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Layers of horse manure and soil are being spread out in this Douglas Island planter as various varieties of garlic are broken up into single cloves before planting.

Gardentalk – Taste-testing your garden soil

As gardeners clean up their old garden beds and build new planters, they may be thinking about where they can get good soil before they start planting.

Cucumber and pumpkin starts as seen under a LED grow light.

Gardentalk – Ready, set, start your seeds!

It's prime time for starting herbs, onions, shallots, celery and parsley.

Kale is still growing in KTOO's Agricultural Test Station and Garden of Science! in Ocotber 2019.

Gardentalk – Season finale on cleanup and the last of the veggies

Beets, carrots and parsnips actually benefit from being left in the ground during the early fall, because freezing temperatures enhance their sugar content.

Gardentalk – Bring your begonias, dahlias and fuchsias in for the winter

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.

This is the second year that this beehouse has remained vacant in a North Douglas yard.

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.

Leaves begin to turn on a Norway maple outside KTOO studios in September 2019. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)

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.

In this picture taken in early June 2019, Tom Lafollette, caretaker of the Annex Creek Hydroelectric Facility in Taku Inlet (obscured behind left side of greenhouse), explains to visitors how he built this scratch-built geodesic greenhouse for growing tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetables. The greenhouse is about 10 feet in diameter and is a slightly smaller version than a previous greenhouse he constructed from plans.

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.

Gardentalk – Is the drought over? Can I stop watering now?

Master Gardener Ed Buyarski encourages gardeners to continue watering and protecting their tender plants from near-frost conditions this week.

Impaired reception of KAUK (91.7), KRNN(102.7), and KXLL(100.7)

Garden Talk

Gardentalk – Taste-testing your garden soil

Gardentalk – Ready, set, start your seeds!

Gardentalk – Season finale on cleanup and the last of the veggies

Gardentalk – Bring your begonias, dahlias and fuchsias in for the winter

Gardentalk – Listener question lightning round

Gardentalk – How do you plant 10,000 garlic?

Gardentalk – Planting for a colorful fall

Gardentalk – The bulbs have arrived

Gardentalk – How to avoid the greenhouse blues

Gardentalk – Is the drought over? Can I stop watering now?

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