Mid-American Gardener

Mid-American Gardener: Growing radishes and avocados, crabgrass in asparagus

 

Host Dianne Noland and panelists Chuck Voigt, Kelly Allsup and Jim Schuster cover topics ranging from how to keep crabgrass out of your asparagus patch to growing radishes and avocados in the Midwest. They talk about how surprise lilies get started and spread, how to prune a grapevine, and hot to get an amaryllis to bloom.

Air Dates and Times

Channel Day Time
WILL-TV, Urbana Thursday 7 pm (live)
  Saturday 11 am (repeat)
WTVP-TV, Peoria Saturday 11:30 am
WEIU-TV, Charleston Sunday 1:30 pm
WSEC-TV, Springfield Saturday 11 am
WQEC-TV, Quincy Saturday 11 am
WMEC-TV, Macomb Saturday 11 am
Lakeshore PBS, Chicago/Northwest Indiana Friday 1 pm

Featured Entry

Luffa Gourds, Winter Pruning, & When to Start Your Spring Blooming Flowers

Large loofah harvest! Now what? Jennifer Nelson shows us her haul from last summer, and shares some possible ideas of what she’ll do with the unusual fruit. Then, Martie answers questions about pruning dormant trees and shrubs, and when to start cool season crops, as well as early spring flowers every gardener needs!  

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