with Teri Knight
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Small space garden plants
Today it’s about small space gardening and tiny vegetables. It’s a thing, especially with so many new gardeners growing vegetables in pots. I have a small raised bed so I sometimes grow vegetables in containers.
A great cuke option is ‘Patio Snacker’ it’s the perfect size to plant in a 15 inch pot with a trellis for the 3 to 5 foot vines to grow on.
It’s fruits are 6 to 8 inches with … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Immunity Garden – a rainbow of vegetables
There are an estimated 18 million new gardeners! The pandemic provided time and quarantine. It also has people considering an Immunity Garden. While this is not a new subject for Garden Bite, planting a kaleidescope of colors, a rainbow of roughage, is trending for 2021!
Different colors of vegetables and fruits offer different nutritional value. Although continuing studies are being done on the full value of these power-packed plants, here’s a … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: The Message of Roses and more
Valentines Day is Sunday. You’ve decided you’re going with Roses. What message would you like to send to your sweetheart? Red, of course, is the most popular color choice and is easy. It means ‘I love you’. Simple yet sophisticated.
But what of the other colors?
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: For the love of Hosta
Hostas get a bad rap sometimes. I have a friend who hates them. Well, all she had were the plain old green ones. But there are SO many more! Colors, textures, sizes and shapes.
The 2021 Hosta of the Year for one! Shadowland ‘Wheeee’! It’s as fun to look at as it is to say! This delightful hosta has extremely ruffled foliage.
Its green leaves have cream margins that widen as the … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Size does matter – when planning your garden
Urbanites have joined suburbanites who joined those with some acreage, into the vegetable growing trend. From urban apartment dwellers to folks moving out to hobby farms to community gardens. That’s great but I still want folks to consider SIZE.
My intent is to help you make the best choices so you can fully enjoy your veggie garden. What I don’t want to see happen is people becoming overwhelmed and losing … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Prepare to Prune
We’re in late winter now, heading into the Spring home stretch. Gardeners! Prepare your pruners! That is if you can get to those trees and shrubs through the piles of snow! Cold temperatures provide the best time to prune because the plants are dormant, their sap flowing less freely and the insects are not a bother.
Timing is everything! Do NOT prune any spring blooming shrubs now, however, it IS a good time to prune … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Buckthorn, bunnies and blue pee?
Years ago, I lived on 5 acres in Lakeville, MN. While wandering through our woods, I discovered smurf blue stains in the snow!
Since the property had been deigned a “farm dump”, we lovingly cleaned it up.
But after spotting that blue stain, we thought “oh no, there’s a bubblin’ crude but it ain’t oil! What the heck is it?”. It’s not like we went out there to spit out our mouthwash, or … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: New gardeners and a philosophical take on gardening
With Covid-19 came a huge increase in new gardeners. Gardening offers so much more than the flowers, the vegetables, the shrubs and trees.
It’s enjoying the sunshine, the playing in the dirt, the thrill of creating something and watching nature do her magic. It brings an appreciation for our planet that we don’t always see in busy lives.
It’s my hope that this slow-down in running from here to there … [Continue reading]
Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: EAB, wasps and replacement trees
Emerald Ash Borer is alive and well. So many cities that planted all Ash trees are now faced with Ash tree removal and naked boulevards.
This is a good reason to use diverse plantings. Scientists working to contain EAB with progress using a type of wasp. The parasitoid wasp flies through the forest, heavy with eggs, following the scent of beetle infestation.
She locates a promising tree, lands and finds beetle larvae feeding … [Continue reading]
Click on the link below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: Cankers and galls, oh my!
Do you suffer from galls or cankers?
I just have to grin when I hear that. The thought of some medication commercial coming up with side effects so horrific, I’d rather have a canker! Maybe …
With all the leaves gone on our trees and shrubs, it’s a good time to take a careful look at their branches for galls or cankers.
Cankers and Galls [University of Minnesota Extension] This … [Continue reading]