with Teri Knight
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Planting garlic – time to order
If you want to plant garlic, you’d better start ordering your bulbs or finding them at local nursery centers now to get what you want.
and look forward to our harvesting in late July/early August. That does NOT mean we eat it then. The cloves need to be cured.
I planted garlic for the first time in 2020 and … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Fall is for planting trees/shrubs
Fall is a great time to plant trees and shrubs. The air is cooler but the soil is still warm and there’s plenty of time for roots to establish themselves before the bitter cold comes in.
It’s easier on the plants (and your back) to purchase smaller ones. Think about what you want from that tree … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Porcelain Berry – August weed of the month
August Weed of the Month from the MN Dept. of Agriculture. Another vine, this one is named Porcelain Berry.
A member of the grape family, porcelain berry (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata) is a fast-growing, deciduous, woody vine growing upwards of 25 feet long. In Minnesota, it is listed as a Restricted Noxious Weed meaning it cannot be sold, propagated, transported, or … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Wild cucumber is back – 2022 style
although not as abundantly as last year. Which seems to be the case for many of our plants.
This vine is usually covering fields, trees, shrubs, grasses, flowers along nearly every rural road through Minnesota, Wisconsin and parts east, west and south!
This vining annual in the cucumber or gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Trees and shrubs for pollinators
We generally think of annual and perennial flowers when we consider pollinators.
The University of Minnesota Extension notes their seasonal interest as well as providing food AND shelter.
Shrubs can be planted in groups or alone, with fruit or without. I have 3 carpet roses or pavement roses that are loaded each year with bees. They’re easy care and provide pollen abundantly earlier … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Lamenting my Resurrection lilies – the non-rising 2022
Two years ago I talked about my Resurrection Lilies, calling the episode “The Rising”.
I came by this plant in July of 2012 when I moved into my current home.
It has lush foliage early in the season, then the whole thing dies back.
BUT then, all of a sudden these stalks holding these … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Pollinators and mowing roadways
There was great discussion a couple of weeks ago on my Garden Bite Facebook page regarding pollinators and mowing along roadways. It was in the comment section of my August 8th Garden Bite on how the heat affected our vegetable garden.
I never really found that question fully answered but I did find that a lot of organizations … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Fall vegetable garden
Planning a Fall vegetable garden. Those vegetables we grew in spring can be repeated and add brussels sprouts and beets too!
I eat salads nearly every day for lunch. Planting lettuce, kale and other “leafies” sounds like a good idea!
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Why a raised garden bed?
My community puts on a Garden Tour each year. This year there was a place with only raised beds. It was beautiful.
More reasons to love raised beds:
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: Hardy hibiscus are Summerific – 2022
Hardy hibiscus take those of us in cold climates to the tropics.
While blooms only last one to two days, there are MANY buds that continue to show off their colors.
Don’t get nervous if you don’t see any growth … [Continue reading]