Food

If you notice your plants and vegetables are wilting or if the soil is dry and crumbly, don’t wait. Hydrate as soon as you can.

Cut potato seeds into golf ball or ping pong ball sized pieces with an eye or two, plant the seeds with the eyes or sprouts pointing up, and cover with about a half inch of soil.

But how do you get people who are inherently secretive about where they find morels — to tell you where they find their morels?

“Recently with the pandemic, I was just thinking about being able to exchange food in a non-contact way,” she said.

Tips and pointers for those brand new gardeners hoping to use their yard or deck to help supplement their fresh vegetable supply while they are hunkering down.

Master Gardener Ed Buyarski answers more listener questions in this week’s edition of Gardentalk.