Our guest this morning on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Sandi Duncan who this year has taken over the reins as Editor In Chief of the Farmers Almanac - the first female editor at the almanac in its' 200-year history.  With over 30 years experience at the Farmers Almanac assisting the previous editor, Sandi has earned her time at the helm of the storied publication, and she spent the best part of an hour with us this morning discussing not only the weather, but various other tidbits of information one might expect from an almanac editor. This podcast presentation of the radio show is lightly edited to remove musical interludes for license compliance.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air, Sundays 9-10 on 560 KSFO AM San Francisco.  Here's todays' show, which featured live calls from listeners around the Bay Area; people wanting to know information about organic gardening in this part of the world. The program presented here has been lightly edited to remove musical content protected by license holders.

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem this morning is Matthew Biggs, author of -- among other titles -- Secrets of Great Botanists, a historical romp through the history of cultivation of plants in civilization.  Filled with great anecdotes and sprinkled with the authors' dry humor, the book is both captivating and educational.  Edie and Matthew spent the whole hour discussing various aspects. The podcast edition of this show has been lightly edited to remove musical content per rules.

Welcome to Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we're here taking calls this morning and talkin' gardening stuff; we do it every Sunday from 9 to 10 am live on the radio on 560 AM KSFO San Francisco. This podcast edition has been lightly edited to remove musical bits out of regulatory necessity.

Our guest on this morning's program is Navy veteran and ardent home gardener, John Dannecker -- who is also an alum of San Rafael High school (as is Edie herself!).  John spoke to us about his lifelong love for gardening, how that inspired him to renovate the gardens of his family home in San Diego, and how he applied his engineering skills to explore alternative modes of growing, including using a FarmBot, and a hydroponic growing outfit assembled from readily available parts.   Truly a show for your Inner Plant Nerd today!  The podcast edition of this live broadcast has been lightly edited to remove musical interludes per applicable rules.

Edie Tanem is your show host on Bob Tanem In The Garden on KSFO; she's a certified nursery person and a master gardener and she's on call this hour and every Sunday from 9 to 10 on 560 AM KSFO.  Today is an open lines day; the show is all about the callers and the wide variety of questions and concerns they present with live on the radio.  This podcast edition is lightly edited to remove musical content per applicable rules.

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Courtney E. Allen, Director of National Programs at the American Horticultural Society.  She joined us for the first half of the show this morning; after her interview we opened the phones up for calls; Bay Area gardeners call with their questions, concerns and ideas. The original broadcast as presented here is lightly edited to remove licensed musical content.

Live from San Francisco it's the Bob Tanem In The Garden show with Edie Tanem at the microphone.  It's a call in talk show about organic gardening, in the Bay Area and beyond; we're live on the air Sunday mornings at 9:00 local time on 560 KSFO.  This time shifted podcast edition has been lightly edited to remove musical interludes.

Edie Tanem is the host of Bob Tanem In The Garden heard live on KSFO in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area; 9 to 10 each Sunday morning.   Here is todays' edition, hot off the press as a podcast; this week is a call-in show featuring gardening questions from our listeners. This on-demand edition of the show has been edited to prune out musical interludes.

Edie Tanem is the host of Bob Tanem In The Garden on KSFO; this mornings' show features callers from around the bay with their questions about organic gardening in the Bay Area - and beyond! This podcast presents the one-hour show as broadcast, minus commercials and any musical segments, as required.

Here we are live from San Francisco with Bob Tanem In The Garden, hosted by Edie Tanem; the Bay Area's premier radio show about organic gardening.   Our guest this morning is George Haas, notable figure in the Bay Area Bonsai scene.  He's up to date on Bonsais, local resources, museums and web sites including the incomparable local gem that George is happy to promote: the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt in Oakland, which any of us can go visit. This podcast has been lightly edited to remove musical interludes per policy requirements.

Edie Tanem is our show host on Bob Tanem In The Garden; the Bay Area's premier talk show about organic gardening.  This weeks' show is presented here, lightly edited to remove musical segments in order to keep us in license compliance.

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is none other than Amy Stewart - a perennial favorite on our show over the years.  Amy has written many books, most recently The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession.  Amy shares with us some of the behind-the-scenes stuff leading up to the publishing of the book, namely the gathering of many many interesting stories of real people who collect trees.

Our Guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Jeff Harris, show chair for the San Francisco Orchid Society; he'll be talking about the big Orchids In The Park event coming up in San Francisco July 27 and 28.  Also, gardening questions were asked and answered by Edie, our resident gardening expert and show host!

Welcome to this weeks edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guest this morning is Cynthia Stewart, of Bloom Nurseries -- a wholesale nursery that supplies neighborhood scale retail nurseries with fresh local plants grown in the Bay Area. Cynthia and Edie have a friendship formed over many years of being professional colleagues in the nursery industry; this friendly interview explores personal and professional themes as well as practical gardening advice throughout.  Toward the end of the show, the pair field a couple of listener calls with practical gardening questions.

It's Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; the Bay Area's premier radio talk show about organic gardening!  We're open phones this morning and following a monologue, we got calls from gardeners all around the Bay; much of the subject matter revolved around the coming heat wave this week, as well as pollination and propagation questions among others. This program is lightly edited from the original broadcast, to remove musical interludes.

Edie Tanem is the host of Bob Tanem In The Garden, which airs on KSFO in San Francisco each Sunday at 9:00 local time.   This here is the podcast edition of the show, which has been lightly edited to remove musical content. Our show is a call-in talk show about organic gardening in the Bay Area and beyond.

This is the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem radio show; todays' guest on our air is Cal Agrifolia of Davey, the Tree Experts. You've seen their big green trucks, because this employee owned company has grown throughout the Bay Area region and has teams of expert certified arborists for both residential and commercial deployments.  Cal is knowledgeable and a fun guest; the hour went by quickly in a wide ranging interview. This podcast edition of the program has been edited to prune out musical segments to comply with applicable rules.

This is Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; the Bay Area's premier radio show about organic gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area and sometimes beyond.   Ours is a live call-in show, broadcast on KSFO 560 AM in San Francisco at 9:00 local (Pacific) time each week on Sunday; you can participate in future shows by calling 415 808-5600 during the live times lot. The podcast edition has been lightly edited to extricate musical content as required by podcasting rules.

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem this morning is Doug Tallamy, co-author of The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden.  Doug is an entomologist with the University of Delaware, and is particularly interested in the interaction between insects and plant life, the "food web" ecosystems in nature, and the like.  He spent the full hour with us this morning. Musical interludes have been redacted from this podcast edition of the original broadcast.

It's Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem, and here we are on Sunday morning taking calls live on the air.  Spring has sprung in the Bay Area and lots of people have questions about their yards, gardens, trees and shrubs.  Got Bugs? Call Edie and discuss it on the air! Musical interludes have been edited out to comply with legal requirements.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air live 9a-10a on Sunday mornings on KSFO 560 San Francisco; it's also on this podcast each week.   Todays' show features open phones call-in for gardening questions and general garden information for the Bay Area and beyond.  For this podcast edition, the musical elements have been lifted from the show to comply with rules.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is heard live Sundays on KSFO 560 San Francisco; todays' edition is a call-in show featuring questions and answers between the listening audience and Edie Tanem, daughter of Bob Tanem, original host of the show.  Edie is a certified nursery person and a Master Gardener, and has hosted the show since Bob passed in 22. Musical interludes are edited out of the broadcast to comply with podcasting rules.

Happy Cinco de Mayo from all of us here at KSFO and the Bob Tanem In The Garden show with Edie Tanem!  Our guests this morning are YOU, the gardening public, in and around the Bay area and sometimes beyond.  We had calls right from the start and all hour long; Master Gardener Edie Tanem answers questions on Rhododendrons, Fruit Trees and many others. Musical interludes have been trimmed from this podcast version of the original live show.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is a live radio show on Sunday mornings, 9-10 on 560 KSFO San Francisco; this here is the podcast playback-on-demand of that show; our host is expert in gardening around the Bay Area and beyond; we feature call-in questions from our live listening audience. For compliance with applicable rules, we lightly edit the broadcast to remove musical segments.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air!  This podcast is the recorded playback of the live show; today we had no guest and open the phone lines wide.  It being a fine spring like clear day in the bay area, it was not at all surprising that there were lots of calls from gardeners! Musical interludes have been trimmed from the original presentation to conform with guidelines for podcasting.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is On The Air!  The first half our show this morning featured a guest; Sarah Blunt is with Integrated Community Services, and she uses the gardens at New Beginnings to engage with people with disabilities.  This also helps the gardens with volunteer labor, creating a natural symbiosis; job training, work experience and mentoring for trainees, and supporting productive gardens for the programs to use. Following the guest, callers from around the Bay phoned in with gardening questions for Edie Tanem.  Musical interludes have been excerpted from the program to protect those who require it.

It's the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guests this morning are Douglas Airhart from Tennessee Technological University and April Ellis, Registered Horticultural Therapist in San Mateo.   Our subject?  Horticultural Therapy, which is a wide descriptor for plant related therapies ranging from physical through emotional and back again.  Our guests spent the entire hour with Edie. Musical interludes have been edited out of this podcast because of applicable rules.

Welcome to the podcast edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; todays' guest is Sherry Larsen, longtime producer of the San Francisco Bay Flower and Garden Show.  Back in the days when that show originated from the Cow Palace, KSFO would broadcast live for this program; nowadays the show is at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton; the 2024 show is April 4 through 7 and is already being set up, as Sherry described. This podcast is a faithful reproduction of the original live show, minus musical segments which have been lifted for regulatory compliance.

Open Phones on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we took calls from around the bay and beyond, all about gardening the old fashioned way: organically.  Next week we'll be broadcasting live on Easter Sunday!   Musical interludes have been edited out of this podcast for compliance.

And a Happy St. Patty's day from all of us at KSFO, as we present this mornings' Bob Tanem In The Garden show with Edie Tanem.  Our guest is none other than Ed Laivo, famed author and videographer on Youtube, fruit tree and edible landscape expert, and all around nice guy.  Ed -- who has known the Tanems for many decades -- attracted lots of calls, as we round out the hour.   (On YouTube, Ed is known as Ed Able Solutions) Musical interludes have been redacted from this podcast out of legal necessity.

Happy Daylight Saving Time from the cast and crew at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we're right on time and talking about gardening this morning!  People call in from around the bay and beyond to talk about vegetables, flowers, trees and lawns, wildlife and compost, among other things. The original broadcast has been lightly edited to remove musical and advertising content.

Our guest this morning is Suzanne Bontempo, an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) advocate, environmental educator & professional horticulturist.  She joins us to talk about managing pests with minimal use of pesticides; be they bugs or rodents or what have you.  There are alternatives that are organic compatible and better for our bodies and the world around us.  Suzanne's website is plantharmony.org

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is live and on the air Sundays at 9:00 local time here in San Francisco; this podcast is a faithful repeat of the entire hour, minus the commercials and music! Todays' show is a call-in program; gardeners from around the bay called up and asked questions of our Master Gardener, live and unrehearsed here on KSFO.

Our guests on the show this morning are Ken Litchfield and Enrique Sanchez, both members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco -  at MSSF.org - and are experts on mushrooms; wild, cultivated, food or poison.  We host a 3-way conversation between these gentlemen and our host, Edie Tanem. The original broadcast has been lightly edited to remove musical content.

Welcome to Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guest this morning is Jeff Harris of the San Francisco Orchid Society, here to tell us about the upcoming Pacific Orchid Exposition Show and Plant Sale.  The event will be held in San Francisco at the County Fair Building at 1199 9th Avenue in San Francisco; a gala preview night for those 21 or older will happen on Thursday February 15 from 6 until 9 pm; the show then opens to the public on Friday the 16th at 10:00 am, closing at 5 pm on Friday and Saturday and at 4 pm on the final day of show sunday the 18th. There's a lot to see and do and hear and and learn and yes even buy at this event; orchid lovers are bound to have a great time and this, the regions' premiere event for orchid enthusiasts of all ages.  Tickets for the preview or the show are available at orchidsanfrancisco.org; if you buy a day ahead of time online you will receive a discount from on-site same-day pricing. Musical bits have been edited from the original broadcast for this podcast.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air once again; it's a live show on Sunday mornings rain or shine and in this case, rain; it's about the biggest storm of the season in progress as we broadcast. Calls do trickle in from around the bay and beyond; we take all kinds of gardening questions all hour long. The original broadcast is lightly edited for podcasting; musical interludes are edited out per requirements.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is On the Air!   No guest this week, we feature listener calls all hour on the Bay Area's premiere radio talk show about organic gardening. This podcast presentation of the live broadcast has been edited to lift out musical content; them's the rules.

Edie Tanem is live on the air this morning with Bob Tanem In The Garden; the Bay Areas' premiere live radio talk show about gardening.  We had open phones for gardeners of all stripes this morning and the lines loaded up! The program has been lightly edited to remove musical content in order to satisfy podcasting license restrictions.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air for January 14 2024; this is an open phones gardening show segment; Edie answers listener questions from around the bay and beyond!

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air!  Edie's guest today is Douglas W Tallamy, entomologist at the University of Delaware and author of Nature's Best Hope. This podcast presentation of the show has been edited to remove musical content due to licensing restrictions.

It's the last day of the year, and the last show in 2023 for Edie Tanem!  We took calls and listened to Edie's monologues this morning; it's all about Gardening here in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area -- and beyond.  This podcast edition of the show has been lightly edited to remove musical content due to licensing restrictions.

Happy Christmas Eve from the Cast and Crew here at KSFO and the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem show! Todays' live broadcast is featured here as a time shifted podcast, minus the musical segments per the rules.  It was open phones and we got a lot of calls about winter gardening here in the Bay Area and beyond!

Edie Tanem hosts the Bob Tanem In The Garden show; we took calls about gardening, and had an expert guest join us at the half way mark; Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago joined us by phone from Puerto Rico at 9:30.  Perla is the author of a current gardening book called Verdura: Living a Garden Life.  She discussed many aspects of what this means, in a down to earth interview on this mornings' show. This broadcast has been lightly edited for podcast; musical segments have been redacted.

Edie Tanem is our show host here on KSFO's Bob Tanem In The Garden show, and today is open phones!  We started getting calls about 20 minutes into Edie's monologue.  Lots of gardening info, including some gift suggestions for the gardener in your life.

Welcome to our little garden program!  Today Edie Tanem featured a special guest; Hadley Dynak is the latest steward of Western Hills Garden in Sebastopol.  Now running the operation as a non-profit, the current iteration of this historic site is a treasure trove of exotic and native trees, among other things.  Haley filled us in on the history of and current aspirations for this special site. This podcast edition of our show has been lightly edited to remove musical interludes for license compliance.

Edie Tanem is the host of Bob Tanem In The Garden, and our guests this morning were Marion Weinreb and Alephia Larson of The Living Room of Santa Rosa; a women's shelter and community resource serving Sonoma County.  Among the innovative programs there are food producing gardens that both employ and feed members of the community. Our guests stayed for 30 minutes, and the 2nd half of todays' show was dedicated to callers around the Bay and beyond, with their gardening questions.   Edie also extended the opportunity to donate to a host of worthy garden-related organizations for Giving Tuesday; several causes were mentioned along with contact info.

Edie Tanem is your show host on Bob Tanem In The Garden, memorializing her father as part of the show name.   Our show was live on KSFO, this podcast edition has been lightly pruned to remove musical content per our licensing. It was a call-in show this morning, with people around the Bay Area and beyond calling about their various plants, planting and pruning questions, which were answered cheerfully by our expert gardener turned show host, youngest daughter of Bob Tanem, Ms. Edie Tanem!

There's no need to fear, Edie Tanem's here; host of Bob Tanem In The Garden on KSFO.  It's an all-calls show today (no guest speaker) so we invited folks to phone in and they did; from all around the Bay Area and beyond, Edie answers gardening questions and talks more about her experience getting started with Straw Bale Gardening!

Edie Tanem is the host and today Joel Karsten is our guest; he's the StrawBale Garden guy and he's just got the latest edition of his book -- Straw Bale Gardens Complete -- out in time for the closing up of the pumpkin patches this coming week!   Joel's technique is not just using straw bales as planters, but actually starting and controlling a decomposition process that substitutes for soil entirely, right within the bale.  We kept our energetic and enthusiastic guest all hour long, explaining how it's done and how to do it.