Its Just Garden Chemistry
Did you ever wonder why your hydrangea started out pink and then turned into a blue one when you planted it? Well if you were listening to the show on Saturday, you would have found out that it is all to do with chemistry – soil chemistry to be precise.
The color blue is formed when the soil chemistry is enriched with lime it will turn the shrub blue, when enriched with acid (such as Holytone or other fertilizer for hydrangeas etc,) it will turn pink.
Moving a hydrangea can also change the color or the bloom, particularly if it has been moved close to a building where the lime from concrete will be leaching into the soil and then the plant
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
New Farmer's Market in Roswell Covered by RSS
One of the advantages of doing a garden show is that you get to talk about different gardens and events. It is even better when you do an offsite live show. This past Saturday was just such an event.
The first Riverside Farmer’s Market, in Roswell, was an ideal, in theory, site for the radio show.
Riverside Park is a large recreational park run by the city of Roswell and the market is a joint venture between the city and the County Extension Service. Parking for the site is on either side of the entrance, and has three aisles. Each aisle is wide enough to turn a 16 wheeler! Picnic shelters and refreshments are available at the site as well. They even had electricity, we were told. Setting up a remote was no problem – right?
Well not exactly.
The market was located in the roadside aisle, the electricity at the picnic site. No less than six, one hundred foot electrical extension chords were needed to travel from the outlet at the shelters to where we wanted to do the show. Unfortunately I did not bring six chords- I only had three which dumped us in the middle of aisle two. Someone ran home to get extras and with the chord in the remote we were able to duct tape the chords across a sidewalk, across the first parking aisle (active with cars, kids and dogs), across the median, across another aisle, and finally along the second median to where we wanted to be.
By a great stroke of luck all the extension chords worked and we set up to do the show. After a few test tries, and turning the mike volume up, we went live from the market! We started with the Extension agent, while someone ran around rounding up people to chat to on air. What a great set of vendors – coffee, plants, eggs and herbs and most were willing to chat. The hour sped by and before we knew it, we were signing off.
I had a great time at the market and, if we are lucky, the radio show came off sounding almost perfect!
by: Kate Copsey
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The first Riverside Farmer’s Market, in Roswell, was an ideal, in theory, site for the radio show.
Riverside Park is a large recreational park run by the city of Roswell and the market is a joint venture between the city and the County Extension Service. Parking for the site is on either side of the entrance, and has three aisles. Each aisle is wide enough to turn a 16 wheeler! Picnic shelters and refreshments are available at the site as well. They even had electricity, we were told. Setting up a remote was no problem – right?
Well not exactly.
The market was located in the roadside aisle, the electricity at the picnic site. No less than six, one hundred foot electrical extension chords were needed to travel from the outlet at the shelters to where we wanted to do the show. Unfortunately I did not bring six chords- I only had three which dumped us in the middle of aisle two. Someone ran home to get extras and with the chord in the remote we were able to duct tape the chords across a sidewalk, across the first parking aisle (active with cars, kids and dogs), across the median, across another aisle, and finally along the second median to where we wanted to be.
By a great stroke of luck all the extension chords worked and we set up to do the show. After a few test tries, and turning the mike volume up, we went live from the market! We started with the Extension agent, while someone ran around rounding up people to chat to on air. What a great set of vendors – coffee, plants, eggs and herbs and most were willing to chat. The hour sped by and before we knew it, we were signing off.
I had a great time at the market and, if we are lucky, the radio show came off sounding almost perfect!
by: Kate Copsey
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