Radio Sandy Springs has many new and exiting shows coming on board in the near future. Although we have to keep you in the dark for now, please stay tuned and we know you'll be surprised!
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Coming Up On Your Radio Sandy Springs!
With Great enthusiasm we would like to announce some fantastic shows Coming up on RSS.
In the Line up is a super show fully dedicated to the business of Professional Real Estate Staging, Hosted by Atlanta's own Gina Mcnew. Diva in the house- The voice of Real Estate Staging has a soul purpose of helping out and giving valued tips and resources for Home Sellers and Realtor's.
Next we have The Bright Spot Hosted by Dot Blum. This Show features fascinating individuals who write, create, invent, entertain and otherwise enlighten our lives with their work.
Finally Join some hard working students from North springs High School in a show created entirely by teenagers for listeners of ALL Ages. Who knows what they'll talk about!
All this and MORE Starting At 1pm Friday Afternoon on your local radio chat station > Radio Sandy Springs, 1620 on your AM Dial. Stay Tuned and keep listening!!
In the Line up is a super show fully dedicated to the business of Professional Real Estate Staging, Hosted by Atlanta's own Gina Mcnew. Diva in the house- The voice of Real Estate Staging has a soul purpose of helping out and giving valued tips and resources for Home Sellers and Realtor's.
Next we have The Bright Spot Hosted by Dot Blum. This Show features fascinating individuals who write, create, invent, entertain and otherwise enlighten our lives with their work.
Finally Join some hard working students from North springs High School in a show created entirely by teenagers for listeners of ALL Ages. Who knows what they'll talk about!
All this and MORE Starting At 1pm Friday Afternoon on your local radio chat station > Radio Sandy Springs, 1620 on your AM Dial. Stay Tuned and keep listening!!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Many New Shows Coming to Radio Sandy Springs
With great pleasure it is my privilege to announce that we will be starting and nursing show, an equestrian show, and two others that temporarily we must keep a lid on but, stay tuned!
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Garden Coaches by Kate Copsey
Garden coaching is a relatively new breed of garden professionals. They are a step up from your neighbor giving advice and a step down from a landscaper. In essence they help you decide what to do with your landscape, and teach you how to do it.
My guest for the show was Steve Guiness of Roswell who is a garden coach. On the show we talked about the differences in coaches. Some are more design oriented, but some, like Steve, show his clients how to prune and he sends out reminders to them as well. Knowing how to prune and the right time to prune will go along way to regaining control in your garden.
Garden coaches can also help you with design ideas and some will do a full drawing for you. Others will jot down plant names for suggestions and do a less formal ‘back of the envelope’ design for you.
The obvious advantage of a garden coach is that they cost considerably less than professional landscapers, but if they show you how to look after your property, then they will save you even more in the long term.
Look for Steve to return to the show in a few months when we will talk about his trips abroad collecting, lawfully, orchids and other tropical delights.
My guest for the show was Steve Guiness of Roswell who is a garden coach. On the show we talked about the differences in coaches. Some are more design oriented, but some, like Steve, show his clients how to prune and he sends out reminders to them as well. Knowing how to prune and the right time to prune will go along way to regaining control in your garden.
Garden coaches can also help you with design ideas and some will do a full drawing for you. Others will jot down plant names for suggestions and do a less formal ‘back of the envelope’ design for you.
The obvious advantage of a garden coach is that they cost considerably less than professional landscapers, but if they show you how to look after your property, then they will save you even more in the long term.
Look for Steve to return to the show in a few months when we will talk about his trips abroad collecting, lawfully, orchids and other tropical delights.
Harvesting Water by Kate Copsey
Rumor has it that last year’s drought is easing. Unfortunately, although north Georgia ahead of last year for rain, the drought is still in full swing and although no further water restrictions have been imposed, we all need to still be watchful.
Harvesting the water that we do get can go a long way to maintaining a thriving garden, during these stressful times.
Water barrels are the most obvious remedy, but these are just collection points, and are not necessarily the best solution for every garden. Adjusting gutters and creating swales in the landscape can capture water that does fall and keep it on the property rather than letting it runoff into the storm sewers.
Efficient irrigation of the landscape can then take this water, relay it through a drainage system and deliver the optimal amount of water the plant roots where it can be utilized.
The radio show on water harvesting had Stuart DiNenno from Atlanta Water Harvest as a guest and we talked abut different ways to capture water to redistribute around the landscape.
At the beginning of the show, I admitted to not having even a water barrel in the garden, but that was corrected this past weekend. Mine came from Home Depot and took about 2 hours to install. On Saturday afternoon we got barely ¼” of rain, but the barrel captured about 2 gallons of water.
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Harvesting the water that we do get can go a long way to maintaining a thriving garden, during these stressful times.
Water barrels are the most obvious remedy, but these are just collection points, and are not necessarily the best solution for every garden. Adjusting gutters and creating swales in the landscape can capture water that does fall and keep it on the property rather than letting it runoff into the storm sewers.
Efficient irrigation of the landscape can then take this water, relay it through a drainage system and deliver the optimal amount of water the plant roots where it can be utilized.
The radio show on water harvesting had Stuart DiNenno from Atlanta Water Harvest as a guest and we talked abut different ways to capture water to redistribute around the landscape.
At the beginning of the show, I admitted to not having even a water barrel in the garden, but that was corrected this past weekend. Mine came from Home Depot and took about 2 hours to install. On Saturday afternoon we got barely ¼” of rain, but the barrel captured about 2 gallons of water.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
From the Master Gardners - Your Hydrangea
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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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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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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