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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. That
is our number. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yard ding on this Father's
Day weekend. No guest today. Buggy Joe Boggs will be
coming up in our next hour, but otherwise we cleared
the slate today. We had Cup of Joe at the
very beginning and then have cleared the slate for this
(00:57):
this show because we have a lot of yes and
they're all specialists, and I love having guests. I think
it's great. They have so much to share. But every
now and then we say, you know what, let's just
open that, open it up, not have any guests, and uh,
you know, folks want to call. I've had a hard
time getting through because we limit the amount of calling time. Well,
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let's give them a show every now and then that
they can call in and it's wide open. So here
it is on this Father's Day weekend. Eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. Have a guarding tip.
You'd like to share something that did really well for you,
doing well for your things? Are you're doing to be
successful that you'd like to share with someone else? Don't
be shy, share it with us. That's what that's what
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I do, and that's what we'd like for you to
do as well. I'm just a messenger and you can
help be a messenger as well. Eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five Our website, Ron Wilson online
dot com Facebook page is going on strong right now
in the Garden with Ron Wilson, and you know those
folks get on there on Saturday morning do a little
chatting back and forth, so be sure and uh and
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check that out. Of course, Joe Strekker has a new thing.
We're putting a new graphic up there every week in
the Garden with Ron Wilson. He's got some really cool ones. Uh,
and you can check them out, something different all the
time I looked ahead. He's even got some special ones
for holiday weekends. So uh, pretty so check those out.
As a matter of fact, I told him we should
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start putting your choice. You can put them on T
shirts and buy a T shirt with that on there.
I think it's a great idea, but it ain't going
to happen unless Danny Gleason takes it over and puts
all his money into it and invest But anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I would never do that to Joe.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Why we're looking for somebody to invest their money in it,
in it? Oh, mister Sullivan, he has more money than
any of us. Yeah, I have to get a hold
of mister Sullivan. Yes, that would be a great thing.
Then we could do some graphics for him. No, I
don't want to do any graphics for him. We've already
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we're already promoting the Sullies. He's already famous for as Sully.
So anyway, Oh, we could do that. We could have
one of each on them on the back. Hey, uh,
there we that would work anyway. Our website run Wilson
online dot com. Rita Hikenfeld uh. For Father's Day, Keeping
those healthy fathers is a sugar snap pea salad with
fresh herbs. Uh. And it looks the picture looks great.
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I'm sure it tastes as great as well. And then
Joe Strecker put the recipe that was up last week
up underneath it again. It's actually it's a ribs and
a special barbecue sauce. And so mister hikes felt as
Frank and that's Frank's rib sauce. So you know, check
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both of those out so you can serve Dad tomorrow
a snap pea salad and Frank's ribs on the side.
So there you go, say you check those recipes out
at Ron Wilson online dot com and of course our
plant picks of the week. These are two really cool plants.
I start started planning both of these about three years
ago or so. And you talk about pollinator. Both in
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the containers are in the ground more up, taller, wispy
kind of flowers. Both a lavendery ish one with more
of a pink lavender or the other one with more
of a bluish lavender. Verbina. Of course, you hear the
word verbena, you think about flowers and lots of flowers,
and the pollinators love verbina. Of course. This is also
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known as verbina on a stick because they stick up
about about twenty four inches thirty inches high, maybe thirty
six at the most, and then they had the flowers
on top of that, so they're upright, very sturdy, wispy,
so the wind blew blows, they kind of move a
little bit. But a really cool, taller lavender flower. And
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in our area we're Zone six, it's a tender perennial.
We have seen it come back occasionally, but it can recede.
So if you have a natural area, wildflower garden or whatever,
you could put this in there and it'll reced itself
every year. It's not it doesn't take over, but it
will reced and you'll have more of it coming back
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up again all summer bloomer, great in containers, great in
the ground. Pollinator favorite. Loves the sun if you dead
had it every now and then they start to seem
to fade a little bit, encourages even more flowers. But
a really cool show. And it's called Verbena bonariensis. Verbena
on a stick. And I put another one there because
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it's kind of in the same category with this upright
wispy kind of flower. And you're all familiar with globe amaranth.
Globe Amaranth has been around forever. It's an holy bit
of goodie. When it comes to the annuals, those purple
little balls of flowers, most of them smaller sizes. This
one has gone free in a truffala, and it's called
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it's globe Amaranth truffala. A taller annual again gets about
twenty four to thirty inches high. Loves the sun, takes
some light shade, but loves the sun. This one, you
don't have to dead head it all, as Lee would go.
Let it do its thing. The older flowers actually they
age very nicely. Use it as a cut flower if
you'd like. Pollinators love it. And it was the twenty
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twenty three annual of the year. But it's called Gamfrina truffalo.
And both of these are available at local garden centers.
And both of these are still, you know, in the
planting stage. Remember, June is a great planting month for
vegetables and annuals and perennials and trees and shrubs. We're
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still there. We're still in it all right, So you
got plenty of time to do that. Selections of andals
and perennials may start to drop down a little bit
your local garden centers, but otherwise we're still into it.
So get out, keep checking. There's plenty of things to
continue to plant as we go through this month. And again, gardener,
you know the vegetable garden, jeez, you know, there's all
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just about everything besides the cool seasoned crops can still
be planted in that vegetable gardener in a container, so
you know, again check them out because everything is out
there still available for you to plant. Eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five remembers you and me
today talking yarding. So if you've got a question or
tip you'd like to share, give us a buzz. Danny'll
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get you lined up and then we'll do our best
to help answer those questions or or talk with you
about how you're successful in gardening endeavors that you do.
I do want to you know. I get a lot
of emails every week, and I appreciate those, and sometimes
it takes me a little while to get back to you,
especially if it's an extended answer, but I try to
answer as many as I can. And I had one
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this past week from Eileen d Rolfe. And Eileen is
listening to our show for a long time. She knows
what a vegetable gardener enthusiast I guess you would say
that I am. I love seeing folks vegetables gardens. I'd
rather tour big vegetable gardens than flower gardens. Sometimes I
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love when folks go all to the extent of the
raised beds, the little potting shed, fenced in the gate,
you know, all of that, and they really get serious
about doing their gardening, rotating crops and all. I just
think that's outstanding. Well, that's what she has done, and
she and her husband put a lot of planning, a
lot of time into this. They have raised beds that
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look like they're about twelve inches high, maybe fourteen inches high.
They're made out of I believe that is composite, so
it's the plastic or vinyl rather than wood. So it's
going to last forever. And it looks really nice. It's
white and it's absolutely gorgeous, and so that's going to
last pretty much forever. Nice pathways in between, and then
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fenced in with an electric fence, which is really neat.
It's got's. The electric fence is actually like farm fence,
like you know, a cattle fence, but the squares in
the openings are a little bit bigger. It's a lot thin.
Her stretches around just like a regular fence, and then
it has the electric fence attached to it. There may
have been a solar system on that too, I don't remember,
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but so it's an electric fence around it to keep
those critters out gated. And I mean you just the
basics of this thing is absolutely perfect. Of what they've done.
This thing will last a long long time. And then
of course she went through and showed me all the
things that they planted, and they have pollinator row, they
have cutting flowers things to draw into pollinators, they've got
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the greens to row, they've got this and that, some
that they're going to grow in for their chickens, and
herbs are growing for them, and tomatoes. Unbelievable, and it
was absolutely great to see what a great garden. So again,
I can't think Eileen. She sent me actually three or
four forty second videos and walked me through this thing
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and it's wonderful. So nice job. So Eileen d'olf, thank
you very much for sending me the videos and for
listening to our show as well. And I'm telling you
that's that's the way to go if you're going to
get into a growing fresh produce your own edibles, that
type of thing. That garden is right on the spot.
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All right, we're gonna take another break, we come back.
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and me talking YARDNY eight hundred eight two three eight
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Speaker 1 (13:27):
We're talking yardening at eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five Happy Father's Day weekend to reading Pennsylvania.
We're going to go and talk with Mike. Mike, Good morning,
Good morning, Ron.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I'm good? Serving yourself?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
I am? I am fine, but I'm not so fine
because I've always want to do is explain something to
everybody who does their own gardening or their own lawn
and they want to spray for weeze. Okay, you gotta
make sure that you if you put something in it
in a secondary container, you gotta label it, because it
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came back to sting me. What I did was I
ran out of Trimac, which I used to use to
do my law, and then I saw that well I
also I put it in a small little quart bottle
spray bottle, and I had it hanging around. But I
have other little small bottles hanging around, and since I
have several, I didn't label this one. So I thought, oh,
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that looks like trimech in there. Okay, So I'm going
to go out and spray. And I just did some
spot treatments. And one day later, all of a sudden,
it's all brown, and then it's all browner, and it's browner,
and I realized this was I put liquid WD foty
in there, and I didn't label it, and it looks
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identical brown when you have it in the bottle. So
the thing is, you gotta, you gotta, And I'm lazy
that way. I'm sorry about that. But if you label
your bottles, end up burning your lawn.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, that's a that's a great tip, you know, because
you're right. You know, even the smaller tanks prayers. I
know a lot of folks will have two or three
of them hanging up in the garage, and you know,
they'll have a week killer in one, they'll have a
vegetation killer and you know whatever and those things and
just kind of guess and say, now I put the
other that one there and you're not one hundred percent sure,
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And you know what, you're not the only person that's
ever done that. I've seen it before and you didn't
and you didn't label it, and you're not sure, and
then you go out and use it and guess what,
two days later, you killed everything at your spray. So
that's a great tip. And you know, and and I
think twofold here, one is always labeled that container and
only use it for that, even though you can wash
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them out and clean them out and do all that stuff.
If you got one for a weed killer, use only
that one for the weed killer, nothing else. Don't ever
put anything else in there, and then label it like
you said, and know exactly what you're dealing with. And
we're all lazy about that, you know, Mike. You know
that's that's just the way we are sometimes. But it
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will come back to bite you. And there's no doubt.
And I've gone by people's homes and I can see
where they spot treated thinking they were using like the
trimach or whatever, and then have those brown spots all
through and they were using the vegetation killer and it
killed everything. And he's like, oh my gosh, and you
know they know that they I messed up. So but
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that's a great.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Tip that I get to live with it for a while,
that's all, but it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Comes back but in a while, Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Well, I appreciate your time and I really love your show,
and thank you. I just wanted to get.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
The word out that's a good one, Mike, I appreciate
the tip. I love it. Thank you appreciate listening to
our show. And that's what we're looking for. You know,
that's a great tip because it does happen. And I
think twofold on that one. Always use the same And
you know, we used to have those big tanks prayers,
and now you can buy those small ones that are
one gallon tank sprayer and they're not that expensive that
you speak spense to his heck, you can buy those
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things now. They last forever, made out of plastic. And
you can label one the weak killer. You can label
one vegetation killer, label one funge aside and secticide, and
I think and that way all and still clean it
out when you're done, use you know, a detergent launder
like dawn or something like that, which, by the way,
whenever you're using something says add a surfactant and you
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put a drop of dawn liquid soap in there or
a couple think about what you also use to clean
that tank sprayer out when you're done, same product. That's
why you don't use that for a surfactant. You go
to the garden center and there's one that's there are
two different types of surfactants. That's not what you're looking for.
That's what you would use to clean out your tank,
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not to add to it to make a curve factant
for spring products. But anyway, try to only mix up
what you're gonna use, maybe within that day or within
that week, so that you know there's not a lot
of it sitting there all the time unused. So try
to do that as well. But boy, he's exactly right.
Label it so you know exactly what that tank's use for.
If it's empty, it's still labeled for weed killers only,
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vegetation killers only, you know, fungicides, insecticides, whatever it may be.
And like I say, they're not that expensive. If you
could have three or four or five of them hanging
up there and clean them out every time you're done,
but right on them, magic marker that doesn't erase. This
is what that is. That's a great tip. And that's
something you know, we don't think about too much.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The other one somebody told me was talking about the
other day. We're talking about lawn mowers with somebody, I
don't know what it was, talking about sharpening the more
and I said, you know, we're at that point now
and this is this spring is a prime example. We've
had so much timely rainfall. Lawns have looked great, Temperatures
have been cooler. I thought. Ron Roth has said, you know,
in in case we were a degree up or whatever.
But it was an easy spring and in good moisture.
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Not a lot of watering going on out there besides
newly planted trees and shrubs, and of course you don't
want to let rainfall fool you from water and your
newly plant a tree and shrubs. Nevertheless, lawns look pretty good,
and you know, and and and not a lot of
water and going on, and now I forget where I
was taking this thing, but they start talking about that.
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But point being is with a lawn, it is a
lawnmower and more sharpened the blade. You're done now with
that really crazy mowing period. There's people have been mowing
twice a week to keep up with the with the
with the lawns are growing so fast. Now's the time
to go out and get that lawnmower blade sharpened again
as we get ready to go into the summer season.
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So you sharpened it going into the spring season. And
it's been a heavy mowing spring season, it's going to
eventually start to slow down a little bit here and
now we go into the summer season. So get it
sharpened this week, next week, as we go into the summer,
and then when you get to mid to late August,
let's go and have it sharpened one more time as
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we go into the fall. Three times a year. If
you can do that with your lawnmower blade three times
a year, triple thumbs up to you, because most folks
won't even do it once a year, but your lawn
will love you for that three times a year. If
you do it twice a year, okay, we'll let it slide.
But three times a year absolutely perfect. And right now
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is the time to get out and get those sharpened
as we go into the summer mowing season. Eight hundred
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Speaker 1 (22:58):
Talking to your rdening at eight hundred and eight two three,
eight two five five. Happy Father's Day Weekend I am
Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, and our show this
today is dedicated just you and me talking your yarding,
sharing tips, sharing success stories, sharing failures, because you know what,
you know, it's the we learn from everybody. You know,
the mistakes. I learned from mistakes I've made a bazillion
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of over my lifetime gardening. You know, it's a series
of trowels and errors, There's no doubt about it. And
you learn from the errors and you move on. You
try to. I always looked at it this way. I
always try to kind of try to figure out what happened,
what I did wrong or whatever. And sometimes you just
can't figure it out. You just don't know, but you
move forward. But you know, maybe try to figure it out,
but then don't dwell on it. Let's move forward and
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make an adjustment, try something different.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Then.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I've had plans that didn't work, didn't grow, tear them out,
try something else, you know, And I'm not ashamed to
share that with folks. There are things that I've had
no success growing whatsoever. And if I can learn from
somebody who has had good success with it, good I
I appreciate that. And I've always said with his show.
I'm just the messenger. I'm here to try to share
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information from my personal experiences, from research from you know,
from extension from you and me, things that I've learned
from other people, and share with everybody to try to
make us all as successful as we can be. No
matter what level of gardening we're doing, container gardening, you know,
it doesn't matter, you know, just it's fun and it's
fun to share the stories as well. So never hesitate.
(24:27):
Just like Mike talking about you know, he messed up
and you know he learned a lesson and it won't
happen again. I can guar on to you. But that's
good and I appreciate that. So if you get something
you'd like to share, story, you'd like to tell it
to an eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Back to the gardening fundnes we will go to Cleveland,
Ohio and talk to Bill.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Bill, good morning, good morning, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Hey, my pleasure.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
The gentleman that had you were just Mike. I think
I had trouble using the wrong spreak. Yes, okay, well when.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You get those.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Spray containers, I got some that at a big you know,
wholesale club. There's like four in a pack. All the
heads are different colors. So if you make a little
charts yellow, I know, I have a yellow and green
and blue and whatever. If you write that down where
you keep them, and you know, yellow is this and
blue is that, and you're you're, you know, game ahead.
(25:26):
But like most men don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And we usually don't read the labels either, do we.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Oh, we don't read. Well, it's like asking for directions
before we had smart phones, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Uh well, I don't know if it even after you
have cell phone somethings.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
You know, you know, you know your wife would always say,
why don't you go to the gas station and ask
for directions? Well, most of your gas stations are self
service now, and if you're one of those ev places,
they don't have anybody there.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So isn't that crazy? You know, I don't. That's what
a great what a great thing to think back upon,
because you counted on the gas station. You could pull
in there and say, hey, I'm looking for such and
such a street to go go down four blocks, turn left,
turn right, and you're there and you're today today.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Uh uh, Well, they wouldn't say for me. They said,
go down to where the water tank is the city
and turn left at the first fire station.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You know, that's it. You're right, no doubt about it.
That's a that's a great memory. Gosh, cheese, that's really
going back there. But you're right. Uh but yeah, that's it.
That's it. So you bottom. And they have different colors
on the tops of the tank.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
They got they got different color heads on the very
tip on the ring where its screws on top of
the container.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
It's their color coordinated, and all have a green and
yellow and a blue. I forget what the other color is.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
But see you forgot already.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yeah, well you know sometimes I use that wet and
forget on the driveway too.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
You know that Gary talks about it.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
Oh yeah, you don't want to use wet.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
And forget in the wrong place either, so you.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Know that's right, you don't. Hey, that's that's a great tip.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
All right. You have a good week at thanks Bill.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You two happy Father's Day Weekend's Wow, that's reflecting way
back going to the gas stations and asking for directions. Yeah,
you don't do that more of course with your cell phone,
and even I can use it now, I figured that
out with Google Maps and all that. Even the yard
boy has figured out how to use the cell phone
to get directions somewhere. But you know what, I was
just talking with somebody about this the other day. I
(27:20):
still enjoyed bringing out a map and looking at where
we were going, because when I look at a map,
it gives me a sense of feeling of where I'm
going to be and what, you know, north and south
and east and western. If I see towns and whatever,
I remember on the map that was north of where
I'm going or east of where I still always enjoyed
looking at a map of the overall area, just to
(27:43):
give me a better overall feel for where I am.
As I'm traveling on this trip. And obviously I plug
in my cell phone and they'll say, you know, stay
on two seventy for sixty three miles and get off
of exits. I get it. And that's great. I mean,
it just takes you right to wherever you're going. But
I also want to I don't know, I still have that.
I just saw that feeling I want to see in
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perspective of the state of the multiple states of the
United States where it is. I'm traveling just to get
a general feel for it, so I kind of know
where I am going, and you know, and it's interesting
how many people can't look at a map anymore and
figure that out either. But that was a good reflection,
So thank you, Bill. I appreciate that one. And we're
taking your calls at eight hundred A two three eight
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two five five. You know, we were talking earlier about
planting and things like that. I went out to see
a tree this week, and I wanted to make sure
I brought this up because you know, there's still plenty
of time to plant trees out there. And Ron rothis
was our certified overse was up in charm Ohio and
doing some classes and all up there, and we were
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going back and forth a little bit and something he
had written in something about root flares in that and
it was a good point. But what I looked at
this and I'll mention that too, but what I looked
at this week was a tree that had been planted
about a year and a half ago. It's almost had
two seasons on it, but a year and a half
ago and still staked. And you never want to stake
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a tree. You only stake a tree if it absolutely necessary,
and you don't want to leave the staking system on
there more than a year. If you have to leave
it on there more than a year, usually something's not right.
But rarely do you keep it on more than a year.
But the tree was just sitting there, not really growing,
not doing anything, kind of thinned out. You know, what
do we do, can't get stimulate to grow whatever. I said, well,
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let me go out, let me just come and take
a quick look. And when I'm in the neighborhood, and
I did, and I stopped, and I walked up to
the tree and it was growing. It was bought in
a twenty gallon container, potted a container, grown plant. And
I looked at new growth and very little from the
last two years. Tree was thin. Tree looked okay. The
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planting depth was right, the root ball was up a
little bit, and the root flare was right there. And
that was one thing Ron and I were talking about
this week is and what he had written about was
the fact that, you know, we talked about planting high,
a little bit high. Get the top of that root
ball up an inch or so above soil level. So
you kind of come up higher. But if the tree
is planted too deep in the root ball and there's
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a lot of soil on top of it, even lifting
it up an inch or so sometimes isn't enough to
get that root flare to the top. So you always
want to find the root flare, whether it's a baldenbur
lab tree or growing in a container where those surface
the top roots start to come away from the trunk
of the tree, and that's what is an inch or
so above soil level. So make sure you always find
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the root flare. That's why we said, you know, we
started saying last year, show me the flare, Show me
the root flare, Show me that before you start to
plant this plant. But anyway, it looked good and the
root flair was right there. Then that was fine. But
I grabbed a hold of the trunk of the tree
and it wasn't rooted at all. It was just sitting
there and I could easily move it back and forth.
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It was still so took the apparatus that he had
stayed and done nice staking job, took that loose, and
I pulled the tree up out of the ground literally
with one hand, and the backfill that they had used
was not the original soil. First mistake. Not very many
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cases where you bring in other kinds of soil to
fill in around it. There are some situations, but not most.
You want to use the same soil you take out
of the hole to replace. You can amend it a
little bit, if you'd like twenty thirty percent amendment pine
soil conditioner, manure composts, that's fine, but you use the
same soil you take out of the hole. It felt
like potting soil around the outside. And as I pulled
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this plant out of the ground, it was still in
the original intact root ball that it was in when
they put in the ground. They had not loosened the roots,
had not scarred it up. You know, open that that
rootball up. So everything was staying right in the in
the root ball. It had this really light potting soil
top soil combinate bagtop soil combination, and nothing was going anywhere.
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We're just sitting in the middle of this tub, and
so you know, the plant was still alive. So what
we wound up doing is taking that thing, taking a
spade and going around the outside of it and going
in about two or three inches and cutting it, opening
up the rootball, taking that potting soil and other mix
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out of there, going to other parts of the yard,
bring some original soil back over amended a little bit,
and using that for the backfill, replanting it and restaking
it and starting all over again like a brand new plant.
You can't do that. We just what I just You
gotta loosen those roots up. You've got to show me
the flare and use the same soil you take out
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of the hole, amended a little bit if you want,
but you got to use the same stuff. Otherwise that's
exactly what happens. That thing would have sat there, probably
would have just held in there for a little bit
longer and just finally decline and go away. You got
to do that, and I'm pretty sure this tree will
be fine. It'll be you know, by I almost guarantee
it's going to be fine by what we did by replanting.
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So we caught it early enough. So don't do that.
Do what I just said. You know, a million dollar
holy did a great job there. Staking job was outstanding.
But use the original soil, show me the root flare,
and loosen that root ball up. When it's real tight
like that, You've got to do it, or it'll just
stay there and never root in. And that's exactly what
it was doing, all right, taking your calls at eight
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Talking yardening at eight hundred eight two three eight two
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things like that. Taking your calls again at eight hundred
and eight two three eight two five five. Don't be shy.
You know, if you guarding as a series of trials
and errors, and I've got a lot of them, trust me,
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and you know I'm not ashamed to share those and
you'll learn from it. So, you know, we we like
hearing those kind of stories. So and I just love
it from Bill talking about guys. Don't ask for directions,
you know, I always say, you know, sometimes when you
have insects like sawflies, sometimes some of the leaf heating
caterpillars are all at all. You can blow those off
of the plant with a strong stream of water. Sometimes
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a strong stream of water can be your best defense
without using in the secticide or whatever. And my theory
is always this, you blow them off the plant, they
hit the ground. They're like a bunch of guys. They
don't ask for directions. They're lost, They're gone, And that's true.
What can I say? But that does work, So keep
that in mind. In many, many cases, a lot of
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the mite situations you can blow off with a garden hose.
Do keep doing it. You can keep the population is
usually long enough, not an issue. Leaf eating caterpillars. You
can blow those off. Ten caterpillars up in the tree.
You can blow those tents out with a strong sam
of water and they hit the ground. You can do
the buggy Joe Boggs three step, two step, three step,
four step and smash them with his big size thirteen
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boots that he wears. Maybe they're fifteens. I'm not really sure,
you know. With all of the moisture we have had,
and it hasn't been again in some areas more than others, obviously,
but good even rainfall. Not a lot of watering going
on out there again, besides newly planted trees and shrubs.
Some years we get a lot of questions about slugs
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and roly pollis. In some years we don't, and a
lot of times that all varies on the weather. And
if you have a spring season where you do get
a fair amount of rainfall where it doesn't really dry out.
Between the rains, the temperatures are cooler, so the moisture
in the maulching around the beds kind of stays there.
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You see an increase, obviously in the pill bugs or
roly poly sometimes kids call them, and slugs and snails
because they love and depend on moisture to exist, and
so when their living conditions are right those days, the
populations can really accelerate. So over the last two weeks
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I have got gotten more emails about pill bugs and
about slugs than I think I have in a long
long time. So I finally got out, got to get
out my controlling slugs and snails in the garden tip
sheet and start sending back because I have so many
people asking about it. But if you look out there,
and of course pill bugs, if you're not familiar, they
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look like little armadillos and if you touch them they
roll up. That's the roly poly. And I love getting
joe bugs talking about them because they're in the I
think the crustacean family and all that kind of stuff
pretty interesting. Critter. But you see them a lot as
well around the bottom of your plant, and you panic
because you see you look down there and you see
hundreds of them just crawling all over the place. Well,
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pill bugs or the roly polis are typically debris eaters.
Now they can eat sometimes small seedlings. Seeing them get
into fruit that was starting to soften close to the ground,
you know, sometimes things like that they will get into,
there's no doubt if the populations are high, But for
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the most part, they're just a debris eater. So you know,
when it's a lot of moisture in the ground and
in the mulch and all, they're having a heyday. They're
loving it, and populations are high, and you panic, and
I had to. I actually had someone to send me
a picture, said, you know, what are these things are
devouring my plants? Well, it's pill bugs. They weren't devouring plants.
But what I didn't get was the second picture. After
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I responded explaining what those were and what they weren't
doing to the pla plants came back with then a
picture of all the other plants that were just riddled
with holes in the leaves and on the edges of
the leaves as well, and of course you turn one
over and what was on the underside a great big
old slug and of course that was all slug damage.
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And a lot of times you get, you know, both
of them together because the moisture conditions are perfect for
both of them. That's what they need and that's why
typically they only you see them mostly at nighttime. They
slugs especially, they basically only feed at nighttime or really
really cloudy days which would maybe raining or whatever, because
they are about eighty percent water, all right, so they've
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got that's what they depend on. Pillbugs obviously, just like
the moisture as well. And if you get them in
the basement around your front door or door frame, it's
usu where it stays wet, So that's what And again
they're debris eaters. Slugs are can be a little bit
of a debris eater also, but they will eat the
heck out of your foliage and fruits and all kinds
of other things as well. They can slugs can really
do the damage. So you know, there are things you
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can do as far as raking the multi away. Don't
water those areas, let them stay a little bit drier.
I remember one time, we used to have this hostile
bed in the shade and the slugs were just destroying it.
And I, you know, had used some of the slug
baits or whatever, they were still having a problem. I
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raked all the mult away and just had bare soil.
I didn't have hardly any slug damage after that. Now
they'll go down in the ground to hide and stay
nice and moist down there. But for the most part,
the slug damages went away just because I took the
mulch off the ground, because theyn't have any place to
hide out. But if you're not going to do that,
most times, you don't want to do that. You know,
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as far as slugs go, dietamaceous earth and if you're
not going to remember that, you can email me and
I'll tell you dietamacious earth does a great job for
both of these. As a matter of fact, I don't
usually go after the roly polleis or the pill bugs.
I let them do their thing. But for the slugs,
a dietamatous worth works great. There are slug baits slug
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poisons that are out there. Do the ones that are
iron phosphate, they're they're safe for the kids and the
birds and other insects, and it's iron phosphate and you
sprinkle the pellets throughout, you know, and you've got to
be careful because some of those aren' labeled for around edibles.
Some of them are very toxic, so watch what you're
using there. Both of those do work for you. But
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my point being is, you know, we sometimes kid about
the old beer in the pie pan trick. Guess what
that works still extremely well. I think does a great job.
And you some some articles you'll read will say they
actually got better results doing that than all the other
things they had tried to do getting slug populations under control.
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And you'll never get rid of all of them. But
using like small tuna cans, empty tunic cans and nestling
them in the area down in the soil a little
bit in the areas where you've got lots of slugs
and then filling those with beer. They're attracted. What it
is is they're attracted to the east and the beer,
the brewers yeast. They do it, they follow out and
they drown. That's the bottom line. And I believe I'm
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not in Colorado state. I believe did research on this
one time when you like to been a part of this.
On which beer was the favorite beer for attracting slugs
into the beer baits or the slug baits. Can you
guess which one it was? Well, keep guessing, because I'll
tell you after we take the break and come back
at the top of the hour. Taking your calls you
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Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. That
is our number. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yard ding on this Father's
Day weekend. No guest today. Buggy Joe Boggs will be
coming up in our next hour, but otherwise we cleared
the slate today. We had Cup of Joe at the
very beginning and then have cleared the slate for this
(00:57):
this show because we have a lot of yes and
they're all specialists, and I love having guests. I think
it's great. They have so much to share. But every
now and then we say, you know what, let's just
open that, open it up, not have any guests, and uh,
you know, folks want to call. I've had a hard
time getting through because we limit the amount of calling time. Well,
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let's give them a show every now and then that
they can call in and it's wide open. So here
it is on this Father's Day weekend. Eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. Have a guarding tip.
You'd like to share something that did really well for you,
doing well for your things? Are you're doing to be
successful that you'd like to share with someone else? Don't
be shy, share it with us. That's what that's what
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I do, and that's what we'd like for you to
do as well. I'm just a messenger and you can
help be a messenger as well. Eight hundred eight two
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dot com Facebook page is going on strong right now
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folks get on there on Saturday morning do a little
chatting back and forth, so be sure and uh and
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check that out. Of course, Joe Strekker has a new thing.
We're putting a new graphic up there every week in
the Garden with Ron Wilson. He's got some really cool ones. Uh,
and you can check them out, something different all the
time I looked ahead. He's even got some special ones
for holiday weekends. So uh, pretty so check those out.
As a matter of fact, I told him we should
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start putting your choice. You can put them on T
shirts and buy a T shirt with that on there.
I think it's a great idea, but it ain't going
to happen unless Danny Gleason takes it over and puts
all his money into it and invest But anyway.
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I would never do that to Joe.
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Why we're looking for somebody to invest their money in it,
in it? Oh, mister Sullivan, he has more money than
any of us. Yeah, I have to get a hold
of mister Sullivan. Yes, that would be a great thing.
Then we could do some graphics for him. No, I
don't want to do any graphics for him. We've already
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we're already promoting the Sullies. He's already famous for as Sully.
So anyway, Oh, we could do that. We could have
one of each on them on the back. Hey, uh,
there we that would work anyway. Our website run Wilson
online dot com. Rita Hikenfeld uh. For Father's Day, Keeping
those healthy fathers is a sugar snap pea salad with
fresh herbs. Uh. And it looks the picture looks great.
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I'm sure it tastes as great as well. And then
Joe Strecker put the recipe that was up last week
up underneath it again. It's actually it's a ribs and
a special barbecue sauce. And so mister hikes felt as
Frank and that's Frank's rib sauce. So you know, check
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both of those out so you can serve Dad tomorrow
a snap pea salad and Frank's ribs on the side.
So there you go, say you check those recipes out
at Ron Wilson online dot com and of course our
plant picks of the week. These are two really cool plants.
I start started planning both of these about three years
ago or so. And you talk about pollinator. Both in
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the containers are in the ground more up, taller, wispy
kind of flowers. Both a lavendery ish one with more
of a pink lavender or the other one with more
of a bluish lavender. Verbina. Of course, you hear the
word verbena, you think about flowers and lots of flowers,
and the pollinators love verbina. Of course. This is also
(04:28):
known as verbina on a stick because they stick up
about about twenty four inches thirty inches high, maybe thirty
six at the most, and then they had the flowers
on top of that, so they're upright, very sturdy, wispy,
so the wind blew blows, they kind of move a
little bit. But a really cool, taller lavender flower. And
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in our area we're Zone six, it's a tender perennial.
We have seen it come back occasionally, but it can recede.
So if you have a natural area, wildflower garden or whatever,
you could put this in there and it'll reced itself
every year. It's not it doesn't take over, but it
will reced and you'll have more of it coming back
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up again all summer bloomer, great in containers, great in
the ground. Pollinator favorite. Loves the sun if you dead
had it every now and then they start to seem
to fade a little bit, encourages even more flowers. But
a really cool show. And it's called Verbena bonariensis. Verbena
on a stick. And I put another one there because
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it's kind of in the same category with this upright
wispy kind of flower. And you're all familiar with globe amaranth.
Globe Amaranth has been around forever. It's an holy bit
of goodie. When it comes to the annuals, those purple
little balls of flowers, most of them smaller sizes. This
one has gone free in a truffala, and it's called
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it's globe Amaranth truffala. A taller annual again gets about
twenty four to thirty inches high. Loves the sun, takes
some light shade, but loves the sun. This one, you
don't have to dead head it all, as Lee would go.
Let it do its thing. The older flowers actually they
age very nicely. Use it as a cut flower if
you'd like. Pollinators love it. And it was the twenty
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twenty three annual of the year. But it's called Gamfrina truffalo.
And both of these are available at local garden centers.
And both of these are still, you know, in the
planting stage. Remember, June is a great planting month for
vegetables and annuals and perennials and trees and shrubs. We're
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still there. We're still in it all right, So you
got plenty of time to do that. Selections of andals
and perennials may start to drop down a little bit
your local garden centers, but otherwise we're still into it.
So get out, keep checking. There's plenty of things to
continue to plant as we go through this month. And again, gardener,
you know the vegetable garden, jeez, you know, there's all
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just about everything besides the cool seasoned crops can still
be planted in that vegetable gardener in a container, so
you know, again check them out because everything is out
there still available for you to plant. Eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five remembers you and me
today talking yarding. So if you've got a question or
tip you'd like to share, give us a buzz. Danny'll
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get you lined up and then we'll do our best
to help answer those questions or or talk with you
about how you're successful in gardening endeavors that you do.
I do want to you know. I get a lot
of emails every week, and I appreciate those, and sometimes
it takes me a little while to get back to you,
especially if it's an extended answer, but I try to
answer as many as I can. And I had one
(07:36):
this past week from Eileen d Rolfe. And Eileen is
listening to our show for a long time. She knows
what a vegetable gardener enthusiast I guess you would say
that I am. I love seeing folks vegetables gardens. I'd
rather tour big vegetable gardens than flower gardens. Sometimes I
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love when folks go all to the extent of the
raised beds, the little potting shed, fenced in the gate,
you know, all of that, and they really get serious
about doing their gardening, rotating crops and all. I just
think that's outstanding. Well, that's what she has done, and
she and her husband put a lot of planning, a
lot of time into this. They have raised beds that
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look like they're about twelve inches high, maybe fourteen inches high.
They're made out of I believe that is composite, so
it's the plastic or vinyl rather than wood. So it's
going to last forever. And it looks really nice. It's
white and it's absolutely gorgeous, and so that's going to
last pretty much forever. Nice pathways in between, and then
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fenced in with an electric fence, which is really neat.
It's got's. The electric fence is actually like farm fence,
like you know, a cattle fence, but the squares in
the openings are a little bit bigger. It's a lot thin.
Her stretches around just like a regular fence, and then
it has the electric fence attached to it. There may
have been a solar system on that too, I don't remember,
(09:09):
but so it's an electric fence around it to keep
those critters out gated. And I mean you just the
basics of this thing is absolutely perfect. Of what they've done.
This thing will last a long long time. And then
of course she went through and showed me all the
things that they planted, and they have pollinator row, they
have cutting flowers things to draw into pollinators, they've got
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the greens to row, they've got this and that, some
that they're going to grow in for their chickens, and
herbs are growing for them, and tomatoes. Unbelievable, and it
was absolutely great to see what a great garden. So again,
I can't think Eileen. She sent me actually three or
four forty second videos and walked me through this thing
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and it's wonderful. So nice job. So Eileen d'olf, thank
you very much for sending me the videos and for
listening to our show as well. And I'm telling you
that's that's the way to go if you're going to
get into a growing fresh produce your own edibles, that
type of thing. That garden is right on the spot.
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All right, we're gonna take another break, we come back.
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We're talking yardening at eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five Happy Father's Day weekend to reading Pennsylvania.
We're going to go and talk with Mike. Mike, Good morning,
Good morning, Ron.
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How are you?
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I'm good? Serving yourself?
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I am? I am fine, but I'm not so fine
because I've always want to do is explain something to
everybody who does their own gardening or their own lawn
and they want to spray for weeze. Okay, you gotta
make sure that you if you put something in it
in a secondary container, you gotta label it, because it
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came back to sting me. What I did was I
ran out of Trimac, which I used to use to
do my law, and then I saw that well I
also I put it in a small little quart bottle
spray bottle, and I had it hanging around. But I
have other little small bottles hanging around, and since I
have several, I didn't label this one. So I thought, oh,
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that looks like trimech in there. Okay, So I'm going
to go out and spray. And I just did some
spot treatments. And one day later, all of a sudden,
it's all brown, and then it's all browner, and it's browner,
and I realized this was I put liquid WD foty
in there, and I didn't label it, and it looks
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identical brown when you have it in the bottle. So
the thing is, you gotta, you gotta, And I'm lazy
that way. I'm sorry about that. But if you label
your bottles, end up burning your lawn.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, that's a that's a great tip, you know, because
you're right. You know, even the smaller tanks prayers. I
know a lot of folks will have two or three
of them hanging up in the garage, and you know,
they'll have a week killer in one, they'll have a
vegetation killer and you know whatever and those things and
just kind of guess and say, now I put the
other that one there and you're not one hundred percent sure,
(15:22):
And you know what, you're not the only person that's
ever done that. I've seen it before and you didn't
and you didn't label it, and you're not sure, and
then you go out and use it and guess what,
two days later, you killed everything at your spray. So
that's a great tip. And you know, and and I
think twofold here, one is always labeled that container and
only use it for that, even though you can wash
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them out and clean them out and do all that stuff.
If you got one for a weed killer, use only
that one for the weed killer, nothing else. Don't ever
put anything else in there, and then label it like
you said, and know exactly what you're dealing with. And
we're all lazy about that, you know, Mike. You know
that's that's just the way we are sometimes. But it
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will come back to bite you. And there's no doubt.
And I've gone by people's homes and I can see
where they spot treated thinking they were using like the
trimach or whatever, and then have those brown spots all
through and they were using the vegetation killer and it
killed everything. And he's like, oh my gosh, and you
know they know that they I messed up. So but
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that's a great.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Tip that I get to live with it for a while,
that's all, but it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Comes back but in a while, Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Well, I appreciate your time and I really love your show,
and thank you. I just wanted to get.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
The word out that's a good one, Mike, I appreciate
the tip. I love it. Thank you appreciate listening to
our show. And that's what we're looking for. You know,
that's a great tip because it does happen. And I
think twofold on that one. Always use the same And
you know, we used to have those big tanks prayers,
and now you can buy those small ones that are
one gallon tank sprayer and they're not that expensive that
you speak spense to his heck, you can buy those
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things now. They last forever, made out of plastic. And
you can label one the weak killer. You can label
one vegetation killer, label one funge aside and secticide, and
I think and that way all and still clean it
out when you're done, use you know, a detergent launder
like dawn or something like that, which, by the way,
whenever you're using something says add a surfactant and you
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put a drop of dawn liquid soap in there or
a couple think about what you also use to clean
that tank sprayer out when you're done, same product. That's
why you don't use that for a surfactant. You go
to the garden center and there's one that's there are
two different types of surfactants. That's not what you're looking for.
That's what you would use to clean out your tank,
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not to add to it to make a curve factant
for spring products. But anyway, try to only mix up
what you're gonna use, maybe within that day or within
that week, so that you know there's not a lot
of it sitting there all the time unused. So try
to do that as well. But boy, he's exactly right.
Label it so you know exactly what that tank's use for.
If it's empty, it's still labeled for weed killers only,
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vegetation killers only, you know, fungicides, insecticides, whatever it may be.
And like I say, they're not that expensive. If you
could have three or four or five of them hanging
up there and clean them out every time you're done,
but right on them, magic marker that doesn't erase. This
is what that is. That's a great tip. And that's
something you know, we don't think about too much.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The other one somebody told me was talking about the
other day. We're talking about lawn mowers with somebody, I
don't know what it was, talking about sharpening the more
and I said, you know, we're at that point now
and this is this spring is a prime example. We've
had so much timely rainfall. Lawns have looked great, Temperatures
have been cooler. I thought. Ron Roth has said, you know,
in in case we were a degree up or whatever.
But it was an easy spring and in good moisture.
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Not a lot of watering going on out there besides
newly planted trees and shrubs, and of course you don't
want to let rainfall fool you from water and your
newly plant a tree and shrubs. Nevertheless, lawns look pretty good,
and you know, and and and not a lot of
water and going on, and now I forget where I
was taking this thing, but they start talking about that.
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But point being is with a lawn, it is a
lawnmower and more sharpened the blade. You're done now with
that really crazy mowing period. There's people have been mowing
twice a week to keep up with the with the
with the lawns are growing so fast. Now's the time
to go out and get that lawnmower blade sharpened again
as we get ready to go into the summer season.
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So you sharpened it going into the spring season. And
it's been a heavy mowing spring season, it's going to
eventually start to slow down a little bit here and
now we go into the summer season. So get it
sharpened this week, next week, as we go into the summer,
and then when you get to mid to late August,
let's go and have it sharpened one more time as
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we go into the fall. Three times a year. If
you can do that with your lawnmower blade three times
a year, triple thumbs up to you, because most folks
won't even do it once a year, but your lawn
will love you for that three times a year. If
you do it twice a year, okay, we'll let it slide.
But three times a year absolutely perfect. And right now
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is the time to get out and get those sharpened
as we go into the summer mowing season. Eight hundred
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Talking to your rdening at eight hundred and eight two three,
eight two five five. Happy Father's Day Weekend I am
Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, and our show this
today is dedicated just you and me talking your yarding,
sharing tips, sharing success stories, sharing failures, because you know what,
you know, it's the we learn from everybody. You know,
the mistakes. I learned from mistakes I've made a bazillion
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of over my lifetime gardening. You know, it's a series
of trowels and errors, There's no doubt about it. And
you learn from the errors and you move on. You
try to. I always looked at it this way. I
always try to kind of try to figure out what happened,
what I did wrong or whatever. And sometimes you just
can't figure it out. You just don't know, but you
move forward. But you know, maybe try to figure it out,
but then don't dwell on it. Let's move forward and
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make an adjustment, try something different.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Then.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I've had plans that didn't work, didn't grow, tear them out,
try something else, you know, And I'm not ashamed to
share that with folks. There are things that I've had
no success growing whatsoever. And if I can learn from
somebody who has had good success with it, good I
I appreciate that. And I've always said with his show.
I'm just the messenger. I'm here to try to share
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information from my personal experiences, from research from you know,
from extension from you and me, things that I've learned
from other people, and share with everybody to try to
make us all as successful as we can be. No
matter what level of gardening we're doing, container gardening, you know,
it doesn't matter, you know, just it's fun and it's
fun to share the stories as well. So never hesitate.
(24:27):
Just like Mike talking about you know, he messed up
and you know he learned a lesson and it won't
happen again. I can guar on to you. But that's
good and I appreciate that. So if you get something
you'd like to share, story, you'd like to tell it
to an eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Back to the gardening fundnes we will go to Cleveland,
Ohio and talk to Bill.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Bill, good morning, good morning, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Hey, my pleasure.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
The gentleman that had you were just Mike. I think
I had trouble using the wrong spreak. Yes, okay, well when.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You get those.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Spray containers, I got some that at a big you know,
wholesale club. There's like four in a pack. All the
heads are different colors. So if you make a little
charts yellow, I know, I have a yellow and green
and blue and whatever. If you write that down where
you keep them, and you know, yellow is this and
blue is that, and you're you're, you know, game ahead.
(25:26):
But like most men don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And we usually don't read the labels either, do we.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Oh, we don't read. Well, it's like asking for directions
before we had smart phones, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Uh well, I don't know if it even after you
have cell phone somethings.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
You know, you know, you know your wife would always say,
why don't you go to the gas station and ask
for directions? Well, most of your gas stations are self
service now, and if you're one of those ev places,
they don't have anybody there.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So isn't that crazy? You know, I don't. That's what
a great what a great thing to think back upon,
because you counted on the gas station. You could pull
in there and say, hey, I'm looking for such and
such a street to go go down four blocks, turn left,
turn right, and you're there and you're today today.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Uh uh, Well, they wouldn't say for me. They said,
go down to where the water tank is the city
and turn left at the first fire station.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You know, that's it. You're right, no doubt about it.
That's a that's a great memory. Gosh, cheese, that's really
going back there. But you're right. Uh but yeah, that's it.
That's it. So you bottom. And they have different colors
on the tops of the tank.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
They got they got different color heads on the very
tip on the ring where its screws on top of
the container.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
It's their color coordinated, and all have a green and
yellow and a blue. I forget what the other color is.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
But see you forgot already.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yeah, well you know sometimes I use that wet and
forget on the driveway too.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
You know that Gary talks about it.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
Oh yeah, you don't want to use wet.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
And forget in the wrong place either, so you.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Know that's right, you don't. Hey, that's that's a great tip.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
All right. You have a good week at thanks Bill.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You two happy Father's Day Weekend's Wow, that's reflecting way
back going to the gas stations and asking for directions. Yeah,
you don't do that more of course with your cell phone,
and even I can use it now, I figured that
out with Google Maps and all that. Even the yard
boy has figured out how to use the cell phone
to get directions somewhere. But you know what, I was
just talking with somebody about this the other day. I
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still enjoyed bringing out a map and looking at where
we were going, because when I look at a map,
it gives me a sense of feeling of where I'm
going to be and what, you know, north and south
and east and western. If I see towns and whatever,
I remember on the map that was north of where
I'm going or east of where I still always enjoyed
looking at a map of the overall area, just to
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give me a better overall feel for where I am.
As I'm traveling on this trip. And obviously I plug
in my cell phone and they'll say, you know, stay
on two seventy for sixty three miles and get off
of exits. I get it. And that's great. I mean,
it just takes you right to wherever you're going. But
I also want to I don't know, I still have that.
I just saw that feeling I want to see in
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perspective of the state of the multiple states of the
United States where it is. I'm traveling just to get
a general feel for it, so I kind of know
where I am going, and you know, and it's interesting
how many people can't look at a map anymore and
figure that out either. But that was a good reflection,
So thank you, Bill. I appreciate that one. And we're
taking your calls at eight hundred A two three eight
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two five five. You know, we were talking earlier about
planting and things like that. I went out to see
a tree this week, and I wanted to make sure
I brought this up because you know, there's still plenty
of time to plant trees out there. And Ron rothis
was our certified overse was up in charm Ohio and
doing some classes and all up there, and we were
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going back and forth a little bit and something he
had written in something about root flares in that and
it was a good point. But what I looked at
this and I'll mention that too, but what I looked
at this week was a tree that had been planted
about a year and a half ago. It's almost had
two seasons on it, but a year and a half
ago and still staked. And you never want to stake
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a tree. You only stake a tree if it absolutely necessary,
and you don't want to leave the staking system on
there more than a year. If you have to leave
it on there more than a year, usually something's not right.
But rarely do you keep it on more than a year.
But the tree was just sitting there, not really growing,
not doing anything, kind of thinned out. You know, what
do we do, can't get stimulate to grow whatever. I said, well,
(29:37):
let me go out, let me just come and take
a quick look. And when I'm in the neighborhood, and
I did, and I stopped, and I walked up to
the tree and it was growing. It was bought in
a twenty gallon container, potted a container, grown plant. And
I looked at new growth and very little from the
last two years. Tree was thin. Tree looked okay. The
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planting depth was right, the root ball was up a
little bit, and the root flare was right there. And
that was one thing Ron and I were talking about
this week is and what he had written about was
the fact that, you know, we talked about planting high,
a little bit high. Get the top of that root
ball up an inch or so above soil level. So
you kind of come up higher. But if the tree
is planted too deep in the root ball and there's
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a lot of soil on top of it, even lifting
it up an inch or so sometimes isn't enough to
get that root flare to the top. So you always
want to find the root flare, whether it's a baldenbur
lab tree or growing in a container where those surface
the top roots start to come away from the trunk
of the tree, and that's what is an inch or
so above soil level. So make sure you always find
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the root flare. That's why we said, you know, we
started saying last year, show me the flare, Show me
the root flare, Show me that before you start to
plant this plant. But anyway, it looked good and the
root flair was right there. Then that was fine. But
I grabbed a hold of the trunk of the tree
and it wasn't rooted at all. It was just sitting
there and I could easily move it back and forth.
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It was still so took the apparatus that he had
stayed and done nice staking job, took that loose, and
I pulled the tree up out of the ground literally
with one hand, and the backfill that they had used
was not the original soil. First mistake. Not very many
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cases where you bring in other kinds of soil to
fill in around it. There are some situations, but not most.
You want to use the same soil you take out
of the hole to replace. You can amend it a
little bit, if you'd like twenty thirty percent amendment pine
soil conditioner, manure composts, that's fine, but you use the
same soil you take out of the hole. It felt
like potting soil around the outside. And as I pulled
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this plant out of the ground, it was still in
the original intact root ball that it was in when
they put in the ground. They had not loosened the roots,
had not scarred it up. You know, open that that
rootball up. So everything was staying right in the in
the root ball. It had this really light potting soil
top soil combinate bagtop soil combination, and nothing was going anywhere.
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We're just sitting in the middle of this tub, and
so you know, the plant was still alive. So what
we wound up doing is taking that thing, taking a
spade and going around the outside of it and going
in about two or three inches and cutting it, opening
up the rootball, taking that potting soil and other mix
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out of there, going to other parts of the yard,
bring some original soil back over amended a little bit,
and using that for the backfill, replanting it and restaking
it and starting all over again like a brand new plant.
You can't do that. We just what I just You
gotta loosen those roots up. You've got to show me
the flare and use the same soil you take out
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of the hole, amended a little bit if you want,
but you got to use the same stuff. Otherwise that's
exactly what happens. That thing would have sat there, probably
would have just held in there for a little bit
longer and just finally decline and go away. You got
to do that, and I'm pretty sure this tree will
be fine. It'll be you know, by I almost guarantee
it's going to be fine by what we did by replanting.
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So we caught it early enough. So don't do that.
Do what I just said. You know, a million dollar
holy did a great job there. Staking job was outstanding.
But use the original soil, show me the root flare,
and loosen that root ball up. When it's real tight
like that, You've got to do it, or it'll just
stay there and never root in. And that's exactly what
it was doing, all right, taking your calls at eight
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Talking yardening at eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. We're sharing success story We're sharing failure stories, tips,
things like that. Taking your calls again at eight hundred
and eight two three eight two five five. Don't be shy.
You know, if you guarding as a series of trials
and errors, and I've got a lot of them, trust me,
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and you know I'm not ashamed to share those and
you'll learn from it. So, you know, we we like
hearing those kind of stories. So and I just love
it from Bill talking about guys. Don't ask for directions,
you know, I always say, you know, sometimes when you
have insects like sawflies, sometimes some of the leaf heating
caterpillars are all at all. You can blow those off
of the plant with a strong stream of water. Sometimes
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a strong stream of water can be your best defense
without using in the secticide or whatever. And my theory
is always this, you blow them off the plant, they
hit the ground. They're like a bunch of guys. They
don't ask for directions. They're lost, They're gone, And that's true.
What can I say? But that does work, So keep
that in mind. In many, many cases, a lot of
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the mite situations you can blow off with a garden hose.
Do keep doing it. You can keep the population is
usually long enough, not an issue. Leaf eating caterpillars. You
can blow those off. Ten caterpillars up in the tree.
You can blow those tents out with a strong sam
of water and they hit the ground. You can do
the buggy Joe Boggs three step, two step, three step,
four step and smash them with his big size thirteen
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boots that he wears. Maybe they're fifteens. I'm not really sure,
you know. With all of the moisture we have had,
and it hasn't been again in some areas more than others, obviously,
but good even rainfall. Not a lot of watering going
on out there again, besides newly planted trees and shrubs.
Some years we get a lot of questions about slugs
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and roly pollis. In some years we don't, and a
lot of times that all varies on the weather. And
if you have a spring season where you do get
a fair amount of rainfall where it doesn't really dry out.
Between the rains, the temperatures are cooler, so the moisture
in the maulching around the beds kind of stays there.
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You see an increase, obviously in the pill bugs or
roly poly sometimes kids call them, and slugs and snails
because they love and depend on moisture to exist, and
so when their living conditions are right those days, the
populations can really accelerate. So over the last two weeks
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I have got gotten more emails about pill bugs and
about slugs than I think I have in a long
long time. So I finally got out, got to get
out my controlling slugs and snails in the garden tip
sheet and start sending back because I have so many
people asking about it. But if you look out there,
and of course pill bugs, if you're not familiar, they
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look like little armadillos and if you touch them they
roll up. That's the roly poly. And I love getting
joe bugs talking about them because they're in the I
think the crustacean family and all that kind of stuff
pretty interesting. Critter. But you see them a lot as
well around the bottom of your plant, and you panic
because you see you look down there and you see
hundreds of them just crawling all over the place. Well,
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pill bugs or the roly polis are typically debris eaters.
Now they can eat sometimes small seedlings. Seeing them get
into fruit that was starting to soften close to the ground,
you know, sometimes things like that they will get into,
there's no doubt if the populations are high, But for
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the most part, they're just a debris eater. So you know,
when it's a lot of moisture in the ground and
in the mulch and all, they're having a heyday. They're
loving it, and populations are high, and you panic, and
I had to. I actually had someone to send me
a picture, said, you know, what are these things are
devouring my plants? Well, it's pill bugs. They weren't devouring plants.
But what I didn't get was the second picture. After
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I responded explaining what those were and what they weren't
doing to the pla plants came back with then a
picture of all the other plants that were just riddled
with holes in the leaves and on the edges of
the leaves as well, and of course you turn one
over and what was on the underside a great big
old slug and of course that was all slug damage.
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And a lot of times you get, you know, both
of them together because the moisture conditions are perfect for
both of them. That's what they need and that's why
typically they only you see them mostly at nighttime. They
slugs especially, they basically only feed at nighttime or really
really cloudy days which would maybe raining or whatever, because
they are about eighty percent water, all right, so they've
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got that's what they depend on. Pillbugs obviously, just like
the moisture as well. And if you get them in
the basement around your front door or door frame, it's
usu where it stays wet, So that's what And again
they're debris eaters. Slugs are can be a little bit
of a debris eater also, but they will eat the
heck out of your foliage and fruits and all kinds
of other things as well. They can slugs can really
do the damage. So you know, there are things you
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can do as far as raking the multi away. Don't
water those areas, let them stay a little bit drier.
I remember one time, we used to have this hostile
bed in the shade and the slugs were just destroying it.
And I, you know, had used some of the slug
baits or whatever, they were still having a problem. I
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raked all the mult away and just had bare soil.
I didn't have hardly any slug damage after that. Now
they'll go down in the ground to hide and stay
nice and moist down there. But for the most part,
the slug damages went away just because I took the
mulch off the ground, because theyn't have any place to
hide out. But if you're not going to do that,
most times, you don't want to do that. You know,
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as far as slugs go, dietamaceous earth and if you're
not going to remember that, you can email me and
I'll tell you dietamacious earth does a great job for
both of these. As a matter of fact, I don't
usually go after the roly polleis or the pill bugs.
I let them do their thing. But for the slugs,
a dietamatous worth works great. There are slug baits slug
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poisons that are out there. Do the ones that are
iron phosphate, they're they're safe for the kids and the
birds and other insects, and it's iron phosphate and you
sprinkle the pellets throughout, you know, and you've got to
be careful because some of those aren' labeled for around edibles.
Some of them are very toxic, so watch what you're
using there. Both of those do work for you. But
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my point being is, you know, we sometimes kid about
the old beer in the pie pan trick. Guess what
that works still extremely well. I think does a great job.
And you some some articles you'll read will say they
actually got better results doing that than all the other
things they had tried to do getting slug populations under control.
(42:49):
And you'll never get rid of all of them. But
using like small tuna cans, empty tunic cans and nestling
them in the area down in the soil a little
bit in the areas where you've got lots of slugs
and then filling those with beer. They're attracted. What it
is is they're attracted to the east and the beer,
the brewers yeast. They do it, they follow out and
they drown. That's the bottom line. And I believe I'm
(43:12):
not in Colorado state. I believe did research on this
one time when you like to been a part of this.
On which beer was the favorite beer for attracting slugs
into the beer baits or the slug baits. Can you
guess which one it was? Well, keep guessing, because I'll
tell you after we take the break and come back
at the top of the hour. Taking your calls you
(43:33):
and me talking to you are tips. You want to share, questions,
you have stories. Eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. It's all happening here in the garden with
Ron Wilson.
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Not gardening questions. Ron has the answers. At one eight
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