Mid-American Gardener

Mid-American Gardener: Planting garlic, scale on burr oaks, switchgrass, perennials

 

Mid-American Gardener guest host Shane Cultra is joined by Steven Still, Kelly Allsup and Rusty Maulding to answer viewer questions. They talk about perennial plants, including a switchgrass that is the 2014 Perennial Plant of the Year, planting garlic, how to kill ghost flowers andoverwintering knock-out roses. Allsup shows off some grasshoppers she uses in educational programs.

Air Dates and Times

Channel Day Time
WILL-TV, Urbana Thursday 7 pm (live)
  Saturday 11 am (repeat)
WTVP-TV, Peoria Saturday 11:30 am
WEIU-TV, Charleston Sunday 1:30 pm
WSEC-TV, Springfield Saturday 11 am
WQEC-TV, Quincy Saturday 11 am
WMEC-TV, Macomb Saturday 11 am
Lakeshore PBS, Chicago/Northwest Indiana Friday 1 pm

Featured Entry

Luffa Gourds, Winter Pruning, & When to Start Your Spring Blooming Flowers

Large loofah harvest! Now what? Jennifer Nelson shows us her haul from last summer, and shares some possible ideas of what she’ll do with the unusual fruit. Then, Martie answers questions about pruning dormant trees and shrubs, and when to start cool season crops, as well as early spring flowers every gardener needs!  

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