Garden Bite with Teri Knight

Finally, most of you are into full-on gardening! It’s been a long wait but we’re exploring all our local garden centers and finding so many plants to purchase! Or is that just me? No, I doubt it, especially based on the number of people I see! I’ve always been one to plant annuals exclusively in containers but this year I'm changing it up! I bought a few packs of sunflowers this year and am excited to get them growing! Get more ideas from today's Garden Bite and find these flowers on my website. 

While I’m not a hockey player, living in Minnesota, a person comes to know a few terms anyway. What’s that got to do with gardening, you ask, well, this plant I’m highlighting today would be the Hat Trick of Annuals. Nasturtiums. They are beautiful, edible and pollinators love them. Learn more about these easy annuals on Garden Bite and find recipes too!

We are finally feeling warmer temperatures and seeing more sunshine! It’s been a long haul this spring. Now is the time to plant gladiola, dahlia and canna bulbs for summer bloom! Alliums, oriental lilies, begonias and bulbs I can’t pronounce are also on that list too. Check out my tips on today's Garden Bite. 

Growing vegetables and herbs in containers is a great way to garden if you have less space or if your sunny area is smaller. I’ve got tips today on the size container to use and what TYPE of container. Check out gardenbite.com too!

While talking with friends about how difficult it can be to figure out the proper way to recycle all of our plastics, one of them mentioned worms that eat plastic! WHAT? That meant further investigation for me. Wax worms and mealworms have been shown to eat forms of plastic. There's much more research to do but it's very intriguing. Learn more on my website, Garden Bite. Find Garden Bite on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter too. I also have a youtube channel!

Jumping worms remain a big topic in several states including Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin and more. They are traveling and we need to be aware of them. Check out today's Garden Bite where I have a video further explaining these worms and what they do to our soil. 

While our season is clearly at least 3 weeks behind, the perennials are now peeking up, you can start dividing those overgrown hostas, daylilies and more. DO remember that spring blooming perennials are best divided in fall. Check out my website for further details GardenBite!  

I was wandering around my gardens a couple of weeks ago, wishing I could DO something in them, when I came across a rather large cocoon on my Candy Corn spirea. Since the season is so late there were no leaves on the shrubs so the cocoon was very visible. I reached out to my listeners and found that it is, hopefully, the Hyalophlora Cecropia moth. Learn more on today's show and check out my website Garden Bite. 

Happy May Day! Okay so it was yesterday but why not get a little history about May Day anyway!  There are multiple iterations of celebrations that include industrial workers, witches, flowers and more. And what is Morris Dancing? Find out on today's Garden Bite, check out my website to see the video! 

Arbor Day is 150 years old today! A day to celebrate TREES! With climate change, trees are a BIG topic. Planting a diversity of trees is something we should have learned a while ago. After the debacle of the American Elm and now the Ash Tree, we need to realize that we can't plant the same boulevard tree or our streets become naked! Today I talk about one tree that could be a great addition to the boulevard collection! Go to Gardenbite.com and check it out.