Lawn and Garden with Jeff Edwards

Lawn and Garden discussion topic general garden care, talk about the Federation of Gardeners, cheat grass and weeding. Learn more about high tunnel and green house gardening. What products are best for aphid control from garden to trees.

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Range land Plants: Wyoming Tough

Lawn and Garden discussion about general plant health and gardening basics. Talk with Emily about how to trouble shoot plant and garden issues. Learn about issues caused by water, sun, and soil quality.

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Common Herbaceous Plants of the Thunder Basin Grasslands

Lawn and Garden discussion topic soil health and preparation. Learn tips and trick for optimal soil health. Discover what works from the professionals tried and true experience. Lear how to grow difficult roses when and what to feed them.

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Lawn and Garden discussion with Joyce Evans Mayor of Ft. Laramie and fourth-generation rancher. Joyce maintains an active interest in cattle raising and ranching practices.

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Town of Fort Laramie – Progress Program

Lawn and Garden talk about fungus, mushrooms and garden health. Ben Fortier talks about his business growing mushrooms and courses for wild foraging. Listen to business owner of the fungus among us mushroom grower. Learn more about mushrooms and the large variety available to eat. Discuss mushrooms like mycelium and how the forest can communicate via these organisms. Learn how to cook morels, the does and don't of cooking fungus / mushrooms.

Lawn & Garden discussion about water conservation and effects from drought. Importance of watering trees throughout the year during drought. Tree health and tree ring response that can clue you in on drought patterns.

Jeff and Jerry welcome Donna Hoffman, horticulture extension educator in Natrona county. Learn about tree hardiness in the wind, the Fort Laramie Geo Dome, and what to do with fall leaves. Hear more about the Goshen County Master Gardener's Giant Pumpkin Contest!

Jeff and Jerry reminisce about past guests and their favorite topics of the season. They discuss fall landscape and garden preparation. This is the last weekly episode for the 2020 season, but Jeff and Jerry return once a month until April.

Jeff welcomes Tom John McCreery as his co-host, along with guest Jaceyln Downey from Audobon of the Rockies. Learn about the Citizen Science Bioblitz that happens in Wyoming and across the country each year. The trio talks about insectivores and raptors, and Jaceyln shares desired nest box dimensions and materials for various birds.

Jeff, Jerry, and guest Donna Hoffman review the amazing winter storm weather over Labor Day weekend. Donna shares tips about protecting plants from cold weather, managing damaging weather effects, and fall-winter watering.

Jeff and Jerry ask Jenny Thompson, UW Extension Small Acreage Outreach Coordinator, about which plants are still in bloom that can help pollinators collect more food before winter. Learn about ground-dwelling bees, poisonous honey, and tips for improving your garden next spring.

Jeff and Jerry work welcome cohost-in-training Tom John McCreery. Jenna Meeks, Assistant Supervisor for Goshen Weed & Pest, describes common weeds and how to control them during this season.

Learn more about:

• common mallow, curlycup gumweed, and palmer amaranth
• urban and rural weed spread
• herbicides and surfactant
• and where to find Safety Data Sheets for pesticides

Jeff and Jerry invite Tom John McCreery as their third cohost in training while they chat with Amy Seiler, Director of Parks, Recreation, & Leisure Services in Gering, Nebraska. Learn how trees work together to become stronger and protect the grove. The team talks about squirrel control, sucker and stump removal, cottonwood cankers, and more. Amy explains succession planting and the distance trees need between them.

Jeff and Jerry help Tom John McCreery with his tomato disease questions, and Tom John shares tips on fall weed control. Learn about tomato leaf curl, blossom end rot, and tobacco mosaic. Hear about Jerry's favorite way to identify iris flowers.

Find videos and bulletins on today's topics and your favorite gardening subjects on UW Extension's revised horticulture page. Visit wyoextension.org/garden to learn more. We are improving the site weekly and will soon add a comprehensive search bar!

Join Jeff, Jerry, and guest Gary Stone down their rabbit trail conversation from tree disease and watering, to non-murder hornets (Cicada Killers), to hollyhocks, to Jeff's least favorite nut, and more!

Jeff and Jerry talk with UW Extension Educator and Master Gardener Donna Hoffman.

This week's topics include:

• turf aeration & thatching
• fertilizer timing
• garden pests
• and more!

Jeff and Jerry meet with Lucinda Mays, Chadron State College Public Horticulturist, to learn more about mulching for trees and gardens.

This week's topics include:

• recreational rototilling for Jerry
• flowering plants (ephedra, viburnum, Buckley's quill, etc.)
• Jeff's recipe for garlic scape pesto
• and more!

Jeff and Jerry talk with Carbon County Extension Educator Abby Perry. Learn more about Abby's project working with Extension Specialist Derek Scasta to determine what animals are eating Sage Grouse eggs.

This week's topics include:

• transplanting rhubarb
• fruit trees
• grow lights
• giant pumpkins
• and more!

Jeff and Jerry talk with Brian Sebade, Albany County Extension Educator.

This week's topics include:

• irrigation for trees and garden plants
• companion planting
• garden vegetables
• potential pests
• and more!

Jeff and Jerry meet with avid local gardener Bernie Lewis.

This week's topics include:

• Moth & worm pests
• Rabbits, deer, & gophers
• pumpkins & potatoes
• pole beans
• and more!

Jeff and Jerry talk with Jane Dorn, native plant expert. To buy a printed copy of UW Extension's "Plants with Altitude" visit bit.ly/wy-native-plants and click on request copy under the cover photo. View the PDF or ePub for free.

This week learn about:

• Mountain-ash
• Blue Flex
• Cheatgrass
• Hackberry
• Prairie Blazing Star
• and more!

Jeff and Jerry talk with avid gardener Tom John McCreery, Treasurer on the Board of Trustees at Eastern Wyoming College.

This week's topics include:

• companion planting
• garen vegetables
• iris flowers
• and more!

Jeff and Jerry welcome Joyce Evans, Mayor of Fort Laramie, Wyoming.

This week's topics include:

• community gardens and geo domes
• native plants and pollinators,
• and more!

Jeff and Jerry welcome Gary Stone, Nebraska Extension Educator.

This week's topics include:

• timing for pre-emergent herbicides
• turf and garden pests
• watering and fertilizing turf
• and more!

Jeff and Jerry chat with Chrissy Land, Community Forestry Specialist from University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

*Radio Contest!* Chrissy wants to know "what two types of diversity did we discuss in this episode that are best practices for proactive management in a community forest?" Call into the KGOS/KERM radio station [307-532-2158] and name the two to win a seed from Andy Corbin's Wyoming record setting pumpkin! It's not too late to start your pumpkin for this year's weigh off on October 3rd. You can also get free giant pumpkin seeds for pickup or mailing at the Goshen County Extension Office [307-532-2438].

This week's topics include:

• tree pruning
• lawn equipment protection for trees
• clean firewood
• invasive species
• and landscape planning

Jeff and Jerry welcome Jenna Meeks, Assistant Supervisor for Goshen County Weed and Pest.

*Radio Contest!* Pumpkins are one of the 3 sisters. Call into the KGOS/KERM radio station [307-532-2158] and name the other two to win a seed from Andy Corbin's Wyoming record setting pumpkin! It's not too late to start your pumpkin for this year's weigh off on October 3rd. You can also get free giant pumpkin seeds for pickup or mailing at the Goshen County Extension Office [307-532-2438].

This week's topics include:

• mosquito control
• herbicides
• weed sprayer calibration
• and much more!

Jeff and Jerry welcome Roberta Luke, a Goshen County Master Gardener.

*Radio Contest!* Pumpkins are one of the 3 sisters. Call into the KGOS/KERM radio station [307-532-2158] and name the other two to win a seed from Andy Corbin's Wyoming record setting pumpkin! It's not too late to start your pumpkin for this year's weigh off on October 3rd. You can also get free giant pumpkin seeds for pickup or mailing at the Goshen County Extension Office [307-532-2438].

This week's topics include: 

• Giant Pumpkins
• Fruit trees
• Starting from your own seeds
• Pruning trees, shrubs, and roses
• and much more!