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Episode #1644
Air Dates: 5/1/08 and 5/4/08

On this episode, open up your mind and think of gardening in a new and easy way. Its called lasagna gardening and we learn all about it from Patricia Lanza. Troy Marden explores some new ways to be environmentally conscientious in our lawn care. Tammy Algood uses country ham in an appetizer recipe that doubles as a light lunch idea. She calls it Miniature Ham Turnovers.

Patricia Lanza has authored three gardening books: “Lasagna Gardening”, “Lasagna Gardening for Small Spaces” and “Lasagna Gardening with Herbs”. The garden she created on the show is on display at the Davidson County Master Gardener’s demonstration garden at Ellington Agriculture Center in Nashville.

Troy’s segment featured the Sunlawn LMM-40 reel mower. To learn more, visit www.sunlawn.com It is available locally at:
Harpeth True Value Hardware
203 Downs Blvd.
Franklin, TN 37064
615-794-3641

Inglewood True Value
3214 Gallatin Road
Nashville, TN 37216
615-228-9546

Troy’s segment also featured two products from GETMicrosolutions: Get Growing Natural Composter and Get Green Lawn Greenalizer.

Episode #1645
Air Dates: 5/08/08 and 5/11/08

Join Marty DeHart for a stroll through a Japanese beach garden and discover how smart choices in groundcovers, trees and shrubs can create serenity in a landscape. Annette Shrader salvages a treasured peony from an old home site. Sally Reynolds tours a home garden in Knoxville that reflects the natural mountain setting just beyond. Sheri Gramer profiles the 2006 rose introduction “Home Run” that shows fortitude against the dreaded black spot and is completely resistant to powdery mildew.

The “Home Run” rose is available through weeksroses.com and waysidegardens.com

Marty’s segment was filmed at the Memphis Botanic Garden, www.memphisbotanicgarden.com
Plants featured:
Pleoblastus pygmaeus or pygmy bamboo
Acer japonicum ‘fullmoon maple’ or ‘peacock maple’
Polygonum cuspidatum ‘Japanese knotweed’ or ‘Mexican bamboo’

 

Episode #1646
Air Dates: 5/15/08 and 5/18/08

Jeff Poppen explains how local farmers and conscientious consumers have come together to bring new life to market gardening with community supported agriculture. Sheri Gramer goes vertical with a collection of vigorous vines and colorful climbers. Annette Shrader tours a woodland garden in Memphis featuring native azaleas and a collection of ferns. Tammy Algood uses those garden fresh cherry tomatoes as a tasty topping in Chicken Cakes with Oven Roasted Cherry Tomato Puree.

For more information about community supported agriculture, contact:
Jeff Poppen
Box 163
Red Boiling Springs, TN 37150
e-mail: jeff@barefootfarmer.com
web: www.barefootfarmer.com

Sheri Gramer’s segment was taped at Bates Nursery and Garden Center
3810 Whites Creek Pike
Nashville, TN 37207
615-876-1014
Plants featured:
Sweet Autumn clematis
Hydrangea anomala petiolaris
Carolina Jessamine
Evergreen clematis / clematis armandii
Mandevilla
Trumpet creeper
Moonflower / Ipomoea alba

Episode #1647
Air Dates: 5/22/08 and 5/25/08

Troy Marden finds great performing perennials on a visit to Yew Dell gardens near Louisville. Sheri Gramer discovers you don’t need a garden to grow fresh tomatoes with Topsy Turvy tomatoes. Tammy Algood stops by with a summer salad idea, Spicy Wheat Bread and Tomato Salad. Jeff Poppen takes a closer look at a couple of old world vegetables: sorrel and swiss chard.

Yew Dell Gardens
Crestwood, KY 40014
502-241-4722
Paul Cappiello, Executive Director
Plants featured:
Rudbeckia maxima
Physocarpus ‘Summer Wine’
Echinaceas ‘Kim’s Knee High’, ‘Harvest Moon’, ‘Fragrant Angel’
Helenium ‘Mardi Gras’
Coreopsis ‘Golden Gain’, ‘Moonbeam’

The segment on topsy turvy tomatoes was taped at:
Harpeth True Value
203 Downs Blvd.
Franklin, TN 37064
615-794-3641
The tomato used was Bush Champion.

 

 

Episode #1648
Air Dates: 5/29/08 and 6/02/08

On this episode, Sally Reynolds tours a beautiful home garden that spreads out right from the front door. Marty DeHart shares good advice for your best chance for success for growing productive pecan trees. Annette Shrader learns how volunteers are helping to add to the beauty of Montgomery Bell State Park. Julie Berbiglia visits a nursery specializing in native trees, shrubs and groundcovers.

Julie’s segment was taped at GroWild Nursery
7090 Hill Hughes Road in Fairview, TN
615-799-1910
Open by appointment only.

Some of the plants featured:
Verbena canadensis ‘Homestead Purple’
Lonicera sempervirens ‘Heritage’ – Coral Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens ‘John Clayton’ – Yellow Honeysuckle
Bignonia capreolata ‘Tangerine Beauty’ - Crossvine
Cercis Canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ - Redbud
Amelanchier laevis – Allegheny Serviceberry
Ilex glabra – Ink berry holly
Itea virginica ‘Henry’s Garnet’ – Virginia sweetspire
Aronia melanocarpa ‘Viking’ – Black Chokeberry
Viburnum cassinoides – Witherrod vibernum

Pecan Tree Information as provided by UT Extension:

Pecan trees are native to West Tennessee and require long growing season (140 to 210 days from time growth starts in spring until nut maturity in fall). Grows best where summer temperature within 75 – 85 degrees F, without too wide a variation between night and day. Wind-pollinated – catkins (staminate flowers) male – formed year before they open up. Pilsillate flowers (female) – borne on current season’s growth.

Cultivars for Tennessee:
Maramec
Choctaw
Pawnee
Oconee
Kiowa
Major
Greenriver
Posey
Peruque
Bussron

 

 

 

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