Gardening

Autumn is officially here, and there is much to look forward to – pumpkins on the porch, apple cider, cooler temperatures, and walks through crunchy leaves.

Leaving residual vegetation, leaves and stems of the plants that produced fruit and vegetables in our gardens also leaves harborage and safe places for pest insects and pathogens to overwinter.

Alex Knudson, USU Extension's arthropod diagnostician, explains the different ways we can get rid of pests in the garden without pesticides.

Dan Drost, USU Extension vegetable specialist, gives some tips on starting to plant the warm weather vegetables in our gardens.

Dan Drost, USU Extension Vegetable Specialist, gives a helpful list for June garden upkeep.

Ben Scow, USU Extension assistant professor in Washington County, tells us the correct way to irrigate our gardens.

Dan Drost, Utah State University Extension vegetable specialist, helps us know how to carefully get our plants and gardens ready for planting as the snow melts.

In this week's Eating the Past episode host Jeannie Sur explores traditional foods of Virginia including oysters, Brunswick stew and Appalachian cuisine. She also takes us to Thomas Jefferson's garden in Monticello, where the third president of the U.S. grew imported vegetables from all over the world.

The Hope Community Garden started with an old, broken refrigerator the congregation was going to get rid of.

On this episode we're joined by Professor of Horticulture and Extension Vegetable Specialist Dan Drost, who is retiring. We do a career retrospective with him as well as go over some gardening tips and tricks.