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Richard Hentschel discusses the vegetable garden out in the yard. To be sure the garden continues to produce by harvesting regularly to encourage more flowers and fruit production. Even if a fruit is unusable, remove and compost so the vegetable plant knows to continue production. Once...

Host Richard Hentschel discusses composting in 2015 with all the weather and what is available in the yard to compost. Lawn grass clippings are good source of nitrogen for the composting operation. Weed plants are also good without seed heads. If you pull those weeds, leave the dirt on the...

Richard Hentschel discusses growing degree days when in comes to growing vegetables and insect development. Plant development is slower than normal without the warmer, sunny days. The recent wet soils can cause disease problems. Tomato foliage diseases are running high right now. Air...

Richard Hentschel continues to discuss how the weather has been impacting our lawn care. Mowing has been a real challenge. Taller grass means a wetter lawn that can easily clump up leaving the lawn covered to mold below. Try raising the mower deck to accommodate the taller, wetter grass....

Host Richard Hentschel talks about how to deal with all the yard work with all the rain we have been having. Keep the weeds in the garden and landacape beds from going to seed. Do not compost those weed seed heads removed. Mushrooms have shown up in many lawns, landscape beds The water has...

Host Richard Hentschel talks about weeds in the home landscape and why they seem to be worse. Managing the weeds while they are very is much simpler and easier than when they are mature. Removing seed heads if the weeds get ahead of us is the one best practice you can do.

Richard Hentschel host of Green Side Up, talks this week about taking care of the home fruit orchard. Cover sprays are applied to protect the developing fruit during the growing season and those sprays are more frequent in the spring and lessen as the season progresses. Home orchardists would...

Richard Hentschel, host of Green Side Up addresses what to do with our spring flowering bulbs once the bloom show fades. Bulb foliage should be left alone to yellow; brown and collapse on its own to ensure the leaves have re supplied the bulb with energy so we have another great show in 2016....

Richard Hentschel host of Green Side Up, talks this week about selecting landscape plants for replacements for plants that have not survived since the drought of 2012 and harsh winters of 2013 and 2014 or insect infestations like the Emerald Ash Borer. Homeowners should recognize there are now...

Host Richard Hentschel talks about vegetable gardening and dealing with the varied spring weather this year. Better to plant or sow seeds based on current weather conditions rather than some of our more traditional dates. Richard covered what happens when you plant out the warm loving vegetables...