with Teri Knight
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Yellow jacket trap
That little flyer you have hovering over your hot dog is most likely the Yellow Jacket wasp.
In late August yellow jackets are at peak numbers and they want a sip of your drink or a bite of your food just as much as you do!
My husband was just stung last week when he stuck his hand into a lockbox that happened to house a wasp nest. Thankfully he’s not allergic but it certainly … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Got clay? Why that’s not a bad thing
There are many gardeners who have clay soil. Most lament that fact but I have some good news for you…Proven Winners says you can learn to love it, it just takes a bit of knowledge and a bit of elbow grease. What IS clay soil? It’s sticky and absorbs water slowly, when it dries out it can be crusty, lumpy and hardpacked, oh and the top layer can be … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Drought tolerant flowers
It’s hot, it’s humid, it’s dry, it’s summer in full bloom and we’re looking for a few good flowers! Those that are pest resistant, drought resistant and bloom all summer long…. That’s a tall order, however, the Heliopsis is up to the challenge!
This flower, also known as False Sunflower, sunflower heliopsis and smooth oxeye is also cold hardy to zone 3… Oh and did I mention it’s a native prairie plant? There are also … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Lookin’ for love with native shrubs
A long time ago in another life, I worked in a factory and listened to country music for 10 hours a day. The year was, uh, a long time ago! The song was “Lookin’ for Love in all the wrong places” and highlighted in the movie Urban Cowboy! No, you don’t have to click on it!! Tee Hee
Anyway, I heard it the other day as I was looking at some shrubs. … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min Garden Bite radio show: Edible weeds
Last week I talked about noxious weeds and discussed living with clover and plantain and dandelions, but what if you could just EAT your yard?
The lazy gardener’s veggie garden!
Many parts are edible (in fact all of them)… Dandelions are well known edibles. Every part of the dandelion is edible from spring to fall. The leaves are best when picked in spring before they become bitter. The flowers can be made into wine and the … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Celebrating Farmers Markets and some tips for shopping
It’s National Farmers Market week! What a wonderful opportunity for those who LOVE fresh produce but don’t have a vegetable garden, or room to plant all the veggies they want or have had their produce poached by Peter Rabbit and his pals!
As you wander the rows of fresh produce, you can’t help but have a different sense of where your food comes from and a connection that we miss
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Don’t pinch your natives and other sage advice
I recently interviewed one of the co-authors of a new book called “Climate-Wise Landscaping – practical actions for a sustainable future”. It’s a great read with a lot of information presented in an easily digestible way. You’ll be able to find the full interview HERE on August 13th, 2018
While there’s way too much in it to share here, Sue Reed, offered some quick nuggets, nibbles of knowledge, that we … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Noxious weeds part 2
Not much compares to Wild Parsnip and Hogweed in terms of, literally, physical pain to gardeners but there are many other Noxious/OBnoxious weeds that wreak havoc on our ecosystems.
Call them Most Wanted Weeds, or least wanted! These weeds are not only invasive but destructive to our environment including roads, livestock, crops and property. Some are poisonous; others damage our ecosystem by displacing our native species. WI Noxious weed list MN Noxious Weed list … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Fertilizers, herbicides and weeds – oh my
Crabgrass and Clover and Dandelions oh my! Yes the weeds in our lawns tend to give many a homeowner a fright. As we step into August, a typically hot/dry month, you might notice more issues.
Listeners have asked what they can do to, not only get rid of weeds but also to feed their lawns. Now is NOT NORMALLY the time to fertilize. If you must fertilize your lawn, the time … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Tough season for trees around the Upper Midwest
Yesterday it was about flooding and your vegetable and fruit plants. Today, I’m going to talk about the unholy winter of 2017/18. Or the winter that wouldn’t end and then, suddenly, it did. That was rough on Evergreens in the Upper midwest.
As you may recall…there were pockets of heavy piled up snow in April and then in late April we had warm, very windy days with low relative humidity … [Continue reading]