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I’m so excited it’s Saturday, March 17th, 2018 when I’m recording and I have the most awesome guest Vicki Henderson on the line because she’s a master gardener, garden blogger at Vicki’s Garden Tips and Vimeo channel GardenBuzz listener and in the Facebook Group and I know she has so much to share today!  Tell us a little about yourself. I actually grew up in Minnesota. I grew up on a farm, my dad was a dairy farmer. I got back into gardening later in life when I had kids. We have a property in Boise, we have about an acre.  We have a   Vegetable garden 2 rabbits that I love   use their manure for fertilization of the garden. A big composter! I love composting! I have kept worms, this past year I stopped having my worms but I’m gonna start vermicomposting again because I like their compost as well I’m a big vegetable gardener, worked as a personal gardener for homes in Boise Idaho perennials. I love this maybe you’ll have some advice for people that might want to start a business like that, I have always thought that would be a good job for mike, he got a little job doing that last year, but it was kind of far away. The bonus was I got onions out of the deal and this year mike grew onions for me. Tell me about your first gardening experience? my parents did! we had a big vegetable garden! We spent a lot of time weeding the garden. We sold cucumbers on the market for pickles get up in the morning and pick cucumbers sold apples on the side of the highway and sweet corn is a big thing in Minnesota! corn corn corn! potatoes I remember that’s what we did, mainly our income on the farm was dairy, but to keep us kids busy we sold vegetables on the side of the road. It’s interesting you know the big rigs blowing past you! We had a small little table set off the highway by my house. People would stop and they would say let them taste an apple. We were small children, we didn’t know any better! We let have them, and they would take it and go We had a big family  6 kids big sister brother’s stayed home  little things sell the vegetables fun experience grandmother had flowers learned to love flower gardening  was really fun Boise gardening was so much different high desert  raining today not a lot of water a lot of heat  things grow different here You have to do some research if you move out here from other part of the country, it’s different.  Do you want to talk about where is a successful place to do research because a lot of people have been asking me about moving to a new place.  well I when I moved to Idaho more then 20 years ago  I moved here became a volunteer at the botanical garden and I learned a  lot there, and I joined the master gardener program. very active took classes every week do volunteer work learned an immense about   what grows well  why it does   master gardener program  county extension through the University of Idaho continued in that for maybe 4-5 years  events master gardener  volunteering for different things there’s just so much to learn  When I started when I started going personal gardening more education on the real side If you really want to learn how to garden you just got to go do it  fail succeed  Several people, well Patti Armbrister in particular has asked several times, for Mike to create an online organic master gardener program. In Lincoln County where I live the extension program got cut. We’re working on it! A lot of guests have talked about the extension service is.  How did you learn how to garden organically, was your dad organic? in some ways yes, no in other ways I grew up in the 50s and 60s that was the beginning of better gardening with chemicals no in a lot of crops no my father was not organic fertilizers on the field. in my vegetable garden we were   cow manure spread it on the field chemical companies want everyone to have bigger better corn with fertilizers before round up we didn’t really use weed killer  Tell us about something that grew well this year. My favorite thing that I grow is raspberries and I have a fairly large patch! If you have raspberries and you water them well enough. water and water patch gets bigger and bigger! I try to keep it a certain size. I love to grow them because they’re so expensive in the store! And they’re so easy to grow.  Raspberries Right now is time to prune them (Mid March) If you prune them and keep them fairly well weeded  bounty  so many raspberries  freeze them as soon as garden season  nothing better to go outside throw them in your bowl I love to grow things in the garden that are expensive in the store but not any more expensive to grow in your garden! That’s what I use as my guideline for what I’m gonna grow  What’s super expensive? what do I love  what is a delicacy berries are so expensive  Season don’t last very long but if you can have them in your garden! They’re so great to grow! Be able to pick! I have grand children! And they are great to go out and pick!  Garden Journal and Data Keeper   I love this for so many reasons. One That’s why I put in the beginning of the garden journal and data keeper a place to write down what do you buy and spend the most money on! And It’s so true berries are soooo expensive! and they’re so healthy for you.  I always say fruit is so messy but berries aren’t messy!  My raspberries never make it to the house because I just eat the whole bowlful down there.  I even wrote a cute little book called In the Raspberry Patch! And of course in the end it’s the grandkids in the raspberry patch! I have a trail-cam I have it pointed at my compost pile I know I have had the quail in my raspberry, they lay eggs in there, and the babies hatch, it’s good camouflage. Boise is a drive, listeners might think we’re neighbors but it’s about 8 hours from here. You have snow right? You said it was time to prune? I did an interview with a woman from Boise who had a sweet little blog called Little Homestead in Boise. I have a blog  not active on my blog right  garden website I’m sure I’ll get back to the blog eventually.   Vicki’s Garden Tips.com It’s about Boise gardening because Boise gardening is different from your gardening is different from Minnesota garden everybody has their our own climate and things that grow better. I started that blog 4-5 years ago Sort of website we’re doing a trying to develop a garden website that is local based with all garden providers To have a listing, Boise is a pretty large, metropolitan area. We call it the Treasure Valley  Boise Nampa Meridian Twin falls over to Oregon  And so it would be a list of  garden providers  landscapers patios stone workers waterfalls  have it all listed in one location Website with those listings plus video  beautiful gardens local gardens what they have produced what the gardens looks like  aerial photos drone I have some videos up now we haven’t really got it done. Vimeo called gardenbuzz.com I think that’s great, it’s always good to test ideas and get some content up there so when Oprah comes it’s full of quality!  local garden website videos   goodgardeningvideos.com is nationwide but if you just write in the city area it will show you if there are videos from your city there. It’s a lot of ideas that they want to show videos of actually have good accurate information pruning and landscaping for your area and what grows well in your area. Pruning raspberries My trick is to go to your state’s master garden site. Every site has an agricultural extension it will tell you about pruning timing. If your state doesn’t have it, your neighboring state may. It will give you accurate info on how to prune.  Ever bearing vs Summer Bearing In Idaho, it depends on if you have ever bearing or summer baring Ever bearing means they will produce lightly through the summer Summer bearing really produce once crop heavy crop just one time.  then you prune after that  if you don’t know I didn’t really know what I had just experiment with my pruning  one year I pruned all my berries to knee high, that was a mistake! I pruned half knee high the other half I pruned to almost shoulder height. I found out that the shoulder height pruning was much more abundant! I had many more berries by not pruning my berries down low  some older varieties prune almost to the ground basically mow them down come back to bear would go into one year of rest I know now!   I was gonna say about black berries I have to reread the info every year I always forget about   thinning them out cutting them to a certain height so I get some berries but they don’t take over the garden  grapes   Is there something you would do different next year or want to try/new? I’ve tried so many things, this year I may be taking a rest.  I have dug garden tunnels in the past. 

I’m so excited it’s Saturday, March 17th, 2018 when I’m recording and I have the most awesome guest Vicki Henderson on the line because she’s a master gardener, garden blogger at <a href="http://vickisgardentips.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vicki’s Garden Tips</a> and Vimeo channel <a href="https://vimeo.com/gardenbuzz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GardenBuzz</a> listener and in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OrganicGardenerPodcast/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook Group</a> and I know she has so much to share today! <h3></h3> <h3>Tell us a little about yourself.</h3> I actually grew up in Minnesota. I grew up on a farm, my dad was a dairy farmer. I got back into gardening later in life when I had kids. We have a property in Boise, we have about an acre.  We have a <ul> <li>Vegetable garden</li> <li>2 rabbits that I love </li> </ul> use their manure for fertilization of the garden. A big composter! I love composting! I have kept worms, this past year I stopped having my worms but I’m gonna start vermicomposting again because I like their compost as well I’m a big vegetable gardener, worked as a personal gardener for homes in Boise Idaho perennials. I love this maybe you’ll have some advice for people that might want to start a business like that, I have always thought that would be a good job for mike, he got a little job doing that last year, but it was kind of far away. The bonus was I got onions out of the deal and this year mike grew onions for me. <h3>Tell me about your first gardening experience?</h3> my parents did! we had a big vegetable garden! We spent a lot of time weeding the garden. We sold cucumbers on the market for pickles get up in the morning and pick cucumbers sold apples on the side of the highway and sweet corn is a big thing in Minnesota! corn corn corn! potatoes I remember that’s what we did, mainly our income on the farm was dairy, but to keep us kids busy we sold vegetables on the side of the road. It’s interesting you know the big rigs blowing past you! We had a small little table set off the highway by my house. People would stop and they would say let them taste an apple. We were small children, we didn’t know any better! We let have them, and they would take it and go We had a big family <ul> <li>6 kids</li> <li>big sister</li> <li>brother’s stayed home</li> </ul> little things sell the vegetables fun experience grandmother had flowers learned to love flower gardening was really fun Boise gardening was so much different <h3>high desert</h3> <ul> <li>raining today</li> <li>not a lot of water</li> <li>a lot of heat</li> </ul> things grow different here You have to do some research if you move out here from other part of the country, it’s different.  Do you want to talk about where is a successful place to do research because a lot of people have been asking me about moving to a new place.  well I when I moved to Idaho more then 20 years ago I moved here became a volunteer at the <a href="http://idahobotanicalgarden.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">botanical garden</a> and I learned a  lot there, and I joined the master gardener program. very active took classes every week do volunteer work learned an immense about <ul> <li>what grows well </li> <li>why it does</li> </ul> <h2><a href="http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> master gardener program</a></h2> <h3><a href="http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a></h3> <h3><a href="http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">county extension</a></h3> through the<a href="http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> University of Idaho</a> continued in that for maybe 4-5 years <ul> <li>events <a href="http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/mg/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">master gardener</a> </li> <li>volunteering for different things</li> <li>there’s just so much to learn</li> </ul> When I started when I started going personal gardening <h3>more education on the real side</h3> If you really want to learn how to garden you just got to go do it <ul> <li>fail</li> <li>succeed</li> </ul> Several people, well <a href="https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/replay-of-episode-86-school-garden-and-agriculture-educator/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patti Armbrister</a> in particular has asked several times, for Mike to create an online organic master gardener program. In Lincoln County where I live the extension program got cut. We’re working on it! A lot of guests have talked about the extension service is.  <h2>How did you learn how to garden organically, was your dad organic?</h2> in some ways yes, no in other ways I grew up in the 50s and 60s that was the beginning of better gardening with chemicals no in a lot of crops no my father was not organic fertilizers on the field. in my vegetable garden we were <ul> <li>cow manure</li> <li>spread it on the field</li> <li>chemical companies want everyone to have bigger better corn with fertilizers</li> <li>before round up we didn’t really use weed killer</li> </ul> <h3>Tell us about something that grew well this year.</h3> My favorite thing that I grow is raspberries and I have a fairly large patch! If you have raspberries and you water them well enough. water and water patch gets bigger and bigger! I try to keep it a certain size. I love to grow them because they’re so expensive in the store! And they’re so easy to grow.  <h2>Raspberries</h2> Right now is time to prune them (Mid March) If you prune them and keep them fairly well weeded <ul> <li>bounty </li> <li>so many raspberries</li> </ul> freeze them as soon as garden season nothing better to go outside throw them in your bowl I love to grow things in the garden that are expensive in the store but not any more expensive to grow in your garden! That’s what I use as my guideline for what I’m gonna grow <ul> <li>What’s super expensive?</li> <li>what do I love </li> <li>what is a delicacy</li> <li>berries are so expensive</li> </ul> Season don’t last very long but if you can have them in your garden! They’re so great to grow! Be able to pick! I have grand children! And they are great to go out and pick! <a href="https://amzn.to/2lLAOyo" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Garden Journal and Data Keeper</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/2lLAOyo" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a> I love this for so many reasons. One That’s why I put in the beginning of the garden journal and data keeper a place to write down what do you buy and spend the most money on! And It’s so true berries are soooo expensive! and they’re so healthy for you. I always say fruit is so messy but berries aren’t messy! My raspberries never make it to the house because I just eat the whole bowlful down there. <a href="http://jackiebeyer.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"></a> I even wrote a cute little book called In the Raspberry Patch! And of course in the end it’s the grandkids in the raspberry patch! <h3>I have a trail-cam I have it pointed at my compost pile</h3> I know I have had the quail in my raspberry, they lay eggs in there, and the babies hatch, it’s good camouflage. Boise is a drive, listeners might think we’re neighbors but it’s about 8 hours from here. You have snow right? You said it was time to prune? I did an<a href="https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/episode-48-nancy-oliver-little-homestead-in-boise-blog-boise-id-2/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> interview with a woman </a>from Boise who had a sweet little blog called <a href="https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/episode-48-nancy-oliver-little-homestead-in-boise-blog-boise-id-2/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Little Homestead in Boise</a>. I have a blog <ul> <li>not active on my blog right </li> <li>garden website</li> <li>I’m sure I’ll get back to the blog eventually. </li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://vickisgardentips.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Vicki’s Garden Tips.com</a></h3> It’s about Boise gardening because Boise gardening is different from your gardening is different from Minnesota garden everybody has their our own climate and things that grow better. I started that blog 4-5 years ago <a href="https://vimeo.com/gardenbuzz" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sort of website</a> we’re doing a trying to develop a garden website that is local based with all garden providers To have a listing, Boise is a pretty large, metropolitan area. We call it the Treasure Valley <ul> <li>Boise</li> <li>Nampa</li> <li>Meridian</li> <li>Twin falls over to Oregon</li> </ul> <h3>And so it would be a list of  garden providers</h3> <ul> <li>landscapers</li> <li>patios</li> <li>stone workers</li> <li>waterfalls</li> </ul> have it all listed in one location <h3><a href="https://vimeo.com/gardenbuzz" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a> with those listings plus video</h3> <ul> <li>beautiful gardens</li> <li>local gardens</li> <li>what they have produced</li> <li>what the gardens looks like</li> </ul> aerial photos drone I have some videos up now we haven’t really got it done. <h3>Vimeo called <a href="https://vimeo.com/gardenbuzz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gardenbuzz.com</a></h3> I think that’s great, it’s always good to test ideas and get some content up there so when Oprah comes it’s full of quality! <ul> <li>local garden</li> <li>website</li> <li>videos </li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://goodgardeningvideos.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">goodgardeningvideos.com</a></h3> is nationwide but if you just write in the city area it will show you if there are videos from your city there. It’s a lot of ideas that they want to show videos of actually have good accurate information pruning and landscaping for your area and what grows well in your area. <h2>Pruning raspberries</h2> My trick is to go to your state’s master garden site. Every site has an agricultural extension it will tell you about pruning timing. If your state doesn’t have it, your neighboring state may. It will give you accurate info on how to prune.  <h3>Ever bearing vs Summer Bearing</h3> In Idaho, it depends on if you have ever bearing or summer baring Ever bearing means they will produce lightly through the summer Summer bearing really produce once crop heavy crop just one time. <ul> <li>then you prune after that </li> <li>if you don’t know</li> <li>I didn’t really know what I had</li> <li>just experiment with my pruning</li> </ul> one year I pruned all my berries to knee high, that was a mistake! I pruned half knee high the other half I pruned to almost shoulder height. I found out that the shoulder height pruning was much more abundant! I had many more berries by not pruning my berries down low <ul> <li>some older varieties prune almost to the ground</li> <li>basically mow them down</li> <li>come back to bear</li> <li>would go into one year of rest</li> <li>I know now! </li> </ul> <h2>I was gonna say about black berries</h2> I have to reread the info every year I always forget about <ul> <li>thinning them out</li> <li>cutting them to a certain height</li> <li>so I get some berries but they don’t take over the garden </li> <li>grapes </li> </ul> <h3>Is there something you would do different next year or want to try/new?</h3> I’ve tried so many things, this year I may be taking a rest.  I have dug garden tunnels in the past.

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