with Teri Knight
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Pumpkin seeds and pie for 2022
I have always loved pumpkin seeds.
She’d drain them and roast them for what seemed like hours. My taste is a tad more sophisticated now and I don’t soak them in salt water at all!
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Trees for Urban Gardens
While the planting season is pretty much over, you can start dreaming and scheming for next year! Just last week I touched on the importance of trees in our landscape, their value for shade, food and carbon sequestration and keeping them healthy.
Serviceberry is a small deciduous clumping … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Pumpkins and spice and all things lumpy
Love it or hate, it’s pumpkin (ps, pumpkins are squash) spice everything season.
I make pumpkin dessert, pumpkin pie, roast pumpkin seeds.
I don’t carve pumpkins anymore but if you do, get the smooth kind or it can get pretty gnarly with a knife. Speaking of gnarly, the lumpy bumpy curcurbita are my favorite. That’s the genus for all those “fruits”. No, they are technically NOT vegetables. ‘Carnival’ and ‘Turban’ are … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Putting the tools away
One of the last tasks of the gardening season is tool attention. Every year I swear I’m going to be better at it NOT losing my tools. 2022 isn’t much different, except that my Hori Hori knife I guard with my life! Have I told you I LOVE that tool?
My bench under the eve of my garage gets filled with tools, which is better than leaving them around the yard!
Do YOU clean … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Keep on watering and mulch!
In my area we have experienced a persistent drought that has really affected our plant life. My red maple finally turned but it looked rough. While rain has been predicted it’s been sprinkles. As mentioned on Monday’s Garden Bite, I believe my Hackberry has sent out even more surface roots in search of water, which affected my raised garden bed. This found in Treehugger: Trees in a forest develop roots that … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: When a nut’s not a nut and a berry’s not a berry
I subscribe to a newsletter from my friend and favorite arborist, Faith Appelquist of Treequality. She never disappoints and this month I asked if I could share it with you all!
When is a nut not a nut and a berry not really a berry? She writes: Many of the edible plant products which we call nuts are, in botanical terms, fruit. Fruits … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Planting garlic – 2022
This is the week to plant garlic if you live in zone 3 to 5. Generally you plant 1 to 2 weeks AFTER a killing frost. Homegrown garlic is better than store bought just as every other vegetable/fruit is better! Last year I planted Elephant Ear, Duganski and Deerfield Purple. My favorite was the Elephant Ear.
THIS year, 2022, I planted ‘Music’, a robust variety, it’s flavor is described as rich, garlicky, strong, … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Tips for pollinator planting
The National Garden Bureau, of which I’m a member, offered up some fabulous tips for pollinator plantings that I want to share with you today.
Tip number one… be kind to soil. Something like one tablespoon of soil holds more living forms than people currently populating … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Tips to protecting and feeding birds as winter approaches
Last week I talked about bird feeders and squirrels. Today it’s about WHAT to feed those birds as winter comes roaring in… at some point.
Contrary to what I’ve heard some people say, feeding the birds in winter … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. radio show/podcast: The finale for the Winged Wahoo
This is the last year you can purchase a Winged Wahoo in my state, Minnesota. I had never heard that name for the shrub more commonly know as Burning Bush. However, it is FUN to say “winged wahoo”. Maybe since ‘Wahoo’ is a favorite word of mine!
Here’s a very quick video from the … [Continue reading]