Good Gardening

Hi, I'm master gardener John Fischer with KLCC's Good Gardening.

Would you be interested in a garden product that adds fertility to you soil, saves water, and cuts down on weeding-- all while helping the environment?
  Then you're ready for Miracle Leaves.

  John- this is NPR.  Can we tone it down a bit.

Garlic breath- radio technology doesn't allow that to be transmitted- yet.

But without garlic many of your favorite foods would be bland and boring.  Imagine lasagna, spaghetti, pesto without the spice that makes them great.

Corn stalks and tomatoes, covered with split fruits.
Zucchini and peppers, even the dead roots.

Scraggly bean plants help up with strings,
These are your garden soils favorite things.

Are you outside cleaning up the vegetable patch, and listening to the radio?  Well stop ! Not the listening, the cleaning.  Despite the passing of Labor Day, there is a lot of summer- and growing season- left in Oregon.

I know you're probably just picking your first tomatoes, and still waiting for peppers to get ripe, but it's time plan for your winter garden
  Any space where you will have harvested the spring or summer crop by the end of August is an area ready to grow more food-- right through the winter.  My spring lettuce crop has pretty much gone to seed, I dug garlic a few days ago, and the potatoes will be ready to harvest late in the month.  All those areas can be second cropped with vegetables that take the cold, and give you fresh produce on New Years Day.