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Summer Vegetable Garden

In the first part of the show, we chat with vegetable gardening expert Niki Jabbour.

She shares tips about:

• Summer vegetable garden succession crops
• Growing vegetables in pots
• Supporting tomato plants
• Managing slugs

Jabbour is an award-winning author of four books: The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, Veggie Garden Remix, and Growing Under Cover. As well as hosting and producing The Weekend Gardener radio show, she is a CBC radio columnist. Her award-winning website is savvygardening.com.

Hardy Apples

In the second part of the show we talk about hardy apples with Bob Osborne.

He tells us about:

• Choosing a location for apple trees
• Apple rootstock
• Tips for growing apples in cold climates
• Apple varieties
• Cider apple varieties

Osborne has over 40 years experience propagating and selling apples. He runs Corn Hill Nursery in New Brunswick, and is a CBC radio columnist, and the author of the book Hardy Apples: Growing Apples in Cold Climates.

 A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here.