Master gardener Ed Buyarski has some tips for pruning branches for shaping, removing old growth and deadwood, and encouraging airflow within shrubs and trees.
Gardentalk
Gardentalk – Get digging
This weekend’s to-do list includes garden plot clean up, tool refurbishment, seed starts, and making an appointment with your chiropractor.
Gardentalk – Winter is coming
The GardenTalk season finale features tips for preparing perennials for colder temperatures and how to overwinter begonias, fuschias and dahlias.
Gardentalk – Planting garlic bulbs
Master gardener Ed Buyarski talks about garlic bulb planting, fertilizing and protecting the soil from warm spells and heavy rainfall in this week’s segment.
Gardentalk – Annual bulb planting primer
How to plant bulbs in a raised bed or hillside with adequate sun, good drainage, and the proper spacing and depth. And, the pointy end always goes up.
Gardentalk – Frost protection
Gardeners can protect their plants and vegetables, and extend their harvest into the early fall.
Gardentalk – Seed collection
A primer on collecting seed pods, separating seeds and preparing for vegetable and perennial starts this coming spring.
Gardentalk – Preparing for bulb planting
For the next several weeks, store your bulbs in an open paper bag in a dry and dark corner of your garage that’s expected to stay between 40 and 50 degrees.
Gardentalk – Greenhouse tomatoes
As the end of the garden season draws near, it’s time to clip new budding flowers on tomato plants and thin out some branches and leaves.
Gardentalk – Late summer preparations
Stake up young and vulnerable trees so that they don’t get blown over this fall, and store any newly purchased bulbs in a cool, dry place for now.