Garden Talk
Gardening tips and information from KTOO in Juneau. Tune in Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m. on Juneau Afternoon.
Gardentalk – Bolting vegetables
Harvest your bolting and flowering vegetables and herbs now before their quality and taste decline.
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Gardentalk – Greenhouse tomatoes
Thin out plant stems and leave the doors open to promote ventilation and prevent fungus and disease.
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Gardentalk – Slugs are back!
Slug bait, beer traps, and an old pair of scissors are the most popular weapons in the war on slugs. Also, don't forget about the Garden Tours on Saturday.
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Gardentalk – Deadheading and thinning
Whether it’s annuals and fuschias or shrubs like lilacs and rhododendrons, trimming fading flowers will allow leaves to devote more food and energy to the plant to flower later this season.
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Gardentalk – Early summer planting
Maximize your garden space by planting more vegetables as soon as the first early crops are harvested.
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Gardentalk – Keeping garden pests at bay
European currant worms, spruce aphids and slugs are some of the pests that have emerged in the Juneau area again this spring.
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Gardentalk – Trellis it!
Use a trellis or other support for your perennials, vegetables and other plants so they don't break or become victim to slugs, birds and fungus.
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Gardentalk – How to choose and use fertilizers
Not all fertilizers are the same. Some balanced mixtures of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium may be used interchangeably for annuals, perennials or even a grass lawn. But other fertilizers may be formulated specifically for bulbs, particular vegetables like tomatoes, or your grass lawn.
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Gardentalk – Spring planting
Use clear plastic sheeting to warm up the soil in your planting beds and use Reemay garden fabric to moderate light and temperature in your greenhouse.
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Gardentalk – Spring tree planting
Dig relatively shallow, but wide holes that allow roots to spread out.
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