Garden Talk
Gardening tips and information from KTOO in Juneau. Tune in Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m. on Juneau Afternoon.
Gardentalk – Summer’s second planting season now underway
As soon as gardeners harvest their first spring crop, they can start planting a second crop of peas, carrots, beets, swiss chard, lettuce and kale.
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Gardentalk – Preparing for early vegetable and garlic scape harvest
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski also recommends applying a liquid fertilizer to some vegetables if they turn a pale or yellowish-green.
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Gardentalk – How do you get rid of cow parsnip?
Sometimes called wild celery, cow parsnip secretes a substance that's irritable to skin. Protect your face, hands and arms if you plan on cutting down or removing the perennial plant.
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Gardentalk – Banish and bury those dandelions and buttercups
Remove their flowers, roots and runners to prevent their spread. A layer of cardboard also serves as a mulch that will kill the plants within a year or two.
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Gardentalk – Last call for spring garden vegetable planting
This is the latest that gardeners can plant a radishes and spinach. Otherwise, they will quickly bolt in June and July. Peas, parsnips, carrots, cabbage, lettuce, mustard greens, swiss chard, and potatoes can also be planted now if the soil is warm.
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Gardentalk – Use seed potatoes for your summer spud crop
Certified seed potatoes are usually disease-free and lack the chemical sprout inhibitor that is usually applied before eating potatoes are shipped to grocery stores.
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Gardentalk – Feed me, Seymour!
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski answers a listener's question about fertilizing a tree and has a primer on fertilizer mixes for trees, shrubs, vegetables, and even grass lawns.
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Gardentalk – Planting and seed starting
Shallot and onion bulbs can be planted into cool, moist soil now. But other vegetables like tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli should be started indoors over the next few weeks before transplanting them outside.
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Gardentalk – Here’s your early-season, pre-planting checklist
Gardening season is here! Master Gardener Ed Buyarski encourages us to finish with the clean-up of messy greenhouses and garden beds that we started last fall.
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Gardentalk – Season finale on fall clean up of yard and garden, bringing in perennials
Remove all dead and dying vegetation so that it doesn't turn into prime slug habitat. And, don't forget to bring in your begonias, dahlias and fuschias for the winter.
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