Flower Power Garden Hour

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Flower Power Garden Hour 160: Andrew Bunting, Fall Garden Preparation Oct 22, 2022

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Fall is THE time to prep for a wonderful spring/summer garden. I talk to Andrew Bunting -- Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Vice President of Horticulture -- all about planting bulbs, soil prep, what to plant, what to watch out for and how to create habitats for beneficial insects, bees and birds.

Andrew and resources from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society can be found at:

Website: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Facebook: @PHSgardening
Twitter: @PHSgardening
Instagram: @phsgardening
YouTube: @PHSgardening
LinkedIn: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

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Flower Power Garden Hour 159: Greg Bundesen, Water conservation while maintaining a green garden Oct 12, 2022

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As California and the west continue to suffer the effects of drought, it is more important than ever to be water-wise in the garden. I talk to Greg Bundesen – Sacramento Water Conservation Supervisor – about what you can do as a homeowner and gardener to use less water but still maintain a green space. We discuss grey water, mulch, converting sprinklers to drip, and where you find ample water saving information.

Further information can be found at:

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Flower Power Garden Hour 158: Joe Lamp'l -- aka "Joe Gardener" – Raised beds, from Why to How Sep 25, 2022

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Joe Lamp'l – from "Joe Gardener" fame – is America's gardener. Given that his public television show Growing a Greener World is shown in 38 countries, Joe is more appropriately the WORLD's gardener. He has an illustrious, long career spanning television, print, podcasting, and video content. Above all, Joe is an educator – his gardening passion is infectious, and his communication ability to make challenging concepts simple is a strength. He has taken this to the masses in his Online Gardening Academy, offering a growing (pun intended) curriculum of classes available to the public at affordable prices.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics, but our focus is on raised beds – from the "why" to the "how".

Joe's content can be found at:

Podcast: joegardener.com/podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Videos: joegardener.com/videos, YouTube
Blog: joegardener.com/blog
Growing a Greener World PBS show: growingagreenerworld.com
Lastest Book: The Vegetable Gardening Book

Joe's Online Gardening Academy (online classes) can be found at:

organicgardeningacademy.com

Joe's social media can be found at:

Facebook: @joegardener
Twitter: @joegardener
Instagram: @joegardener
Pinterest: @joegardener

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Flower Power Garden Hour 157: Water-wise gardening & Irrigation, with Don Smith - Water Management Coordinator for the City of Folsom Sep 08, 2022

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Water-wise gardening is more important than ever in the west, and part of this includes irrigating properly. Don Smith, Water Management Coordinator for the City of Folsom, joins me to discuss everything irrigation. He covers which sprinklers are best if you do have a lawn, how to lay out your drip irrigation for optimal coverage, and are "smart" controllers worth it? Plus, he reviews how to convert a PVC system to a drip system, and how to know how long to run your irrigation.

More water conservation information can be found at:

Website: ca.us/government/environmental-water-resources/water/water-conservation

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Flower Power Garden Hour 156: Tomatoes, with Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms Aug 25, 2022

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Brad Gates, owner of Wild Boar Farms, joins me again to discuss problems gardeners may be encountering with their tomatoes. We also discuss the process that goes into him finding the next new variety… some are by chance, others are by purposeful breeding. Plus, he let's us in on the new varieties to be released in the near future.

Brad and Wild Boar Farms can be found at:

Instagram: @wildboarfarms
Facebook: @wild boar farms
YouTube: @brad gates
Website: wildboarfarms.com

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Flower Power Garden Hour 155: Fire-wise landscaping, with Master Gardener education specialist, Kevin Marini Aug 23, 2022

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Sadly fire is becoming a way of life in California and the greater west. It's important to maintain a healthy landscape for wildlife habitat, but there are key tasks homeowners can do to mitigate fire danger. I talk to Master Gardener education specialist, Kevin Marini, all about fire-wise landscaping. Learn about the different zones around your house and how to plant and maintain them. Learn what planting in islands means and the "safest" mulch for your plants.

Further fire-wise landscape information can be found at:

Website: ucanr.org

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Flower Power Garden Hour 154: Pollination, with Tora Rocha of Pollinator Posse Aug 18, 2022

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Over 80% of plants need pollinators to reproduce -- this includes a majority of crops humans eat. To say that pollinators are important is an understatement. The founder and CEO of the non-profit Pollinator Posse, Tora Rocha, joins me to discuss what we can do on our part. She gives tips on how to create a pollinator friendly garden, plants that are both food and host plants, and how to create a Monarch habitat. We learn how many native California bee species there are…. it's a lot.

Tora can be found at:

Instagram: @pollinatorposse & @toranado12
Facebook: @Pollinator Posse
Website: pollinatorposse.org
Website: xerces.org

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Flower Power Garden Hour 153: Peppers, with Chad Inman of Sky High Scoville Pepper Farm Aug 11, 2022

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5 foot tall pepper plants? Yes, your peppers can get this large. Chad Iman, owner of Sky High Scoville Pepper Farm breaks down step by step how to grow the best most productive peppers possible. He shares his secret recipe for seed starting mix, transplant techniques and how to overwinter your plants. Plus we talk about the beautiful hot peppers he grows.

Chad and Sky High Scoville Pepper Farm can be found at:

Instagram: @skyhighscovillepepperfarm
Facebook: @ Sky High Scoville Peppers

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Flower Power Garden Hour 152: Bees, with Blake Dacy and Tina Macuha Aug 08, 2022

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Producing your own honey and having your own bees can be a fun and rewarding backyard hobby. But how do you go about starting -- do you need to buy bees or can you catch your own swarm? I talk to professional beekeeper, Blake Dacy and backyard hobbyist/host of Good Day Sacramento Tina Macuha all about bees. We discuss how bees go about building a hive, what they require, how to treat for mites and everything in between. Plus -- Blake and Tina share their fun swarm collecting stories.

Blake can be found at:

Instagram: @sacramentobeekeeper
Facebook: @ BlakeSacramentoBeekeeperDacy
Website: sacramentobeekeeper.com

Tina can be found at:

Instagram: @tinamacuha

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Flower Power Garden Hour 151: August To Do & Listener Q&A Aug 06, 2022

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Lots of tasks during the hot summer season, including:

Plant cabbage, carrots, beets, celery, kale, onion seeds, potatoes, mustards, chard, collards, leeks
Deadhead flowers
Hose off whiteflies, sticky traps
Clean up old fruit on trees, ground
Still time to summer prune fruit trees
Order fall bulbs
Support melons on the ground or on vines
Continue to deep water young, newly planted trees
Deadhead, cut back mophead hydrangeas

A wide variety of listener questions are addressed, including:

How to control Leaf Miners on cucumber
What type of milkweed for Monarch butterflies
Lawn clippings for mulch?
How to get rid of green hornworms
Yellowing leaves on mandarins & limes
Bubbles from the soil while when watering potted plants
Pepper plant with black at the base of stems
Do sunflowers stunt the growth of surrounding plants

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