Being as we are in the peak summer months, Bob forewent a guest and dedicated the program entirely to listener calls again this morning: peak yield is achieved by sticking to the basics!   Lots of people out there with confused plants; it's cold and wet, then it's hot, then it's cool... some plants handle this better than others!

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Producer David Farrow fills in for Edie Tanem at the top of the hour for this weeks' "Gardening Goings-on" report, aka the calendar of gardening events up and down the Bay Area, assembled by Edie Tanem.   Then it's right back to the phones lines, keeping Bob busy right up through the end of the hour!

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Bob did not have a guest today; he gave a mini-clinic on caring for Hydrangeas at 8:30 instead, and took lots of calls.   America's Happy Gardener is on the scene!

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Happy Summer Solstice!  To celebrate we had as our special guest at 8:30 the author of "Grow In The Dark: How to Choose and Care For Low-Light House Plants", Lisa Steinkopf.  Knowledgeable, and clearly excited about her topic, Lisa spent half an hour discussing how to cultivate plants that will thrive even if you hide them in deep shade as you shelter against the sweltering heat!

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Edie Tanem seizes the microphone at the top of the hour to share this weeks' edition of Gardening Events Around The Bay; there's lots going on.  Then it's back to Open Phones in Your Garden with America's Happy Gardener, Bob Tanem!

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Edie Tanem leads us off with this weeks' report on all the gardening-related events and opportunities unfolding around the Bay Area in the weeks ahead.  Then America's Happy Gardener takes the Mic and its all calls until the end of the hour!

Our guest at 8:30 was Mary Phillips of the Million Pollinator`Garden Challenge.  The idea? lets welcome and invite and create habitat in our gardens for pollinators of all stripes -- honey bees and otherwise!  And there's lots of other pollinators, many native.   Listen in for information on why we should care about this -- you may even get more fruit!

At 8:30, we welcomed our guest Amy Andrychowicz, author of Vertical Vegetables: Simple Projects that Deliver More Yield in Less Space.  Yes that's right; she's got the vegetable gardens growing up the walls and a bunch of other stuff.

Edie Tanem is on her game at 9:06, with this weeks' edition of Stuff To Do For Gardeners, that is; gardening events up and down the bay area in the coming weeks!  There are lots of 'em!   Then it's right back to the phones and America's Happy Gardener, Bob Tanem.

Edie Tanem once again starts the hour off in style with her copious list of Things To Do For Gardeners all around the Bay; then it's right back to the Phones with America's Happy Gardener, Bob Tanem!