2016 Almanac Gardener Series | UNC-TV

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3308 Demonstration Segment: Creating Green Landscape Texture with Plants that Don’t Bloom May 29, 2016

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Michelle Wallace, Horticultural Agent, Durham County, and Bobby Morttern, Director of Horticulture at Duke Gardens, share tips to creating texture to your landscape.

3308 Demonstration Segment: Getting the Most From Your Tomato Crop May 29, 2016

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Lucy Bradley visit the Raleigh City Farm to uncover the answer to what happens to tomato plants when there leaves began to curl up? Chris Gunter, Extension Specialist, at NCSU, give Lucy an understanding to what happens to plants.

3308 Episode: Plants that Control Insects May 29, 2016

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What plants can help control insects from eating your favorite plants? Mike Gray and the panel of horticultural experts recommend several plants that will keep insects from nesting and eating your houseplants.

3307 Demonstration Segment: Pruning & Training Blackberry Canes May 29, 2016

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Michelle Wallace shares how viewers can get a head start on pruning and training Blackberry Canes so that plants yields great harvest.

3307 Demonstration Segment: Growing Day Lilies at Lakeview Farm May 29, 2016

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Jeana Myers, Horticultural Agent in Wake County, visits the Lakeview Daylily Farm, to get the scoop on growing beautiful Day Lilies. Owner, Noel Weston, share techniques to growing and planting a variety of Day Lilies.

3307 Episode: Building Community Gardens May 29, 2016

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Mike Gray and the Horticultural Agents demonstrate how Filbert trees can be grown as a shrub, hedge or a tree in landscapes. Mike and guests also answers viewer questions sent in to the show.

3306 Demonstration Segment: Controlling Voles in Your Landscape May 09, 2016

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Lucy Bradley talk with Peter Herti, Research Assist at NCSU, about controlling Voles that reap problems in landscapes.

3306 Demonstration Segment: Growing Spring Onion May 09, 2016

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Scott Welborn shares why Hydrangea can be the perfect plant for landscapes with terraces. Hydrangea plants can bring beauty to unattractive slope areas in landscapes.

33065 Episode: Filbert Trees are good for Hedges May 09, 2016

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Mike Gray and the Horticultural Agents demonstrate how Filbert trees can be grown as a shrub, hedge or a tree in landscapes. Mike and guests also answers viewer questions sent in to the show.

3305 Demonstration Segment: Growing Spring Onion Apr 30, 2016

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Onion " Bill Lord shows how to start growing various onions in the spring season so viewers can have great tasting carrots to eat throughout the summer season