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The gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show heard weekly March - Oct
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In Segment 1 Joey and Holly go over which is better starting your plants for buying them?
Should you start your plants indoors or buy them at the garden center?
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Things to consider if starting seeds indoors
What does indoors mean ? bedroom/ basement/ garage? Green house? Heated or unheated?
Space
How will you start them in rootmaker trays? Peat pellets not so good
What about light
A benefit is endless varieties 3 or 4 dollars for 25 tomato seeds/50 peppers 100’s of lettuce seeds
Light
Downside you will need to take care of them do you have the time
Buy at your local independent garden center easy plants are all healthy (should be)
ready to plant
Questions can be asked to the staff
But cost
That pack of pepper seeds for 3 of 4 dollars for 50 seeds 1 pepper can cost 2 to 4 dollars
We have 38 peppers seedlings right now started
It is a dissection that each of you have to make
We did a survey through our Youtube page The Wisconsin vegetable Gardener that 76% try to start as many seeds as possible 24% buying most of their plants
Nothing wrong with either way if you are a new gardener it can be very overwhelming
In segment segment 2 Joey and Holly talk about how to jump start your garden
Jump starting your outdoor garden
Go through your tools
Think about your containers
Broken supports
Replace anything that you got rid of last year
Look for deals on bulk material
Build cold frames or low tunnel
First garden or expanding garden - call diggers hot line
Buy seeds
Start seeds if you can
Reflect on last years garden and plan for what
In segment 3 Joey and Holly welcome their guest author
ELLEN ECKER OGDEN is a nationally recognized author, who provides kitchen garden design tips and recipes through newsletters, books and design workshops. Here website https://www.ellenogden.com/
1. What exactly is a kitchen garden?
2. In your newest book, The New Heirloom Garden, you provide a lot of great info, recipes, etc - for those who don't know, what are heirloom plants?
3. Why heirloom plants and are they hard to grow?
We are talking with ELLEN ECKER OGDEN is a nationally recognized author, who provides kitchen garden design tips and recipes through newsletters, books and design workshops. Here website https://www.ellenogden.com/
4. What is a helpful tip from your book to intrigue our listeners?
5. You refer to growing food as an art, how is it an art for you vs a hobby or lifestyle?
6. How can we find out more about you?
in segment 4 Joey and Holly answer your garden questions
Q: Every year I start plants inside from seed. Tomatoes, peppers, herbs, peas, and so forth. Every year, the plants sprout, grow to 2-3 inches, then stall. They don't get any taller or stronger. Often, they stay alive but don't thrive. Sometimes, they seem to just dry out at the base of the stem (even though the soil is moist) and die. For those that survive, when it finally gets warm I put them outside but usually either they die at that time, or they are too small and don't grow enough to bear before the frost. So I always end up going to the nursery and buying plants instead. I am wondering what I am doing wrong.
I have used growing kits with those expanding soil discs and regular pots with potting soil. I have used various fertilizers such as liquid miracle-gro or granulated fertilizer formulated for tomatoes or vegetables. Nothing seems to make a difference.
I have no south-facing windows, so I have very limited direct sun in the house--just a few hours near an east-facing window in the morning. Plants get indirect or artificial light the rest of the day. Could that be the whole problem? If so, is there anything I can do? Or could it still be something else?
A::Thank you for your email/question and thank you for providing us the detailed information about how you are growing so we can best help you.
Starting Tomatoes, peppers and herbs indoors is good for peas. We would not recommend starting indoors as they have very sensitive roots and can get transplant shock easily. Direct sowing them is the best option for them.
As to the others, with the plants that dry out at the stem and die even though it is moist, that is a case of Damping off it is a disease of seedlings
Visible damping off fungus growing on an emerging seedling. Young leaves, roots and stems of newly emerged seedlings are highly susceptible to infection. Under certain environmental conditions, damping off pathogens can cause root rot or crown rot in mature plants. In most cases it will kill the seedling at an early stage. This is often caused by over watering. How to fix it, water less but also at the time of planting sprinkle a dusting of ground cinnamon over the planting area. You can water it and it will not affect the cinnamon. Cinnamon has antifungal properties that will help prevent damping off. Also a fan on low to keep air moving can help too.
Potting soil that has a slow release fertilizer works best. We buy local store brand, no national brand as you get more for your money and the store or local brand works better. this way you do not have to fertilize. if you do choose liquid fertilizer, choose an organic type or a compost tea this way the plants do not become dependent on it as synthetic fertilizer do.
As to the stunted seedling that live, the expandable peat pellets are great to start seeds in however they have not nurturance in them and are simple a medium to grow in so the plant grow in them for 3 to 4 weeks using up a
We recommend some type of grow light - like a happy leaf LED - which is more efficient and lasts longer than a regular tube grow light Happyleafled.com
Q: I'm interested in knowing if it is legal to turn the lawn in my backyard into a vegetable garden in Wauwatosa or not. Help information will be appreciated.
A: Most municipalities allow for backyard vegetable gardens. You would want to contact your local city hall to determine any specific rules and regulations. Also, before you dig a garden you want to call diggers hotline 3 business days before you dig.
Q Any reason I can't fill the bottom on my raised beds with pine needles? {our boxes are 26" tall}
A: Yes you could feel the bottom with pine needles it won't affect the soil as pine needles will neutralise ph by the time they turn in to soil
Q: Pete from Madison ask
Can you recommend a good tasting cherry tomato to grow in a large container ?
A: Thank you for the questions
Here are several cherry tomato variety, Chadwick Cherry, White Cherry, Black Cherry, Gold nugget
Igleheart Yellow Cherry, Gold Rush Currant, Mexico Midget
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