>> THIS BEEF FARM IS LITERY CRAWLING WITH BEES.

>> HOSTAS DO WELL IN MINNE, THEY LIKE OUR TEMPERATURES.

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

>> IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE WT THIS PLACE WILL BE LIKE INW YEARS.

WE HAVE JUST GOTTEN STARTE.

♪ SHARON: HELLO, AND WELCOMEO “GREAT GARDENING.” I'M YOUR HOST, SHARON YUNG.

THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR R FINAL SHOW THIS SEASON.

TONIGHT, WE HAVE AN HOUR-LG EPISODE FOR YOU AS WE HEAD CLOSER TO THE OFFICIAL STAF FALL.

AS ALWAYS, WE HAVE OUR GARN EXPERTS WITH US.

THEY ARE GARDEN PROFESSIONB BYRNS ERICKSON AND HORTICULTURIST AND EDUCATOB OLEN.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM GARDES ACROSS OUR REGION, WHO HAVE QUESTIONS FOR OUR EXPERTS.

WE HAVE PHONE VOLUNTEERS COMPRISED OF THE ST. LOUIS COUNTY MASTER GARDENER STAG BY.

CALL LOCALLY 218-788-2844,R E-MAIL US AT ASK@PBSNORTH.. WE'RE TAKING QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT THE SHOW, SO CAR EMAIL US NOW WHILE WE START TONIGHT WITH A LOOK AT THE WEATHER IN OUR REGION.

>> WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY.

>> IT WAS.

SHARON: WHEN THE FOG COMES- >> IT GETS COLD.

FALL IS COMING.

>> BEAUTIFUL.

SHARON: THERE IS SOMETHING PEACEFUL ABOUT SEEING ALL E LEAVES CHANGE.

DEB: ALL THE POLLINATORS.

SHARON: LEAF CHANGES.

DEB: THEY WILL DROP REALLY.

BOB: IT SHOULD BE A NICE, BEAUTIFUL FALL.

SHARON: THERE THEY ARE PRED THINKING OF DROPPING LEAVE- THERE THEY ARE, SPEAKING OF DROPPING LEAVES.

WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH ALLF THE LILACS AROUND US?

LOTS OF QUESTIONS ON LILAC.

BOB: I THOUGHT I WOULD TAKA QUICK LOOK.

THAT IS A LILAC AND ALL ITS GLORY, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE D THERE YOU GO, WE HAVE GOT A MAJOR FUNGAL LEAF DISEASE T HAS OCCURRED AND IT IS RELATIVELY NEW FUNGI THAT S BEEN CAUSING THE PROBLEMS.

PROBABLY WITH US ONLY FIVE YEARS, IN MINNESOTA BUT THS EXTREMELY DETRIMENTAL.

YOU CAN SEE THE LEAF DROP T OCCURS WITH IT.

THE BAD NEWS IS IT HAS AFFD MOST OF THE LILACS.

THE GOOD NEWS IS IT SHOULDT OVERALL IMPACT THE HEALTH E LILACS, PARTICULARLY BECAUE HAD SUCH A GOOD GROWING SEN EARLIER AND THERE WAS A LOF SUGARS DEPOSITED.

DO SUPER SANITATION, CLEANP ALL THE LEAVES, THE FUNGI S , IF YOU CAN COME BACK THEP AND REMOVE THEM FROM THE AR DEEP IN YOUR COMPOST PILE.

GET DEEP WHERE IT IS WARM.

DO SOME PRUNING.

GET MORE AIR CIRCULATION TO DRIVE THE LEAF TISSUE SO WO NOT HAVE AN ENVIRONMENT THT ENCOURAGES MORE.

IT IS VERY WIDESPREAD THISR BUT DO NOT BE CONCERNED.

FUNGAL DISEASE, RELATIVELYW BUT THE LILACS SHOULD CERTY SURVIVE.

IT'S KIND OF DISAPPOINTING BECAUSE LILACS WERE VIRTUAY PEST FREE AND EASY TO GROWT LIKE SO MANY THINGS IN NAT, EVENTUALLY SOMETHING COMESG AND THINGS CHANGE.

SHARON: THANK YOU, BOB.

KEEP CALLING IN YOUR QUEST.

BEFORE WE GET TO THOSE, DE, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT TO KICK THINGS OFF TONIGHT?

DEB: I WAS GOING TO TALK AT GETTING READY FOR NEXT SPR.

PLANS ARE GETTING EXPENSIVD IF YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE GOE WILL SHOW A PICTURE OF SOMF THE TROPICALS.

THIS IS THE MINNESOTA LANDE ARBORETUM AND THEY ARE DOIA LOT OF TROPICALS, YOU SEE CANNONS IN THEIR AND THEY E JUST GORGEOUS AND THERE ARO MANY DIFFERENT ONES AVAILA.

IT IS A BULB THAT IS A FOCL POINT AND EVERYONE THINKS U ARE A GREAT PARTNER WHEN YU HAVE IT.

I BROUGHT A FEW, THERE AREW ONES WITH NEW COLORS AND TS THE RED GOLDEN FLAME.

IT IS A BULB.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN THIS FALLT WILL GET FROSTED.

YOU WANT I TO GET A COUPLEF GOOD OF FROSTS ON IT AND TN THE LEAVES WILL START TO D. IF IT IS IN THE GROUND OR A CONTAINER YOU DO NOT WANT E SOIL TO FREEZE BECAUSE THAL KILL THE TROPICAL BULB.

A BULB IS MADE UP OF A CENR POINT AND THE LEAVES AROUN.

YOU WANT IT TO DIE BACK AND STORE ENERGY.

YOU CAN DO THAT WITH CANNA.

IF YOU'RE GOING TO WAIT ANE EVERYTHING IS FROZEN BACK,I WOULD SAY MID TO LATE OCTO, YOU WILL DIG UP THE BULBS.

BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU DIG TH.

TRY TO LIGHTEN THEM TO LIFM WITH A FORK.

LET THEM DRY A BIT SO THATY CAN STORE THE ENERGY.

YOU DO NOT WANT THEM WET.

THAT IS RELATIVELY EASY TO.

CALL ACACIA IS A TROPICAL T IS FANTASTIC AND THEY GET G WITH ELEPHANT EARS AND A LF PEOPLE ARE TEMPTED TO KEEPM IN THE HOUSE BUT I WILL SHU ONE REASON NOT TO DO IT.

I DO NOT KNOW IF YOU CAN SE MEALY BUGS, I BROUGHT ONE H MEALY BUGS.

THOSE LITTLE TINY BUGS.

YOU HAVE TO BE DILIGENT ABT GETTING PESTS OFF OF TROPIS IF YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING O KEEP IT GOING ALL WINTER IR HOME BECAUSE THAT WILL BRIT INTO YOUR HOUSE AND SHARE T WITH ALL THEIR FRIENDS.

YOU CAN EITHER TREAT IT WIA SYSTEMIC, READ THE LABELS D GIVE IT THE SYSTEMIC NOW AF YOU DO NOT WORRY ABOUT IT,A PLANT, BUT THIS DOES NOT BM SO YOU ARE NOT GOING TO WOY ABOUT POLLINATORS.

THE MEALY BUGS ARE REALLY D TO GET AND THEY LIKE TO HIN THE SOIL AND UNDER THE POT.

THEY ARE TOUGH TO GET RID .

SO MY OPINION IS LET'S LETT DIE DOWN, SAME THING, YOU TREATED THE SAME WAY AS CA.

YOU DO NOT WANT THE SOIL TO FREEZE BUT YOU CAN LET IT T TO STORE ENERGY AND BULK UD THEN YOU'RE GOING TO DIG IP AND YOU WANT THE BULB TO CA LITTLE BIT, TO GET HARD AND STORE ENERGY.

THEN YOU ARE GOING TO TAKET AND I COULD STORE THIS IN S POT ALL WINTER DORMANT BUTI KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH IT.

IT IS 45 DEGREES, DRY ENOUT SO THAT THE SOIL SEPARATEST FROM THE SIDES OF THE POTS BECAUSE THAT IS TO DRY BUTF YOU -- TOO DRY BUT IF YOU P IT NOT MOIST, JUST NOT SHRK DOWN BECAUSE IT IS DRY, THU CAN TAKE IT OUT, LET IT HAN OFF AND STORE IT IN PERLITR VERMICULITE IN A PERFORATEG AND YOU WILL HAVE IT FOR NT YEAR AND THEN YOU CAN MAKEE GIANT GARDENS AND THEN STAT EARLY SEE YOU CAN GET IT BD BEAUTIFUL.

BOB: SO MUCH GOOD ADVICE.

PEOPLE ASK HOW SOON CAN YOE THEM DOWN, MY RULE OF THUMF THE PLANT IS STILL GREEN, T GROW.

A LOT OF ENERGY IS BEING S. SO LET IT GO AS LONG AS ITS GREEN.

LET IT GET FROSTED DOWN.

SHARON: I LOVE TROPICALS.

THANKS, DEB.

NOW, LET'S GET TO SOME OF R QUESTIONS.

JOHN IN DULUTH WANTS TO KNW WHAT A GOOD TIME IS TO TRIM APPLE AND PINE TREES.

THEY ARE BROWN AT THE BOTT.

BOB: THEY ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TREES.

WHEN THE LEAVES HAVE ALREAY DROPPED, LATE NOVEMBER, EAY DECEMBER, DORMANT PRUNE.

IN EVERGREENS OR PINES, PIS ARE LITTLE DIFFERENT BECAUE THEY HAVE A GROWING POINT,F YOU LET THEM EMERGE IN THE SPRING, GET -- YOU WILL PRY BE CUTTING THE CANDLE IN H. IN JUNE.

IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU AR.

WAIT FOR THE NICE CANDLE TM AND ALL THAT PINES AND THET IT IN HALF.

SHARON: FRANKIE FROM DULUTD GERALD FROM HAWTHORNE, WISN HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT CUCUM.

FRANKIE WANTS TO KNOW WHY F THEIR CUCUMBERS ARE SHORT D FAT LIKE WATERMELONS.

AND GERALD HAS NO CUCUMBERS YEAR.

WHAT HAPPENED?

BOB: WHAT DID HAPPEN.

1 -- IT POINTS OUT HOW UNUL THIS GROWING SEASON WAS.

SHORT OF THAT, YOU HAVE TOE REALLY CAREFUL ABOUT CUCUMS VARIETIES AND IF PEOPLE ART PICKING THEM OFF THE RACK'M NOT A BIG FAN OF THAT.

DEB: MAYBE THEY WANTED A SR AND THEN THEY ARE SELLING ANYTHING.

BOB: THE INTERESTING THING [INDISCERNIBLE] WE'VE GOT SMALLER DIMENSIOS THAT PEOPLE LOVE BUT THEY N JUMBLE FAST SO YOU HAVE TOE AWARE WHEN PLANTING CUCUMBS YOU WILL HAVE TO HARVEST REGULARLY BECAUSE WITH THE MOISTURE WE HAVE HAD THEY N GET LARGE QUICKLY.

WHERE THEY ARE NOT GETTING ANYTHING IT'S PROBABLY OVEE RESULT OF THE GROWING CONDS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT FLOWE.

PEOPLE SAY THE POLLINATORSE GONE BUT THAT IS NOT THE C. I HAVE BEEN ATTACKED.

[LAUGHTER] WE HAD SO MUCH VEGETATIVE H IN JULY AND THAT IS WHEN WT TO SEE GOOD FLOWER FORMATIN THE FLOWERING PROCESS IS A REPRODUCTIVE PACE -- PHASED WE GOT ALL THIS VEGETATIVE GROWTH AT THE EXPENSE OF FLOWERING, WHICH IS AT THE EXPENSE OF FRUIT SO THAT IT HAPPENED.

THERE COULD BE ONE OTHER T. CUCUMBERS HAVE SEPARATE SEN SOME AND IF THEY HAD ALL MS AND FEMALES, IF YOU EVER GA PACKET WHERE YOU HAVE ONE O WHERE THE SEEDS THAT ARE COLORED, YOU HAVE TO PLANTM ALL.

SOME ARE WHITE AND OTHERS T BE DIED, THEY ARE THE MALED THEY HAVE TO GO TOGETHER SN THIS CASE IF IT WAS NOT THE VEGETATIVE RESULT IT WAS TE FACT THAT THEY HAD A DIONYS OR MENDACIOUS PLANT, SOME , SOME FEMALE AND THEY JUST PLANTED THE MAIL SEEDS ARET THE FEMALE STATES AND DID T GET THE COMBINATION.

--MALE SEEDS OR JUST THE FE SEEDS AND DID NOT GET THE COMBINATION.

SHARON: MARY FROM CROMWELLS TO KNOW HOW TO KEEP HORNETM EATING HER APPLES.

AND GARY WANTS TO KNOW HOWO KEEP BIRDS AWAY FROM EATING APPLES.

BOB: CONGRATULATIONS, YOU T APPLES.

[LAUGHTER] IT IS A GOOD APPLE YEAR.

FOR THE BIRDS, NETTING IS T IT.

HORNETS ARE TOUGH.

I WILL SHARE SOMETHING I HE TRIED.

WITH THE HORNETS, IF YOU W, TAKE A SHALLOW PAN, PUT WAR THROUGH THE TOP, HANG A PIF FISH ON THE HORNETS COME AD GORGE THEMSELVES AND THEY L FALL IN THE WATER.

NO CHEMICALS INVOLVED, SOMS IT WORKS BETTER THAN OTHERT THAT IS SOMETHING I HAVE T. DEB: I'VE SEEN TO -- I'VE N SOMETHING WITH THEY MAKE AP AND A COMBINATION OF APPLER VINEGAR, SUGAR WATER AND 'S SOAP -- DAWN SOAP.

BOB: NOW WE ARE DOING OUR E REMEDIES.

[LAUGHTER] IT'S NOT RESEARCH APPROVED.

DEB: NO SCIENCE BEHIND IT, PEOPLE.

SHARON: DALE IN WOODLAND WS TO KNOW WHAT THE BEST TIMEO PULL UP SHALLOTS.

BOB: THEY HAVE TO FORM TO N WITH.

THEN IT IS JUST LIKE THE O, AS LONG AS YOU HAVE GREEN S AND THEY ARE EXPANDING ANDU HAVE THE MOISTURE I WOULD T THEM GO BUT YOU CAN CERTAIY HARVEST ANYTIME YOU WANT TF YOU WANT TO START USING TH.

THEY WILL CONTINUE TO GROWS LONG AS THE TOPS ARE STILL GREEN.

SHARON: THANK YOU.

YOU WANTED TO TALK ABOUT TE GROWING SEASON, RIGHT?

BOB: IT WAS A MARKABLE SEAN MANY WAYS.

I GOT A FEW WEATHER STATIS.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBE, THIS IS DULUTH WEATHER STAN AND YOU WILL SEE IN MAY ITS WARMER THAN AVERAGE BY ABOE DEGREE AND LOOK AT ALL THE SUNSHINE WE HAD.

IF YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF SN GOT OFF TO A GREAT START OR HARVESTING NOW.

JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, THIS IT I FOUND REMARKABLE.

AVERAGE TEMPERATURES 61.

OUR TEMPERATURE THIS YEAR,.

JULY, AVERAGE 67.

OUR TEMPERATURE, 67.

REMARKABLE STATISTICALLY TE WERE SO AVERAGE THIS YEAR D THAT IS WHAT SURPRISED ME A LITTLE BIT, WE DID NOT GET REALLY HOT.

WE WERE SLIGHTLY WARMER AND DRIER IN MAY, VERY AVERAGE, JULY, AUGUST, ABOVE AVERAGE PRECIPITATION IN JULY, USUY THE DRIEST MONTH BUT BELOW AVERAGE IN AUGUST AND THENE HAD A FROST IN EARLY SEPTER AWAY FROM THE LAKE AT LEASA HINT OF FROST IN EARLY SEPTEMBER.

EVERYTHING WAS SO DIFFERENO OUR REGION, THE RAIN, WHENE LOOK AT JUNE, THEY WERE A E BIT WARMER THAN AVERAGE, IY A LITTLE WARMER THAN AVERAT LOOK AT THE PRECIPITATION Y HAD, 3.85 INCHES HIGHER THN AVERAGE SO THEY HAD A TREMS AMOUNT OF MOISTURE AND WARR TEMPERATURES SO WARMER AND WETTER THAN AVERAGE IN JUN, JULY, AND WARM IN AUGUST BT VERY DRY.

WHY DID WE HAVE THIS GROWIG SEASON?

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SAYINGT ALL THESE GREEN TOMATOES OR MAYBE I DO NOT HAVE ANY TOS AND THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, I TRIED TO WRITEY PUMPKINS, NOT FOR EVERYBODT HERE IS WHAT I THINK, SMOKE IMPACTS.

WE HAD REDUCED TO LIGHT PENETRATION DURING CRITICAL MONTHS.

JULY AND EARLY AUGUST ARE Y CRITICAL FOR GROWTH.

IN DULUTH WE HAD 21 DAYS OF HEAVY SMOKE.

I DID NOT HAVE TO REMIND P. THEY FEEL LIKE THEY GOT CHD OUT OF SUNSHINE.

HIBBING, 29 DAYS OF HEAVY E IN AUGUST.

WE HAD EXCESSIVE VEGETATIVE GROWTH.

IF WE HAD EARLY FRUIT STRU- FRUIT SET, A LOT OF PEOPLEE HARVESTING RIPE TOMATOES NW DEPENDING ON CONDITIONS.

VEGETATIVE GROWTH IS ONE OY TOMATO PLOTS WHERE WE HAVET OF RIPENING FRUIT UNDERNEAH THAT CANOPY THAT CAME IN TE JULY, IT WAS ALL SET IN MAD HERE IS ONE I TOOK WITH YON YOUR DAD'S GARDEN WHICH WAN BECAUSE WHEN THEY FIRST LOT THE PLANTS I THOUGHT, ARE Y NUTRIENT DEFICIENT?

THEY ARE TERRIBLE.

BUT LOOK AT ALL THE FRUIT.

BECAUSE OF THEY WERE STRES, WE GOT ALL OF THIS WONDERFL FRUIT SO IT DEPENDS ON WHEU WERE, THE MOISTURE YOU EXPERIENCED, WHEN YOU PLAN, SO MANY VARIABLES BUT IF YE WAITING FOR EVERYTHING TO , MAYBE WE WILL HAVE A NICE M FALL IN OCTOBER AND YOU CAN RIPEN EVERYTHING ON THE PL.

SHARON: WONDERFUL.

THANK YOU, BOB.

NEXT, A LITTLE INSIDE INFORMATION TO SHARE.

WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT MASTER GARDENERS.

BUT WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE ONE?

WE RECENTLY ASKED TWO MASTR GARDENERS FROM CARLTON COUY ABOUT THEIR PATHS.

>> I'M GLADYS AND I LIVE IN ESCO, MINNESOTA.

I'M A MEMBER OF THE CARLTON COUNTY MASTER GARDENER GROD I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER IN CAN COUNTY SINCE 2015.

I HAVE BEEN A MASTER GARDES SINCE 2006.

I WENT THROUGH THE UNIVERSF WISCONSIN EXTENSION FOR MY MASTER GARDENER AND THEN TRANSFERRED IT TO MINNESOTN I MOVED TO CARLTON COUNTY.

YOU FILL OUT AN APPLICATIOI WENT LONG AGO ENOUGH THAT S NOT ONLINE.

I ATTENDED CLASSES IN SUPER FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TI.

[LAUGHTER] AFTER YOU DO YOUR VOLUNTEER HOURS, YOU'RE REQUIRED VOLR AND EDUCATION HOURS AND TO MAINTAIN THAT, I HAVE BEENA MASTER GARDENER LONG ENOUGT I COME UP IN THE EXTENSIOND MINNESOTA YOU CAN GO EMERIS AND I DID ACTIVE EMERITUS I AM INVOLVED IN WHAT THE MAR GARDENERS DO AND I WORK ON PROJECTS.

I HAVE TO MAINTAIN SOME HOS AND I HAVE TO MAINTAIN THE ANYWAY.

AS WELL AS GARDENING.

IT IS GOOD TO LEARN AND I L LIKE YOU NEED TO BE A LIFEG LEARNER OTHERWISE YOUR BRAN GOES MUSHY.

>> YOU BECAME A MASTER GARR WHEN?

>> THREE YEARS AGO.

I BECAME CURIOUS ABOUT IT G COVID AND I STARTED RESEAR.

I FOUND OUT ABOUT THE PROCS AND WHEN I JOINED, I DID A UNIVERSITY COURSE, A FOUR T EXTENSION COURSE ONLINE.

THE FIRST YEAR YOU INTERN LEARNING FROM TWO MASTER GARDENERS AND THE FIRST YEU HAVE A CERTAIN REQUIREMENTR EDUCATION AND SERVICE.

I WAS ALWAYS INTERESTED IN GARDENING, BUT I WORK FULLE AND TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY SY INTEREST WAS MANIFESTED THH MY HUSBAND.

I LIKED WHAT I SAW WHEN I E HOME FROM BUSINESS TRAVEL.

SO DURING COVID I GOT INTED AND STARTED WITH A LITTLE SOMETHING.

I HAVE BEEN GARDENING FOR , MANY YEARS BECAUSE MY MOTHS A GARDENER.

WE HAD A SMALL LOT IN A SML COMMUNITY AND SHE ALWAYS HR FLOWERS.

NO ONE LEFT THE HOUSE AFTER VISITING HER WITHOUT A GERM START.

>> TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANF LANDSCAPING.

>> I LIKE TO PRUNE AT THE CORRECT TIME FOR YOUR DIFFT SHRUBS.

YOU CAN START CUTTING BACKT YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN TO PE CERTAIN SHRUBS FOR MAXIMUM BEAUTY.

I THINK THAT IS ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS.

SHARON: WE WILL HEAR FROM H GLADYS AND MARY AGAIN LATEN THE SHOW ABOUT WHAT IT TAKO PUT ON THEIR GROUP'S ANNUAL GARDEN TOUR.

RIGHT NOW, DEB, WHAT ELSE U WANT TO SHARE WITH US TONI?

DEB: BACK TO THE THEME OF BOLDNESS AND GETTING READYR NEXT YEAR -- BULBS AND GETG READY FOR NEXT YEAR, TUBERS BEGONIAS ARE GREAT HERE THY HAVE A MALE AND FEMALE FLO.

THEY ARE GORGEOUS BUT PEOPE WONDERING WHY THEY ARE NOT GETTING DOUBLES, THE INNER GETTING A MALE AND FEMALE.

THAT IS A DAHLIA.

THEY ALSO HAVE A YOUTUBER,- YOU HAVE A TUBER, WHICH HAS AND THERE ARE A FEW WAYS TO PROPAGATE BEGONIAS AND PREE BEGONIAS AND DAHLIAS.

BEGONIAS ARE GREAT.

LIKE BOB HAS BEEN SAYING, T IS GREEN, LET IT GROW.

A LOT OF PEOPLE BRING IN BEGONIAS.

THEY ARE SUPER EASY TO GRON THE HOUSE.

WE WANT TO PREVENT PESTS AD TAKE GOOD CARE OF THEM.

YOU CAN DO LEAF CUTTINGS ON BEGONIAS.

YOU CAN TAKE A LEAF OFF ANI KIND OF LIKE TO TWIRL IT.

IF YOU WANTED TO DO A LEAF CUTTING, TAKE THE LEAF ANDI LIKE TO CURL IT A LITTLE BD CRACK THE VEINS AND THEN PT INTO YOUR SOIL.

YOU PUT IT IN AND I WOULD E TO PUT IT UNDER THE CANOPY BECAUSE THEN THEY DO VERY L AND THEN YOU JUST PUSH IT O THE SOIL AND YOU WILL GET ANOTHER BEGONIA FROM IT.

IT WILL TAKE TIME BUT IT'SA GOOD TIME TO DO IT.

IT HAS TIME TO GROW.

ANYWAY, THESE HAVE TUBERS N THEM.

THEY ARE TINY.

A TUBER FOR A BEGONIA IS SY , THEY CAN BE THE SIZE OF E TO A QUARTER.

BUT WHEN THEY COME BACK THE SECOND YEAR, THEY ARE AMAZ.

THEY ARE HUGE.

YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW A TUBER -- A BEGONIA GROWN FA TUBER IS COMPARED TO A BEGA GROWN FROM A SEED.

I SEATED THIS BACK IN FEBRY AND THIS IS THIS SEASON'S .

IF I HAD HAD THIS FROM A T, IT WOULD BE FIVE TIMES LAR, EASILY.

IT'S REALLY WORTH IT TO TRO KEEP YOUR TUBERS AND TRY TT THEM BIG AND BOLD FOR NEXTR AND AGAIN, EVERYTHING IS GG SO EXPENSIVE SO WHY NOT ATT TRY TO PRESERVE YOUR TUBERD SO AGAIN YOU CAN EITHER BRG THEM IN AND REALLY CLEAN TP WELL, OR YOU LET THEM DIE K UNTIL THEY ARE NOT GREEN AY LONGER AND THEN BRING THEM.

A TUBER, BEGONIA TUBER WANO BE BETWEEN 45 AND 50 DEGRE.

CULL ACACIA IS NOT AS FUSS.

STORAGE, 45 TO 50 DEGREES,, YOU CAN LIFT THEM COME UP H AGAIN INTO ANOTHER PERFORAD BAG WITH PETE MOSS OR PERLR FOR MACULA -- VERMICULITE.

DO NOT LET THEM GET TOO WE.

WITH DOLLY, IT IS VERY SIM.

A DAHLIA TUBER IS BIG.

DIFFERENCE ON THE DAHLIA T, IF YOU TOOK CUTTINGS OFF OF EIGHT DAHLIA YOU WILL GET E OR FOUR WEEKS SOONER BLOOMN IF YOU START A TUBER.

SO WE ARE GONNA SAVE THIS Y WE TRY TO SAVE THIS TUBER,E LET IT DIE BACK, WE EITHERP IT IN THE SOIL AND NOT LETT GET TOO WET AND NOT LET ITY OUT TOO MUCH, KEEP RELATIVE HUMIDITY 60% TO 70%.

AND SO THEN YOU CAN PRESERE FRUIT YOU BUT IN EARLY MARU CAN START, YOU CAN JUST ADD WATER TO IT, GET IT TO STAT AGAIN AND THEN THEY WILL CE BACK LIKE THIS.

IF I TOOK A CUTTING OFF OFS IN EARLY MARCH, THIS IS GOA BLOOM, MY CUTTING WILL TAKO OR THREE WEEKS TO ROUTE ANT WILL BLOOM THREE WEEKS SOOR THAN THIS PLANT, WHICH IS D OF FUNNY BUT AGAIN IF YOU T TO PRESERVE IT, IT IS A GRT USE OF MONEY AND ANY KIND F TUBER OR BOLD IS REALLY GOR -- BULB IS REALLY GOOD FORE NEXT SEASON AND YOU CAN HAE DAHLIAS FOR A REALLY LONG .

BOB: AND YOU DO NOT HAVE AY GENETIC MIX BECAUSE YOU ARE TAKING VEGETATIVE TISSUE.

DEB: ESPECIALLY WITH THE CUTTING.

SHARON: WONDERFUL.

LET'S GET TO MORE OF YOUR QUESTIONS.

A VIEWER EMAILED ABOUT FORR GRASS AND IF YOU CAN SPLITS TIME OF YEAR.

DEB: I DEFINITELY WOULD.

WE LIKE TO DIG THEM UP ANDT THEM IN HALF BEFORE WE CUTE ROOTSTOCK IN HALF BECAUSE S LESS WORK TO SUPPORT, LESS STRESS WHEN YOU ARE SPLITTT AND THIS IS A GOOD TIME TOT RIGHT NOW.

BOB: EARLY FALL AND THERE E MANY THINGS WE CAN DO IN EY FALL.

YOU WANT TO GET THEM ESTABD BEFORE WE GO INTO THE WINT.

WINTER LAST YEAR WAS REALLD ON PERENNIALS.

20 BELOW AND NO COVER.

IF YOU DO EARLIER AND YOU E THE PLANT ESTABLISHED, YOUT TO BE CONSCIOUS OF BEING SE YOU HAVE PLENTY MOISTURE, E THE DIVISION NOW AND GET IL ESTABLISHED BEFORE REMOVINO FALL BECAUSE WE MIGHT GET Y SNOW COVER, THIS IS JUST AN ACADEMIC DISCUSSION BUT IFO NOT LIKE LAST YEAR THEY CAE LOTS OF TROUBLE.

SHARON: CAROLYN IN HERMANTS THANKFUL FOR ALL THE ADVIC.

SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TW NICE CABBAGES BUT THIS YEAE CABBAGES HAVE A WEIRD MOLDA GROWTH ON THEM AND SHE WONG WHAT CAUSED THIS.

BOB: WE ALWAYS GO BACK TO E MOISTURE CONDITIONS WHEN WK AT FUNGI.

IT'S A REALLY GOOD AREA FOR GROWING CABBAGES.

A MAJOR CABBAGE INDUSTRY SD CABBAGE INTO THE CHICAGO A.

BUT WE WILL NOT GET -- YOUN EVEN SEE A LITTLE BIT ON OR CAULIFLOWER HERE, JUST A HF UNUSUAL GROWTH THAT HAS OCCURRED.

THAT'S THE MOISTURE.

WHEN WE GET THESE MOIST CONDITIONS WITH HEAVY FOG E MORNING, EVERYTHING IS SO T THIS MORNING IT WAS VERY FY AND THERE IS NOT REALLY MUU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

SHARON: WE HAVE A VIEWER WS OVER SEEDING THEIR YARD WIH CLOVER TO CREATE A NO MOW .

WHERE -- WHEN IS THE BEST E TO DO A FINAL SEEDING FOR R TO ENSURE GROWTH?

DEB: AS LATE AS POSSIBLE.

I LIKE TO PUT IT JUST BEFOE SNOW COMES SO IT GETS A REY GOOD COME OF THE SNOW WILLR IT AND KEEP IT DORMANT ANDT WILL NOT TRY TO GROW.

YOU REALLY RISK IT IF YOU T EARLY AND THEY BREAK AND TY ACTUALLY GERMINATE, THEN YU WERE IN TROUBLE BECAUSE YOE NOTHING FOR NEXT YEAR SO WD TO SEE EVEN ON HALLOWEEN I ALWAYS SEEM TO GET A LITTLE SNOW AND WE WOULD SEED THET COVERS IT AND KEEPS IT DORT ALL WINTER AND THEN THERE S MOISTURE SUPPLY FOR THE SP.

BOB: IF SHE WANTS TO GO RIT NOW SHE COULD GET IT DONE D GET IT ESTABLISHED.

EARLY FALL.

DORMANT SEEDING, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT SEQUENCE OF EVENTS, MY EXPERIENCE IS YU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE WEATHER PATTERN AND IT HAS TO BE FN IN FOR THE LAST TIME BECAUF YOU SEED AND THEN WE GET A THOUGHT, IT GERMINATES SO Y IT EVEN PAST HALLOWEEN, L'S GET INTO NOVEMBER AND MAKEE THIS IS THE LAST COLD SPELT IT ON THE GROUND SO IT STAS DORMANT UNTIL NEXT SPRING.

YOU CAN DO THAT WITH LETTU, WITH A NUMBER OF THINGS.

SOMETIMES IT WORKS, SOMETIT DOESN'T BUT IF YOU WERE TOT RIGHT NOW YOU WANT TO DO IN OCTOBER BUT IF YOU PLANT TE GRASS SEED NOW IT WILL BE ESTABLISHED [CROSSTALK] YOO NOT WANT TO DO THAT IN OCTR BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT MAKE .

SHARON: A VIEWER PLANTED LE RECENTLY.

WILL IT BE READY BY EARLY OCTOBER?

BOB: THE NICE THING ABOUT LETTUCE IS THAT IT HAS SMAL LEAVES.

SHE MIGHT GET SOME NICE LE.

DAYLIGHT IS DECLINING SO DT EXPECT MIRACLES.

BUT LETTUCE IS VERY FROST RESISTANT SO EVEN IF YOU GT FROST IN OCTOBER IT SHOULDL GROW THROUGH IT.

GIVE IT A TRY SHARON:.

WHY NOT?

CATS HAS A PENNY PLANT WITH POWDERY MILDEW.

CAN SHE OR SHOULD SHE CUT T BACK COMPLETELY TO GET RIDF THE SPORES?

PENNY PLANT.

DEB: IS THAT WAS NOKIA -- A CCIA?

DEFINITELY CLEAN IT UP.

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH CLEANING IT OUT, PICKING OS MUCH AS YOU CAN SO IT DOEST SPREAD MORE.

SHARON: WHAT DO YOU USE TOE OFF THE LEAVES?

DEB: IT IS BENIGN, IT IS NT GOING TO DO MUCH DAMAGE, IS JUST UGLY TO LOOK AT.

BOB: MOST OF THE GROWING HS ALREADY OCCURRED.

IT IS NOT SYSTEMIC SO IT WL NOT GET INTO THE PLANT.

IT IS JUST KIND OF UNSIGHT.

MOST OF THE GROWING IS DON.

SHARON: LARRY HAS HAD RHUBB FOR EIGHT TO 10 YEARS BUT S YEAR HE DID NOT COME UP ANT CAME UP AS A BLACK BLOB.

BOB: I SEE PEOPLE HARVESTIG RHUBARB RIGHT NOW IN THE F, HARVESTING NEEDS TO STOP J4 AT THE LATEST BECAUSE YOU T THE LEAVES TO REESTABLISH L THE GROWTH.

LET'S ASSUME HE DID NOT HAT AFTER EARLY JULY AND HE JUS THIS BLOB, WE GO BACK AGAIO DRAINAGE, WHICH CERTAINLY D BE AN ISSUE, PARTICULARLY E PLANT IS WEAK.

OFTEN YOU GET WEEDS THAT CN AND THERE IS WEED COMPETIT, MAYBE HEAVY SOIL OR ANY STG WATER.

DEB: PEOPLE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE CROWN BECE IF YOU OVER MULCH THE CROWU WILL KILL THE PLANT.

ANDREW BROUGHT -- RHUBARB A CROWN.

BOB: THAT IS POSSIBLE.

IT IS A VERY WINTER HARDY T SO IT SHOULD NOT BE MULCH.

THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS U REALLY SHOULD BE MULCHING T HAS TO BE EITHER THE HARVET SCHEDULE OR SHARON: POOR DRAINAGE SHARON:.

ONE LAST QUESTION BEFORE TE NEXT SESSION.

PHYLLIS AND SKIP ARE ASKING ABOUT CREEPING BELLFLOWER.

THEY THINK IT IS A WEED BUT SHOULD THEY DO?

ABOUT IT?

BOB: A WEED IS JUST A PLANT OF PLACE [LAUGHTER] .

[LAUGHTER] IT IS NOT AS AGGRESSIVE ASO MANY OTHER INVASIVE PLANTS.

IT IS NOT GOING TO BE THAT AGGRESSIVE.

DEB: IT DEPENDS ON WHAT ITS PLANTED WITH.

IS IT TAKING OVER SOMETHIN?

IF IT IS IN A GARDEN AND TG OVER, YOU WANT TO PRESERVED MAYBE MOVE THOSE THINGS.

THAT WOULD BE EASIER.

SHARON: THANK YOU.

IF YOU JOINED US AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR SEASON, YL REMEMBER THAT WE DECIDED TO LAUCH OUR OWN GARDEN HERE S NORTH, RIGHT IN FRONT OF OR ENTRANCE.

BEFORE THE START OF SUMMERS IS WHAT WE IMAGINED FOR THE GARDEN AFTER A FEW MONTHS F GROWTH.

MY IMPRESSION OF WHAT THE T USE OF THIS SPACE, GIVEN IS LOCATION ON THE CAMPUS, MYN WOULD HAVE BEEN ON A PBS SD BAR.

SO THEN SOME NICE VINES GOG OVER THE TOP, MAY BE A POLLINATOR JUST FOR LOOKS N THIS SIDE, BUT THEN ALSO SE THINGS THAT ARE HAND FRUITR HAND VEGETABLES LIKE CUCUM, TOMATOES, SMALLER TOMATOES, LETTUCE THAT POSSIBLY WOULE USED EITHER BY THE STATIONR COULD BE USED BY STUDENTS R EVEN LOWER INCOME OR ANY OT KIND OF NEED.

THERE IS SO MUCH YOU COULDW IN A SQUARE FOOT GARDEN LIE THIS AND YOU COULD EVEN DO POSSIBLY A LITTLE CLASS ON PRESERVING THE FOOD IN THEL OR USING THE FOOD OR RECIP.

I WOULD JUST SEE A LOT OF VEGETABLES AND THEN SOME PY VINES, POLLINATORS, AND YOU COULD FOCUS ON POLLINATORSD PRODUCE AT PBS.

PPP, POLLINATORS, PRODUCE.

>> I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE E ASIAN FOOD, STIRFRY, VEGGI.

A LOT OF TIMES HARD TO FIND VEGETABLES FOR OUR STIRFRI.

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE KOHLRA, SOME ASIAN CABBAGE, SPROUT, ANYTHING YOU COULD DO IN A STIRFRY AND I CHALLENGE THO BE A STIRFRY GARDEN.

>> I WOULD FIRST LOOK AT TE ORIENTATION.

YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE A NICE SUPPORT SYSTEM HERE.

I WOULD BE INCLINED TO RUNE VINES OVER THE TOP.

BEING A BIG PHRYGIAN -- BIG VEGGIE AND FRUIT GUY I WOUD LOOK AT MAYBE SOME GRAPEVIN THE SOUTH SIDE AND THEN I D JUST MAKE USE OF ALL OF THE BEDS.

I PROBABLY WOULD DO SOME MT AND GET POLLINATORS, PERENS AND YOU HAVE A NUMBER TO PK FROM.

I WOULD ALSO INTERSPERSE TT WITH ANY NUMBER OF VEGETABI WOULD PROBABLY WANT TO DO E SOME OF THE BEDS AND MAKE F A SPRING CROP THAT WOULD CN EARLY, ALL THE SALAD GREEN, SPINACH, LETTUCE, RADISHESD THEN I WOULD HARVEST THEM Y AND COME IN AND WITH THE FL CROP MAY BE SOME OF THE BRI AND CAULIFLOWER, CABBAGE FR FALL CROPS SO WHY WOULD GEW SIDE OF THAT BED.

I THINK WE HAVE ENOUGH SPAE HERE SO IT WOULD BE KIND ON TO INTERMIX POLLINATING PLS WITH MAYBE ANNUALS FOR COLO YOU COULD GET A LITTLE BITF EVERYTHING OUT OF A PLOT TS SIZE.

A LOT OF THE SPACE, WELL CONSTRUCTED, GOOD DRAINAGE.

A MIX OF BOTH POLLINATING FLOWERS, PERENNIALS AND AN, AS WELL AS A NICE SPRING AD THEN FALL CROP OF VEGETABL.

I WOULD DEFINITELY MAKE USF THIS STRUCTURE HERE AND BEE I HAD SOME THINGS APPEAR.

I MENTIONED GRAPES, BUT ALO WONDERFUL CUCUMBERS AND OTR VINE CROPS WE COULD MAKE UF THE STRUCTURE HERE.

THERE IS A LOT WE COULD DOH THIS.

IT WOULD BE FUN.

SHARON: NOW IT IS TIME TO E THE RESULTS.

TAKE A LOOK, STARTING WITH PLANTING DAY.

GETTING THINGS READY.

BOB: THERE WE GO.

DEB: LOTS OF HERBS.

SOME FENNEL.

SHARON: IT IS SO EXCITING O SEE.

DEB: IT'S AMAZING WHAT HAP, HOW QUICKLY, AND SO REWARDG WHEN IT DOES SO WELL.

BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN IT NOT DID SO WELL.

SHARON: DECIDING WHERE EVERYTHING GETS PLANTED.

PLANNING IT OUT.

DEB: IT IS A HUGE PREPARAT.

LOOK AT IT.

BOB: LOOK AT THE GROWTH SP.

DEB: IT LOOKS GOOD.

SHARON: LOOK AT ALL OF THE GROWTH IN JULY.

DEB: BEAUTIFUL.

BOB: A LITTLE PROBLEM WITH.

[LAUGHTER] DEB: I WOULD NOT WATER THE FOLIAGE.

WATER DOWN AT THE BASE.

SHARON: NOW SEPTEMBER.

DEB: BEAUTIFUL PUMPKINS.

SHARON: I LIKE TO SEE THE E LEAF DAMAGE BECAUSE THEY HD SOME PEST SO TO BE IT IS L, THAT IS ORGANIC.

SALVIA WILL KEEP DEER AWAY.

BOB: AND TOMATOES.

CONGRATULATIONS.

SHARON: A VARIETY OF KALE.

DEB: IT.

IT IS SO PRETTY.

BOB: FOR THE FIRST STAB ATI THINK THEY DID A REALLY GOD JOB.

DEB: AND IT LOOKS PRETTY.

SHARON: THAT WAS SO FUN TO.

BOB, YOU HAVE SOME FALL TIR US?

BOB: I PUT TOGETHER SOME QK TIPS, THINGS TO DO IN THE .

IF YOU WILL NOT TAKE AN OFL SOIL TEST, YOU WANT TO GETE FROM A CERTIFIED LAB.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO IT EY YEAR, PARTICULARLY IF THINE WITHIN BALANCE BUT MINNESOA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN EITHEE LOOK AT THE WEBSITE FOR INSTRUCTIONS, PRICING, ANDN COME BACK THE REASON I HADN FALL RESULTS COME BACK QUIY AND THEN YOU CAN [INDISCER] BASED ON THE RESULTS IF ITS YOU ARE TOO ACIDIC YOU CAND LIME, TWO BASIC, WORK IT DN WITH OTHER AMENDMENTS AND I THINK THE OTHER CRITICAL TG IS CONTROL THE PERENNIAL W. WEEDS ARE ALWAYS A HUGE COMPETITOR AND THIS IS THEE YOU CONTROL THE PERENNIALSD IF YOU CAN PREPARE A NEW GN SPACE I THINK THE QUESTIONE HAD WITH THE RHUBARB WONDEG WHAT IS GOING ON, TREES OFN GROW, DRAINAGE PATTERNS SH, SUNLIGHT CHANGES, CANOPY C, SO MAYBE IT IS TIME TO PREE THAT NEWGARDEN SPACE, LET'O THAT RIGHT NOW AND THEN I D TAKE A NOTE, WHAT WORKED, T DIDN'T, WHAT REALLY HAPPEND HERE, THE VARIETIES YOU USD SOME THE TIMING, WEED CONT, PEST, WRITE IT ALL DOWN WHT IS FRESH IN YOUR MIND'S ANO WHEN YOU ARE PLANNING NEXTR YOU CAN THINK ABOUT THAT AD THEN BE PLANTING SOME OF TE FRESH PERENNIAL MATERIAL, E CAREFUL ABOUT OVERDOING ITO NOT PUT FERTILITY IN THE G, THERE IS PLENTY TO DO IN TE FALL, THEN WE ARE GOING TOE A LITTLE LOOK AT [INDISCER] THIS IS ON THE LAWN, IDEALE TO FERTILIZE THE LAWN IF 'E GOING TO DO IT ONCE DO IT E END OF AUGUST, FIRST TIME F SEPTEMBER AND IF YOU ARE GG TO CONTROL WITH WEED OR FED HERBICIDE GET IT DONE NOW,U CAN PULL THE CORE OUT WITHN ARROW FIRE AND THEN ONLY D THATCH IF NECESSARY.

I SEE A LOT OF SERVICES FOR DETHATCHING EQUIPMENT BEING SOLD.

YOU SEE THIS LIGHT BROWN AA ABOVE THE SOIL LINE, THIS T WOOD TISSUE, ITS UNDERGROUD STEM TISSUE, SO MUCH OF THE GRASS PLANT IS THE UNDERGRD STEM TISSUE AND IF YOU ARE HEAVILY FERTILIZING AND REY APPLYING A LOT OF MOISTUREE GET THIS THATCH BUILD UP AD THAT NEEDS TO BE BROKEN DO.

HOWEVER, BE THE THATCH, THS A PHOTO I TOOK TWO DAYS AG, BEAUTIFUL BLUEGRASS LAWN, E IS NO THATCH, I HAVE DONE S TIME AND AGAIN SO WHY ARE E DETHATHCIN EVERYTHING SO IF SOMEONE IS GOING TO SELL YU THAT AS A SERVICE, SAY WHES THE THATCH?

THESE ARE SOME OF THE ESSEL THINGS WE WILL BE COMPOSTIG JUST REAL QUICKLY ABOUT FOR CENTRAL COMPONENTS OF REALY EFFECTIVE COMPOST, YOU HAVO HAVE BEEN STOPPED, LEAF STK ORGANICS AND ROUTING DEBRIM YOUR VEGETABLE GARDEN, FLOR GARDEN THAT YOU WERE CLEANG UP, IT IS DEAD AND GONE UNS YOU WANT TO LEAVE IT YOU CN CLEAN IT UP, GET IT IN THE, YOU DO NEED NITROGEN BECAUT IS FEED STOCK DEAD LEAVES D BROWN MATERIALS ALMOST ALL CARBON SO WE HAVE TO GET NITROGEN FROM SOMEPLACE THI CAN EITHER BE GREEN MATERIR ACTUALLY COULD BE A COMMERL SOURCE, FERTILIZER OF ONE E OR ANOTHER, BUILD YOUR PILE OPENS OF THE AIR PENETRATEU GET OXYGEN SO YOU STAY OPED THEN IF IT GETS REAL DRY, Y WOULD'VE BEEN A GREAT COMPG DAY BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE WR BUT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE WATT THE HOSE OUT SO THOSE OF TE FOUR COMPONENTS AND THEN YR COMPOST PILE WILL TAKE OFF FAIRLY WEEKLY AND WORKS VEY FAST FOR YOU.

SHARON: WONDERFUL.

THANK YOU, BOB.

LET'S GET BACK TO MARY AND GLADYS IN ESKO.

WE CAUGHT UP WITH THEM BEFE THE CARLTON COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS ANNUAL GARDEN TO.

HEAR WHAT IT TAKES TO PLANR IT EACH YEAR.

>> I LIKE TO PAY ATTENTIONO THE KIND OF ATMOSPHERE.

YOU CAN SEE AS GLADYS SHOWS THE GARDEN TOUR, EACH HAS A UNIQUE PERSONALITY AND SOMS WITHIN THE SAME YARD OR SAE LAND YOU WILL FIND VERY DIFFERENT KINDS OF FEELINGS YOU GO ABOUT.

THE YEAR GLADYS WAS ON THE GARDEN TOUR, 2023, WE HAD S LOVELY GARDEN TO LOOK AT AD THEN WE ALSO WENT TO A FAIY GARDEN.

IT WAS VERY WHIMSICAL.

LITTLE TINY PEOPLE PLANTING FLOWERS.

YOU SEE A LOT ABOUT PERSONY AND KIND OF THE ATMOSPHEREY WANT TO CREATE FOR THEIR H. RELAXING SPACES, COLORFUL T SPACES.

>> WE FIND THE GARDENS, FIF ALL WE KIND OF MAYBE IT ISD OF LIKE BEING A CREEPER.

[LAUGHTER] YOU ARE DRIVING AROUND, LOG AT YARDS.

WE STARTED LAST FALL TO FIO THE GARDENS FOR THIS YEAR.

YOU NEED TO DO THAT, BECAUI THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY FAIR TE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE THE KNOWE IN THE FALL THAT NEXT JULYY WILL BE ON THE GARDEN TOURO THEY COULD PREPARE AND PLAL WINTER HOW THEY WANT TO DOR GARDENS.

♪ ♪ SHARON: THANKS TO GLADYS AD MARY.

WHAT BEAUTIFUL GARDENS THEE IN CARLTON COUNTY.

OKAY, WE HAVE TIME FOR ONET ROUND OF VIEWER QUESTIONS.

CINDY WANTS TO KNOW IF IT O LATE TO PLANT HYDRANGEA BUS FOR NEXT YEAR.

DEB: DO IT RIGHT NOW.

GO OUT TONIGHT, DIG A HOLE, WATER YOUR PLANT REALLY WEL BEFORE YOU PUT IT IN THE G, WATER AROUND IT REALLY WELD MULCH IT REALLY WELL.

BOB: IF YOU DON'T AND YOU'T DO IT, MAKE SURE IT STAYS M OR MOIST AND YOU HAVE GOOD STRONG MULCH IF YOU WERE DG IT IN OCTOBER.

SHARON: WHAT IS THE BEST WO TEST SOIL?

IS THERE A TEST YOU CAN BU?

BOB: GO TO A CERTIFIED LAB.

WE HAVE PRIVATE LABS AND RS WILL STAND UP IN COURT, THY HALF THE -- SAVE HALF THE E IN CASE THERE IS ANY QUESTN ABOUT ANALYSIS.

GET ONE GOOD TEST DONE, PAE PRICE.

I WOULD STAY AWAY FROM HOME TESTS.

SPEND THE MONEY.

IT'S A GOOD INVESTMENT IN M FERTILIZER YOU SAVE AND THE RESULTS YOU GET.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OR UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

SHARON: RITA HAS BROCCOLI T DID NOT GET HEADS.

ALSO CABBAGE.

WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?

BOB: DO NOT GIVE UP YET.

SOMETIMES WHAT SURPRISES YS YOU GET A GREAT BIG PLANT T TAKES A LOT OF NITROGEN, AT OF LEAF TISSUE, YOU GIVE UD THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, HERE EMERGES A BEAUTIFUL HEAD.

SAME WITH CAULIFLOWER.

THE WORST THING IS A PREMAE HEAD THAT BUTTONS UP ON YOD YOU DO NOT GET GOOD GROWTHT AS LONG AS THE PLANT IS NOT STRESSED, YOU CAN STILL GET DECENT HEADS AND FALL.

SHARON: LINDA IN SAGINAW WS TO KNOW WHAT WOULD BE A GOD GRAPE VARIETY TO BE USED TE JUICE, IS FUNGUS RESISTANTD GROWS IN ZONE THREE.

THREE WISHES.

BOB: [LAUGHTER] THERE IS ONLY ONE THING ONE THAT IS CONCERNING, FUNGUS RESISTANT.

THEY HAVE TO BE HEARTY, ZOE THREE.

DEB: IT DOES NOT MATTER IFS PEST RESISTANT OR FUNGUS RESISTANCE IF IT DOES NOT SURVIVE.

BOB: SHE HAS CHOICES.

THEY ARE ALL CROSSES WITH F OUR NATIVE GRAPES.

BETA, BLUEBERRY, -- BLUEBER VALIUM.

-- VALIANT VALIANT IS THE T RIGOROUS.

WE HAVE FUNGICIDES BUT GRAS ARE NOT ON THE LABELS WILLE VERY CAREFUL WHAT YOU USE.

THERE ARE OTHER MATERIALS T CAN BE USED.

SHARON: KEITH IN AURORA GRS OWN GARLIC AND WANTS TO KNW AND WHEN HE WOULD PLANT IT.

DEB: SO HE HAS CURED IT, IS DRY, IT IS A BULB, THEN MAE SURE IT IS CURED AND DRY AD MID-OCTOBER YOU CAN GENERAY PLANT AND THEN YOU PULL APT THE CLOVES AND PLANT IT BY CLOVES, NOT BY BULB.

BOB: ONE REVELATION OVER TE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE HA MAJOR DISEASE IN GARLIC.

WE HAVE SEEN IT ON ALL OF R CARET CROP.

ASTER YELLOW.

IT'S DIFFERENT THAN A VIRUR FUNGI OR BACTERIA, IT'S A CYTOPLASM, WHICH IS PRETTY UNUSUAL.

TESTS ARE EXPENSIVE.

IF YOU ARE BUYING GARLIC, K AT IT, BE SURE THE BULBS AE FIRM AND THERE IS NOT ANY Y DEEP PURPLEISH COLOR, THINI HAVE SEEN WITH THIS DISEASS ATTACKED, AND THEN SEPARATT FROM THE CARROTS.

BECAUSE THAT CARRIES THE LF HOPPER WHICH ATTRACTS THISO YOUR GARDEN.

YOU CAN START AGAIN EVERY R WITH SEED BUT WITH GARLIC F THEY ARE INFECTED YOU WILLE TO DISPOSE OF THE SEED.

SO BE A LITTLE CAREFUL, GRT CROP, OCTOBER 15 OR ANYTHIP TO NOVEMBER 1.

SHARON: BARB IN DULUTH WANO KNOW IF YOU CAN EAT APPLEST HAVE LITTLE WORM TRACKS ANE ARE IN GENERAL SHOULD YOU T YOUR GARDEN INFO?

DEB: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOA EXTENSION.

THEY HAVE THE BEST.

THEY COULD TEACH US A THINR TWO BECAUSE THEY ARE SO GOD THEY HAVE THE BEST HORTICULTURALIST'S THAT ARE WRITING FOR US, IT IS ALL WRITTEN FOR MINNESOTA.

BOB: I HAVE SEEN SO MUCH INFORMATION.

ONLINE I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF WRONG INFORMATION AND YOU E TO BE A LITTLE CAREFUL.

ANYTHING THAT HAS .EDU AT E END IS GOING TO BE MORE RELIABLE.

BUT ALSO YOU HAVE TO TALK H YOUR NEIGHBORS.

IT IS VARIABLE BY REGION.

SO YOU REALLY WANT TO GET S MUCH INFORMATION AS YOU CAT DO NOT FOLLOW IT ALL.

SHARON: WHAT ABOUT THE WORD APPLES?

BOB: A FLY CAME ALONG WHENE FRUIT WAS FORMING, DEPOSITE EGGS, AND IT LEFT THE APPL.

THEY ARE GONE.

THEY LEFT THE TRACK.

YOU CAN MAKE APPLESAUCE OUF IT IF IT BOTHERS YOU TO COE YOU.

NOT A MAJOR PROBLEM.

CONTROLLING THE PEST IS CONTROLLING THE FLY AND THS MORE DIFFICULT AND WOULD HE HAD TO BE DONE MUCH EARLIEN THE SEASON.

SHARON: CORAL IN DULUTH WAO KNOW IF YOU -- WIDE GARLICD NOT GROW WELL THIS YEAR?

THEY PLANTED 300 AND ONLY T 30.

BOB: OUCH.

THAT HURTS.

IT COULD BE A NUMBER OF TH.

I JUST TALKED A LITTLE BITT ASTER YELLOW.

IT ATTACKS MANY FLORAL MAT, FLOWERING PERENNIALS, IT AS CARROTS AND MY SUSPICION IS THERE IS AN ASTER YELLOW INFECTION THERE.

SHARON: A NEW PLANT WAS ABT FOR TWO MONTHS AND SHE'S WONDERING IF SHE IS NOT WAG ENOUGH EVEN THOUGH THE SOIL FEELS MOIST.

THE PLANT IS CALLED CRYPTO CORPUS.

AGES AND TIPS OF THE LEAVEE BROWN.

CAN SHE TRIM OFF THE BROWN?

DEB: IT'S A THICK LEAF ANDE COULD REMOVE AS MUCH AS SHN BUT I WOULD TELL -- I WOULD CHECK THE MOISTURE BECAUSEU CAN LOSE THOSE QUICKLY WITO MUCH MOISTURE.

IT HAS A FUZZY LEAF.

RUN IT ON THE DRIER SIDE.

IT'S ALSO A BULBOUS SO SHET BE ABLE TO SALVAGE THAT BUT IS GOING TO START TO GO DO.

SHE HAS TO MAKE SURE IT ISD OUT.

I THINK THAT IS GOING TO BE BIGGEST ISSUE RIGHT NOW, MG SURE IT IS NOT TOO WET.

SHARON: SUE FROM CARLETON,N DO YOU PRUNE GRAPEVINES?

BOB: TYPICALLY IN THE SPRI.

THEY ARE STILL DORMANT EAR.

SHARON: THANK YOU SO MUCH R JOINING US THIS EVENING FOR FINAL EPISODE OF "GREAT GARDENING" IN 2025.

WE HOPE TONIGHT'S EPISODE S GOTTEN YOU THINKING ABOUT T SPRING, AND WHAT TO DO IN E MEANTIME TO PREPARE.

UNTIL NEXT TIME, WHEN WE JN YOU IN EARLY SPRING OF 202E ENCOURAGE YOU TO STAY CONN. VISIT PBSNORTH.ORG TO CATCL OF THIS PAST SEASON'S EPIS.

REMEMBER, "GREAT GARDENINGA SHOW MADE FOR YOU AND BY Y, WITH SUPPORT FROM VIEWERS E YOU.

AND OF COURSE, A SPECIAL TK YOU TO OUR GARDENING EXPER, DEB BYRNS ERICKSON AND BOB, FOR SHARING THEIR EXPERTIS.

FROM ALL OF US HERE AT "GRT GARDENING" AND PBS NORTH, K YOU FOR WATCHING, AND HAVEA WONDERFUL EVENING.

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