>> I THOUGHT A PINK ONION,Y NOT TRY IT?

>> THESE DO WELL IN MINNES, THEY LIKE THE TEMPERATURES.

>> WE HAVE THINGS BLOOMINGM EARLY SPRING TO LATE FALL.

>> IT IS FUN TO IMAGINE WHT THIS WILL BE LIKE IN A FEW YEARS.

WE HAVE JUST GOTTEN STARTE.

♪ SHARON: HELLO, AND THANKS R JOINING US ON "GREAT GARDE" I'M YOUR HOST, SHARON YUNG.

WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF THE GROWING SEASON, AND TONIGHT WE'RE BRINGING YOU AN HOURG SPECIAL FULL OF TIPS AND TS TO HELP YOUR GARDENS CONTIO GROW STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL.

LET'S WELCOME BACK OUR GARN EXPERTS.

THEY ARE HORTICULTURIST AND EDUCATOR, BOB OLEN, AND GAN PROFESSIONAL, DEB BYRNS ERICKSON, OF BYRNS GREENHON ZIM.

WE HAVE PHONE VOLUNTEERS FM THE MASTER GARDENERS TO REE YOUR QUESTIONS THIS EVENIN.

BE SURE TO CALL LOCALLY 218-788-2847 OR EMAIL US AT GRE ATGARDENTING@PBSNORTH.ORG.

HOW TO KEEP DEER AWAY FROM TULIPS AND VEGETABLES?

BOB: AS PEOPLE KNOW, IF THS ANY WAY YOU CAN CONSTRUCT A SOLID FENCE AROUND THE PERIMETER, THAT IS IDEAL.

THE NICE THING ABOUT SOME F THOSE CROPS, VEGETABLES, TY ARE SUMMER CROPS, TULIPS.

THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES.

YOU CAN USE THE MOTION TRID SPRINKLER SYSTEMS, SCARECRS A NAMEBRAND OUT THERE.

YOU CAN USE SOME REPELLENT.

ON THE VEGETABLES Y HAVE TE CAREFUL BECAUSE SOME ARE LD EDIBLES, THE SECRET IS TO E THEM.

SOME HAVE A PEPPER BASE, SO ROTATE THESE BECAUSE THEY G USED TO THEM, AND REAPPLY .

YOU HAVE A NUMBER OF OPTIO.

SHARON: THANK YOU.

JIM WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAN BE PLANTED SPECIFICALLY TOP MOSQUITOES AWAY?

DEB: THERE IS A LOT OF MARG AND PUSH TO GET THINGS THAE FRAGRANT.

LAVENDER, CITRONELLA, GERA, A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS T HAVE STRONG FRAGRANCES.

THE IDEA BEING IF THEY CANT SMELL YOU, THEN THEY WILL T STING YOU.

BUT -- BOB: THEY ALSO HAVE INFRARD SENSORS, AND PEOPLE WHO GE, I SEEM TO ATTRACT THEM THRH WHATEVER FRAGRANCE.

EXCEPT DEEP, THAT THEY DO T LIKE.

SHARON: SUSAN HAS A QUESTI, SHE HAS SOME PLANTS SHE HAS PLANTED THAT HAVE NOT BLOS, WHAT IS REQUIRED APPLES?

BOB: TIME.

DEB: I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH S BECAUSE EVERY TREE WE GET E KNOW WHAT DEPTH TO PLANT I, EVERYONE WE GET BLOSSOMS IE POT WHEN WE PUT IT IN.

THAT IS NOT A HUGE HELPER L BE PLANT THEM.

A LOT OF TIMES I FEEL LIKE CUSTOMERS OR GARDENERS PLAT THEM TOO DEEP.

BOB: THAT IS OFTEN THE CAS.

YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL, SOMETIMES THEY ARE TOO DEEN THE NURSERY OR THE CONTA BT EVERY TREE WILL BE DIFFERE.

WE HAVE A NEW ONE THAT CAMN FROM THE PROGRAM IN CANADA CALLED PRAIRIE MAGIC.

BLOOMS AND BLOSSOMS FIRST R PRODUCES ABUNDANT FRUIT QU, THEN WE GOT SWEET SIXTEEN,H IS AREAT APPLE, MAYBE 10-12 YEARS BEFORE YOU GET A GOOD BLOSSOM.

IT DEPENDS ON THE ROOTSTOCK BECAUSE IT WILL GIVE YOU PRODUCTIVITY EARLIER.

THE TREE BURNS OUT A LITTLE EARLIER.

DEB: AND THEY ARE NOT AS H. WE DO NOT CARRY DWARF AT AL BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AS HE.

ESPECIALLY LAST YEAR WITH A MINIMAL SNOW COVER, WE NEEO GET A REALLY HEARTY TREE.

BOB: GOOD AND HEARTY STARTG WITH THE VARIETIES.

YOU HAVE TO BE PATIENT.

DEB: AND CHECK THE DEPTH.

BOB: ALSO LOOK AT THE EARLR BLOOMERS.

PEOPLE, THEY DO NOT WANT TT FIVE YEARS, THEY WANT IT N. PRAIRIE MAGIC DOES RESPOND QUICKLY.

SHARON: THANK YOU.

WE'LL RETURN TO ANSWER MORE QUESTIONS LATER TONIGHT, BW LET'S GO ON A GARDEN TOUR.

IN JUNE OFHIS YEAR, WE TRAVELLED TO ASHLAND, WISCN TO VISIT THE GARDENS OF PAD SANDY STORK.

THEIR MULTI-ACRE SPACE TOOK DECADES OF WORK.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK.

>> WE HAVE BEEN LIVING HER2 YEARS AND ALL OF THIS WAS N FIELD WHEN WE FIRST MOVED .

HIS PARENTS OWNED THIS PRO.

WE DECIDED WE WOULD BE MOVG CLOSER TO THEM.

THEY GAVE US THE PROPERTY,E STARTED DEVELOPING IT MOREO WHEN WE FIRST RETIRED.

WE RETIRED FOR 24 YEARS.

>> I WOULD SAY 5-6 ACRES IT WE HAVE GOT, AND WE PLANTED THESE TREES EXCEPT THE BIGM TREE.

TREE.>> IT HAS GROWN TREME.

WHEN WE FIRST MOVED IN, ITA HEIGHT, AND IT GREW OVER 52 YEARS.

WITH ALL THIS RAIN THAT WEE GRATEFUL FOR, THINGS ARE GG FASTER AND THICKER, AND ITS TAKEN MORE TIME.

>> THE METAL POTS, I MADE E METAL POTS.

>> OUR DAUGHTER IN LAW MADT BIRDHOUSE THERE >> WE PUT THESE FALLS IN OURSELVES.

>> THOSE, WE HAVE GOTTEN, E SENT AWAY FOR THEM, AND WEW THEY WERE SO CUTE.

WE LOVE HASTA.

THEY DO WELL IN THE SHADE.

THIS IS A SHADED AREA.

OVER THE YEARS THIS IS NATURALIZED WITH THE FIRM.

-- THE FERN.

I HAD SOME LABELS MADE FORE OF THESE ITEMS THAT PEOPLEA LOT ABOUT.

IF I AM NOT ON THE TOUR WIH PAUL, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE L AND IT IDENTIFIES.

THE BUTTERFLIES, THE BEES E THESE PLANS, THE PURPLE.

>> YOU SEE WHERE WE GOT THE STATUE, WE GOT THAT FROM GD GARDEN.

DID YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THE LINES?

>> WE WERE AT NORTHSTAR IN HAYWARD AND THEY HAD GOTTEN THESE LIONS IN.

PAUL LIKED THE STATELY LOOD THEY ARE CONCRETE, AND HE O HA THEM, SO WE BOUGHT THREF THEM.

EVEN IN THE HIGH WIND THEYO NOT MOVE ANYWHERE.

ALTHOUGH LITTLE TOPIARY TR, I FINISHED TRIMMING THE WE DO THAT IN JUNE AND JULN THEY HAVE THE NEW GROWTH, E WAIT A LITTLE WHILE UNTIL Y HARDEN A LITTLE BIT, AND IS EASIER TO SHEER THE POM-PO.

SHARON: YOU JUST SAW A TOUF PAUL AND SANDY STORK'S GARN SPACE, BUT THAT WAS JUST PT ONE.

LATER IN TONIGHT'S SHOW W'L CHECK OUT THEIR UNUSUAL STS AND MORE.

LET'S GET BACK TO MORE QUES WITH OUR GARDEN EXPERTS.

JEFF EMAILED US PHOTOS OF E TREES WI SOME DISCOLORATION AND DAMAGE.

HE IS WONDERING WHAT IT IS?

BOB: I WISH WE COULD THROWE UP BUT EVERYONE SUSPECTS DISEASE.

THIS IS AREAS WHERE THE TIE HAD BROKEN DOWN, WHAT WE CL NECROTIC.

WE DO NOT SEE ANY SYMPTOMSR THAN THAT, WE DO NOT SEE SS OR ANYTHING ELSE, SO I WILY IT IS ENVIRONMENTAL.

WE HAD TOUGH RAINS, SOME HR HEAVY RAIN.

WHEN THOSE APPLES WERE BEGG TO FORM AND WERE VERY SMAL, THEY ARE VERY VULNERABLE.

I THINK IT IS ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE AND WOULD NOT BE CONCERNED ABOUT IT.

SHARON: JERRY LIVES IN THES AND HAS NOT MOWN HIS LAWN R SIX WEEKS, SHE SAW WHAT SHE THOUGHT WERE STRAWBERRIES T NOW THINKS IT IS VIRGINIA CREEPER.

HOW CAN SHE GET RID OF IT?

BOB: THEY ARE QUITE DIFFER.

THE STRAWBERRIES WILL HAVEH SMALLER LEAVES.

SHE JUST WANTS TO GET RID .

START BY MOWING IT.

IF YOU MOW THE TOP STOCK D, THAT TAKES OFF THE LEAF CO, THAT TAKES OFF THE LEAF CO3 TIMES BUT IT WILL NOT BE MF A PROBLEM.

SHARON: STEVE AND WEST DULH HAS CUCUMBERS WITH YELLOW S HALFWAY THROUGH THE SEASON.

WHAT CAN HE DO?

BOB: THE YELLOW LEAVES CANA NUMBER OF THINGS.

WE HAD ALL THIS WATER, ANDI REALLY THINK IT MIGHT BE WATERLOGGED.

WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHATE DRAINAGE LOOKED LIKE.

DEB: WHAT THE SOIL CONSISTY IS.

BOB: IF HE DOES NOT HAVE GD DRAIGE, THE OLDER LEAVES WL YELLOW OUT AND DROP OFF.

IF HE HAS NEW GROWTH ON THE UPPER PORTION, I WOULD NOT WORRY.

SHARON: JUST PART OF THE NL PROCESS.

BOB: IT WAS VERY WET THIS , PARTICULARLY IN JUNE WHEN E PLANTS WERE IMMATURE AND BEGINNING TO DEVELOP.

ARON: NANCY OF SUPERIOR WAS TO KNOW WHEN HER SIBERIAN P HEDGE CAN BE PRUNED -- PEAE CAN BE PRUNED FROM 6 FEET 5 FEET?

BO IT CAN BE PRUNED.

THEY COME BACK RESILIENTLY.

YOU CAN PRUNE IT DOWN TO 4T AND ALMOST TO GROUND LEVELD THEY WILL COME BACK.

IT IS DURABLE, ITAKES A GOD HEDGE, AND NOT REAL INVASI.

SO MANY MATERIALS WERE BROT IN BECAUSE THEY WERE SO RESILIENT AND HAVE BECOME INVASIVE LIKE BUCKTHORN.

DEB: IF YOU WANT A HEDGE, T WOULD BE THE BETTER HEDGE O CHOOSE.

SHARON: LINDA AND DULUTH HS MORNING GLORIES 5 FOOT HIGD A DAILY AS AND FOUND SOMETG IS EATING HER FLOWER PLANT LEAVES.

THERE ARE NO DEAR AND SHE S IT MAY BE AN INSECT.

WHAT CAN SHE DO?

DEB: I'M THINKING SLUGS BEE THOSE ARE FULL OF MOISTURE.

I'M WONDERING, I DO NOT KNE SIZE AND SHAPE OF THE WHOL- THE HOLE, HOW IT IS BEING N BUT IT COULD BE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.

I WOULD GO TOWARD SLUG DAM.

BOB: AND THE UNDERSIDE OF E LEAVES, SOME NOCTURNAL INSS TO THE DAMAGE.

YOU WOULD HAVE A BETTER IDF IT IS A CATERPILLAR OR A STINGING INSECT, WE HAVE SE CONTROLS FOR THAT.

TRY TO FIND THE ACTUAL CRIL DOING THE DAMAGE.

DEB: IDENTIFY IT TO TREAT T CORRECTLY.

SHARON: CAROLYN AND DULUTHS MORNING GLORIES THAT STARTO GROW, SOMETHING IS EATING .

WHAT CAN SHE DO?

THE LEAVES ARE LACY.

BOB: THERE ARE SOME INSECTT WILL TAKE OUT ALL THE TISSD LEAVE THE VEINS.

THAT IS AN INSECT ISSUE FOR SURE.

SHARON: DEB, YOU WANTED TOK ABOUT HOW WE HAD A SLOW STO THE SEASON THIS YEAR?

DEB: IT WAS AN INTERESTING WINTER AND SPRING.

WE STARTED, FEBRUARY AND MH WERE EXCEPTIONALLY WARM, GT FOR THE PROPANE BILLS BUT O GREAT BECAUSE WE DID NOT HE SNOW COVER.

THAT WAS DIFFICULT FOR PLA.

A LETTER PLANTS, ESPECIALLN PEOPLE PLAN FOR COLLECTIOND THEY ARE SPREAD OUT, THOSE PLANTS COULD START TO BREAD USE THEIR STORED ENERGY.

I FEEL THERE WAS MORE LOSSN GARDENS THAT WERE SPREAD OT MORE MORE WIND DESICCATION, BECAUSE SNOW WAS OUR SUPER.

IT PROTECTS THE ROOTS AND E CROWN.

IT KEEPS IT DRY BECAUSE IT ENCAPSULATES IT.

I FEEL THIS YEAR WE DID NOE ANY OF THAT, WE HAD A LOT F LOSS AND THINGS STARTED TO BREAK.

PEOPLE COULD NOT GET INTO E GARDENS AND DID NOT KNOW WT WAS REALLY HAPPENING BECAUT WAS SO WET.

WE WENT STRAIGHT INTO GREAT CONTROL FOR THE FIRE, AT AH RISK OF FIRE.

IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE THAT R BUT IT WAS DIFFICULT TO GET THINGS CLEANED UP AND SEE W THEY WERE DOING.

YOU CAN DO THINGS, WE DO NT KNOW IF THIS IS A TREND, SF WE WILL HAVE MORE SEVERE OR EXTREME PATTERNS, SOME THIS YOU CAN DO IS MULCH.

MULCHING HELPS YOUR PLANS E DO NOT HAVE SNOW COVER.

IF YOU PLAN CLOSE TO FOUNDN AND STRUCTURES, THAT WILL PROTECT THEM AND SLOW DOWNE WIND.

THAT HELPS.

IT WAS A DIFFICULT SPRING,D PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW WHAT T. A LOT OF PEOPLE LOST THEIRE .

ONCE YOU GET INTO JUNE ANDE SEASON HAS CHANGED, AND THR OF THEHINGS TO DO AND YOU D NOT HAVE A LOT OF GARDENING GOING ON WHILE IT WAS RAING CONSTANTLY.

BOB: PEOPLE GOT A LITTLE DISCOURAGED.

NEVER GET DISCOURAGED.

I ALWAYS ORDERING A LITTLEE SEED.

LAST YEAR I HAD TO RECEDE - RE-SEED BECAUSE IT WAS TOO, THIS YEAR I HAD TO BECAUSET WAS TOO WET.

WE CAN ANTICIPATE EXTREMESD THAT IS WHAT THE WEATHER DA INDICATES.

OVERALL HAD THE MOISTURE.

PERSEVERE AND NEVER GIVE UN THIS.

SHARON: NOW BOB, YOU WANTEO TALK ABOUT WEATHER DATA?

BOB: WE WILL LOOK AT THE WR DATA BECAUSE SO MUCH OF WHE DO IN THE GARDENING AND GRG INRMING WORLD IS DEPENDENTN THE WEATHER PAST AND PRESE.

LAST WINTER WAS SO WARM.

I RECALL BEING OUT IN MUD S TRYING TO COVER GARLIC ANDR MY ANKLES IN MUD, CHRISTMA, VERY UNUSUAL.

THEN I OVER MULCHED.

I WANTED TO PROTECT THAT, T GOT COLD, IT WOULD DO A LOF DAMAGE.

REALLY, THE WEATHER WILL DETERMINE HOW THE PLANTS AE GROWING, HOW THEY SURVIVE E WINTER, BOTH INSECT AND DIE AND WEED PRESSURE WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE WEATHER E DEALING WITH.

THE RESULTS OF THE MILD WI, SO MANY INSECTS.

A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH PROBL, AND THIS IS A RESPONSE TO E MILD CONDITIONS.

IF WE HAVE A PENETRATING F, IT KILLS A LOT OF INSECTS.

THE COLORADO POTATO BEETLEE HAVE SEEN THEM EVERYWHERE.

THEY HAD AN EASY WINTER, TS THE SECOND GENERATION HERE.

THEY WERE ATTACKING POTATOD TOMATOES, I HAVE SEEN THEME DOWN TOMATOES AND EGGPLANTD THEY HAVE BEEN ON EVERYTHIG ELSE.

THAT IS WHAT A POTATO PLANL LOOK LIKE ONCE THE COLORADO POTATO BEETLE GETS BUSY.

THEY CAN KNOCK THEM DOWN IO DDAYS.

I THINK OFT TIMES THE FIRST EMERGENCE CAN BE A GOOD CO. WE HAVE MATERIALS USED FOR CONTROL OF SOME OF THESE BEETLES.

IF WE LOOK AT THE WEATHER D THE CLIMATE STATISTICS, WEW IT IS VERY WET AND I WAS OE PERCEPTION TT IT WAS COOL D WET.

AND YET, WHEN YOU LOOK AT E DATA, IT IS FASCINATING, TS THE GROWING SEASON FROM A E DAYS AGO.

I WANT TO THANK CAROL CHRISTIANSEN AND THE NATIOL WEATHER SERCE DIVIDING THE DATA, INTERESTING STUFF.

TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORTE WERE WET.

2.37 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL BE REMARKABLE THING, WE WERE M AS WELL.

NOT INTENSELY WARM, BUT THS RESULTED IN IDEAL GROWING CONDITIONS IF YOU PERSEVER.

YOU HAD TO GET THROUGH THAT PERIOD, MAYBE INCREASE THE DRAINAGE, COME BACK IN A SD TIME FOR THINGS THAT WASHE.

WE GOT GOOD SOIL MOISTURE D HAVE HAD WARMER CONDITIONST NOT EXTREME.

THEY ARE GETTING EXTREME TEMPERATURES IN THE SOUTHEN UNITED STATES.

WHAT IS UNFOLDING WITH CLIE CHANGE, WE ARE IN AN IDEAL GROWING AREA IF WE HAVE THE GROWING AREA IF WE HAVE THE MOISTURE.

RESULTS OF MY WINTER AND GD GROWING CONDITIONS ARE TOM, WE DO NOT WANT TO PUSH THEO HARD.

YOU WANT NICE, THICK STEMS.

YOU HAVE TO GET THEM UP OFE GROUND.

WE HAVE EARLY SWEETCORN COG IN AND GOOD MOISTURE DOWN W AS LONG AS THINGS DO NOT DY OUT.

IF YOU PERSEVERED AND CAME, WE ARE OFF TO A VERY GOOD .

SHARON: THANKS, BOB.

LET'S GET BACK TO MORE QUESTIONS.

DORIS IS HAVING HOUSE CONSTRUCTION FOR TWO WEEKS.

SHE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT TO O WITH HER PLAN, HOW TO SAVED STORE THEM?

DEB: PEOPLE THINK BECAUSE S THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER THEY T TRANSPLANT PERENNIALS AND SHRUBS.

PERENNIALS YOU CAN DO.

THIS IS THE ONLY TIME OF YI HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PLA, AND I DO NOT HAVE AN ISSUEH IT.

MAKE SURE YOU GET AS MUCH T MASS AS YOU CAN.

CUT BACK ON THE SHRUB SO IS EASIER TO MOVE IT, BUT IF U KNOW WHERE IT IS GOING, YON PUT IT IN.

IF YOU ARE GOING TO WATER D CHECK ON IT, IT WILL DO FI.

IT WILL BE BETTER IN THE SG OR FALL BUT IT WILL BE FIN.

OUR WEATHER RIGHT NOW IS AT OF OTHER PLACES' SPRING, AD WHEN THEY PLAN ALSO.

UNLESS YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEE THEY ARE GOING, DEFINITELYT THEM INTO CONTAINERS.

GET A GOOD ROOT MASS ON TH, AND GET THEM IN A COOL, SHY LOCATION.

BOB: THERE WILL BE PLENTY F LIGHT IN THE SHADE AND YOUO NOT WANT THEM UNDER STRESS.

YOU WILL NEED THE WATER.

PREPARE ANOTHER BED TO TEMPORARILY TRANSPLANT THE.

TWO WEEKS OF CONSTRUCTION,T CONTAINERS OR ONE THING OR ANOTHER.

AS LONG AS SHE KEEPS IT MOT AND SHADY AND COOL, PUT THM RIGHT BACK IN.

SHARON: BRENDA IN VIRGINIAS GRAPES SHRIVELING AND DYINN THE VINES THE LOWER PARTS E VINE.

THERE ALSO SEEMS TO BE WHIE MOLD ON THE GRAPES.

WHAT SHOULD SHE DO?

BOB: TOUGH AT THIS POINT.

THAT IS A DISEASE.

SHARON: ARE THEY SALVAGEAB?

BOB: YOU GET THESE LITTLE BB-SIZED MATERIALS.

PRIOR TO THIS, THERE ARE FUNGICIDES, PREVENTATIVE FUNGICIDES.

WE ARE NOT A MAJOR WIND GRG GREAT REGION BECAUSE IT ISO HUMID.

YOU WANT WARM TEMPERATURESS OF SUNSHINE, AND DRY AIR CONDITIONS, THOSE ARE THE T GREAT GROWING CONDITIONS.

FUNGAL DISEASE IS A BIG PR.

IF SHE COULD TRY ONE OF THE GENERAL MATERIALS, CHECK TE LABEL TO MAKE SURE IT IS LD FOR GRAPES, BUT THERE WERED DEB: SHE WILL HAVE TO TREAW GOING FORWARD AFTER THIS Y, DO A LITTLE PREVENTATIVE.

IT COULD BE THERE.

BOB: A LOT OF FUNGAL SPORET NEED THE RIGHT CONDITIONS.

IT COULD BE TEMPERATURE, NT AND DAY, RELATIVE HUMIDITYE RAINFALL.

YOU JUST DO NOT KNOW.

A FUNGICIDE HAS TO GO EARLY BEFORE YOU KNOW WHETHER YOL HAVE DISEASE PRESSURE.

THAT IS WHY COMMERCIALLY, Y ARE COMMERCIALLY USED.

SHARON: THANKS, BOB AND DE.

NOW, LET'S RETURN TO THE GS OF SANDY AND PAUL STORK.

THEY HAVE SOME INTERESTING STATUES, PLUS A PEONY GARD.

LET'S TAKE LOOK.

>> WE DO HAVE A LOT OF SEEG AREA FOR WHEN WE HAVE -- WO HAVE A LOT OF SEATING AREAR WHAT WE HAVE GUESTS OR VIS.

>> WE TAKE A BREAK OVER HE.

>> ONE OF OUR PLACES TO SID RELAX.

THESE ARE STUMP CHAIRS.

>> THEY ARE FIBERGLASS.

>> MORE COMFORTABLE THAN TY LOOK.

I WILL SIT HERE AND RELAX A LITTLE BIT.

>> THEN WE HAVE A BEAR BENH OVER HERE.

>> WE HAVE A SQUIRREL WE GT FROM NORTHSTAR IN HAYWARD.

WE HAVE A LOT OF SQUIRRELS JUMPING AROUND AND RUNNINGP TREES, BUT HE GOT A BIG ONT IS NOT MOVING ANYWHERE.

HERE IS OUR PEONY AND IRIS GARDEN.

THE PEONIES ARE ALMOST DONE TALL ONES, AND THE FLOWER S TWICE AS BIG AS THE TYPICAL PEONY.

JUST ABOUT DONE BLOOMING N, AND SO ARE THE IRISES.

THEY BLOOM AROUND THE SAME.

>> SHE HAS THESE BIRDS.

[LAUGHTER] THESE DO NOT FLY AWAY.

I PUT THIS IN, A THREE WAY SWITCH SO WHEN YOU ARE COMG THATAY, YOU TURN THE LIGHTN TO GET DOWN TO THE BARN.

THEN WE GOT THIS BIG METALR -- METAL DEER.

A SLEIGH BEHIND IT.

>> WHEN WE ARE OUT WATERINE LISTEN TO THE MUSIC WITH TE SPEAKER HERE, AND WE HAVE S ON THE PATIO WERE ON THE ROCKERS, WE HAVE MUSIC PLA.

IT IS KIND OF NICE.

I WOULD SAY IT HAS BEEN 40S SINCE WE HAD THIS WATER FEE PUT IN.

IT IS RELAXING TO HEAR THER TRICKLING DOWN.

AND ANOTHER SPOT WE ENJOY SITTING EVERY NOW AND THEND JUST LISTEN TO THE WATER.

WE GOT THE LIGHT HOUSES, TY HAD DIFFERENT SIZED ONES, D PAUL WAS MIGRATING TO THE SMALLER ONE.

WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND IF WE ARE GETTING A LIGHTH, WE MIGHT AS WELL GET A LIGHTHOUSE.

THEY HAD A BIG ONE, SO WE D THIS ALL THE WAY.

YOU HAVE TO HAVE LOVE TO KP DOING WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DO.

IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK AND EFFORT BUT IN THE LONG RUNT IS WORTH IT.

WHEN YOU SIT AND RELAX ANDY WHAT YOU HAVE PRODUCED AND DEVELOPED, IT IS AN ENJOYM.

SHARON: THAT WAS A WONDERFL TOUR AND I CANNOT IMAGINE E LOVE AND LABOR THAT WENT IO THAT.

BOB: 52 YEARS.

IT CAN REALLY BE A LIFETIME HOBBY, AND THIS COUPLE WAST INTO INSTANT GRATIFICATION.

INTO INSTANT GRATIFICATIONK AT THE BEAUTY.

I DO NOT THINK THEY ARE BOR HAVE A LOT OF FREE TIME.

DEB: NICE THAT THEY HAVE TE CHAIRS TO TAKE A REST.

BOB: WE WANT TO THANK THEMR SHARING THEIR YARD.

SHARON: I LIKE THE STRUCTU, NOT JUST SHRUBS AND TREES,Y REALLY HAVE A PATH.

BOB: THEY JUST SAID THEY GT 40,000.

SHARON: LET'S GET BACK TO E QUESTIONS.

KE WANTS TO KNOW FOR HIS RASPBERRY PLANTS, WHAT IS E BEST WAY TO STOP GRASS BETN THE PLANTS, FABRIC OR STRA?

BOB: I DO NOT LIKE FABRIC, PERIOD.

DEB: I LIKE FABRIC.

JUST LEAVE THE FABRIC, IF U LEAVE THE FABRIC AND HAVE O MULCH, NOTHING VEGETATIVE R ORGANIC FOR THINGS TO GROWN IT STAYS PRETTY CLEAN.

ALL THE BIG COMMERCIAL GROS OF SHRUBS, THEY PUT THEM STRAIGHT IN WITH NO MULCH R ANYTHING.

SHARON: WHY ARE YOU NOT A ?

BOB: IT IS TOUGH FOR ME TOL WITH, AND RASPBERRIES, YOUE YOUR CANS, AND ITHERE IS FABRIC, THEY CANNOT PENETRE AND SPREAD.

BUT IF HE WANTS A SMALL PAH WITH FABRIC, IT WILL KEEP E WEEDS DOWN.

THAT IS A POSSIBILITY.

YOHAVE TO BE A LITTLE CARE, YOU DO NOT WANT IT AGAINSTE PLANTS IN ANY WAY.

DEB: SOME PEOPLE'S BRAMBLET OUT OF CONTROL, SO THAT WOE A WAY TO KEEP THEM TIGHT.

SHARON: LIKE A BOUNDARY?

BOB: MAYBE.

SHARON: BOB IS NOT A FAN.

BOB: THE YOUNG SPROUTS IS E THE REAL FRUIT POTENTIAL I.

WITH STRAWBERRIES WE SHIFTT AND LEFT THE PLANT MOVED TE NORTH TO THE NEWER MATERIAL BECAUSE THAT IS THE MOST AE SIDE.

STRAW WOULD BE FINE BUT HES TO DO THE REAPPLICATION OFT MATERIAL.

STRAW WILL BREAK DOWN AND PROVIDE ORGANICS, BUT IT HO BE REPEATED.

DEB: AND THE GRASS WILL COE RIGHT THROUGH THAT.

SHARON: HE HAS CHOICES.

BISON IN DULUTH WANTS TO KF THERE IS AN HERBICIDE TO ERADICATE CREEPING BELLFLO?

BOB: NOT AS SELECTIVE AS IM AWARE OF.

IN THIS CASE IT IS CONSIDEA WEED, SO OTHER THAN CLEANIT ALL OUT, PULLING IT OUT BUF IT IS A LARGE AREA, THAT BECOMES DIFFICULT.

YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.

SHARON: KATHLEEN IN DULUTHR GRANDDAUGHTER ATE AN APPLE, PLANTED THE SEED IN A POT.

IT IS 2-3 FEET HIGH NOW WIT MANY BRANCHES.

CAN THIS BE PLANTED IN THE GROUND AND BE EXPECTED TO W INTO A REASONABLE TREE?

THIS IS T MAGIC QUESTION, E ALWAYS DREAMED OF PLANTINGA SEED.

BOB: YOU CAN.

DEB: YOU CAN COME INDEFINIY BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YU WILL GET.

BOB: IF IT CAME FROM THE S, THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST OR NW ZEALAND, WE DO NOT KNOW IFS HEARTY OR NOT.

YOU CAN USE IT AS AN EDUCAL EXPERIENCE FOR YOUR CHILD.

BUT WE DO NOT KNOW.

CAUTION YOUNG PEOPLE THAT T EVERYTHING MAKES IT THROUGA MINNESOTA WINTER.

SHARON: WHAT A LESSON.

YOU ARE LUCKY TO DO THAT WH YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER AND GRANDKIDS.

BOB: AND YOU CAN TALK ABOUT POLLINATION AND WHERE THATD CAME FROM, REAL EDUCATION.

YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU WL GET BUT YOU WILL GET SOME D OF AN APPLE TREE.

OF AN APPLE TREE.SHARON: DK ABOUT PROPOGATING?

DEB: THE NEXT TWO WEEKS WIE HOT SO IT IS NOT A LOT OF O WORK IN THE GARDEN WHEN ITS HOT.

SOMETHING YOU CAN DO INSIDR FUN, AND BECAUSE PLANTS ARE GETTING SO EXPENSIVE, EVERG IS GETTING RELATIVELY EXPEE THAT YOU CAN DO DIFFERENT THINGS.

THIS WAS A LONG THE APPLE , THESE ARE STRAWBERRIES.

THIS IS FROM A COMMERCIAL GROWER.

WE WENT AND PICKED THEM.

WE ENDED UP WITH A LOT, SOE DEHYDRATED.

IN THE BOTTOM OF THE DEHYDR WAS A BUNCH OF THE SEEDS OF THIS VARIETY.

WHEN I DECIDED, WE SHOULD T THEM, JUST SPRINKLE THEM OR NATIVE PEAT, AND WE HAVE STRAWBERRIES.

WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT IT BEE IF IT IS TRUE TO FORM, THAA COMMERCIAL GROWER LY AVAILE TO COMMERCIAL GROWERS.

IF WE COULD HAVE OUR OWN, S EXCITING.

THAT IS A LONG THE SAME APE LINE.

THESE WILL GET BIGGER AND D BE A GOOD SIZE BY THE FALL.

I WOULD PUT THEM IN MY OWN CONTAINER AND IN A PROTECTD AREA.

THEN BULK THEM UP FOR NEXT SPRING.

THAT WAS FUN TO DO.

I DO NOT KNOW IF THE DEHYDR MADE IT BETTER BUT IT WAS N THING TO DO, AND I LOVE MY DEHYDRATOR.

THIS TIME OF YEAR, HOUSEPLS CAN BE PROPAGATED RELATIVEY EASILY.

THIS IS A PINE NEEDLE, THEE GUYS, YOU CAN TAKE THEM ANT .

ALMOST ANYWHER, YOU CAN CUT THESE, THERE ARE THREE LITE ONES HERE AND YOU CUT THEMD THERE IS NOTHING TO IT.

YOU CAN LET THESE BECOME CALLOUS.

BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO.

THEN WE WOULD PUT THEM -- E HAVE A MIX OF SOIL, AND THE IS A LIGHT SOIL.

THERE IS A WOODCHIP IN THE, AND THAT WILL KEEP THEM RELATIVELY DRY.

YOU STICK THOSE IN THERE, L THE POT WITH THEM, OR YOU N ADD -- THIS IS A TRICOLOR , AND THOSE ARE SUPER EASY TO PROPAGATE.

YOU CAN MAKE A CUTE MIXED CONTAINER.

I LIKE TO USE DIFFERENT LEF SIZE IN DIFFERENT COLORS.

YOU CAN DO THREE DIFFERENT COLORS IN THIS.

YOU CAN ALSO ADD A HOUSEPL.

WE COULD TAKE THIS HERE, IS IN THE SWEDISH IVY.

THIS IS GUACAMOLE WITH A PE UNDER CODING.

YOU COULD USE A ROOTING HOE WITH THIS, THAT WOULD GIVEA LITTLE PUSH BUT IT DOES NOD IT.

YOU CAN PUT IT IN WITH YOUR SUCCULENTS.

ONCE YOU GET THIS FALL ANDT HAS A NICE CANOPY, WATER IT REALLY WELL.

I DO NOT PUSH THINGS IN, IR THEM IN SO THEY HOLD THEM E SOIL.

THEN THEY GO INTO A NICE, , COOL LOCATION.

THEN YOU LET THEM START TO.

IF YOU GIVE THEM A TUG ANDY RESIST, THEN THEY ARE STAR.

THIS COULD BE A NICE GIFT R THE FALL OR ROOTED UP NICE.

OTHER EASY ONE IS SPIDER PLANTS.

THIS ONE IS BONNIE, WE LOVE BONNIE BECAUSE SHE HAS A LE GIRL, SHE IS WIDER -- WHITR THAN THE OTHER ONES.

SHE IS NOT AS VIGOROUS BECE SPIDER PLANTS CAN TAKE OVE.

THIS IS A LITTLE BIT OF THR ROOTS ON IT, BUT IF YOU HAE EVER DONE SPIDER PLANTS, TS RIGHT HERE WILL ROOT UP QU.

SET THEM INTO THE SOIL ANDD THE POT, PUT A BUNCH IN ORD ANOTHER SUCCULENT TO IT.

THEN YOU WATER THAT REALLY, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO WATET MUCH AFTER THAT IF YOU PUTA COOL, SHADY LOCATION.

THESE CAN BE NICE GIFTS YON MAKE NOW, AND IT IS A GOODE TO MAKE THESE AND NOT HAVEO OUT IN THE HEAT WE WILL HAN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

BOB: MINNESOTA IS A HUGE CONSUMING STATE FOR HOUSEP.

WE WERE THE NUMBER ONE CONSUMPTION STATE PER CAPIN FLORIDA WAS THE BIGGEST PRODUCTION STATE.

PART OF IT IS OUR AGRICULTL BACKGROUND AND PEOPLE WANTO DO SOMETHING IN WINTER.

THOSE WILL BE OUT BY THE TE THE WINTER SEASON COMES, TN THE SPIDER PLANT, THE FLUOE IN THE WATER COLLECTS AND U GET A TIP BURN.

TAKE YOUR WATER, AND FILL P AND LET IT SIT FOR 24 HOURO IT DISSIPATES, THE CHLORIND THE FLUORIDE WHICH WERE GAS ORIGINALLY GO BACK INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.

THEN YOU WILL HAVE SOMETHIG THAT WILL NOT CAUSE A TIP N ON YOUR SPIDER PLANT.

SHARON: A QUESTION ABOUT TE CALLOUS, AND WHETHER YOU CT OR NOT, WHY WOULD YOU?

DEB: SOME LIKE IT BECAUSE A ROOT QUICKER WHEN YOU PUT , AND SOME GET HEAVY-HANDED H THE WATERING.

IF IT HAS A CALLOUS, IT CAE THE WATER BETTER, RATHER TF YOU PUT IN AND GET OVERZEAS WITH YOUR WATERING.

IT HELPS THAT BECAUSE IT IS READY TO TAKE MOISTURE UP QUICKER IF IT IS CALLOUSED.

THEN YOU ARE KEEPING IT DRO IT WILL NOT GET TOO WET.

IF YOU DO A GOOD WATER IN O NOT OVERWATER IT.

BOB: WE TALKED ABOUT PROPAG AND TAKING THE CUTTING AND PUTTING IT IN THE WATER.

SAME THING HERE WITH CALLO, YOU AVOID ANY ROT.

DEB: PEOPLE A LOT OF TIMEST TO ROOT AND WATER AND I AMA FAN BECAUSE THE ROOT IS MOE FRAGILE, AND THAT CAN BREA.

IF YOU GO RIGHT TO THE SOIU WILL GET THE ROOT IT NEEDST A WATER ROUTE OR AN AIR RO, BUT A GOOD SOIL ROOT.

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SHARON: LET'S GET BACK BACO MORE QUESTIONS.

SUSAN FROM SUPERIOR SCENTED APPLE TREES, AND SHE IS WONDERING ABOUT DEAR PROTEN FOR THE WINTER.

BOB: SHE DOES NOT NEED DEAR PROTECTION FOR THE WINTER T SHE NEEDS IT NOW.

[LAUGHTER] I HAVE LEARNED THIS THE HAD WAY, PLANTING ONE NIGHT I D NOT GET PROTECTION UP, ANDI THINK THEY WANT YOU.

YOU CAN GET A FAIR AMOUNT F DAMAGE.

NURSERY STOCK HAS BECOME VY EXPENSIVE.

YOU HAVE A HIGH-VALUE ITEMO LINEP YOUR PROTECTION.

IN MOST CASES, A METAL FENE AROUND THE OUTSIDE.

WITH A CYLINDER OF POLYETH.

AS LONG THERE IS A.

TRAGICALLY YESTERDAY I HADA PERSON WHO BROUGHT ME PHOTF TWO NEW MAPLES PUT IN, BEAL TREES.

THIS HAPPENED RECENTLY.

IT LOOKED LIKE A BUCK CAMEG AND DESTROYED THEM AND THAE WILL STRUGGLE WITH THE RESF ITS LIFE IF IT DOES NOT DI.

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROTECD WITH THE CALLER.

GET YOUR PROTECTION, YOUR FENCING, YOUR POSTS, THAT CYLINDER OF POLY, AND PUT N WHEN IT GOES IN THE GROUND.

SHARON: CAROLYN HAS A TOMAO PLANT SHOWING BLOSSOM ROT W GREEN TOMATOES.

ANY SUGGESTIONS?

DEB: WATER.

BOB: BLOSSOM ROT, THE GREAT THING IS THAT SHE WILL GETT OF FRUIT BUT DID SHE TELL F THAT WAS IN A CONTAINER?

SHARON: SHE DID NOT MENTIO.

BOB: SHAME ON HER.

[LAUGHTER] YOU THINK IT IS CONTAGION?

DEB: I DO, AND TO HAVE IT A GREEN TOMATO WITH ALL THE N WE HAVE HAD.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT WEE GETTING IN A FRAME ON THE CONTAINERS, THEY WERE NOT WATERING THE CONTAINERS BUT CANOPY SHEDS A LOT OF THAT WATER.

YOU STILL HAVE TO GET YOURE IN THERE AND WATER.

BOB: BLOSSOM ROT IS A CALCM DEFICIENCY.

IF IT IS IN A CONTAINER, TE IS NO CALCIUM BECAUSE PEATS NOT CONTAIN A CALCIUM.

YOU NEED A CALCIUM ADDITIO.

IF IT IS OUT OF THE GARDENT CAN BE MOISTURE IRREGULARIY WHERE IT WAS NOT CARRIED TE BLOSSOM SO IT STOPPED THE CALCIUM.

I WOULD PULL THE GREEN FRUT OFF.

IT IS NOT DANGEROUS, IT WIL JUST ROT.

PULL IT OFF AND ENCOURAGE ANOTHER ROUND OF BLOSSOMS, PLENTY OF TIME TO GET ACROS THIS YEAR.

IF IT IS IN THE GARDEN, CONSISTENT WATER.

IF IT IS IN A CONTAINER, SE SOLUBLE CALCIUM.

THERE ARE PRODUCTS FOR THA.

SHARON: ROGER IS AARGE BIRH TREE WHICH HAS BRANCHES THT CURVE DOWNWARD, MAKING IT D TO MOW AROUND.

WHAT AND WHEN IS THE BEST O TRIM THOSE BRANCHES?

BOB: JUST TRIM THEM.

THEY ARE LOWER BRANCHES, TS NOT THE MOST PRODUCTIVE PON OF THE TREE ANYWAY.

WE DO NOT LIKE TO DO A LOTF PRUNING MIDSEASON BECAUSE S HOT AND DRY AND TOUGHER ON, BUT IF IT IS CAUSING PROBL, TAKE THEM OFF.

I WOULD PROBABLY WAIT UNTIE FALL WHEN TEMPERATURES AREA LITTLE COOLER, AND THAT ARA WILL HEAL UP.

BE A LITTLE CAREFUL WHEN YU MAKE THE CUTS, DO A FLESH .

WITH THE BRANCH COMES OUT,E IS A COL WITH A REPRODUCTIE TISSUE IS.

-- THERE IS A COLLAR WITH A REPRODUCTIVE TISSUE IS.

MAKE THE THAT IT HEALS.

CELLULAR TISSUE, DO NOT FLH CUT BUT LOOK FOR THAT AND T UNTIL MID AUGUST.

SHARON: WHAT DID YOU CALL T COLLAR?

BOB: A BRANCH COLLAR.

YOU CAN LOOK IT UP.

THAT IS WHERE THIS REPRODUE TISSUE IS.

IF YOU CUT IT OFF AND HAVEN OPEN WOUND THAT DOES NOT HL UP, YOU WOULD GET ROT ON TE INSIDE.

SHARON: THIS SUMMER WE HAVN ON THE ROAD TRAVELING TO GS ALL OVER MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN.

RECENTLY, WE VISITED COMMUY RDENS IN GRAND MARAIS TO MT GARDENERS AND LEARN ABOUT T MAKES GARDENING IN THEIR COMMUNITY SPECIAL AND UNIQ.

♪ >> I LIVE IN THE WOODS.

[LAUGHTER] IT IS NOT LEVEL.

THE BED WAS ALREADY MADE, D THE SOFT SOIL WAS AVAILABL.

I JUMPED AT THAT CHANCE TO GARDEN HERE.

>> I THINK THE COMMUNITY GN SET UP IS REALLY GREAT.

AS A RENTER, I DO NOT HAVEA PERMANENT GARDEN SPACE IN Y LIVING SITUATION, SO IT ISE TO HAVE ACCESS TO A SPACE T LETS ME BE PART OF THE FOOD GROWING COMMUNITY HERE IN .

>> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT S REALLY FUN, 10 PLOTS ARE IS GARDEN, AND OFTEN WE ARE HE TOGETHER, SO WE SHARE INFORMATION.

>> I LIVE CLOSER TO THE LAE WHERE IT IS QUITE COOL, SOE LITTLE DIFFERENCE OF BEINGP HERE MAKES A DIFFERENCE INT I CAN GROW.

THERE IS ALSO THE COMMUNITY ASPECT.

THERE IS SOMETHING WONDERFL ABOUT COMING HERE AND RUNNG INTO PEOPLE I ONLY SEE IN R PLACES AND VISITING ABOUT T WE HAV PLANTED, WHAT IS WOG WELL AND WHAT IS NOT WORKIG WELL.

THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE TO.

>> THEY ARE LIKE PETS, MY PLANTS.

THEY ARE LIVING, I CARE ABT THEM, I CHECK ON THEM.

I DO NOT THINK I COULD LIVE WITHOUT GARDENING.

>> IT DEFINITELY BRINGS ME.

[LAUGHTER] JUST A MIRACLE WATCHING THS GROW, YOU PUT A LITTLE SEEN THE GROUND AND IT BECOMES S BIG THING, AND GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO EAT.

THAT IS PRETTY SPECIAL.

IT KIND OF SHOWS THE MIRACF LIFE ON EARTH.

TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE N THAT MAGICAL EVOLUTION IT S ME HAPPY.

SHARON: BOB, WE ARE EXCITEO TALK ABOUT COMPARING GARDEN SPACE SIZES?

BOB: I HAVE TO COMMENT QUI, GARDEN MAKES ME HAPPY.

-- GARDENING MAKES ME HAPPI CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT GARDEN.

DEB: WE FEEL YOU.

BOB: YES.

SHARON: LET'S TALK ABOUT BG VERSUS SMALL?

WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

APARTMENT DWELLERS, BIG HOS WITH A SMALL YARD, TALK ABT IT.

BOB: PLANT SELECTION WILL E VERY IMPORTANT DEPENDING OE SPACE YOU HAVE GOT.

SOME THINGS WILL BE APPROPE FOR LARGER SPACES, AND SOML BE APPROPRIATE FOR SMALLER SPACES.

IN THE EDIBLES, WE DID AN ECONOMIC STUDY ON THIS, WEK A SQUARE YARD AND GREW ABOT EVERYTHING YOU CAN GROW AND COMPARED IT WITH SUPERMARKT PRICES ON THE DAY WE HARVE.

FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT GROY STORES.

REMARKABLY, THE HIGHEST VAE CROP YOU CAN GROW IN A SMAR SPACE IS FRESH HERBS, BASI.

THESE ARE ALL TYPICALLY EAO GROW, PARTICULARLY ANNUAL .

YOU CAN GET A LOT OF VALUET OF THAT.

PEOPLE ARE MORE CONSCIOUS T DIETS, SUBSTITUTING HERBS R SUGAR, FAT AND SALT IS A GD IDEA.

THAT IS HIGH-VALUE.

THERE ARE CROPS NOT APPROPE FOR SMALLER SPACES.

IT IS A YEAR OF SWEET CORNA CROP I DO NOT THINK IS APPROPRIATE FOR SMALLER SP.

YOU NEED ROOM FOR THIS PLAD SEVERAL TO PROPERLY POLLIN.

THAT IS ONE YOU ARE BETTERF GOING TO THE LOCAL FARMERS MARKET.

POTATOES MAY HAVE A LIMITED VALUE BUT IF YOU HAVE TO G A POTATO, THEY ARE FUN, FUO DIG UP.

THE ECONOMIC RETURN IS A LE LOW.

IF YOU LOOK AT EVEN A TOMA, THE NUMBER ONE HOME VEGETAE GARDEN CROP, YOU COULD FOLW ORGANIC STANDARDS.

VERY HIGH VALUE.

YOU ARE LOOKING AT THEM OFL HIGH QUALITY, AND THAT IS D RETURN FOR A LIMITED AMOUNF SPACE.

TOMATOES GO IN GOOD CONTAI.

WE HAVE A BUNCH OF VARIETIS SELECTED NOW.

RED PERFUSION IS ONE THAT S TO MIND.

VERY PRODUCTIVE, IF YOU ARA CONTAINER AND HAVE A B, BUY PLANT, YOU HAVE TO WATER IE OR TWICE A DAY.

FOR SMALLER SPACES, THERE E GOOD CROPS.

YOU HAVE TO GROW SOMETHINGU CAN EAT.

DEB: YOU WILL NOT TAKE CARF IT IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT.

BOB: SOME ARE MORE APPROPRE THAN OTHERS.

JUST ABOUT EVERYONE CAN FID SPACE ON A BALCONY OR IN AN APARTMENT OR ON A PATIO FOA HANGING BASKET OR CONTAINE.

GARDENING HAS SPACE FOR EVERYONE, THEN YOU CAN MOVE THOSE INDOORS AND PROPAGATM NOW FOR WINTERHOUSE PLANT.

-- OBLIGATE THEM NOW FOR W, HOUSE PLANTS.

BRING YOUR KIDS OUT, YOUR GRANDKIDS, AND THE NEIGHBOD KIDS IF YOU LIKE.

AS A NATION, WE WANT TO GOK TO THE NATURALOODS WE EVOLD WITH AND HAVE AN EATING FOR YEARS, THAT MEANS MORE FRUS AND VEGETABLES THAT YOU CAN GROW.

SHARON: LET'S WRAP UP THINS WITH A FEW MORE QUESTIONS.

KATHY HAD A PLANT THAT BLOD ONLY ON THE BOTTOM.

WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT CANE DO TO IMPROVE THEM?

SHE DID NOT TRIM IT IN THE?

DEB: THAT IS NO COVER.

THE NORTHERN GOLD THAT IS Y FOR US ONLY BLOOMS WHERE IS NO COVER.

THE SNOW, THE SUPERPOWER, T KEEPS THOSE PROTECTED FROME WIND DESICCATION.

BOB: IF IT LOOKS GOOD NOW,T SHOULD BE GOOD FOR NEXT YE.

DEB: FOR SURE.

BOB: THESE NEW VARIETIES, Y ARE A VERY APPROPRIATE FORS AREA.

SHARON: IT IS STILL VIABLE?

DEB: ABSOLUTELY, JUSTICE NO ISSUE.

SHARON: JULIE STARTED DIGGP GARLIC BECAUSE THE LOWER LS WERE BROWNING AND DRYING.

THEY ARE NOT AS BIG AS LASR AND SHE IS WONDERING IF THY WOULD GROW LARGER IF SHE KT THEM IN LONGER, OR IS IT DO THE WINTER?

BOB: I THINK IT IS DUE TO E WINTER.

YOU NEED LARGE GARLIC BULBU NEED A LUSH, GREEN PLANT FA PROLONGED PERIOD.

THEY DID NOT GO THROUGH THT COLD PERIOD.

IF THEY WERE MULCHED IN A E LATE, THEY ARE DEFECATING R DRAWING BACK LATE, AND THAS WHAT IS LIMITING THE BOLD .

LOOKING AT ALL MY CROPS, WE TWO WEEKS AHEAD OF TIME.

I REALLY THINK SO, THINGS E COMING QUICKLY.

I'M HARVESTING SOME PEPPERS WHICH SURPRISED ME.

I HAVE A FEW EGGPLANT AND ALREADY.

CORN IS VERY CLOSE, WE HAVE NEVER HAD IT QUITE LIKE TH.

I WOULD SAY WE ARE TWO WEES AHEAD.

WE WILL TYPICALLY SEE THATO BACK ON THE GARLIC PLANT IN MID-AUGUST, AND HERE IT IST TWO WEEKS EARLY.

ONCE THE PLANT HAS GONE DO, GET IT OUT OF THE GROUND BE THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FORT IF IT IS NOT VIABLE AND GR.

GET THEMP, REPLANT AGAIN IN MID-OCTOBER AS THINGS WARMA LITTLE BIT.

SHE WILL BE POTENTIALLY FI.

IT IS A FUNCTION OF THE CONDITIONS DURING THE WINT.

SHARON: PEOPLE ARE LEARNIND STILL ABLE TO REDO IT, REP, THAT IS PART OF THE PROCES.

BOB: PLANTS ARE VERY PERVA, THEY HAVE AN ABILITY TO COE BACK AND REGENERATE.

NOT ALWAYS, THEY ARE LIVING THINGS B IT IS REMARKABLE W WELL THEY GROW UNDER ADVERE CONDITIONS.

WE GET MORE DISCOURAGED THE PLANTS DO.

DON'T GET DISCOURAGED, COMK AND REPLANT ONCE, TWICE ORE TIMES.

SHARON: WE HAVE A READER WO SENT IN PHOTOS.

YOU HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AM BUT THERE ARE TWO CHERRY FT AND A STERN ROAST A SOUTHET EXPOSURE.

IN THE SPRING THEY GREW NOY BUT AT THE END OF JUNE, THY BECAME YELLOW AND DRIED UP.

THEY WERE NOT SPRAYED WITH ANYTHING AND THEY HAVE THRD IN THIS LOCATION FOR YEARS.

THESE ARE BELOVED ROSES.

ANY THOUGHTS?

BOB: THAT IS A LITTLE UNUS.

DEB: THAT IS AN AWESOME RO.

BO IT HAS GONE THROUGHOUT E WORLD, AND LARGER NURSERIEY THEM IN LARGE QUANTITIES.

I'M A LITTLE SURPRISED.

WE ARE SEEING SOME MATERIAI WILL GO BACK AGAIN AND SAYS A REFLECTION OF THAT MILD WINTER, THE RAIN WE HAD IN DECEMBER.

THESE ARE PLANTS SELECTED R HARDINESS IN THIS AREA OVER TIME, THEN WE GET AN UNUSUL WINTER, SO THEY DID NOT PES SET UP PROPERLY.

IF THEY ARE NOT DEAD, THEYL COME BACK AND NEXT YEAR WIE A DIFFERENT YEAR.

SHARON: THAT IS ALL FOR "GT GARDENING" TONIGHT.

YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON OUR SL MEDIA CHANNE, ON INSTAGRAM @GREATGARDENINGPBSNORTH, AN YOUTUBE AT YOUTUBE.COM/GREATGARDENING, WHERE YOU CAN FIND TONIGH'S EPISODE POSTED TOMORROW.

THANKS, BOB AND DEB, FOR YR GREAT INSIGHTS TONIGHT.

WE'VE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME ANSWERING QUESTIONS AND SHG TIPS WITH VIEWERS IN OUR R. AS WE'VE SAID, OUR SHOW WIL RETURN ON SEPTEMBER 5 FOR N HOUR-LONG SPECIAL, SO STAY TUNED.

AND FROM ALL OF US HERE AT "GREAT GARDENING," THANKS R WATCHING, AND ENJOY THE GA. ♪