Home and Garden Show
The Home and Garden Show for Wednesday, August 23, 2023.
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The Home and Garden Show airs each week on WIZS on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m.
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Home and Garden Show
The Home and Garden Show for Wednesday, August 16, 2023.
Click play below for the audio, brought to you by Satterwhite Point Marina.
The Home and Garden Show airs each week on WIZS on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m.
Home and Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Take photos of your garden to know how to rotate planting of vegetables next spring
- Conduct your annual shade tree inspection. Use a pair of binoculars to inspect the trunk and limbs for defects, injuries, rot, broken limbs, etc. and contact a professional if you see anything questionable.
- If you have stored sweet potatoes make sure they are located where they will not freeze
- Consider building a small greenhouse this winter that can be used to start seed and raise transplants for next year’s garden. Simple kits are available from various sources.
- Purchase a NC Christmas tree this year
- Continue planting – bulbs, pansies, perennials, trees, shrubs
- Now is the time to collect soil samples. Get samples to us by 5 pm Wed, 11/23 for delivery before fee season. 6 week analysis. Dec 1 fee goes to $4 per sample
- Keep leaves off of seedling grass
- Make a compost bin if you don’t have one already
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Vegetables that can be planted now collards, turnips, beets, snap beans squash broccoli,
- Pull or spray microstegium soon. It will set seed in a couple of weeks which makes the infestation much worse next year.
- Control cabbage loopers, cabbage worms, in cole crops with Dipel or Sevin
- Plant tall fescue NOW.
- Weed your strawberry beds. Every weed you control now will help in weeding your strawberries next spring
- Remove fruiting canes from your blackberry patch.
- Now is great time to take your soil test
- Avoid pruning. Wait until late November at the earliest.
- Provide irrigation soon after planting any fall vegetables if rain is not forecast within 3 days of planting.
- Leaves will be falling before you know it, so go ahead and build a compost bin to hold them.
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The Local Skinny! Home & Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
THIS WEEK IN THE GARDEN
- Fall garden planting time is now
- Garden food safety tip 1: Wash your hands before harvesting your garden.
- Control weeds before they seed out
- Garden food safety tip 2: Keep pets and wildlife out of the garden.
- With recent rains your garden soil maybe too wet to work
- Garden food safety tip 3: If you use manure, apply it in the fall so it has time to break down.
- Avoid the rush and start taking your soil samples now!
- Garden food safety tip 4: Washing produce doesn’t eliminate contamination. Prevention is the key.
- When going on vacation, have someone harvest your vegetables for you. Let them have the vegetables.
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Succession Planting keeps the Vegetables supply coming in Veggies to plant now lima beans, snap beans, cucumbers,summer squash.okra,field peas, sweet potatoes, tomatoes
- Check squash for squash bugs. Rub off egg casings to limit these squash pest.
- Keep hydrated while working in the garden. Use PPE for Sun Protection.
- If planning to renovate your lawn this fall you need a soil sample now to prepare your soil for grass renovation
- Vegetables may need top dressing if plants are a pale green and you haven’t top dressed them in the last three weeks
- If you have diseased plants take those plants out of the garden contact Cooperative Extension for ID and control measures.
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Home And Garden Show 03-09-22
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Repot houseplants, dust them with soft moist cloth
- When growing seeds indoors check the media before watering. If the media has moisture check the next day before watering.
- Finish up your pruning chores, fruit trees, grape vines, broadleaf evergreens.
- Bring indoors any plants that you placed outdoors ex houseplants Saturday projected low 21F
- Write out a monthly plan in your garden notebook and keep your journal up to date
- We have excellent gardening publications at Cooperative Extension
- Get your lawn care equipment ready now.
- Always check moisture level of garden soil before tilling that soil
- Plant berries, or maybe next year.
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Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
THIS WEEK IN THE GARDEN
- When doing pruning always remember PPE is always needed.
- When purchasing vegetable transplants, look for stocky, deep green plants with healthy roots. If possible, select plants with no or few flowers.
- Garden Tiller hard to start roll it outside in sunshine may help it start
- Check your lawn for cool season weeds. They may be very tiny, but the warm spell over the next few days will present a good treatment window.
- On warm days 70F or warmer provide ventilation in greenhouses and cold frames if growing plants in them.
- Be sure to include some herb plants in your spring planting plans. Herbs like dill, basil, cilantro and others are easy to grow. The taste is unparalleled and they will also help out beneficial insects.
- We have excellent gardening publications at Cooperative Extension
- If you’re thinking about planting shrubs this spring, there’s no reason to wait. Planting them early gives more time for root growth before summer heat arrives.
- Always check moisture level of garden soil before tilling that soil
Home And Garden Show
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Use vermicomposting (earthworms) to compost food scraps into compost for your garden
- Go ahead and start pruning grapevines whenever we get a few mild days. Don’t worry if they exude sap.
- Keep a good thermometer in your greenhouse and cold frame when growing plants
- Get ready to fertilize your tall fescue lawn. Pick up a slow release turf fertilizer for application in mid-Feb. It’s fine to use one combined with crabgrass preventer, but I recommending avoiding other combinations.
- Prepare your pruning equipment because pruning season is fast approaching.
- Take stock of stored gasoline. Any stored gas that has an ethanol component can cause starting and running problems for lawn and garden equipment.
- Check seedlings growing indoors, light and moisture are key.
- Get ready to do a dormant spray on your fruit trees. Also check your stock of chemicals and spray equipment so you’ll be ready to make the necessary treatments that start soon after flowering.
Home And Garden Show 11-17-21
On the Home and Garden Show with Vance Co. Cooperative Ext.
- Wykia Macon, 4-H
- Plant spring flowering bulbs (quality, P, planting depth)
- Plant trees and shrubs
- Plant pansies (soil prep, plant selection)
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