This week’s segment features tips for accelerating the ripening process for tomatoes, planting trees and shrubs, and dividing perennials.
"Ed Buyarski"
Gardentalk – How to get a handle on persistent pest; food festival preview
Root maggots, slugs and wooly bear caterpillars continue to be spotted in Juneau yards and gardens. Food Festival is Saturday, Aug. 26 at JACC.
Gardentalk – Harvest Fair preview
The annual event starts Saturday at the Juneau Community Garden on Montana Creek. Plus, Ed Buyarski has a few tips for harvesting potatoes and yellow transparent apples.
Gardentalk – Rock gardening
Rock can be used as a singular garden feature, a mulch that doesn’t have to be renewed or for the creation of a low wall.
Gardentalk – How to start your own seed bank
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski has his annual primer on collecting seeds from local flowers and vegetables.
Gardentalk – Raingear gardening
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski reminds us to ventilate our greenhouse, harvest our garlic and raspberries, deadhead any finished flowers, and eradicate all slugs.
Gardentalk – Garlic harvesting and curing
Wet skin of mature garlic can rot and slip off, shortening its shelf life and inhibiting the curing process.
Gardentalk – Cherries and berries
Can you pick them all? Cherries, raspberries, strawberries, nagoonberries, red huckleberries and blueberries are all in season in the Juneau area.
Gardentalk – Bolting vegetables
Harvest your bolting and flowering vegetables and herbs now before their quality and taste decline.
Gardentalk – Greenhouse tomatoes
Thin out plant stems and leave the doors open to promote ventilation and prevent fungus and disease.