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!

Strange purple flower nest possibly made by a wasp

Globe artichoke flower starting to open - Awesome purple flower!

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for May 28th, 2011

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for May 28th, 2011

More great garden questions and answers on the Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for May 21st, 2011

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for May 21st, 2011

Have a gardening question? Call Brian Whitfill on Saturdays from 7am-8am / 602-260-KFYI

Giant desert centipede found hiding under nasturtium in our Arizona garden

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for May 14th, 2011

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for May 14th, 2011

A great time to start a garden! Brian Whitfill talks to callers about their gardening issues.

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for May 7th, 2011

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for May 7th, 2011


More great Arizona weather brings in the garden calls to the Whitfill Nursery Gaerden Hour

Grape update for Thompson seedless grapes in Arizona May 23rd 2011

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for April 30th, 2011

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for April 30th, 2011

Brian Whitfill talks about the great weather and what to plant in your garden!

Giant desert centipede found hiding under nasturtium in our Arizona garden

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for April 23rd, 2011

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for April 23rd, 2011

More garden answers from Brian Whitfill of Whitfill nursery here in Arizona!

Newborn lizards keeping the bug population in check in the garden

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for April 16th, 2011

The Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour with Brian Whitfill for Saturday April 16th, 2011

More good gardening sense from Mr. Whitfill himself on am 550 starting at 7am!

Whitfill Nursery Garden Hour Radio Show for Saturday for April 9th, 2011

Whitfill nursery hour for April 9th, 2011

Another great gardening radio hour with Brian Whitfill of Whitfill Nursery here in Arizona. Give Brian a call if you have any gardening questions!

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

Praying mantis in door window catching flies

Globe artichoke flower a few days later

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.

not more wind!

So today is somewhat calm, however, yesterday was not! Man oh man did it get windy. Darn near blew off all the navel tree blossoms! The wind is not my friend, lol.

Indoor tomatoes that are starting to flower, plus some other herbs mixed in

Small green bell pepper growing in our organic raised garden - Arizona, ...

Flowering cauliflower in our raised organic garden bed - cauliflower flo...

Doves in the yard looking for food and shelter

Ladybug Love - Ladybugs making some new aphid eaters for our garden

Flowers that bring beneficial pollinators to the garden

Unboxing beneficial insects for the garden - Ladybugs, praying mantids &...

Our Arizona garden has a few new friends in the form of small birds

Garden update for our Arizona raised garden beds, March 2011

Minneola Tangelo citrus tree flushed with leaves and getting ready to se...

Lisbon lemon citrus tree pushing out leaves and blossoms, Arizona citrus

Navel orange citrus tree pushing out leaves and ready to blossom, Arizon...

Grapevines starting to bud here in Arizona - Perlette, Flame, Thompson, ...

Pruning peppers after threat of frost is gone in Arizona, March 2011 - J...

Extending the vegetable garden to make room for more organic vegetables ...

Nasturtium flowers growing, Wild edibles, Plant as a trap crop for insects

Ladybug larvae looking for aphids on potato leaves - Ladybugs, Lady beet...

Garlic from the garden - Arizona raised bed garden reveals a glimspe of ...

Starting tomatillo seeds in an egg carton for transplant into raised gar...

How to make organic fertilizer with fish emulsion, liquid seaweed, white...

Seed starting with homemade soilless mix, transplanting herbs, tomatoes ...

Snap peas flower and produce many pea pods in our organic raised garden ...

Broccoli plants growing in the garden - Raised gardening in the desert F...

WORM COMPOSTING BIN UPDATE: Expanding the worm composting bin to three l...

SuperMoon last night - Video of the super moon over Arizona 3-19-2011

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.

Cauliflower flowering in the garden - March 2011

Take a look at the cauliflower flowering in our organic raised garden bed!

This photo was taken during March, 2011

Home grown broccoli harvested from our organi raised garden bed

Broccoli harvest, March 2011

Just harvested our home grown broccoli, which turned out to be a little over one pound!

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.

Check out this cool green bee I found in the yard

Found this little guy hanging onto his last bit of life in the yard the other day.

Any idea on what type of bee or insect this is?

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!