Air Dates: 7 & 10 | 14 & 17 | 21 & 24 | 28 & 31
Monthly Program Listing

 

Episode #1745
Air Dates: 5/7/09 and 5/10/09

On this edition of Volunteer Gardener, Annette Shrader visits a fellow vegetable gardener to check out her success with heat zone gardening. Julie Berbiglia identifies a bevy of spring wildflowers on a stroll through Warner Park and Jeff Poppen shares his tried and true methods for growing potatoes in Tennessee. Tammy Algood dishes up everyone’s favorite, homemade ice cream.

For more information about Warner Parks, visit www.nashville.gov/parks/locations/warner.htm or www.nashville.gov/parks/wpnc/

To help identify native wildflowers, try the book“Wildflowers of Tennessee” by Jack Carman

Annette’s gardening pal Ann Perrone said she gardens according to tips found in ‘Heat Zone Gardening’ by Dr. H. Marc Cathey

 

Episode #1746
Air Dates: 5/14/09 and 5/17/09

Just what is soil pH and how important is it? Marty DeHart visits with a soil expert to help you become a green thumb by properly preparing your soil. Annette Shrader visits a nursery that specializes in all things sedum, even the rooftop. Tammy Algood comes up with a tasty and unique salad idea: Asian slaw.

For more information on soil testing, visit soilplantandpest.utk.edu
5201 Marchant Drive
Nashville, TN 37211
615-832-4936

Annette’s segment was filmed at Little/Hill Nursery
5494 Raleigh LaGrange
Memphis, TN 38134
901-382-7959

Plants featured were
Orostachis bohemii- dunce cap sedum
Orostachis agragatus
Vera jemeson
Morens sedum
Sermentosa
Siebold
Makinoi ogon
Album
Sempervivum jova barba
Orzi folium (smallest sedum)

 

Episode #1747
Air Dates: 5/21/09 and 5/24/09

On this episode of Volunteer Gardener, we take a closer look at organic gardening. Julie Berbiglia visits with a grower to find out what requirements must be met to have her farm’s produce certified organic. And marty DeHart visits the compost farm to learn the process that turns horse barn waste into Royal Soil. Sally Reynolds explores a super efficient method of vegetable gardening, hydroponics.

Julie’s segment was taped at
Eaton’s Creek Organics
www.ecorganics.net
615-299-0979

Marty’s segment was filmed in cooperation with the Compost Farm, makers of Royal Soil and Kik compost powder.
www.compostfarm.com
Rick Morris
615-975-6000

Sally’s segment was filmed at
Worm’s Way Garden Specialty Shop
www.wormsway.com
615-851-6262
707 Rivergate Parkway, Suite E
Goodlettsville, TN 37072
Open 7 days/week 10am-6pm

 

 

Episode #1748
Air Dates: 5/28/09 and 5/31/09

On this week’s program, Marty DeHart tours a woodland garden featuring a gorgeous ground cover gaining in popularity, epimediums. Troy Marden strolls through a garden brimming with majestic ornamental grasses and Annette Shrader tours a pretty spring garden in Memphis.

Troy’s segment featured the following grasses:
Muhlenbergia capillaries (purple muhly)
Panicum virgatum ‘Northwind’
Panicum virgatum ‘Dallas Blues’
Schizachyrium scoparium – Little Bluestem or The Blues
Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Fox Trot’
Pennisetum purpureum ‘Princess’
Arundo donax ‘Golden Chain’
Arundo donax ‘Peppermint Sticks’
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gold Bar’ – maiden grass
Sporabolus heterolepis – dropseed
Pennisetum ‘Piglet’

 

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