Here ya go, it's the garden show! Whitfill nursery garden radio show 7-9-2011

So here it is fast as ever! Must be someone new working at the radio station, beacuse this was uploaded just 1 hour after the show :)

Whitfill Nursery garden hour radio show
July 9th, 2011


THANKS A LOT BRIAN FOR THE FREE CITRUS TREE OFFER!!!
Have a great time in Alaska!

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for April 2nd, 2011

Brian Whitfill answers your gardening questions on this great garden hour radio show

Click here to listen to the Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour

The Brian Whitfill nursery radio show for March 26th, 2011

So it's here...the Whitfill nursery garden radio show for March 26th, 2011

Whitfill Gardening Hour 3-26-11

A touch of heat

Today was a little warm. Tomorrow might hit 100 degrees! Spring is here with a friend named summer paying an early visit.

Germinating seeds indoors

Here is a fun and easy way to germinate seeds indoors. I used a carboard egg carton, filled it with home made soil-less soil, (perlite, peat moss, vermiculite mixed in equal parts), add a stick for a lable as well as a make shift tent pole of sorts and covered it with plastic wrap. The plastic wrap holds in the moisture and in about 4 days you will see the plants starting to emerge!

Expanding the garden for more organic plants

Recently I expanded the garden area by our pepper plants and grapevines. I think it created another 40 feet of growing space. I dug down about 18" and back filled with home made compost, alfalfa hay, bone meal, blood meal as well as native soil. I also added corn meal to feed the beneficial microbes in the soil.

I now have three different varieties of potatoes, many shallots, onions, garlic, two types of green beans, herbs, carrots, snap peas and a few other that I can't remember right now.

Snap pea's growing like crazy in the raised garden

This photo was taken a few weeks back. These snap  peas grow so fast! The more you pick, the more thisplant produces. Pick them when the are about 2" in length and eat right from the garden.

Warm weather is here!

With the temps hitting near 90 already, the hard freeze seems like a distant memory now. Everything is starting to bloom and the new seedlings of all the wild flowers we've thrown are starting to emerge like a filed of grass...we may have thrown toomuch seed, lol, but you can never have too many wild flowers!

Cat food bowl turned into catnip feeder - Growing cat nip, catswort, cat...

The rain

The rain hit us really hard right at 10pm! Currently it's bright blue skies outside and cold. I was hoping the rain would continue into today, but it seems like all the fun rain comes at night when were asleep :(

The garden and the entire yard for that matter got a good soaking, which means I shouldn't have to run my drip irrigation for the next couple of weeks if we stay under the 80 degree mark.

Garden update

Well it feels like it has been a long time since I've posted anythign on thegarden blog...I've been really busy expanding the side garden where I used to only have grapevines and pepper plants. Now the entire length of the grape and pepper areaisone  large garden! I have everything in there from onions, potatoes, herns, shallots, garlic and so much more! I will post some pictures soon, but in the meantime I hope to upload some more youttube videos of the garden and the various things starting to come  into season right now.

On another topic, the wild flowers we threw out from seed are starting to show everywhere! I most likely threw way too much seed so I'm betting were going to be living in a jungle pretty fast :)

Get ready for more rain tonight

A big storm is headed our way according to the local news reports. It should hit us with a lot of rain and wind sometime after 7pm.

I think I will cover my citrus trees with some frost cloth Sunday night since they are just now starting to burst with new growth. The new growth is what will burn really easily with a freeze. I think everything we have in the garden should be ok without covering. The broccoli and cauliflower are getting HUGE!

The Whitfill Gardening Hour Radio show for 2-26-11

So here it is...the Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour radio show for Saturday Feb. 26th, 2011.

Whitfill Gardening Hour 2-26-11

The Whitfill Gardening Hour Radio show for 2-12-2011

So here is your link to listen to the great garden talk show called "The Whitfill Nursery Gardening Hour, with Brian Whitfill".

Click on the following link to listen to the entire show without commercials:

Whitfill Gardening Hour

2-12-2011

Brian Whitfill answers your garden and landscape questions!

Still cold in the mornings in the garden

The mornings in the garden have been reallt cold still, however, the daytime highs are very nice hitting around 73-75. It's a little breezy today as well which always make things feel colder.

Anyway, the Whitfill garden hour radio show was on today so I look forward to posting the link to the recording once the radio station adds it to their website.

Broccoli has started to show in the raised garden

The broccoli is growing in very nice in the smaller of the two raised gardens. Pictures to follow as soon as the weather warms up, lol

Cat food bowl turned into catnip feeder - Growing cat nip, catswort, cat...

Indoor seed starting update 2 weeks after planting seeds - 14 days later...

My make shift rain catchers to harvest rain water in the Arizona desert

Worm tea - Brewing worm tea from worm castings - How to make worm tea