Garden for Life
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Preparing fall gardens for the winter season
Lithia Park in the fall. ( <a href="https://ashlandorgardenclub.org/tag/ashlands-lithia-park/" target="_blank"…
September is the transition season for planting
Geoffrey Riley and Master Gardener Lynn Kunstman talk about making the transition from summer crops to fall crops, and what kinds of soil amendments can help the health and productivity of your…
Shielding plants from the summer heat
Garden for Life co-hosts Geoffrey Riley and Lynn Kunstman talk about how to protect plants from the summer heat, while beginning to take in the harvest of the garden.
Soil quality and bug wars
Co-hosts Geoffrey Riley and Lynn Kunstman talk about steps to improve soil quality WITHOUT tilling the garden, and how to encourage the good bugs to show up and eat the damaging bugs.
Gardening tips for early summer
Garden for Life co-hosts Geoffrey Riley and Lynn Kunstman offer tips for gardening in early summer. This episode is all about tending to new plants that are starting to grow, and keeping an eye on…
The care and keeping of your garden as the summer months approach
Former Jefferson Exchange host Geoffrey Riley and Jackson County Master Gardener Lynn Kunstman discuss the 2025 Spring Garden Fair and late-spring gardening tips.
Bugs or heat? It's an exciting time of year for gardeners
August started rather like July: hot, very hot. If you keep a garden, do not be surprised if your plants respond to the heat by snoozing. It takes a lot of energy for a tomato plant to set fruit in…
Slow soil, quickening insects: April gardening tips
We're right around the time of year when it's unlikely that a garden (at least in the Medford area) will be visited by frost overnight. Just the same, it may take a while for the soil to warm up. The…
Forget the robins, Lynn Kunstman's return signals the approach of spring
Some of the flowers popped up during the warm spell in February, long before the official start of spring. With spring just days away (March 19th), it's time to kick into gardening gear for some of…
Before winter really sets in, a chat with Lynn
If you live near a farm, you may notice green things still in the ground. There ARE vegetables--cabbages and carrots and more--that do just fine in the cold ground. But for most gardeners, this is…
As the leaves fall: an October take on gardening, with Lynn Kunstman
At least west of the Cascades, winters can be fairly mild in these parts, so some items will still grow in gardens through the cold season. October seemed to sneak up on us, so it's time to talk…
Heat and harvest and more August happenings, in a live Garden For Life
Just about the time the tomatoes and cucumbers (and the plums and cherries and pears) started ripening, the big heat wave arrived. If gardeners didn't much want to go out there, how were the plants…
Watery tomatoes, and other harvest season happenings in Garden For Life
After a hot spell, summer settled down a bit, and local gardens appear to be responding, giving forth flowers and fruits and veggies. Some, anyway. We check results both positive and negative (like…
Harvest time approaches, as we Garden for Life
Fruit and vegetables are getting big, and flowers are in full bloom in many a garden. And if we're not careful, bugs are having some fun with the garden bounty. We talk bugs and planting for the…
Garden for Life: The really hot days in the garden, with guidance from Lynn
There's no point looking for rain for most of us at this time of year. If we want plants to grow, we need to bring out the hose. And a little expertise can't hurt, so we reach out again to Lynn…
Well, NOW it's hot: Garden for Life covers July gardening issues
We've learned from gardening experts how to "harden" plants grown from seeds indoors, before they are transplanted outdoors. Now, when the weather has turned hot and bright, is when that hardening…
June is busting out, in Garden for Life
Gardeners have to watch the calendar through spring, waiting for the last frost dates to clear before putting summer plants in the ground. They should be there by now, Lynn Kunstman tells us. Lynn…
Lynn lays down the law on soil temps, in Garden for Life
Warm days lie ahead, we know that. It's just that they took longer than usual to arrive this year, after a longish and mostly wettish winter. And just because the air turns warm does not mean the…
Baby, it's cold outside: preseason tips
Yes, spring is coming, but it is indeed taking its sweet time about getting here. So those of us dreaming of spring and summer gardening have to wait just a bit longer, like until the soil is…
Back to the garden with Lynn Kunstman
Things are just a bit dormant in the plant world these days. The heart of the growing season is months away for most of us, though a few things--like the garlic you planted last fall--might be…
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Garden for Life has published 20 episodes since February 2023, covering topics in Education, Home & Garden.
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