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Smoky Air Offers Silver Lining for Local Gardens

The Garden Guru – Scott Parsons – chats with KOHO morning Show host Chris Hansen about how the persistent smoky conditions produced by regional wildfires of recent produce a mixture of positive and negative impacts on local gardens.

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Garden Guru – Peppers, Tomatoes, Basil

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 15 Parsons talks peppers, tomatoes and basil. He said the garden has you covered, whether it’s salsa, pizza or pesto. Summer weather is heating up this week too, so keep the garden…

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Garden Guru – Beans, Tomatoes, Cucumbers

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 14, Parsons talks about fast-growing beans, cucumbers and basil. The Brandywine tomatoes are behind schedule, but the peppers are mostly on time. And although it’s a little cooler this week, Parsons said…

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Garden Guru – Spring Rain, Potted Garden, Memorial Weekend

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 11, Parsons talks about the cooler, wetter weather over the last week and gardening over the Memorial Day holiday, whether that’s getting your garden started or filling up your potted garden on…

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Garden Guru – Spring Rain

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 10, Parsons talks about Mother Earth providing some much-needed moisture this week and what it means for the garden after this last weekend’s heat wave.

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Garden Guru – Composting, Netting, Watering

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 9, Parsons talks about swapping plastic coverings for bird netting, best ways to make compost and use it in the garden, keeping things watered with hot weather this weekend and more.

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Garden Guru – Wind, Weather, Potted Gardens

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. In Episode 8, Parsons talks about some cool overnight temps this week in the Upper Wenatchee Valley, ways to keep the wind at bay and getting your “potted garden” ready on your deck or…

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Garden Guru – Birds, Lawns, Earth Day

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. Episode 7 is all about celebrating nature. Parsons talks about welcoming birds and bugs into your garden to help fertilize and keep the unfriendly inhabitants at bay.

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Garden Guru – Plastics, Greens, Blood Meal

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. Episode 6 is all about greens. Parsons talks about using plastic hoop-houses to increase your greens production right now and using blood meal to keep burrowers at bay.

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Garden Guru – Soil, Compost, Fertilizer

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season to help us green our thumbs. Episode 5 is all about soil. Parsons talks about what to add and what not to add to your soil to make it ready for planting, like compost, manure and fish emulsion.

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Garden Guru – Greenhouse Starts, Early Greens, Spring Showers

Scott Parsons is your Garden Guru and joins us every Tuesday during the growing season, which is off to a slow start in 2019. After February’s record snowfall, Parsons said it’s pushed back budding by about a month. In Episode 4, Dan Langager stops by Parson’s garden to check out the small green starts under the…

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