Your Life video series: Spring gardening tips with horticulturist Ken Brown

DurhamRegion.com

DURHAM — Spring is here and gardeners are eager to start getting their hands dirty. However, gardeners need to be careful about what they plant since nights still tend to be cool and frost can develop. Next week on durhamregion.com, we are with Whitby horticulturist Ken Brown in his garden with some great tips and ideas about what to plant now, how to restart your lawn’s growth process, and what to look out for.

Mr. Brown is a certified horticultural judge and is a frequent speaker at horticultural meetings and seminars in Durham. His writing and photography continues to be published in several magazines and newspapers. Mr. Brown’s web page, www.gardening-enjoyed.com, is a great source of advice, tips and updates on his own garden. He grows a wide range of vegetables and flowers in some innovative ways to maximize the use of space.

Let’s wake up the garden to a new growing season. Join us next week, as we will have a new gardening tip on video for every day of the week.

Series Breakdown:

• Monday, May 26: Lawn

In this segment, Mr. Brown shows you how to top dress and overseed the lawn to fill in thin and bare patches, in order to restart the growing process.

• Tuesday, May 27: Asparagus

Today’s video includes how to pick the first asparagus and how to plant your own asparagus patch.

• Wednesday, May 28: Planting cool season veggies

Mr. Brown has the tools you need in this video to plant cool season vegetables like kohl rabi, broccoli and pak choi.

• Thursday, May 29: Prune your clematis and or hydrangea

In this video, we clean up the clematis. Mr. Brown has his plant growing up a trellis. He shows you where to cut and how much.

• Friday, May 30: The red lily beetle

With spring comes bug invasions. In this video, Mr. Brown shows you how to catch and destroy one of your garden’s arch enemies, the red lily beetle.

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