Ken joined me to kick off a new monthly feature on the show: a listener question-and-answer episode. In the first half (transcribed at this link if you missed it) we took questions about shade, night-blooming Cereus, growing peas, and deer damage.
Background: Ken, an award-winning garden photographer and author of more books than I can count, including “The New Shade Garden” and “Making More Plants,” produced his own “Real Dirt” podcast for 10 years, until summer 2016. The Real Dirt podcast archive and much more from Ken is available on the newly re-launched website KenDruse dot com (below, a look at the homepage) and still available on iTunes, too.
Read along as you listen to the Jan. 16, 2107 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).
q&a: best peas, black walnuts, butchered hydrangeas, and strawberries in potsQ. It’s me again. Is it you again? Are you there, Ken?
Ken. Are you talkin’ to me?
Q. Yes, I’m talkin’ to you.
Ken. That pea thing…[laughter].
Q. Yes, I think we’ll just continue and we’ll take another caller in a minute, but with the peas question [that we covered at the end of the first half of the show]…
Ken. I think her soil was too wet, because it worked for her the first year.
Q. Exactly. And again: the inoculant can’t hurt. It might be a couple of dollars wasted, but it can’t hurt.
I am a Northern grower, and I love the peas
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