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This week, we have a Gardenbite excerpt from our webinar, in which we discussed wildlife damage in the home landscape. In this clip, Chris details two common rodents in Illinois that tend to pop up in the winter months around the outside and inside of our homes: the vole and the mouse. While the vole is an active pest outside during the winter, many Illinoisians also deal with mice in the home this time of year. Chris gives some tips and tricks for dealing with these two rodents and preventing their damage this winter.

Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/Si2Q9HpKpFI

Dealing with Winter Wildlife Damage - Good Growing Winter Webinar https://youtu.be/84aZvRWl9VA?si=FvcB7qDyZRzJLlcY

1:34 Voles
8:37 Mice

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When cold weather arrives, it brings the end of the vegetable gardening season for many of us. That doesn’t have to be the case though. On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we discuss how we can expand our growing season beyond what's normal by using season extension. Learn about what season extension is, why we would want to use it, the different techniques you can use, and more! 

Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B2REiv1lFYc 

Skip to what you want to know:  

  00:31 – Welcome, Ken. What are our vegetable gardens looking like?

  03:05 – What are our experiences with season extension?

  04:25 – What is season extension?

  06:20 – Effect of daylength on plant growth

  10:25 – What kind of crops are we talking about when it comes to season extension? 

  13:26 – Cloches

  16:27 – Temperature/heat management

  17:55 – Floating row cover

  22:00 – Low tunnels

  24:05 – High tunnels and caterpillar tunnels

  34:20 – Greenhouses (controlled environment)

  37:20 – Cold frames

  40:25 – Hot frame

  41:46 – Starting seeds indoors

  43:10 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!

Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table

How to Build a Low Tunnel Part 1 - Bending low tunnel frames
How to Build a Low Tunnel Part 2 - Installing greenhouse poly plastic

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This week on the Good Growing podcast Ken and Chris marvel at all the stuff they are still harvesting in their gardens. A touch of frost hasn't seemed to stop the tomatoes and peppers. When will the gardening season end!? Plus we look at the NOAA predictions for the coming month and answer your horticultural questions on black cherry aphid, lawn grub explosions across northern Illinois, and more. Plus if you've ever dealt with peach leaf curl, right now is a great time to considered treating your peach tree. Check out the recommendations in this week's podcast.

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00:37 - Hey Ken! It's warm outside for being November.
01:44 - What are we still picking from the garden?
04:38 - What does NOAA predict for our upcoming weather patterns?
09:30 - Answering your gardening questions: Why does my rose have a stem covered in thorns? Moreso than normal!
15:28 - Why are lawn grubs so bad this year?
23:40 - What is causing my cherry tree leaves to curl in the spring? When I notice in the summer I can't find anything.
28:23 - Peach leaf curl shows up in late spring, but it can be treated right now in the fall!

European Chafer Grub Feeding on Warm-season and Cool-season Turfgrasses, Native Prairie Grasses, and Pennsylvania Sedge https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/18/3/article-p329.xml

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Windbreaks, also known as shelter belts, play a crucial role in protecting the land from powerful Midwestern winds. Traditionally used on rural lands, windbreaks are living barriers that intercept wind, thereby reducing velocity and impact. During this week’s Gardenbite, Horticulture Educator Emily Swihart looks back at the history of Roosevelt’s ‘tree army’ and planting efforts in response to the Dust Bowl provides best practices for maximizing results, and encourages communities to manage the urban forest to capture windbreak benefits.

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It’s time for another Good Growing Halloween Spooktacular! We’re all dressed up again this year to talk about some creepy crawlies that have had or are still having an impact on humans or have a lot of lore behind them, including black widow and brown recluse spiders, stinging caterpillars, oriental rat fleas, lice, and more!  

Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DGbFkgEs2ZE

Skip to what you want to know:  

  00:41 – Welcome, Ken. What are our costumes this year?

  02:50 – Black widow spiders

  11:30 – Brown recluse spider

    15:50 – Identifying brown recluse spiders

  18:30 – Venomous vs poisonous

  19:20 – Stinging caterpillars

    22:40 - Saddleback caterpillar

    24:55 - Puss caterpillar

  28:30 – Oriental rat flea and plague

  35:47 – Lice

    36:25 – Body lice

    39:30 – Head lice

    41:30 – Pubic lice

  45:22 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!

Southern black widow (University of Florida) - https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/spiders/black_widow_spider.htm 

Brown recluse (Colorado State University) - https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/brown-recluse-spiders-in-colorado-recognition-and-spiders-of-similar-appearance-5-607/ 

CDC lice guidelines - https://www.cdc.gov/lice/caring-head/index.html 

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Now that the garden season is starting to wind down, it’s a good time to start thinking about getting our tools ready for winter. This week on the Good Growing Podcast, we discuss some things we do to get our garden tools ready for winter, including cleaning, sharpening, winterizing, organizing, and more! 

Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/o5VuG7Au7ng 

Skip to what you want to know:  

  00:40 – Welcome, Ken, and time to clean up the garages.

  02:10 – Cleaning and sharpening shovels

  11:35 – Sharpening cultivators/hoes

  14:52 – Caring for wooden handles

  18:05 – Motor oil to protect metal? Other ways to prevent rust and lubricate tools

  21:10 – Caring for and sharpening pruners

  32:10 – Getting lawnmowers ready for winter

  42:50 – Organizing tool storage areas

  45:35 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!

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This week on the Good Growing podcast Ken and Chris discuss why we clean up our gardens in the fall. Cutting down perennials, raking leaves, and pulling out spent vegetable plants is a common job for the gardener in the fall. As the autumn days get shorter our time is precious outdoors. What needs to be done now and what can wait until next year?

Watch us on YouTube https://youtu.be/scU_YKv_gFE

Skip to what you want to know:
00:29 Hey Ken! It rained!
02:33 Fall clean up. Why do we do it?
04:38 How does cleaning the vegetable garden break disease cycles?
11:53 Adding amendments to the vegetable garden.
13:55 Using manure in the garden.
16:32 Shifting gears to our yard, should we be mowing shorter for our last mowing of the year?
18:21 What about fall leaves? Should we shred them or leave them on the lawn?
22:30 Do trees and shrubs need water as part of putting the landscape "to bed?"
25:06 Cleaning up our perennial plants in the fall. Deadheading aggressive seed producers.
26:59 Cutting back perennials can wait until spring, at least for the plant's sake. Your situation may be different though!
32:30 Brief tool talk. (preview of next week)

Fall garden clean up with pollinators and other wildlife in mind https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/good-growing/2021-10-22-fall-garden-clean-pollinators-and-other-wildlife-mind

When should I start cleaning up my garden? 
https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/good-growing/2023-03-02-when-should-i-start-cleaning-my-garden

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It’s time for our last Grow Along check-in for 2024. Each year we at Good Growing decide to try growing some new (to us) vegetables. This year we invited you to grow along with us. This video is for those who signed up to receive seed for our Grow Along. In this video, we are trying the fruits of our labor. We share some of the different ways we have prepared the produce we grew as part of the Grow Along.

We want to hear back from you! You should have gotten an email with a survey link if you received Grow Along seed from us. How is your crop progressing? Have you been able to harvest anything? And more. Please use the survey link sent to you in the most recent email that included a link to this episode. 

We are treating this as a quasi-trial of these crops. So, we are asking for some specific details on your growing conditions. If this year works out, we may make these "trials" more official. 

Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aC0JUpFpYsQ 

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October has arrived, and while it may not feel like it at times, so has fall. This week on the Good Growing Podcast, we discuss some of the different things on our fall gardening to-do list, including caring for mums, moving houseplants indoors, planting garlic and woody plants, soil testing, and more!

Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VbB2p-EyjDY

Skip to what you want to know:  

  00:35 – Welcome, Ken and preparing for fall invaders.

  03:10 – Planting and caring for mums in the fall

  08:05 – Moving houseplants indoors

  13:50 – Planting garlic

  21:20 – Testing soil and where to send it

  25:00 – Planting trees and shrubs and protecting them from deer

  29:10 – Lawn work and dry weather

  35:20 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!

How to grow and care for fall mums in your garden
How to grow garlic

Soil testing

Soil test labs

National Turfgrass Evaluation Program

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This week on the Good Growing Podcast, Chris compares the essential fall flavors of apple and pumpkin. If you had to choose, what side would you fall on? Team Apple? Or Team Pumpkin?

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Mysterious Invasion [ Cinematic Trailer ]
Volodymyr Piddubnyk

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