Soon it will be time to hang up the gloves, put the hand-spade on hold, and start picking your salad makings out of a bin at the grocery store.
Oh, wait... for hard core gardeners, Autumn is not the time to quit. Some are even preparing Winter gardens.
If you could use some hard core, green thumb advice, our guests will have it for you.
Guests:
Emily Axelbaum - Organic gardening specialist. Garden Educator with the City Schoolyard Garden project at Buford Middle School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Guinevere Higgins - Organic gardening specialist. Owner/Operator of the Charlottesville-based consulting firm Blue Ridge Backyard Harvest. Outreach Coordinator for the City Schoolyard Garden project in Charlottesville.
Additional Contributor:
Tracy C. Leskey, Ph.D. - Research Entomologist, United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service. Leader of research efforts into understanding and controlling populations of the brown marmorated stink bug.