Growing Healthy

Growing Healthy: Vermiculture

You may want to think twice about taking your trash to the curb. Turns out garbage has an awesome use for our garden with a little help from worms
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Growing Healthy: Planting Greens And Radishes

By Brian Niznansky |

Our garden is starting to fill up as more greens and radishes are planted in this weeks Growing Healthy.
Growing Healthy: Frost Protection

By NBC 26 Staff |

In this week's "Growing Healthy" we show you the best way to protect your garden, preserving the veggies you may have already planted.
Growing Healthy: Planting Spinach

By NBC 26 STAFF |

Even with the cold April nights, it's time to starting planting some of our favorite veggies! We start the growing season with "cold-hardy" spinach. Brian ...
Growing Healthy

By NBC 26 Staff |

After taking the winter off, it's time to start "Growing Healthy" again! The "Growing Season" was off to an extremely early start in March, but ...

Shutting Down

Growing Healthy: It's time to clean up and shutdown our NBC 26 Garden for the season.
Break Out The Sauerkraut!

Growing Healthy.: As the growing season comes to an end for most of our garden, it's time to harvest our Cabbage
Pumpkin Problems

Growing Healthy: We ran into a common pumpkin plant problem this year.
Harvesting Potatoes And Onions

Growing Healthy: We're on the home stretch with our garden, and this morning Bill Wright shows us how to tell when our potatoes and onions are ready for harvest.
Dry Season

Growing Healthy: Weekend Gardener Bill Wright gives us tips to make sure our garden veggies are getting just the right amount of H20 down the home stretch.
Late Season Planting

Growing Healthy: In this week's Growing Healthy, Bill Wright and Brian Niznansky tell us about various plants and veggies we can plant now, and will withstand the cold mornings of early fall.
Peppers Need Support

Growing Healthy: Bill Wright show us how we can give our green peppers a little support in this morning's Growing Heatlhy.
Male Versus Female Pumpkin Plants

Growing Healthy: Halloween is still a long way down the road, but it's already time to start checking the progress of our pumpkins.
Tomato Concerns

Growing Healthy: In this week's Growing Heatlhy, we check out Tomato plants for Blight.
Harvesting Garlic

Growing Healthy: In this week's "Growing Healthy," our weekend gardener Bill Wright shows us the proper way to pull and dry your garlic once it's ready to harvest.
Uh-Oh Oregano

Growing Healthy: Our oregano herbs have gotten out of hand in our garden.
Growing Healthy: Hot Potato

NBC 26 Today: We check the progress of our garden potatoes in this week's "Growing Healthy."
Growing Healthy: Garlic Scapes

NBC 26 Today: This week's Growing Healthy segment for July 14th
Growing Healthy: Pesty Worms

In this week's Growing Healthy segment, we take a look at ways we can protect vegetables, like Cabbage, from leaf worms and other pests.
Growing Healthy: Growing Vertical

Bill Wright from the UW Extension shows us the best way to maximize your limited garden space.
Growning Healthy: Proper Watering

NBC 26 Today: Our "Weekend Gardener" Bill Wright joins us this week to show us the proper way to water our garden.
Growing Healthy: Planting Potatoes

Bill Wright from UW Extension is back and this time around we are planting potatoes! Potatoes tend to be one of the last things you should plant in your garden. We ...
Growing Healthy: Checking Soil Temperatures

Bill Wright explains the importance of checking soil temperatures when planting seeds.
Growing Healthy: Soil Testing Results

In This week's Growing Healthy, we got our soil testing results back and our weekend gardener Bill Wright tell us how to enrich our soil.
Growing Healthy: Soil Sampling

In this week's Growing Healthy, Bill Wright shows us how to take a soil sample and explains the importance of doing this sampling.