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Podcast 03262008
WELCOME TO SPRING! On today's show we'll brush up on planting summer bulbs. When you think of bulbs you probably think spring. We're seeing the galanthus and glory-of-the-snow popping up around the garden here at the little studio on the hill, too. But summer bulbs can be just as exciting! They come in so many sizes and colors, and they're so easy to car for, you've just got to findsome space for them in your garden plan. We'll also talk about tips on improving this year's garden design and enjoy another visit fro the Weeder's Digest. Plus your questions on freeky mushrooms, stuffing oversized containers and my review of secret "gardener's brews" for fungi. 

Podcast 03082008
Spring Will Be Here Before You Know It! It's time to start getting serious about seeds, soil and sizing up the changes and improvements to be made in this years garden! We’ll go over some of the pre-season chores you can get started on right now, so you'll be ready when the flag finally drops for spring! We'll talk about ordering from all those garden catalogs that have been pouring into the mailbox. Mail and on-line ordering is a great way to fill your garden with unique plants. But there are things to watch out for. And we'll take stock of the new plants for 2008. All this plus another visit with the Weeder’s Digest and of course your questions and answers! 

Podcast 01282008
WE'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW THIS TIME! Things are pretty slow gardening wise this time of year. So I thought this would be the perfect time to let you share my latest interview with Tom Szaky. Tom, as you may remember, is the painfully young CEO of Terra Cycle. You may want to check out the February 2007 Podcast, <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/greenmanradio/Podcast02142007.mp3">02142007,</a> to hear my first interview. A lot has happened in the last year, and rather than trying to edit the inteview down, I thought I'd just dedicate the whole show to letting you hear everything this fascinating gentleman had to say. It's truely a pleasure to be associated with this innovator and his extraodinary company!!

Podcast 11212007
Winter is in the air! The good news is now is a great time to pick up some fantastic bargains on the left over perennials hanging around the garden centers. But if it's too late in your gardening season the get them into the ground, try our method for holding them overwinter for springtime planting. We also have an interview with organic indoor gardening expert Julie Bawden-Davis about how to bring your outdoor plants inside and keep them healthy through the winter. The quality is admittedly bad on this interview, and we apologize in advance. We're not quite sure what went wrong! But we thought it important to get you the information before winter comes on full force. There' also another wonderful Weeder's Digest segment, InTheNews and more of your questions and answers including why the needles may be dropping on an evergreen, how to keep fish safe in a frozen pond and using space heaters in a hobby greenhouse.

Podcast 11062007
Welcome a new feature to GreenManRadio! Fall is well underway, and we're growing. Starting with this Podcast, GreenManRadio proudly features The Weeder's Digest, readings from the human side of gardening. Pat and Becky Stone of Green Prints Magazine are now a part of our Podcasting family, bringing you essays, stories and poems with a little wit, a little wisdom, and a lot of heart. Join us in welcoming this unique gardening experience to our show! We also talk about the increasing demand for organically grown perennials, shrubs and trees and how Ball Horticulture is filling the demand by creating organic certification programs and encouraging nurseries large and small to move to more sustainable growing practices. All this plus your questions on storing bulbs for the winter, taking care of a mandavilla vine and why red maples may have put on such a poor fall color show.

Podcast 10182007
Fall is in the air! In this podcast we'll talk about why this is the best time of year to be planting trees, shrubs and perennials. We'll also look at some terrific plants to use in your container garden to extend summer color just a little while longer. And we'll have some fascinating information about an ultra high-tech seed vault designed to save the Earth's seeds from disaster. All this plus cow powered batteries, insulin from lettuce and of course, your questions and answers.

Podcast 082007
It's the Dog Days of summer! This time we'll talk about keeping yoursummer garden bright and colorful. We'll also deal with some pesky summer insects amd have a talk with Mel Bartholomew, the father of Square Foot Gardening. Plus your questions and answers for the GreenMan!

PODCAST 05102007
GreenManRadio Podcast for May 10, 2007 In today's show we talk about 5 great magnolias of every size and shape that you can grow for a burst of garden color no matter where in the country you live. We'll look at some new, natural enemies for the Red Imported Fire Ant that could help control this unwelcome. illegal South American immigrant And of course your gardening questions and answers

PODCAST03302007
GreenManRadio Podcast for March 30, 2007 We go over the pesky, positively necessary details you have to deal with to get ready for a landscape makeover in Part IV of the <a href="http://greenmanradio.com/Landscape%20Course.htm">GreenMan's Landscape Design Course.</a> There's still time for some last minute pruning of your woody shrubs. But to you head them back, renew them or rejuvenate them? Find out in <a href="http://greenmanradio.com/Articles.htm">The Kindest Cuts of All.</a> Plus <a href="http://greenmanradio.com/questions.html">Questions and Answers</a> about beating the disease triangle of powdery mildew, finding flowering alternatives to invasive forsythias and how to plant a grafted fruit tree.

PODCAST 03042007
GreenManRadio Podcast for March 4, 2007 We talk about the upcoming Arbor Day celebrations and how 5th graders and their teachers can still participate in this year's Arbor Day Poster Contest for a chance at some great prizes. Part III of the GreenMan's Landscape Design Course shows you how to get your ideas down on paper and test them out before you invest heavy duty time and effort. Plus your questions about insecticidal soaps, poor drainage in containers, how to stauch a weeping milk tree and the difference between perennializing and naturalizing bulbs.

PODCAST 02142007
GreenManRadio Podcast for February 14, 2007 We contunue the GreenMan Landscape Design Course. This time we'll talk about the Principles and Elements of Design. There's also a special GreenManInterview with Tom Szaky, the extrordinary founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.terracycle.net">TerraCycle,</a> the nation's number one fastest growing organic fertilizer. And Questions and Answers about contaminated compost, mulching with sawdust, invasive Japanese bloodgrass and All Things Gardening!

PODCAST 02032007
Paul Tukey, editor of People, Places and Plants magazine, and the HGTV show of the same name, talks with The GreenMan about SafeLawns, a national program Paul is starting designed to ween American lawns off of chemical "life support" and get them back into a safe, effective organic model. We begin our Landscape Design course, a series of lessons to give gardeners the tools they need to turn their dream yards and gardens into reality. Plus questions about moldy brick, water trough fish and saving seeds from damping off.

PODCAST 01102007
In this Podcast we finish up our interviews from Fashion in Bloom, the nursery industries sneak preview of the new plants to be introduced for the 2007 gardening season. I go a little ballistic on arborists who recommend "hatracking" or topping trees, as well as on factory dairies who tried recently to put one over on consumers with the help of our own adorable U.S. Congress. And we answer questions on browning boxwoods, pruning trees and green manure.

Podcast 11142006
GreenManRadio Podast for November 14, 2006. We continue our special interviews from Fashion in Bloom, the industry show that previews the fantastic new plants you'll see in 2007. We'll also answer questions about storing pesticides and fertilizer, getting a burning bush to burn and talk about how well those water retaining crystals really work. We'll also talk about caring for houseplants in an indoor winter environment and hear from Bill Radler about dealing with Fungus Gnats in indoor plants. 

Bill Radler on Overwintering Houseplants
Bill Radler, breeder of the Knock Out series of roses, shares some thoughts about overwintering houseplants. He has a simple, effective recipe for a completely safe, natural insecticide, and talks about a new experimental method of controlling fungus gnats on his rose seedlings.

Radler on Roses Number 1
Radler on Roses is an irregular feature of GreenManRadio.com. It features Bill Radler, one of the nation's top rosarians and the breeder of the Knok Out series, America's most popular and best selling rose.

Podcast 101806
The GreenMan hits the road to cover the 2006 Fashion in Bloom Garden Shows along the MidAtlantic coast. This program features an interview with Steve Hutton, president of Conard-Pyle, talking about the new roses and other plants the company will release in 2007. Be sure to check out greenmanradio.com for a exclusive sneek peek of these and other new introductions.

Podcast for 092006
Here's the podcast for September 20th, 2006. To read the accompanying e-magazine, go to <a href="http://www.greenmanradio.com">www.greenmanradio.com</a>

PARTY'S OVER
It had been threatening me for a couple of days now- that huge maple seemed to be showing a tinge of red around the top branches. But I suppose it's now official. Summer is over. I had to close the windows last night when the temperature dipped to 48, and this morning I'm wearing the first flannel shirt of the season... Soon the last of the tomatoes will be harvested and I'll be pulling out the summer annuals that are getting fried with the chill night air. But the real proof that it's fall is that most gardeners are now starting to plan bigger and better gardens for next year. And what better way to get inspiration than to sneak a peak at the new plants the breeders and growers are going to release for the upcoming season. So it's off to "pack trials" for me. I'll be attending the 2007 Garden Centers of America "Fashion In Bloom" presentations in Virginia and Pennsylvania starting the 21st of September. This show is billed as an event designed to do for gardening what Fashion Week in New York does for the apparel industry. It will provide a focus on new introductions of annuals, perennials, trees, vines, woody ornamentals and tropicals and give gardening professionals from around the world access to adiversity of global companies. I'm very excited to take GreenManRadio the show this year, and bring home lots of photos of the new plants and interviews with the breeders, growers and distributors for the radio show. Watch the Website, GreenManRadio.com in the next couple of weeks. I'll be making a new page dedicated to the Fashion In Bloom trip and doing special podcast interviews with the participants!

The Day of the Mantid
I found this predator not in the garden but at my local gas station. I'd taken out a short term loan and sold a kidney to buy a tankful, and she was calmly walking up the hose. I say "she" because it looks as though she has six segments to her abdomen. Males have eight. This is a Chinese praying mantis (Tenodera aridifolia sinensis) about 6 inches long. They have straight, leathery forewings and powerful jaws used for devouring prey. Mantids are the only insect that turn their triangular heads a full 180 degrees. CONTINUED BELOW 

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CONTINUED FROM ABOVE Those eyes seem to follow your every move. And they do. They're sensitive to the slightest movement up to 20 yards away. But the dark spots aren't pupils. A mantid's compound eyes are made of hundreds of tiny hexagonal cylinders. The cylinders are long and radiate out in a spherically. The ones pointing toward you appear dark, those off-axis show the color of the sides of the cylinder. I released this beauty on my porch and took these pictures. She very kindly gave me a full half hour of modeling time, then strolled up a tablecloth and disappeared into my hanging boston fern.

GreenManRadio Podcast 081606 Premier Show
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MORNING DEW
The Midwest's weather is dynamic to say the least. Yesterday was hot and humid, this morning much cooler. I caught the dew sparkling on a spider's overnight construction project. They don't get much positive press. There's never been a horror movie made about a giant, radiation-mutated butterfly (although "Mothra" might come close...). But spiders are still part of a hard working team that keeps garden pests under control. Spiders aren't picky. They eat just about anything from caterpillars to beetles, aphids and, of course, flies.("Help meeee..") Web builders like the orb weaver (Argiope aurantia) who built this gorgeous wheel, need branching plants of varying heights to string their sticky webs between. Orb weavers grow to about an inch long and prefer hoppers like katydids, leafhoppers and grasshoppers. Wolf spiders (Hogna frondicola) on the other hand, are nocturnal ground hunters that stalk and pounce on their prey. They like flies, crickets, ants and beetles. They don't build webs. Instead some burrow into the soil. Jumping spiders (Salticidae spp.) live under leaf litter or rocks. They're usually smaller than an inch long and have short, squat little bodies with thick, sturdy legs. The nickname "salties" derives from the latin "salto." It means to dance with pantomime-like gestures. Their mating behavior consists of the male going through elaborate dances to impress the female. (Sound familiar, guys?) They stalk and prey on caterpillars and other spiders. Spiders aren't usually up front in the garden. They prefer to work alone after hours. But every once in a while, if you keep an eye out in the early morining, you might get a pearly reminder that they're on the job. 

MEET "MAX"
It's been horribly hot for the last week or so here in the Midwest. My answer to the withering effects on my garden was another 3 inches of cedar bark mulch. It keeps things nice and moist. My friend Limax maximus here seems to be thriving in it. This is the Great Gray Garden Slug, also known as the Spotted Garden Slug. Its an introduced species- probably came over from Europe with the settlers. They've taken up residence in the upper half of the United States. The slugs, I mean, not the settlers. (They've managed to infest the entire country...) Great Grays are speedy slugs, moving a lot faster than their smaller cousins. I had a time keeping this guy in focus. The camera would get him sharp and clear and by the time the shutter opened he was out of range! I never though I'd be using the "Sports" shutter and film speed settings on my camera to photograph a slug! CONTINUED BELOW 

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CONTINUED FROM ABOVE You can see the broad, white muscular "foot" turning to the underside as he twists back over in these shots. There is a kind of shell below the "saddle" just behind the slug's head. Otherwise he's soft and very flexible, stretching to about six inches when he's moving full tilt. I say "he", but slugs are true hermaphrodites, posessing both sex organs. They mature their sexes at different times, though, and go through both male and female phases. I ususally dispatch these gastropods without a thought, leaving them on the sidewalk for the robins to feast on. But this guy gets a pass. He is known to eat other slugs, including his own species. Any enemy of my enemy...

HIMSELF RECLINES IN THE GARDEN
NOT EXACTLY GARDEN-RELATED, BUT I HAD TO SHARE MY OLD CAT WITH YOU. This is Moggi, a 18 year old "Heinz 57". Papa was a travelin' man... He came to us in 1991, along with two sisters, when his mother Jinx decided I was a soft touch and could give her a great place to have her kittens. The great place was a cardboard box tucked back in the dark recesses of the linen closet. He's been with me ever since and really is my best old buddy. Now toothless, diabetic and getting skinny (he weighed in at 35 pounds in his salad days) he's still "king cougar" of our home. What garden isn't the better with an old cat, lying in the sun? I love this cat.

MY THIRD ASIATIC LILY OPENED UP
THIS ONE IS 'BRUSHSTROKE' from the plum-colored strokes on the petals. I got these bulbs from my friend Catherine van der Salm in Vancouver, Washington state. She's the master breeder of lilies (and other flowers) for <a href="http://www.thelilygarden.com/index.html">The Lily Garden.</a> She and her staff are responsible for some of the most beautiful and popular asiatic, trumpet, oriental and orienpet hybrid lilies in the world, including the 'Katherine the Great', 'Luminaries', 'Scheherazade', 'Serendipity' and famous 'Silk Road' orienpets. Hopefully next year I'll have some orienpets of my own to show you. Until then, check out their Website. There's some fantastic information on the care and culture of lilies, too!

HECK OF A SIGHT FIRST THING IN THE MORNING
Brown, shrivled leaves, marching out along a branch from the center of the tree to the ends, surrounded by otherwise healthy growth. That's a good indicator of verticillium wilt. This condition is caused by a nasty little fungus called Verticillium dahliae. As it infects the roots and moves into the tissue of the tree, it physically blocks the circulation of water and nutrients. The result is the tree dying of thirst in one area and being ok in others, where circulation is still adequate. V.dahliae also attacks raspberries, tomatoes, geraniums, cherry and maple trees, which is not good news here. I have all of those except the raspberries in my little garden. None have shown any signs of the infection having spread to the rest of the garden yet, but my neighbor's young maple tree showed the same signs this spring, and it is on opposite side of my land from the infected peach tree. I could be surrounded! My neighbor's maple's leaves budded and opened as the tree left dormancy and started circulating sap. But then we noticed that the leaves weren't filling out. The leaf buds just sat there, getting dryer and browner by the day. Summer's fully underway, now, and the beautiful young tree is really most sincerely dead. I don't know why this is happening. We've both been gardining in this area for a long time. Like most fungi, verticillium persists in the soil for years. Maybe our combination of a wet and mild winter with a warmer and more-humid-than-normal spring woke the stuff up. It's frustrating. The only treatment is to cut away the infected areas of the tree and burn them to destroy the fungi. I'll also have to sterilize my pruners between each cut with a 1:10 bleach to water solution to keep from spreading the infection to healthy growth. All of the dead leaves that have fallen from the infected branches will have to be picked up and burned, too. They contain the fungus and it'll migrate back to the soil to lie in wait unless I get rid of it now. I'm also going to spray the tree, and everything else in the garden, with another treatment of <a href="https://www.edenbio.com/garden/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=80">Messenger,</a> a protein that is applied to plants to turn on their immune systems and increase photosynthesis. It's not specificlly made to treat diseases, but I'm hoping the increased plant vigor and activity it promotes will help my peach, and the rest of the susceptible plants in my gaden.

SUMMER'S HERE!
Like clockwork, lilies signal the first day of summer in my midwest garden!Yesterday these wide, funnel-shaped, six petaled flowers were just pods straining to burst open. This morning, the morning of the summer solstice, well, you can see what a difference a day makes. These are Vermeer Asiatic lilies (Lilium 'Vermeer') out of bulbs I picked up about three years ago from <a href="http://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/">Brent and Becky's Bulbs</a> of Gloucester, VA. They get to about 18- to 20-inches tall, and I've gotten up to a dozen soft pink and white blooms on each stem. Vermeers take full sun to part-shade, which made them perfect for the cramped lily area of my very small 25-foot-wide by 40-foot-deep garden. When I planted them three years ago they were in the open. Today half of the spreading bulbs grow in the shade under my dwarf peach tree, but they still bloom like crazy with full, rich colors. Their small size also keeps them in scale to the rest of the down-sized hostas and coleus that live under the tree. They're also hardy as heck - thriving from USDA Zone 9 down to Zone 4. CONTINUED BELOW <a href="http://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/"></a> 

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CONTINUED FROM ABOVE This is the white 'Lennox' Asiatic hybrid I planted at the same time as the Vermeer. These bulbs were from <a href="http://www.dutchbulbs.com/">Van Bourgondien Dutch Bulbs</a>. They're planted out further from the peach tree to get full sun, and do they catch it. We had a good rain early this morning and between the sparkle of the water drops and the soft dawn light, these pure white flowers just glowed. The buttery yellow stain in the throats is pollen shaken loose by the wind and rain last night. This lily grows to about 24 inches tall and puts out over a dozen flowers on each stem. The grower says it has a rich, sweet fragrance, but mine don't smell at all... They're surrounded in my garden by tall spikes of Dwarf Blue Lavender(Lavandula angustifolia 'Nana') which really make them pop! The feathery foliage of the lavender also hides the lilies' rather uninteresting stems and leaves, especially after they finish flowering and the lily foliage starts to look ratty. Fall is the time to plant summer flowering bulbs, so start thinking about next year's lilies this September. Prepare the soil with plenty of organic compost. If you have slow draining or clay soil, add some coarse sand or grit to the bottom of the planting hole. Lilies hate having "wet feet", and bulbs will rot if the soil isn't well-drained. Add a balanced, slow release general fertilizer at the rate recommended by the manufacturer and place the bulbs at the depth the grower suggests (usually stated in the catalog.) If no planting depth is mentioned, a good rule of thumb for lilies is twice as deep as the bulb is tall. Be sure to put in a stake or other marker to remind you where the bulbs are planted!

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