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.

Happy fall; Edie Tanem hosts Bob Tanem In The Garden and we took calls all hour long.  People call from near and far with a variety of challenges and queries for Edie and for the audience!  Interactive talk radio and it's all about organic gardening.  Musical interludes have been lifted from this podcast presentation of this mornings' live show.

Happy October; cooler weather is here and Edie Tanem is on the Air with the Bob Tanem In The Garden show on KSFO!  We took calls all hour from gardeners around the Bay Area and beyond.  This podcast is the full hour, minus musical segments.

Our guest this morning is Jeannie Perales, executive director of the Sonoma Botanical Garden in the Sonoma / Glen Ellen area of the Valley of the Moon, in the heart of NorCal wine country.   Jeannie spoke to us about current projects and presentations at the garden, which she views in much the same way a museum director would preside over a collection: in this case, the collection is plants, including a historical asian "forest" grown from mostly wild found seed by the founders of the garden; this is preserved while more recent projects include native species based landscapes.  Jeannie spent the hour with us and is a wealth of information.

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Peter Geiger, editor of the Farmers' Almanac -- specifically, the orange and green one, not the "old" one; both contain good info but the Tanems have long sworn by this "original" one.  Peter spent the hour with us discussing the weather, 2024, and more -- but no politics, and no election predictions thank you very much.   The podcast edition of the show has been edited to remove musical segments due to licensing restrictions.

Here she is; Edie Tanem -- host of Bob Tanem In The Garden these days -- and the show starts off with a wide ranging monologue from Edie before the gardening questions start rolling in on the KSFO live lines!  This podcast reflects the live radio show in full, except for the fact that musical interludes have been redacted.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; today featuring special guest Pam Peirce, expert gardener now celebrating the 30th year edition of her acclaimed bay-area focused gardening book, Golden Gate Gardening.  Pam spent the whole hour with us discussing the realities and rewards of gardening in our beautiful part of the world.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air, and it's our much anticipated Goat Show today!  Joining Edie are Genevieve from City Grazing -- a local non-profit that maintains and rents out a large herd of goats -- and Molly, from Goats On The Go, Oakland; a recent local startup affiliating with a larger network of herbivorous land clearing outfits. Then, in the second half, we were joined by Joel from Wildfire Services, a private company in the North Bay helping landowners make and maintain their properties as fire safe as possible. A busy morning in your garden!  This podcast presentation of the original broadcast has been lightly edited to extricate musical content.

Good morning gardeners!   Welcome to the Bay Area's premiere talk show about organic gardening: Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem.  As the hour progresses, Edies' monologue gives way to gardening questions from the audience -- gardeners around the Bay Area and beyond!  The original broadcast has been edited for this podcast by extricating all musical segments.

Our Guest this morning is Jill Sowards, expert gardener extraordinaire!  She joins Edie Tanem -- host of the Bob Tanem In The Garden radio show -- for the entire hour of this weeks' broadcast, which is presented here as a podcast.  Podcast rules require us to remove musical content from the program, so the show has been lightly edited.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air!  And, on Podcast (though musical interludes have been edited out).  Here there be phone calls from listeners and gardening advice from someone who sprouted and grew up amid a working nursery; Edie Tanem: America's favorite gardeners' daughter!

Edie Tanem hosts Bob Tanem In The Garden Sundays at 9:00 on KSFO San Francisco; today Edie interviewed David Kamp, author of a fascinating new book offering the learnings from a lifetime in landscape design.  Nature Design and Health: Explorations of a Landscape Architect is the resulting thoughtful tome recently published by Mr. Kamp. This podcast presents the show as broadcast, minus musical segments which are removed by regulatory requirement.

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air!  It's all callers on this mornings' show; no guest.  It's a nice full hour with lots of different questions from all over the bay area and beyond!  The show has been lightly edited from the original broadcast to extricate all traces of music, due to licensing concerns.

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem this morning is Dan Avakian, aka Dan The Produce Man.  Edie interviews him and takes calls all hour as we learn about produce from one of the best produce insiders in media!  This program has been lightly edited from its' original on-air presentation to remove musical segments out of regulatory necessity.

Edie Tanem is our host on Bob Tanem In The Garden, and today she talked to Jeff Harris of the San Francisco Orchid Society about next weekends' orchid show in Golden Gate Park.  Later in the hour we also talked to Mike Boss of the Hidden Forest Nursery in Sebastopol, where there are some very interesting classes happening this coming week. Finally.. we talked to all of you, our listeners who called up with gardening questions for Edie!

Here it is; this weeks' edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden hosted by Edie Tanem!  It's mid-summer and some people are still having trouble getting tomatoes to set, among other issues presented to our gardening guru from around the Bay and beyond today!  Musical interludes have been redacted, otherwise this podcast represents the whole 1-hour radio show from KSFO this morning.

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden is Cal Agrifolia from Davey Tree; a certified arborist, Cal takes questions from our host Edie Tanem and from our listening audience around the bay and beyond!  This podcast presentation has been lightly edited to remove all musical segments.

Edie Tanem hosts Bob Tanem In The Garden; Bob would have been 93 years old as of yesterday, July 1.  Todays' show is all about the calls; we invited callers and lo; they called in from around the Bay Area with their gardening questions!  This is a recording of the live show; the musical bits have been spliced out to protect license holders.

Edie Tanem hosts Bob Tanem In The Garden on KSFO every Sunday live from 9:00 to 10:00 San Francisco time.  It's a call-in talk show about organic gardening in the Bay Area and beyond. This podcast edition has musical interludes extricated to comply with licensing requirements.

Edie Tanem is in Bob Tanem's Garden here on KSFO; this Fathers' Day morning is an "open phones gardening questions" show, and a nice trickle of people called in throughout the morning, allowing Edie to thoughtfully answer each question.  A special nod to all the dads, and all those of you who still have dads, this fine and summery Fathers' Day morning.  Musical interludes have been lifted from this podcast to comply with licensing inanities. 

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air!  We're talkin' gardens and takin' calls this morning, and the whole hour is presented intact as this podcast; only musical segments have been lifted out for license compliance.

This morning Edie Tanem hosted a guest from a company called International Fruit Genetics -- Andy Higgins is an expert in grapes, and works with IFG to produce and market several exotic patented types of table grapes -- among them the sought after "Champagne Grapes" which are sold at select grocery stores nationwide.  Edie discusses all things grapes with Andy, and then we take calls from the KSFO Sunday morning audience!  Segments have been lightly edited to remove musical content.

Edie Tanem is the host and you, the caller, are the guest!  It's good old-fashioned talk radio, where the public calls in their gardening questions to Edie Tanem, who grew up in the nursery industry, literally.  This podcast is the entire hour-long radio show, minus the musical segments which have been lifted for legal reasons.

It's Open Phones with Edie Tanem on the Bob Tanem In The Garden show this morning; we took calls at a leisurely pace throughout the hour until we ran down the clock. It's all about Bay Area Gardening on KSFO!  The show has been lightly edited for this podcast; musical interludes have been removed due to licensing restrictions.

Happy Mothers' Day from the Bay Area's live radio show about gardening: Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem on KSFO!  This is an all - listener - questions edition of the program; not guest interview.  Musical interludes have been lifted to comply with regulatory necessity.