Today's Garden Guys show on WHJJ (920 AM) had many suggestions for tucking things away in the garden for the winter. When I can I take some notes, which I like to share here on the Providential Gardener. It will be great when they can transform the Garden Talk section of their website into a weblog with categories. That will make their great Q&A service much more user friendly. Another feature I'd love to see on their site would be a weekly to-do list or summary of some of their advice to those who call in. Sometimes the advice is complicated, or they use Latin names for plants. Many of us don't know how to spell the Latin names for genus and species, so some written backup on The Garden Guys website would really help listeners who have web access. I'm summarizing some info from the shows on the Providential Gardener now and then, but I don't get it all down.
I'm also lobbying for WHJJ to stream the Garden Guys program so those of us who have to be elsewhere on some Sunday mornings can listen to the show at another time. I don't think this is happening yet, but it would multiply their audience, I'd think. If streaming the Garden Guys interests you, contact WHJJ and tell them! From the WHJJ website, I see that Bill George is Program Director. The phone number is 401-781-9979.
The shows are always fresh and fun, so you're missing a lot when you're not listening, but adding these features to the Garden Guys' and WHJJ's websites will boost awareness of the show and increase the listening audience.
The Garden Guys To Do this week (Thanksgiving week, November 19-26, 2006):
- Throw away tomato sticks (at least clean them well, because of plant diseases)
- Empty the water from hoses, coil them up, attach one end to the other to keep out the critters, and put away for the winter - don't hang them up.
- Store limestone, fertilizer, etc. OFF the cement floors on pallets or piece of wood - otherwise the dampness will make the bag contents turn into hard masses instead of fine granules
- Tie up hydrangeas to prevent their drying out
It's not all about gardening. We got a turkey brining recipe this morning that they've promised to post on the Garden Guys website. I'm glad they added about keeping the brined turkey in a cold place for the 10-12 hour brining period. You don't want the turkey to spoil. It sounds like a great idea, and I'm going to try this. But I have to be careful, because I can get myself in deep pretty fast. I don't have a large refrigerator, but maybe if it's cold enough in the garage, I could put a large pot with the brine and turkey in the car trunk or back seat or front passenger floor so the neighborhood rascally critters don't get into it. But then how am I going to carry all that weight of the gallons of water and the turkey out there, and what if I forget the turkey is in the trunk and I go off in the car and it sloshes all over the place? I don't know what problems you can get into, but I know I can get into some difficulties if I don't think out what I'm doing.
Anyway, check out the Garden Guys for the Turkey Brining advice and everything else, and have a wonderful, tasty and tender Thanksgiving! The Garden Guys is a must-hear show every Sunday from 8 am to 10 am. Their website is www.garden-guys.com.
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