Need a quick and simple recipe for your seasonal produce, either homegrown or store-bought? Chef Debbi Dubbs offers some delicious dishes with or without a recipe. Check out her book,
What's In Your Pantry and other culinary adventures at
www.debskitchen.com. For our program, she will talk about edible gardening and share her recipe for an heirloom tomato-herb tart. Yum! Although summer's heat is affecting most of us, Bob Reidmuller from Oasis Water Efficient Gardens, will cool us off with 'Snowflake,'
Euphorbia polygona. Call John, Sharon and Bryan with your gardening questions at
1-866-606-TALK (8255).
Sunday, August 22
8 - 9 am PDT
11am - 1pm EDT
Why does a natural, non-toxic worm casting product (aka worm poop) come under the scrutiny of a state regulatory agency, known as the Department of Pesticide Regulation? Attorney Timothy Sandefur from the Pacific Law Foundation will go over the details of this interesting legal saga. And garden expert Lance Walheim has drawn up a late-summer, "to-do" gardening list for us.
For the second hour, the director of horticulture research at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Jimmy Turner, will cover the "hottest" plants for this time of year as well as cool season plants and a display of 60,000 pumpkins for fall. Visit
www.dallasarboretum.org and
www.dallasplanttrials.org for more information. Call John, Sharon, Bryan or our three guests with your questions or comments at
1-866-606-TALK (8255).
While visiting family in Trieste, Italy, my daughter Tasia and I took a weekend getaway to Padua (spelled Padova in Italy) and Venice. After a leisurely 2-hour drive, we strolled along the cobbled walkways in Padua where the purveyors of local produce, plants, clothes and accessories displayed their goods at the open air market shaded by the majestic, 13th century Basilica of St. Anthony. Just steps away from the Basilica of St. Anthony is the Prato della Valle, the largest square in Italy, a huge space with a grassy, green island at the center surrounded by a canal and ringed by statues. Past the Prato della Valle, we came upon two ancient magnolia trees, stately sentries guarding the entrance of the famous Botanical Garden of Padua.
The Mediterranean palm (Chamaerops humilis) at Padua's botanical garden is the oldest plant in the garden, planted in 1585. Known as "Goethe's palm" because the German writer studied it while staying in Padua before writing his essay "The Metamorphosis of Plants."
