Get your flowers, vegetables, fruits, and jams and jellies ready for this Saturday’s Harvest Fair at the Juneau Community Garden. Also, some tips for care and early harvesting of potatoes.
Gardentalk
Gardentalk – Greenhouse pest control
Aphids, ants and spider mites are common pests that may infest greenhouse vegetable plants.
Gardentalk – Picking for peak ripeness and flavor
“Timing is real important.” Tasting apples, gooseberries, raspberries, and kiwis as you go.
Gardentalk – Pickling
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski shares his Mom’s quick and easy brine recipe for pickling cucumbers, zucchini, peas, beans, and other vegetables.
Gardentalk – We’re jamming!
Learn how to make freezer and cooked jam from local raspberries, salmonberries, and blueberries.
Gardentalk – Exploders
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski suggests a quick harvest of fruit and vegetables that may crack and split after this month’s heavy rainfall.
Gardentalk – Garlic harvesting and late season planting
It’s time to harvest if remaining scapes are uncurling and leaves are turning yellow. Also, a $30 billion water pipeline from Washington state to California doesn’t make much sense if the entire West Coast is suffering from dry conditions.
Gardentalk – Garlic scapes
Early bulblets from hardneck garlic can be used as a substitute for green onions and garlic bulbs in salads, soups, sauces and pesto, or make flavored vinegar and olive oil.
Gardentalk – Porcupine and buttercups
Recent Gardentalk segments include how to defend your garden from the ravages of porcupine and a feature of popular plants in the buttercup family.
Gardentalk – Orange hawkweed
UAF Cooperative Extension Service Agent Darren Snyder provides a primer on orange hawkweed, an invasive perennial that has gained a foothold in the Juneau area.