become the indicator that
something else is going on, and right now it's typically
the aphis. They'll actually scale any of the scales that
start secreting the honeydew. A lot of them will feed
(31:49):
on that as well. You get bees and other insectsal
feed on it, flies as well. But ants again a
good indicator that there's an issue with something else. It's
generally percent of the time not the ants, but something else.
And they're just telling you that something's going on. All right,
before we take a break. Dick and Dayton, Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
Good morning, Good morning. How are you?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I am great in yourself?
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Good good. I went to Ritgers yesterday with Bob and
I guess there's some folk playing in Cincinnati. I was
gonna go with Chris. Chris led the group, but I've
been having some fun there. And then my friends took
me to Let's see the Dulsimer group, but we had
to play downstairs because somebody they were filming a movie.
(32:36):
But uh, one of my friends bought a guitar, and
I'm looking for Bob's gonna have some old music, you know,
like rock and roll, bluegrass and stuff. He's got a
he got a lot of it up there at the Cedarville.
There was a guitar show up there, so I'm gonna
get I'm gonna get some copies of some of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
You know, how good for you. I thought of you.
This past week was that a one of our grandson's
school had a little concert and they had the string court,
the quartet, and they had uh the brass band, and
then they had a ukulele band and he played in
the Yeah I didn't know this, but he played the ukuleley?
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Did he?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah about it? He was really good. They had about
ten kids that have volunteered to learn how to play
the ukuleley and they did a great job. And I said, boy,
Dick from Dayton would love this.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's kind of nice. Hey. I didn't
get to see the draft, did Danny or you see it?
Did the bigals get some good people? I didn't. I asleep.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I didn't watch the first night. I did watch the
last night because I was doing something at the house.
And I don't remember who they picked. But he seemed
to be very happy, So you know, we'll see what happens.
But uh, I did watch a little bit of it
last night. It's kind of fun to watch every now
and then.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
So I, well, I've talked to a little bit. I
called Uh. I like him I'm glad to see him back.
Tom Brittleman, Yeah good.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I met him. I actually met him the first time
in person yesterday at the studio. Is a nice guy.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
Yeah yeah. Well listen, have a good week, all.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Right, Dick. Good talking to you, Dick from Dayton. Always
a pleasure. All right. We're gonna take it. We're gonna
take a break and we come back. Hang on if
you're if you call her, I'm gonna go right back
to you after the break, all right, So stick with
us taking your calls at eight hundred eight two three
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plant a tree or two or three and grow it.
Plant and grow a tree or two or three and
make sure it's the right tree for the right spot.
But keep planting those trees very very important every year.
Make it up may just make it on your bucket list.
Every year you're gonna plant at least one tree somewhere.
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Make it two or three, but one tree somewhere, park, church, school, neighbors, whatever.
It may be your own yard if you've got room
for that, but promise yourself that you'll plan at least
one tree every year. So important check with the cities.
I mean, they're always looking for trees to be planted
in vacant lots and things like that, and downtown areas
and city areas that you know that can really use
(37:20):
the trees. And they're so beneficial. And we do know
that where you know, where there are no trees, the
crime rate once they plant trees and start to get
them to grow, actually kind of go down from the
because of the just having the trees that are planted
and growing there. So you know, there's so many benefits
for trees. It's phenomenal, all right. And I always get
(37:41):
on about you know, Earth Day getting all the credit
and Arbor Day, you know, the Rodney dangerfield, but I
think you know, they're close enough, they are really kind
of rooted together. But you know, by the time we
get to the Arbaday, it kind of disappears. Anyway to Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
We go all, good morning, good morning, How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (38:03):
Good fresh wood chips or good iv or multing in
the garden?
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Can you use it? Yes? You can not as it
now here's the deal, not as a soil amendment, so
you can't till it into the soil. But if you're
using it as a top dressing, you can do that.
Now if there's any walnut involved there. Remember there is
a toxin in the bark and wood of walnuts that
can hurt some trees, so you want to be cautious
(38:32):
about that. But otherwise, yeah, and we used to and
we still do. If you can get that composted for
a while, I think that's great to just let it
sit for you know, six months and compost a bit, uh,
and then use it. But a lot of research has
been done now and yes, those fresh chips can go
in and go right on the top of the ground.
But you cannot or you don't want to use them,
(38:54):
or you would till it into the soil. Reason being
is as those break down, they take nutrients out of
the soil for the decomposing process, and it takes all
the nutrients away from the plants. So yeah, as a
top dressing not an issue. As a soil amendment, fresh
wood chips, that is an issue.
Speaker 8 (39:13):
So we'll keep moisture from giving into the soil. Or
will it for moisture?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Oh yeah, it'll give you all the same benefits of
using a you know, even a composted mulch. It's going
to help to keep the soil cooler. You know it
wants the moisture gets through it into the soil, or
help to retain moisture, helps to keep the weeds down.
So you know, all of the benefits you have from
using a wood mult you're all still there. It's just
that you're using fresh chips, and like I say, just
(39:43):
don't use it as a soil amendment or try to
till it into the ground. You can do that at
the end of the year because then it's been sitting
there for a year, but otherwise not, not when they're fresh.
I don't like to put mulch down more than three
inches deep, and it's in the in the landscape, I'm
very shadow. I'm an inch inch and a half maybe
(40:04):
two at the max. Around larger trees, evergreens, you can't
go as much as three inches without any problem, and
that's usually those wood chips are nice and coarse, and
that's a good thing. That's another thing the research is
showing now is that the more coarse the bark, actually
the better off it is because it allows the soil
to breathe, it allows water to penetrate. It's just a
(40:25):
little bit better than having that really fine shredded mulch
that can pack down, become pressed, can kind of bake
and actually cause moisture to run off to the side.
So yeah, that course, mult it's all good. And again,
like I say, I just stress the fact that just
don't use it as a soil amendment.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Okay, So it's okay for plant Oh I use.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
I use it around in the vegetable garden. And here's
what I would do in the vegetable garden. I would
sprinkle a little bit of fertilizer in that mulch when
you're done to help because, like I say, it's still
going to be taking some nutrients away from the soil.
But I would do that in the mault just the
regular tomato food or whatever you're us in the garden,
just to kind of help compensate for anything that it
(41:07):
may take out of the soil. But otherwise no problem.
Just make sure there's no black wallnut in there.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
All right, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
All right, Ill, good talking with you. And again, yeah,
we're finding more and more good research about that. I
used to it, you know, as a no no, don't
ever use freshly ground mulch, you know, around anything, you know,
unless you're using it on a pathway or something. Let
it compost for six months and then use it. And
that's a great thing to do if you got time
to do that, that's absolutely outstanding. But then research was
(41:38):
done and taking a look at it and saying, hey,
you know what, yeah, it may take a few little
bit from the very top of the soil, so when
you put it down, just put a little fertilizer in
with it to help compensate. But otherwise on the top
of the ground, not an issue. If you tilt it
into the soil, definitely would be an issue. It's like
when we talk about it, and I had a lot
(41:58):
of questions about this for some reason. This week, folks
are taking a lot of dead trees down, trees that
got damaged over the wintertime, grinding out the stump and
then wanting to replant in the exact same spot, and
the important thing is to get those chips out of
that soil before you replant. A lot of times it's
easier just to take all that out of there, put
it somewhere else, bring in new soil. This is one
(42:19):
time where you can actually bring in new native soil
and put back in the hole. But you want to
get those chips away because as they break down, it
takes nutrients away from and the plants that you would
plant there, makes it hard for them to get established.
I've seen where folks have had the stump ground out,
level it all out, you know, pack it down, puts
grass seed on the top, can't get grass seat to
(42:40):
grow there, just sucking everything out of the soil and
the grass just won't grow. But you get all those
chips out of there, so it's just mostly you know,
regular soil, you're good to go. So again, research has
shown it. I used to be one that said no, no, no,
don't use it either, but now they're showing yep, you
can use that, and it's being done a lot again.
(43:03):
Ron Roethlis are certified arbust highly recommends getting those fresh chips.
A lot of times free.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
The only the only drawback, as I said earlier, would
be watching for black walnut to be in that that
would not be a good thing. That can cause is
shoes to not all plants, but some plants, uh for
a period of time until that jug loans actually leeches
out and goes away. But otherwise you should be good
to go. And it's especially around larger tree shrubs the
(43:32):
landscape and in the garden as well. Just using as
a top dressing, sprinkle a little bit of fertilizer with
it as well. When you put it down, you're you're
good to go. Or we're gonna take a little break.
And then when we come back, rita hiking Fell's going
to join us this morning, we're gona talk about herbs.
But guess what the herbs are for your chickens? And
I got a feeling that the chicken the herbs that
(43:53):
we're gonna feed to the chickens can also be used
when it comes to barbecuing or cooking the chickens as well.
We'll find out. We've got that list on our website
at Ron Wilson online dot com. Be sure and check
that out at the bottom of the hour Barbie Butletcher,
our Queen Bee. We're gonna find out where are we
standing right now with this massive be loss that we
experienced over the wintertime and early this spring, all coming
up in the next hour here in the garden with
(44:15):
Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Help.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
So let's do it yourself, gardener at one eight hundred
eighty two three talk You're in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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