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Learn all about gardening in Illinois! The Illinois Extension Horticulture UA-cam channel is home to the Four Seasons Gardening Series, Good Growing, and gardening how-to videos.
Four Seasons is a seasonal series of gardening topics offered virtually throughout the state of Illinois. Members of the University of Illinois Extension Horticulture Team collaborate to offer a variety of expertise to this series. Each session is recorded live and then uploaded here in order to offer this program to others. Please be aware that the recommendations in this series are specific to Illinois and may not apply to other gardening zones.
Good Growing is a weekly video podcast hosted by horticulture educators Chris Enroth and Ken Johnson. Each week the duo tackles gardening topics, answers viewer questions, or interviews experts in the horticultural field.
Four Seasons is a seasonal series of gardening topics offered virtually throughout the state of Illinois. Members of the University of Illinois Extension Horticulture Team collaborate to offer a variety of expertise to this series. Each session is recorded live and then uploaded here in order to offer this program to others. Please be aware that the recommendations in this series are specific to Illinois and may not apply to other gardening zones.
Good Growing is a weekly video podcast hosted by horticulture educators Chris Enroth and Ken Johnson. Each week the duo tackles gardening topics, answers viewer questions, or interviews experts in the horticultural field.
Windbreaks: the history, function, and benefits of diminished wind speeds
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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Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
Emily Swihart: eswihart@illinois.edu
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Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
Emily Swihart: eswihart@illinois.edu
Check out the Good Growing Blog: go.illinois.edu/goodgrowing
Subscribe to the weekly Good Growing email: go.illinois.edu/goodgrowingsubscribe
Any products or companies mentioned during the podcast are in no way a promotion or endorsement of these products or companies.
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You can find us on most podcast platforms.
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I’ve been looking for info on what edible things to plant in my from yard.
Glad we could help! There are so many possibilities for edible plants in your front yard.
Really appreciate the way you did this video! The tasting was great to see and love the addition of the recipes for reference.
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We're glad you enjoy them!
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Do I need to increase the bat house wood slat spacing between the wood slats for Big Brown bats? Also I’m in Orwell OH 44076 (NE Ohio) should I paint my bat house just lighter of pure black? Summer temps average 82-93F but “FEELS LIKE” temps are much higher sometimes by even 10 degrees. Also I got a 4 chambered plywood 26”x17”x5.5” bat house from the Nature Conservancy, “Bat Blitz”. Lots of tiny splinters since the grooves were cut into plywood. Can’t sand it smooth no matter how hard I try. Will it be ok w/tiny splinters? Thank you
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I used to work at a commercial tree nursery. We regularly bought up adjacent cornfield and convert to tree land. We had a 10ft tractor hitch mower for cutting down all the leftover corn stalks. Talk about a fast way to dull a mower blade! By the time we were sharpening the blades in winter, they were completely rounded off. Pretty incredible.
This was such a helpful, informative video. Thank you!
Happy to help!
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You're welcome!
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Yayyyyy!!!! You are going to do it again! I found that my lemon cucumbers are dying off BUT my cute little cucamelons are still looking healthy and are a small tidbit of cucumberish flavor. Flowers would be fun!
Grew runner beans for the first time this year. Tried them young as green beans and was not impressed. Seeing your reactions, now I'm really excited to try the dry beans I've been collecting. I will have to try the lemon cucumber next year! My kids are cucumber fiends and nine plants wasn't enough to keep up with their fresh consumption, never mind having any left for pickles.
Many of us are burned out and I couldn’t think of bringing in plants to babysit. Matter of fact I’m hoping to start all seedlings in the greenhouse next spring. The mess inside is too much and the bugs. The only pepper that is too slow is Tabasco and you don’t need very many 😅. I will probably harvest everything today as we will be close to frost tonight in WI Z5.
The end of the growing season is in sight!
@@IllinoisExtensionHorticulture had 33*F Monday morning-close and still going.
Can I just say, I love this duo!
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Thank you for this thoughtful webinar. Many interesting ideas and things to consider. Great information, well planned and presented. 🌱🍓
Glad it was helpful!
I had to pause for a minute. BLESS YOU for mentioning the PTSD aspect. (Just bug related ... like previously existing PTSD wasn't enough.) I probably still have bedbugs (very recently discovered - while finding out I'm anemic with a symptomatic fibroid on my uterus --> I am too exhausted to really clean) and am sleeping elsewhere. The only thing that's keeping me from scratching the hell out of myself is "You didn't feel that when you were sleeping with the fuckers. IT'S NOT REAL." But I still check multiple times a day - my clothes, my hair, my island of safety ... not to mention my eyes are constantly roaming. And I still feel like I'm living squalor. But based on what I've seen, I think I caught it before they really took hold ... so ... fingers crossed. Apologies in advance if there are more lengthy comments. I've told almost no one about them.
Wow, this video was absolutely amazing! The production quality was top-notch, and the content was just perfect. I especially loved watching this because I had a rough season-most of my crops didn’t make it. This really helps wrap up the growing season and helps those of us that had failed crops enjoy visually what we were missing out on😆. My cucumbers were nearly all male, and when the few finally did grow at the end of the season, they were completely infested with pickle worms, so I ended up with nothing. And the 'Dark Knight' was flowering beautifully, but locusts or grasshoppers ate all the flowers off at night. I planted three seeds and ended up with exactly three seeds due to the bugs! This video was such a relief and inspiration. You all have great chemistry, and it's so much fun to see you together in the same room. I think it would be fantastic to do a future grow along with a 50/50 split between vegetables and flowers. For the flowers, it would be awesome to see some herbal or medicinal plants like Hyssop or the toothache plant. Something that has multi uses, pretty but usable. There's so much to learn from those! Keep up the amazing work-this was pure perfection!
I started European varieties last year and lost one so got a replacement as it needs a pollinator. I think it will take a few years as they sleep, creep and leap. I have them in a fenced in home orchard and can’t wait for hazelnuts! Good to know they can take late frost. I wonder if Surround clay would ward off diseases/pests?
It could. Here some information on it's use to manage leafrollers: cropprotectionhub.omafra.gov.on.ca/control-solutions/tree-nut-crop-protection?cs=421d7717-256e-430e-8ca5-c3dc51fb40b5&pr=4415322e-2da3-492c-8489-245ffed80a04&vw=cardGrid
😂😂Too Funny! I have grown it for 2 years and never tried it 😬. I grow the eyeball variety and the seeds are prolific and grows very easy. It does not like to be dried out in hot sun. Just a fun low growing plant.
There's no time like the present to try it :)
I put food out for the raccoons and they stopped climbing the trees and eating the birdseed. Problem solved plus the raccoons are pretty cute.
Here in Houston we get tons of Monarchs. I found this video because we get the other insects, too. I was wandering if the large and small milkweed bugs were good because this was the first year we've seen them. Thanks for the knowledgeable video. I'll continue to squach the yellow aphids with my fingers. 😂 This year, we've released about a hundred Monarchs with only six plants and two cages.
That was rather poetic ;) I grow styrian pumpkins for one purpose(besides the seeds). They keep the rabbits and deer at bay with their spiky stems. The difference between canned and fresh pumpkin is not enough to grow them. The difference between a fresh picked and store bought year-old, cold-storage, mealy apple is a universe a difference.
Is it possible to purchase the slides from your presentation? I would love to be able to lay them out as they would fit in my garden, particularly by height, habit (mounding/spreading), and bloom season.
I'd suggest to reach out to our speaker Elizabeth Wahle to see if she would email you the slides. wahle@illinois.edu
Totally Team APPLE! And what about try using cinnamon and native spiceberry bush berries to spice up the apples! 😉 The only thing I want to do with pumpkins is carve them for Halloween or feed them to my chickens!
Thank-you! This was very helpful 🌱
Glad it was helpful!
I have over an acre of milkweed but all were wiped out by those little yellow bugs so no monarch butterflies this year.
How much of the roots should we leave intact?
Try to leave as many as you can. They'll send out new roots, so don't worry if you remove some.
Awesome, it was so great to see a live taste test of the toothache plant! I actually grew it for the first time this year too, and while it's an amazing plant, it definitely needs constant watering and didn’t handle the dry conditions too well. Watching everyone's reactions was both hilarious and insightful-it's awesome to see real feedback on how these plants we grow taste, feel, and look. It’s something that's often missing in gardening videos. I totally relate to thinking I was having an allergic reaction when I first tried it-nothing bad happened, but it was pretty scary at first! I found that the bugs in my area did like to eat the leaves so had to use slug control too. They grow really fast once established and the bullseye variety I got looks great. I now have a bunch of seeds so looking forward to growing more next year. I’d love to try making a tincture from it too with an alcohol base. Then you can use it year-round to treat mouth sores. Yes, please would love to see more videos like this! It is the unique plants that really keep me hooked on gardening so seeing unusual things like this is brilliant. LOL love the bloopers' best part 😁
A tincture would be great idea.
*takes notes and heads to eBay to see if anyone listed seeds for sale.
Hi, are these edible?
Yes, both black and English walnuts are edible.
Love the accompanying photos to your gardenbite! It was very calming to enjoy the tranquility of this sneak peek of autumn.
Wow! Excellent contents and so funny! Thank you 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have never seen baby ginger root in markets here with less hard fibers. That will be awesome for making ginger chews.
In Indian stores in Dallas they sell two different types of ginger. One bigger which is usually conventional. Another smaller yellow root which is usually sold organic. The smaller root with yellower inside has sharp taste with intense flavor. It has less water content too. If you are replacing that with bigger root in your recipe, you have up less of it.
Looks like there are two types of galangal. Thai cooking needs greater galangal. How do you identify the greater galangal plant? I bought one plant this year. I want to know if it is greater galangal or lesser galangal ?
Great question. It can be difficult to distinguish between the multitude of named plants related to ginger when lumping in turmeric, and galangal. I am pretty much at the mercy of the companies selling the rhizomes pieces. Hopefully, the following is fairly accurate: I have grown greater galangal (Alpinia galanga) for a few years now. It has a red rhizome sold as "Red Thai galangal." Mine has purple coloration along the mid-vein of the leaf. The plants are much larger, resembling more of a turmeric or canna-sized leaf/shape. Recently I bought "black ginger" but upon receiving it, it turned out to be greater galangal, but a darker (blue to light purple) colored rhizome. Lesser galangal is Alpinia officinarum. Similar to greater galangal, but more diminutive. Leaves are shorter and more akin to typical ginger plant. Light galangal is Alpinia speciosa. Source www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/galangal
I live in Dallas suburbs. I tried planting turmeric bulbs indoors in December, January in pots indoors. But they sprouted only when warmed up a lot in may after moving the pots outdoors. If I bring them in November and leave them in pots for two or three more months I am able to get better yield. I grow just 4 to 6 plants in backyard.
In Dallas texas I could buy organic fresh ginger for 2.50 $ to 5$ range for past few years.
I wish they sell baby ginger too without strong fibers.
It would be helpful if you talk about a particular weed to show us a picture of it. That way we can ID them in the garden and take your advice when it applies to our garden. Thanks!
On the glyphosate issue, I belive the U.S. has banned it for individual use but not for commercial.
Glyphosate is still available for general use. Some states, counties, and municipalities have banned its use, though.
Great video! Thank you for the entertaining, relevant content.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very informative especially with photos.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for sharing bat info! Learned a lot. Fascinating creatures ❤
Good grief, stop talking and teach me something! I’m only at 8 on the time stamp and I’m outta here!
Darn, we started talking grassed at 8:30. Every show has timestamps in the description.
Geez, show some humanity. It's not that hard to skip forward.
I planted American hazelnuts as bare roots a few years ago. Hoping there are a few nuts in next couple years. The deer have tried their pruning techniques the last couple years 🤷
As an fyi I bought the bare root seedlings from the Mason State Nursery along with black chokeberry and elderberry. It's a great sale (very inexpensive) each spring for anyone adding natives and want to get them from an Illinois state nursery.
We love our state tree nursery!
Thanks for the info. My American Hazelnut bushes produce small, but taste nuts. I hope that the research done by the University of Missouri Forestery develops a larger nut. mid-Missouri
We'll have to look into Missouri's hazelnut work.
Roger Cook was the best. I bought bare root hazelnut seedlings last winter/spring, they were incredibly big and the price is very reasonable, this is the place to get them dnr.illinois.gov/conservation/forestry/tree-nurseries.html
As a man who has been a landscaper for 50 years with 2 acres of many flowers during the time. This man needs to leave his office and come to rural Ohio. I see many less monarchs than 40 years ago even though I have 4 caterpillars right now in my garden.
Great information. However, the speaker came off as nervous by saying the wrong words, longer pauses, and staggering words. I'm sure she was nervous. In the future, perhaps she could rehearse saying the information out loud before presenting. That might boost confidence and help the presentation move smoother preventing listener confusion. We had to rewind a few times. Again, great information.