Gardentalk - KTOO

These little Juneau-grown apples of the Discovery variety are ready for applesauce, apple butter, or maybe apple pie.

Gardentalk – Apples

This week's segment is a how-to guide on picking your own apples and what to make out of them.

Narcissus blossom in a North Douglas yard.

Gardentalk – Harvesting kiwi and planting bulbs

Juneau-grown kiwi should now be ripe. Before you plant any bulbs, check the packaging for sunlight requirements, appropriate spacing and proper planting depth.

Tomato plants usually need lots of water to grow, but these tomatoes may have been slow to ripen because they have been watered too much recently.

Gardentalk – Planting and dividing

This week's segment features tips for accelerating the ripening process for tomatoes, planting trees and shrubs, and dividing perennials.

This wooly bear catepillar was spotted roaming an apple tree in Juneau in August 2016.

Gardentalk – How to get a handle on persistent pest; food festival preview

Root maggots, slugs and wooly bear caterpillars continue to be spotted in Juneau yards and gardens. Food Festival is Saturday, Aug. 26 at JACC.

An award winning basket from the 2015 Harvest Fair.

Gardentalk – Harvest Fair preview

The annual event starts Saturday at the Juneau Community Garden on Montana Creek. Plus, Ed Buyarski has a few tips for harvesting potatoes and yellow transparent apples.

Portion of rock garden and rock features at Juneau's Fred Meyer store.

Gardentalk – Rock gardening

Rock can be used as a singular garden feature, a mulch that doesn't have to be renewed or for the creation of a low wall.

A few of these sugar pumpkin seeds saved from last fall will likely become next fall's pie or stout homebrew.

Gardentalk – How to start your own seed bank

Master Gardener Ed Buyarski has his annual primer on collecting seeds from local flowers and vegetables.

A pair of slugs attack a squash blossom during a break in the summer rains. The devastated flower was removed and both slugs died a horrible death moments after this picture was taken.

Gardentalk – Raingear gardening

Master Gardener Ed Buyarski reminds us to ventilate our greenhouse, harvest our garlic and raspberries, deadhead any finished flowers, and eradicate all slugs.