Tuesday morning’s record low temperature of 23 degrees at the Juneau International Airport may be Mother Nature’s way of saying more cold snaps and frosty mornings are not that far off.
Gardentalk
Gardentalk – Listener question lightning round
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski tackles listener questions about garlic, beehouses, and peony winterization.
Gardentalk – How do you plant 10,000 garlic?
Answer: Only by hand. And get your family and friends to help for the entire weekend.
Gardentalk – Planting for a colorful fall
Popular trees, shrubs, and perennials that change color in the fall include the cottonwood, dolgo crabapple, cherry, wild blueberry, monkshood, and turtlehead.
Gardentalk – The bulbs have arrived
Store bulbs in a cool, dry and dark place for now. Don’t start planting until the end of September or early October, or at least until just before the ground freezes and the snow falls.
Gardentalk – How to avoid the greenhouse blues
Keep mold from turning your vegetable plants into gray mush by ventilating your greenhouse and moving the air. Also, still more about this summer’s most controversial gardening subject: woolly bear caterpillars and whether you should squish them.