If you notice your plants and vegetables are wilting or if the soil is dry and crumbly, don’t wait. Hydrate as soon as you can.
Gardentalk
Gardentalk – How to plant your own pandemic potato plot
Cut potato seeds into golf ball or ping pong ball sized pieces with an eye or two, plant the seeds with the eyes or sprouts pointing up, and cover with about a half inch of soil.
Gardentalk – How to create your own COVID-19 victory garden
Tips and pointers for those brand new gardeners hoping to use their yard or deck to help supplement their fresh vegetable supply while they are hunkering down.
Gardentalk – Weed seed eradication and greenhouse materials
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski answers more listener questions in this week’s edition of Gardentalk.
Gardentalk – Pruning blueberries, holly and junipers, and first aid for split tree branches
Evergreens could be trimmed back almost anytime. But flower buds are just emerging on blueberry plants, and any severe pruning now could affect this season’s production.
Gardentalk – How and when to prune your plants, trees and berry bushes
Clean up any potential slug habitat and then start cutting away any dead vegetation.
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.
Gardentalk – Ready, set, start your seeds!
It’s prime time for starting herbs, onions, shallots, celery and parsley.
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.