The Garden Spot
The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - Wrapping up the guide on container gardening
Aired on 5/18/24, Alice is ecstatic about her roses exploding! Plus, she gives the last few tips on any container plants you may have gotten for Mother's Day the week prior. Caller questions include a forsythia bush not blooming; which chemicals and ratio is the best for roses; A concern about hol…
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The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - Mother's Day
Aired on 5/11/24, Alice gives the green light for gardening as Mother's Day weekend provides optimal conditions to plant! Callers ask about getting rid of Lily of the Valley, wild violets, and liriope among many other comments and questions. Alice addresses the broods of cicadas coming and what t…
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The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - Drought status in Missouri stays
Aired on 4/27/24, Alice reiterates "April showers bring May flowers!" Drought status despite the rain? Soaking all the way down to bedrock is the key here. Alice quickly touches upon blooming perennials and shrubs, community plant sales, and deadheading. Plenty of caller questions ask about their…
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The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - Plant shopping guidelines
Aired on 4/20/24, Alice has some garden tours to promote as well as shopping guidelines as we get into the thick of Spring! Caller questions include fertilizers, mulching, concerns about upcoming sudden dips in temperature, holes in peony buds, and much more!
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The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - Addressing all your specific garden needs!
Aired on 4/13/2024, Alice began her Saturday full of emails and also answered plenty of callers. Topics include: - How much soil is enough for various plants? - An unfortunate hole in the trunk of a tree. - Is it too late to prune a rose of sharon? - New homeowner and their creative landscaping…
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The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - Raise Bed Gardening
Aired on 4/6/24, the main topic discusses raise-bed gardening while Alice also touches on topics like composting and managing your amaryllis plants. Caller questions regarding mop head Hydrangeas, pruning winterberry plants, boxwoods and some early blooming peaches.
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The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - Easter Weekend
Aired on 3/30/24, Alice touches on topics such as growing seedlings, preventing animals from making malicious visits to your garden, and a review of the orchid delirium in Kansas City that continues through April 15th. Callers ask about Japanese Laurels and other possible plants not usually native…
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The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - High volume caller special!
Aired on 3/23/24, Alice dives into managing your perennials, a couple of local events announced, and an extensive list of caller concerns including crab apple trees; young maples; pole beans & peas, and more!
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The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - Spring is in the air!
In today's episode, aired on 3/16/24, Alice advocates for the invasive pear buyback program from the Missouri Department of Conservation, or MDC. Their website is https://mdc.mo.gov/ and the page dedicated to the buyback program is https://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/mdc-partners-offer-buy-back-program-re…
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The Garden Spot with Alice Longfellow - Bob joins the show!
On this episode, aired 3/2/24, Alice's husband Bob is the special guest to share his insight as March begins. Plenty of caller questions include: Onions around the asparagus patch; Black walnut trees; Fringe Tree vs rodents; And fungi on a White Oak.
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