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Hi
everybody! I’m Kenn Alan and I host the gardening radio talk show
"Home Grown Tomatoes" that airs every Saturday morning from 6
till 8 on 101.1 FM, The Source. That’s not all that I do. I also own a
small wholesale nursery in Central Alabama that produces about 250
varieties of herbs and also heirloom tomato plants for resale.
My friends
here at the Quality Co-op have asked me to offer a little advice on
gardening and growing plants. We can make this interactive, if you like.
You can email me at
kgann@ bellsouth.net or visit our website:
HGTradio.net and I’ll be happy to answer your questions.
Here’s a
little garden wisdom for you. Did you know that the plants you bought this
year were so beneficial? How about that bag of potting mix you potted your
begonias in or the fertilizers that you use?
To start
with, all of those things are ultra important to us in many ways. For one
thing, you contributed to the $1.9 billion dollar green industry in
Alabama! The green industry covers a lot of sub-industries in our state,
such as: the nursery and landscape industry, the wholesale plant growers,
the turf grass producers and the retail nurseries. Retail nurseries
include businesses that carry products other than plants.
Every time
you buy a flowerpot from a store that carries plants; every time you buy a
bedding plant product from your local Quality Co-op store, you are helping
our local economy.
So what
does that have to do with garden wisdom? I like to spend early mornings
and late afternoons in my garden this time of year. It is the end of
summer and I harvest those beans and squash and, of course, home grown
tomatoes. Now is the time that I get to enjoy my cut flower garden. I cut
zinnias, sunflowers, late blooming lilies and other flowers every day.
When I see the results of my efforts, it makes me feel good.
In the late
afternoons I get to watch the birds eating beetles and see the spiders
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