KFBK Garden Show

Phil Pursel of Dave Wilson Nursery talks about growing backyard fruit trees. Low water plants for the shade. A visit to Fort Ross. Growing chili peppers.

Chili pepper expert Dave DeWitt on growing peppers. Seedsperson Renee Shepherd on carrot varieties. Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms constructs an easy salad bowl garden. Prof. Debbie Flower on how to water. Robert Kourik explains how tree roots grow.

New to backyard chickens or beehives? Your flocks and swarms might want some winter warmth and food variations. Urban chicken consultant Cherie-Sintes Glover has the tips. Growing broccoli and brussel sprouts. Warren Roberts takes us on a Dec. tour of the UC Davis Arboretum.

Lori Ann Asmus, Emerald City Interior Landscape Services, has tips for decorating with holiday plants and wreathmaking ideas. Blackberry supports. What is a consulting arborist?

Late fall and winter is a great time to feed your soil. How? Steve Zien has the tips. Also, growing Swiss Chard. Unusual cool season vegetables. Upcoming garden events.

College horticulture professor Debbie Flower has tips for caring for your Christmas tree. Warren Roberts tells us about the history of the UC Davis Arboretum. The importance of barn owls. Upcoming garden events.

College horticulture professor Debbie Flower explains why right now is an excellent time for planting new trees, shrubs and perennials; and, why now is a good time for removing underperforming plants. UC Davis Arboretum Superintendent Emeritus Warren Roberts takes us on a radio tour of the plants currently putting on a show there. Upcoming garden events.

College horticulture professor Debbie Flower explains why leaves of deciduous trees turn color and eventually fall to the ground. Growing parsnips and celtuce. Upcoming garden events.

Master Gardener Pam Bone offers tips for caring for your trees this time of year. Growing citrus indoors. Making and canning apple jelly. Upcoming garden events.

If you want your leaf blower, generator, chain saw and other cool season power equipment to start right away, Brad Gay of JB’s Power Equipment in Davis has tips. Generator safety. Pumpkin recipe. Upcoming Garden Events.

Don Shor of Redwood Barn Nursery in Davis discusses how to either rehab a suffering lawn; or, tear it out and plant a meadow! Cut Flower Tips. Upcoming Garden Events.

Quentyn Young, Master Gardener and Manager at Fair Oaks Blvd Nursery, has tips for fruit and nut tree care this time of year. October tour of the UCD Arboretum with Warren Roberts. Garden Grappler.

Prof. Debbie Flower discusses all the interesting challenges facing area gardeners this time of year, small and large! Illegal pesticides. Cover your soil.

Prof. Debbie Flower discusses the best techniques for planting trees. Fall is for Planting! How to Grow Beets. Upcoming Garden Events.

Prof. Debbie Flower discusses the best herbs to grow indoors for use in the kitchen. Pruning grapes. Julia Oldfield of Big Oak Nursery on cool season annuals. 2021 Placer Co. Master Gardener Guide and Calendar details. Upcoming Garden Events.

As smoke and ash continues to rain down on wide swaths of California, Debbie Flower has tips for keeping your plants healthy. Fall begins Tuesday, what’s at the top of your garden to-do list for the new season? We offer up our suggestions. Upcoming Garden Events.

Don Shor of Redwood Barn Nursery tackles your indoor garden questions during this smoke-filled season here. Robert Kourik on the no-dig garden. Upcoming Garden Events.

Master Gardener Quentyn Young, whose day job is managing Fair Oaks Blvd Nursery, has suggestion for cool season edible crops to plant this month and next. He always has some unusual suggestions or varieties. Making raisins. Greenhouse Basics Part 1. Upcoming Garden Events.

Master Gardener Pam Bone is here to brag about her 2020 berry crop. What is she doing that you aren’t? We will find out. Exploring tomato roots. AmpleHarvest.org. Upcoming Garden events.

College Horticulture Professor Debbie Flower discusses coping with the latest plague on Northern California: wildfires and their direct and indirect effect on your Northern California garden. Flavorful roses. Roasting Tomatoes. Upcoming Garden events.

College Horticulture Professor Debbie Flower discusses coping with the latest bout of record heat in the garden. Warren Roberts takes us on a radio tour of the August blooms at the UC Davis Arboretum. Upcoming Garden events

Master Gardener Quentyn Young, who’s also the manager of Fair Oaks Blvd. Nursery, talks about the best ways to water during heat waves, summer orchard care, and battling the bugs of summer. The mystery of the dying Sungold tomato plants. Making sense of soil products. Upcoming Garden events.

Redwood Barn Nursery’s Don Shor has tips for keeping your tomato plants producing through the fall. Sacramento County Agriculture Commissioner Chris Flores discusses the mystery seeds from China. Upcoming garden events.

Ed Laivo knows fruit trees. For decades, he has worked for California’s major wholesale growers of deciduous as well as citrus fruit trees. He shares his vast fruit tree growing advice, including dealing with the summer heat. We talk about the Virtual Harvest Day coming up, online, next Saturday. Growing table grapes. Upcoming garden events.

Former College Horticulture Professor Debbie Flower drops by to address your hot weather garden worries. Warren Roberts with a look at the July blooms at the UC Davis Arboretum. Getting rid of squash bugs.

Quentyn Young, Manager of Fair Oaks Blvd. Nursery (and a Master Gardener) has tips for growing fruiting subtropical plants in our area, including Avocados. Also: summer houseplant care; Water Plants; controlling puncturevine.

Vexed gardeners ask: "What's up with my squash? The flowers aren't producing fruit!" Debbie Flower has the answers. Tips on saving your excess harvest with dehydration. Attracting the swallowtail butterfly with the Dutchman's Pipevine plant.

Looking ease your garden chores on the heat of the summer? Steve Zien has tips on easy weed control as well as advice on how to preserve soil moisture on hot days. Warren Roberts takes us on a June plant tour of the UC Davis arboretum. AmpleHarvest.org wants your leftover garden vegetables!

The National Weather Service has issued a heat warning for our area for the coming week. Triple digit temperatures are forecast Monday through Friday, with not much cooling down at night. What's a gardener to do? Retired horticulture professor Debbie Flower has the answers. Japanese beetles in Sacramento County. Effective fertilization tips.

The effects of the multi-year drought of the last decade persist. We are surrounded by a landscape of dying tress and shrubs that probably began with that water shortage. Pam Bone, Sacramento County's Original Master Gardener and Urban forester, talks about the current symptoms. Japanese beetles in Sacramento County. Growing tomatoes in pots.

Marlene Simon,the Plant Lady, joins us to answer your garden questions along with tips on growing lavender. The rhododendrons of coastal Sonoma County. Growing chili peppers. Upcoming Garden events.

Don Shor of Redwood Barn Nursery in Davis drops by to talk about how you and you garden are dealing with the wild swings in our weather. Watering incorrectly may be leading to more issues. Critter-proofing blueberry plants. Pollinator Victory Garden. Upcoming Garden events.

Retired state entomologist and current Master Rosarian Baldo Villegas has the answers for your rose and bug questions. We take a radio tour of the UC Davis Arboretum with Superintendent Emeritus Warren Roberts. Debbie Flower on the difference between thorns, spines, and prickles. Upcoming garden events.

Heat, rain, wind... a lot has been thrown at our backyard fruit trees this month. What issues will we be dealing with this summer? Fruit tree expert Ed Laivo offers up some answers. The importance of deciduous fruit tree thinning, with Tom Spellman of Dave Wilson Nursery. The "Limelight" hydrangea.

College horticulture teacher Debbie Flower may be retires, but she is still battling bugs in the garden. She has tips for us! How can you tell when your garlic is ready to be harvested? Master Gardener Dan Vierria knows all, tells all. And, growing vegetables in straw bales, with Master Gardener Gail Pothour.

Don Shor of Redwood Barn Nursery in Davis talks about the vegetables that should be planted in May: Squash, peppers, and eggplant. Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms discusses his "cheapskate salad bowl." Scott Paris of High Hand Nursery tells us about his "Hydrangeas for Heroes" campaign for medical workers.

Perhaps you're thinking of expanding jyour backyard food production with chickens or bees. Today's guest, Cherie Sintes-Glover is an Urban Chicken Consultant and beekeeper. She has tips! Warren Roberts takes us on a spring tour of the UC Davis Arboretum. Debbie Flower tells us about pests that we don't want in California.

Master Gardener Pam Bone talks about the garden pests currently bugging local gardeners. And, details about a free, virtual native plant tour of private landscapes in the area.

College horticulture professor Debbie Flower has tips to control your latest ant invasion. And, a basic understanding of how plants work. Hot plants at the Nursery right now. Raising new chicks.

We highlight a new, compact butterfly bush from Proven Winners, the "Pugster Blue." Tips for sgtarting the Victory Garden 2.0 The ladies from the "Sacramento Digs Gardening" blog chat about roses and tomatoes.

Greg Gayton and Julie Barbour of Green Acres Nursery and supply have tips for getting your garden ready for planting in mid-April through early June. Warren Roberts on the blooming plants of spring. Codling moth control tips. "Jazz Hands" lorapetalum.

Debbie Flower has gardening ideas for the stay at home family. "Brown Thumb Mama" Pam Farley talks about garden games for kids. A preview of Proven winner's new "At Last Rose." Warren Roberts talks about the spring blooms at the UC Davis Arboretum.

If the coronavirus threat has you cooped up at home, it's OK to garden! Pedologist (really, there is such a term) Steve Zien of Living Resources Company has soil tips for a happy healthy garden. A preview of Proven Winner's new reblooming Hydrangea, the "Let's Dance Blue Jingles."

Don Shor is getting lots of interesting new plants into his nursery this month. What are some of the more interesting ones? Plus, caring for young tomato plants. We highlight the Oso Easy Lemon Zest rose from Proven winners. Upcoming garden events.

Master Gardener Pam Bone points out: don't let the nice weather in February weather fool you; there are several more weeks ahead in March of cooler, unpredictable weather. She offers tips for what to do, and not do, in the garden right now. Greenhouse basics with Mark Seibert of Sturdi Built greenhouses. A tour of the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens. Upcoming garden events.

Master Gardener Gail Pothour like to munch on plants in her garden. Some of those munchies you might find a bit unusual. We talk about parts of plants that usually aren't considered for the dinner table....but they are. Horticulture classes at Cosumnes River College. And, a radio tour of the UC Davis Arboretum in February with Warren Roberts. Upcoming Garden Events.

What's new in the world of unusual plants for 2020? Quentyn Young, Master Gardener and manager of Fair Oaks Boulevard Nursery in Carmichael, talks about his favorites. Thwarting illegal pesticides in California. Choosing fuel for your outdoor power equipment. Upcoming Garden Events.

Our favorite college horticulture teacher, Debbie Flower, drops by with advice on starting many flowering parts from seeds during February. The good news: many cool season and warm season flowers can still be started from seed now. Building a structure to hold blackberries. Upcoming garden events.

Our favorite college horticulture teacher, Debbie Flower, drops by with advice on what to do -and not do - in the February garden. Debbie Arrington on the upcoming rose auctions. Master Gardner Andi McDowell on this coming Saturday's workshop at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center. Upcoming garden events.

Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms gives us tips on choosing and planting tomato seeds, along with other tomato advice. Master Gardener Tamara Engle on constructing blackberry supports. Warren Roberts takes us for a January tour of the UC Davis Arboretum. Upcoming garden events.

Phil Pursel of Dave Wilson Nursery talks about choosing and planting bare root fruit trees. Ray Sheehy of the Sacramento chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers discusses their Scion Exchange event. Master Gardener Gail Pothour on growing broccoli in straw bales. Upcoming garden events.