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

Episode 1746
Aairs 1/7/10 and 1/10/10

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 http://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
Airs 1/14/10 and 1/17/10

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
Airs 1/21/10 and 1/24/10

On this week’s program, Marty DeHart tours a woodland garden featuring a gorgeous ground cover gaining in popularity, epimediums. Troy Marden enjoys a stroll 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’

Episode 1751

Airs 1/28/10 and 1/31/10

Shitake mushrooms are a popular delicacy because of their exotic, hearty flavor, but they can be expensive. Julie Berbiglia investigates how to go about growing these mushrooms yourself. Marty DeHart visits with a daylily hybridizer to find out more about this popular, easy care plant. Troy Marden designs a garden bed for a dry and difficult sloped area at the edge of a property. Sheri Gramer mixes up a batch of fragrant and effective ‘Moth Away’.

Information on Shitake Mushroom Production

Recommended Book: Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Save the World by Paul Stamets

Fungus Spore Suppliers:
Mushroom people
www.mushroom@thefarm.org
Summertown, TN

931-964-4400
Fungi Perfecti, LLC
www.fungi.com
Olympia, WA
360-426-9292

Marty’s segment on daylilies was recorded at
Wrights Daylily Garden
www.wrightsdaylily.com
Located midway between Nashville and Knoxville less than 20 miles from
I-40
1001 Terrapin Ridge Road
Hilham, TN 38568
931-823-4014

Daylilies featured: Cody Boy* / Bountiful Morning* / Just Beyond* / Smoky Mountain Bell / Red Volunteer / Strawberry Candy / Golden Delight

*Bonnie Wright’s hybrids

Troy’s segment featuring plants well-suited for a dry, sloped landscape included yucca / amsonia / baptisia / artemesia “Powis Castle” / yarrow / sedum / rosemary / verbena / salvia
Moth Away
One big bowl
8 cups lavender
8 cups cedar shavings
1 cup cloves
1 cup rosemary
1 TBSP powdered orris root with 1 TBSP lavender essential oil
Plus 1 TBSP powdered orris root with 1 TBSP lemon essential oil

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