Archived Shows
March 2005

3/5/05
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If you have no yard or green space, but lots of planting passion, there's a great way to get your hands dirty. We'll tell you how to join a Community Garden near where you work or live. Our guests are Community Garden Specialist Sally McCabe from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia Green program, and Adam Honigman, founding member of the Clinton Community Garden in New York City's Hell's Kitchen. During The Question of the Week, Mike will explain how you can have a healthy weed-free lawn without having to use nasty chemicals. We'll tell you how to have a great looking lawn with half the work when we reveal the seven secrets of successful sod!

Visit the Clinton Community Garden; Hell's Kitchen, New York City.

For more information about community gardening, visit the American Community Gardening Association website.

To chat with fellow community gardeners and seek help finding a community garden in your area, join the ACGA listserve.
Remember to tell them where you are!

3/12/05
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Groundhogs can eat a garden to the ground overnight, and their treacherous tunnels are a leg-breaking danger to people and livestock. Mike McGrath will reveal options for keeping them from coming into your garden, and explains how you can drive them away if they have already set up camp. Plus: A Kansas researcher has discovered that indoor pesticide use increases the number of dangerous spiders in your home!

Read more about the brown recluse, Loxosceles reclusa. It inhabits primarily South Central states, from Texas to Tennessee. (Our cited researcher's main site; a bit disorderly)

http://www.ur.ku.edu/News/02N/JuneNews/June11/spidertips.html

Reassuring, but NOT for the squeamish--a medical journal article reporting that brown recluse bites are very rare and that most 'spider bites' are something else:
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2002/08/05/hlsa0805.htm

3/19/05
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Canada geese have become a real headache for homeowners from coast to coast. Mike McGrath will reveal the surprising history of these non-migrating migratory birds and discuss several ways of keeping them (and their copious amounts of waste) off your property. Plus: Want to eat fresh organically grown food all season long and support local agriculture at the same time? Nashville singer Adrienne Young joins us to discuss how you can become a shareholder in a local organic farm.

Visit:
Adrienne Young
Local Food
CSAs

Border collie adoption and information sites:
www.petfinder.org
www.glenhighlandfarm.com

3/26/05
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The right kind of mulch stops weeds, beautifully accents your plantings, provides nutrition, and prevents insect invasion and dread diseases. The wrong mulch can damage your home and car and weaken or just plain kill your poor plants. Mike McGrath will reveal the widely-available mulch that new research says is your absolute best (and best looking) choice.