Garden Bite with Teri Knight

The pandemic has produced a plethora of gardeners. Some are seeking a healthier way to live, not only mentally, but physically. Vegetables offer an amazing assortment of nutrients and their coloring helps to tell the story of how they might aid your immunity! Greens are good but so are purples and yellows and even white too. Learn more on my show and on my website GardenBite.com. 

Flowers, chocolate, cards... it's Valentine's Day. Today's Garden Bite is about the holiday's origins with a peek at celebrations around the world and a quick lesson on what the message is of the color of rose you select. That is, IF you select roses! Learn more on my website, GardenBite.com. 

For those of us in cold climates, now into mid March is a good time to prune our trees and shrubs. Well, most of them. Do NOT prune spring-flowering types. That information, how-to and sharpening your tools is all on today's Garden Bite. 

You don't have to have full sun to enjoy bountiful vegetables in your garden! There are plenty of options, some that can even handle 2 hours of direct sun. (they still need some!) And others that will do just fine in 4 to 6 hours! Full sun is 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight. I talk about all the variations and vegetables to choose on today's Garden Bite. 

Milkweed.  THE plant for monarch butterflies. But it’s not just the common milkweed. There are, in fact, several options. Low to high and various colors and shapes too. All of them are attractive to monarch butterflies and more! Oh these lovely natives. Check 'em out on today's Garden Bite. 

As we continue to deal with climate change, record temps high and low, increased drought and floods, there’s a change of climate in the gardening world in several ways including how we view trees and the planting of them as well as other ways homeowners are helping as best they can. That's all on today's Garden Bite. 

Plant some seeds in a container that forms a greenhouse effect and set them outside. Cheap, easy and allows for the seeds to be ready to plant in your garden when the soil warms up! The process of vernalization explained on today's Garden Bite along with best seeds and a video too! 

Pantone's 2022 Color of the Year is 'Very Peri'. I have plenty of fabulous plant choices to match that lovely shade of purple. Plus pictures and more information on the plants on my website, GardenBite.com along with more on 'Very Peri'! 

Monitoring our shrubs for critter damage continues on our trees and shrubs but it's also a good time to look for galls and cankers. These can be real issues down the road. Catch them now and prune them out. Learn about them and how to prune on today's Garden Bite. 

February 2nd each year brings the most-watched weather forecast of the year—and the only one led by a rodent. Learn the legend and the fact that, as cold climate gardeners, it kinda doesn't matter! But, there's more, I have predictions from NOAA in this episode. Learn more on Garden Bite.