Home and Garden Show 9-8-21

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Lunchtime Garden Tips – Proper Plant Selection and Proper Planting 9/15 at noon via Zoom

Native Tribes Corn Plot Tour 9/29 – 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Getting to Know Your Land, starting 10/21

Plan for planting strawberries.

Be on the lookout for fall armyworms.

Pull microstegium before it sets seed.

Do research for fall planting of trees and shrubs.

Hosted by Paul McKenzie with special guest Johnny Coley (Granville/Person Extension Agent)

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The Local Skinny: Home And Garden Show 9-1-21

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The Local Skinny! each Wednesday on WIZS is the Vance County Cooperative Extension Service Home and Garden Show.

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UPCOMING EVENTS: GAP Workshop September 9, 2021 9am – 4pm Vance County Regional Farmers Market; 210 Southpark Drive; Contact Cooperative Extension 252-438-8188 for more info and to register.

TODAY’S TOPICS:

  • Get your soil samples taken early for 2022 garden.
  • Be on the lookout for fall armyworms.
  • Check crops for harlequin bugs, aphids, cabbage worms, loopers.
  • Do research for fall planting of trees and shrubs.
  • Remember get vegetables under refrigeration as soon as possible.
  • Avoid pruning from now until mid November at the earliest.
  • Sow your tall fescue seed now though mid-September. Get soil seed contact and water frequently.
  • Cooperative Extension has fall gardening publications. Call Cooperative Extension 438-8188

 

The Local Skinny! Home and Garden Show 8-25-21

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WIZS Home and Garden Show – Vance Co. Cooperative Extension

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UPCOMING EVENTS: Fall Vegetable Gardening Monday August 30,2021 6:30pm VCRFM 210 Southpark Drive Contact Cooperative Extension 252-438-8188 for more info and to register.

  • Check vegetables growing now and in the fall for insects more closely. Loopers , cabbage worms, aphids.
  • Purchase seed and fertilizer for early Sept tall fescue care.
  • Fall vegetables need at least 1 inch of rain or irrigation per week.
  • It’s late to be planning a complete lawn renovation. May be best to wait until next year.
  • When broadcasting seed make sure you have good seed to soil contact. Use a roller or packer to get that seed into the soil.
  • Evaluate your landscape for late season blooms (goldenrod, asters, joe pye weed).
  • Cooperative Extension has a publication titled Carolina Lawns. Call Cooperative Extension 438-8188
  • Consider leaving dried flower heads in the garden for the birds.
  • Use labeled row markers when planting your fall garden, put planting date, variety, type of vegetable on each marker and place on each row and record in vegetable journal.

 

The Local Skinny! Home and Garden Show 8-18-21

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You’ll hear the latest from the Vance County Regional Farmers Market, including Twilight Markets ahead, plus the latest tips for lawn and gardening for this time of year.

 

Home And Garden Show With Paul McKenzie

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The Local Skinny! each Wednesday on WIZS is the Vance County Cooperative Extension Service Home and Garden Show.

 

The Local Skinny! Home and Garden Show 8-4-21

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Each Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., Paul McKenzie and Wayne Rowland of the Vance County Cooperative Extension Service join us on air.

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  • You can start planting fall garden vegetables if you can irrigate when needed.
  • Avoid pruning unless absolutely necessary. Delay until late-November at the earliest!
  • Lawn mower maintenance is crucial to extend the life of your mower. Check owners manual.
  • Planning to renovate your tall fescue lawn? Need to start herbicide applications ASAP.
  • Keep a close watch for squash bugs on squash and pumpkins as well.
  • Purchase fertilizer to apply to tall fescue lawns in early September.
  • Gardening questions call Cooperative Extension 252-438-8188 or come by the office we are located at 305 Young street M-F 8:30am to 5pm.

The Local Skinny! Home and Garden Show 7-28-21

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Farmers market and beekeepers update on the show today.  Also, electric fencing around gardens, mosquito mitigation, fall turnips and collards as well as yellowjacket nests.

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The Local Skinny! Home and Garden Show

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Each Wednesday WIZS Radio features the Home and Garden Show during The Local Skinny! time slot from 11:30 a.m. until 11:55 a.m.

Vance County Cooperative Extension agents Wayne Rowland and Paul McKenzie regularly announce the Home and Garden Show.

The Local Skinny! Home and Garden Show

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The Local Skinny! broadcast for June 30, 2021.

Each Wednesday, the Local Skinny! features Vance County Cooperative Extension Agents Wayne Rowland and Paul McKenzie for the Home and Garden Show.

Home and Garden Audio

The Local Skinny! Home and Garden Show

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Home and Garden Show for June 16, 2021.

Written and produced by Vance County Cooperative Extension.

Announcers Wayne Rowland and Paul McKenzie.