Posts Tagged ‘fall weather’
Garden Guru – Season Finale
Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs, but the season has come to a close. In Episode 30, we put the garden to bed in the season finale. Scott hands out the annual “Parsons Awards” and leaves us with some sage…
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Garden Guru – Putting Garden To Bed, Sharing Final Harvest
Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 29, the penultimate this season, Parsons talks about final steps to put the garden to bed for the season and tips for winter hibernation so it’s ready come spring. Parsons also talks…
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With No Nino or Nina, Wet October Ahead, National Weather Service Says
What’s a winter without El Nino or La Nina affecting the weather? Well downright predicable some would say. Marcus Bellissimo has more.
Read MoreGarden Guru – How to Winter Over
Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 28, Parsons talks about using a “hoop house” to get a few more weeks of greens growing, planting garlic this month and setting aside fall lawn clippings and leaves for composting.
Read MoreAgriculture, Pile Burns Decrease Wenatchee Valley Air Quality
Poor air quality can affect everyone. But some groups of people are more susceptible to illness due to poor air quality than others.
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Pile Burns Putting Some Smoke Into NCW
Pile burning is underway on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. If you see or smell smoke this week, it could be from burns up the Chiwawa, Entiat or Methow Valleys. Most smoke will disperse eastward, the forest service said. Crews are burning 100 acres on Natapoc Ridge about three miles north of Plain, 30 acres in…
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Garden Guru – Green Houses, Frost, Basil
Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 27, Parsons talks about using green houses and/or smaller hoop houses to keep the growing going a little longer, helping keep the frost off the basil. And while there, they spot a…
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KOHO Outdoor Report – Mission Ridge
Snowfall in September? Why not. Snow making in November? Count on it. In this week’s KOHO Outdoor Report, Dan Langager talks with Tony Hickok, Marketing Director at Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort, about the 20 inches of snow that fell over the weekend and all the preparations for the upcoming season. Hickok said the Ridge…
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Garden Guru – Broccoli, Green Tomatoes, Cooler Temps
Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 26, Parsons and KOHO’s Dan Langager discuss harvesting broccoli and green tomatoes, using hoop and green houses to keep the growing going a little longer and buttoning up other crops for the…
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‘Solid’ Apple Harvest Hits Halfway Mark
Apple harvest is about half-way through and this year’s crop is shaping up to larger than the past several years. And this year we’ll also be able try some new varietals.
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Garden Guru – Seed Saving, Climate Strikes
Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. Episode 25, is all about saving seeds for next year’s garden and the climate strikes that took place around the world last week, including in Wenatchee.
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