Should you start with a design or does design evolve over time?

Episode 50 - Do We Need Garden Design?

It's more than beauty. Flowers serve a vital role in the vegetable garden, stopping the spread of disease, controlling which insects get to stick around and making our lives easier. Here's some more info and tips for getting started.

Episode 49 - Why You Need Flowers in the Vegetable Garden

Even though we can't start planting outdoors just yet - soon, but not yet - we can get a taste of spring by visiting one of the local garden and flower shows. I talk about 3 within driving distance that will satisfy your longing to breath in air saturated with the scent of warm soil.

Episode 48 - Spring Garden Show Season

What does it take to enjoy gardening? Is it a personality thing? Maybe a disorder? My friend thought it looked enticing, until she gave it a half-hearted try. Here's my advice to her and anyone who is discouraged about gardening.

Episode 47 - Can Anyone Garden?

We're all familiar with El Nino. He comes around every few years and totally confuses us about winter. I'm not complaining that it's too warm for me, but it's not the best winter weather for the garden. Here are a few things to keep an eye on, until things go back to normal.

Episode 46 - El Nino in the Garden

Would someone visiting your garden get a glimpse of who you are? If your garden doesn't reflect you every bit as well as your home does, here are some ideas to help you shape your garden's story.

Episode 45 - Does Your Garden Tell a Story

You might not consider fall to be the ideal season for evaluating your garden's design, but you can learn a lot by studying your garden  when all the leaves have fallen.

Episode 44 - Fall for Garden Design

It may be November, but it's still nice enough outdoors for the plants to be growing -  which means there's work to be done. A little care now can mean the difference between winter dieback and winter dormancy.

Podcast Ep. 43 - Winterize Your Garden

Piling your leaves at the edge of the road for pick up is a waste of garden gold. Here are 6 things you can do with your leaves that won't take much time or effort on your part and will make your garden richer.

Episode 42 - What to Do with All Those Leaves

Color

It happens every year, so it's easy to take it for granted or even miss the show. Those dazzling fall colors the leaves turn don't change by accident. Here's what causes all those colors and how to predict if it will be a great year for fall foliage.

Episode 41 - Why Leaves Change Color

Gardening news, views, and tips from the gardens and gardeners of New York's Hudson Valley, where American landscape design began.

Smiling to hear you describe “fickle gardening format😉

One year violets took over my raspberry patch
Mixed feelings yanking and digging them out!

Thanks,
Paula in Albany

Paula

Gardening the Hudson Valley

Does companion planting work? It's hard to say. How do you even test it? One thing that's worth experimenting with is companion planting to control insect pests and attract beneficial insects. That's what we'll talk about today.

Ep. 024 - Common Sense Companion Planting

Should you prune while dormant? After they have flowered? Just let them grow. The trick is knowing when to prune what. Listen in.

Ep. 016 - Pruning Flowering Trees and Shrubs

Weeds are a fact of life in the garden. Knowing what you are dealing with, whether annual or perennial, is the fist line of attack. Listen in and learn more tips.

Episode 020 - What to Do with All the Weeds

My garlic was not stellar this year. In fact, it was down right puny. That's not going to happen again. Today's show is a refresher on what garlic needs and what keeps it from forming big, lush bulbs.

Episode 33 - Garlic Growing Woes

Successful transplanting requires more than digging a hole and plopping in a plant. Young plants are at your mercy and need a little TLC and forethought. Here's how to give it to them.

Transplanting Tips

The calendar says spring, but this is not ideal planting weather. Here's some advice for when it's safe to plant.

Hold Off on Planting

Wildlife is a never ending challenge in the garden and no one is more wily than the groundhog. We may never keep them out entirely, but here are some ideas to keep them diverted.

Episode 021 - Dealing with Groundhogs

You can grow a lot of onions in a small space and even save them through most of winter. But they do have a few peculiarities in the garden. Choose the right type, with these tips, and you'll be way ahead of the game.

Episode 019 - Onions to Cry For

Do you need to buy special fertilizers for every plant? Of course not. Here are a handful of things every plant needs and how to provide them.

Ep. 028 - Fertilizer Made Easy

As the vegetable garden starts to fade, herbs are a great way to fill in those increasing bare spots. Not every herb loves fall's cooler weather, but these 6 will be as welcome in the garden as they are in the kitchen.

Episode 36 - Herbs for Fall Planting

How to know what type of raspberries bushes you have and the best time and method for pruning them, so you get a great harvest

Ep. 013 - Pruning Raspberries

Have you ever noticed your fruit trees seem to drop lots of small fruits in the beginning of June? That's called June Drop and it's nothing to panic about.

Ep. 023 - What's June Drop?

Not enough bees and other pollinators in your garden? There are a number of reasons for this, some of which are out of our control. But one thing we can do to get our vegetable gardens buzzing is to mix in some flowers. Not just any flowers - nectar rich flowers. That's what we'll talk about today.

Ep. 31 - Flowers for the Vegetable Garden

Some easy jobs for late summer, that will give you a headstart next spring.

Episode 34 - Fall Tasks for a Better Spring Garden

Plants hate excessive heat as much as we do. Even though the heat doesn't usually last long, there are a few things we should do to help our plants cope.

Ep. 022 - Caring for Plants During a Heat Wave

Have a few carrots, turnips, or beets still in the garden. Why not let them stay there and sweeten up. Today's podcast is about how to store your root vegetables in the garden, so - snow permitting - you can harvest them in January.

Episode 38 - Over-Wintering Root Vegetables

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