Good Growing Chris Enroth

This week on the Good Growing podcast Ken and Chris look at some common lawncare questions. What can you do about growing grass in the shade? Does crabgrass preventer go down when the forsythia bloom? And more!
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Skip to what you want to know:0:50 Hey Ken! What's bocce ball?1:54 Weather and garden updates5:57 Good Growing Grow Along update. Seeds are on the way!6:44 Time to talk about lawns7:07 If you mow lower, does that mean you mow less often?8:28 How high should we mow our cool-season lawns?11:22 Can fertilizer help recover from mowing stress? But what exactly IS fertilizer to plants?12:41 The one-third rule of mowing.14:43 Why don't more people bag their clippings to reduce thatch?18:24 Should we apply our spring weed'n'feed when the forsythia blooms?24:31 How do I get grass to grow in the shade of a tree?24:31 I keep planting Kentucky 31 bluegrass, but it looks terrible. What do I need to do differently, to make it grow well?
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Do you want to grow your own fruit but have limited space? Growing fruit in a container may be the solution for you! On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we welcome back Bruce Black to talk about how we can grow fruit in containers, what fruit works best in containers, and more. 
 
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Skip to what you want to know:  
  00:32 – Welcome, Ken! Update on Cicada Watch 2024.
  02:30 – Welcome, Bruce! Sauk Valley Community College partnership and Gardening in the Air
  07:35 – What are some advantages of growing fruit in containers? 
  10:28 – Can we plant ‘normal’ sized fruit plants in pots?
  13:27 – Ballerina (columnar) apple trees
  15:45 – What other fruits can we grow in containers?
  18:14 – Container fruit cultivars
     18:25 – Apples
     20:37 – Blueberries and brambles (raspberries and blackberries)
     24:55 – Strawberries and pineberries
  27:30 – What type of container should we use? What are chilling hours?
  31:15 – Where should we place our container fruit? Winter protection.
  35:36 – What should we fill our pots with? Fertilizing, watering, and lowering pH for blueberries. 
  41:30 – Pest management for container fruits
  43:40 – Final recommendations,  pollination, and resources  
  48:20 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
  
 
Gardening in the Air: https://extension.illinois.edu/plants/gardening-air 
Container Gardening infosheet: https://extension.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/how_to_grow_fruits_vegetables_herbs_in_containers.pdf 
 
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Bruce Black: brucejb@illinois.edu 
 
 
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This week on the Good Growing Podcast Ken has to work hard to contain his excitement for the upcoming periodical cicada emergence. Meanwhile, Chris has been building defenses to protect his newly planted baby trees. What do you need to know about the upcoming emergence of periodical cicadas? While our established trees will be okay, Ken and Chris will talk about how to protect our smaller newly planted trees from cicada egg laying. Plus, everyone seems to highlight the potential damage to woody plants, but a periodical cicada emergence is truly a sight to behold. Ken tells us the benefits of having billions, if not trillions, of cicadas pop out of the ground.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RADnUB7GXXI
Skip to what you want to know:
0:35 Hey Ken! How's the garden coming along this spring?3:40 What's the difference between a periodical cicada and an annual cicada?7:40 When will it be peak cicada? Will it be earlier than expected with our mild winter?10:31 Does double brood emergence mean double the cicadas in one area?12:04 Do periodical cicadas occur in other places in the world?13:07 How many cicadas should we expect in a given area?15:39 Do cicadas eat anything after they emerge as adults? Is there anything we need to protect from them?17:09 Cicada egg-laying damages our trees.26:28 Is there any benefit to periodical cicadas?30:00 If all these animals can eat cicadas, can humans eat them too?
Contact us! Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.eduKen Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu 
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Do you enjoy spending your evenings outdoors? On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we talk about how you can create a garden to be enjoyed at night. Learn about night-blooming plants that can be incorporated into a ‘night/moon’ garden, landscape lighting, insects that come out at night, and more! 
 
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xWbZlTZbgPI 
 
Skip to what you want to know:  
  00:28 – Welcome, Ken! Enjoying the unseasonably warm weather?
  03:15 – Gardening by the moon, does it work? 
  06:55 – What are some plants can be grown for ‘night’ or ‘moon’ gardens?
      07:52 – Flowering tobacco
      08:40 – Dragon fruit and night-blooming cereus
  09:36 – What is pollinating these flowers? 
  11:00 – More plants for the night
      11:00 – Angel’s trumpet
      14:35 – Evening-primrose (Oenothera )
      16:38 – Four o’clock
      18:10 – Caladium
      18:46 – Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’
      19:26 – Dusty miller
      20:05 – Moonflower  
  23:46 – Incorporating landscape lighting
  26:56 – Some drawbacks of lights at night
  31:00 – Insects at night
  34:18 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
  
Talking Bats in Illinois with Dr. Joy O'Keefe: https://youtu.be/9fLLNtNHkpI 
 
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This week on the Good Growing Podcast we rewind back to when we sat down in person with Duane Friend to discuss pond management. For this Gardenbite episode, we look specifically at aerators in ponds, duckweed, and having taller vegetation around ponds and in the drainage channels leading into the pond. You can find the entire episode at the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4E6uke72E 
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Skip to what you want to know:1:20 Aerators in ponds. Do they work? What about aerating ponds during the winter?4:18 Can you prevent duckweed from returning to your pond year after year? 7:27 What about using vegetation to improve water quality for ponds?

Have you had problems with bagworms in your landscape? Bagworms are troublesome insects that can make evergreens and other plants rather unsightly. Learn about the lifecycle of bagworms and how we can manage them, including how planting flowers can help.
Want to see pictures? Check out the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/kZNKiu-x7rk 
USA National Phenological Network: https://www.usanpn.org/data/maps/forecasts/bagworm
Conservation biological control in urban landscapes: Manipulating parasitoids of bagworm (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) with flowering forbs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1049964405000733 
Photo Credits:
Bagworms on defoliated plant: "Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis" by Adam Kranz is marked with CC0 1.0.Bagworm eggs: "Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis" by askalotl is marked with CC0 1.0.Bagworm on broadleaf plant: "Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis" by Daniel Estabrooks is marked with CC0 1.0.Female bagworm moth: Lacy L. Hyche, Auburn University, Bugwood.orgMale bagworm moth: "Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis" by Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago is marked with CC0 1.0.Bagworm moths mating: Jerry A. Payne, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.orgBagworm eggs: "Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis" by Adam Kranz is marked with CC0 1.0.Parasitoid wasp: Gerald J. Lenhard, Louisiana State University, Bugwood.org
 
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