Bettylou Sandy from Bettylou's Garden is back with us to talk about fall cleanup and putting our gardens and winter gardening. We covered a lot of information so I've divided the interview into two parts. Part 1 we cover vegetable gardening and what to do to prep our gardens for winter.
Bettylou is a treasure trove of information – so make sure you grab a notebook and take notes, or better yet – hop over to our website and download her handouts and follow along.
In addition, Bettylou has graciously given you her notes from her gardening classes and they’ll be available for free download in the LLH show-notes. Links to the website will be in the show notes.
At the end of the interview, I’ll also have the list of her upcoming videos she is scheduled to do on the Spruce Street Community Garden Facebook Page.
I’ll post the second half of the show next week. We cover indoor gardening, winter gardening, prepping your lawn, shrubs, trees, including conifers and perennials.
We touch on community gardens, tools and she recommends a book about community gardening for those interested in starting one.
She also answered the question about fertilizing your plants during the winter. What do you think she said?
Make sure you check out the show notes and download her documents. Also go over to all her facebook links and say hello to her!
If you’re want to catch her gardening videos she will be posting them on the Spruce Street Community Garden Facebook page. Links will be in the show notes.
Personal Update
Healthwise we are healthy. We continue to be semi quarantined. If we go out we wear our masks and practice social distancing.
The Interview
Bettylou's Free Gardening Handouts
Where you can find Bettylou Sandy
I’ll post the second half of the show next week. We cover indoor gardening, winter gardening, prepping your lawn, shrubs, trees, including conifers and perennials.
We touch on community gardens, tools and she recommends a book about community gardening for those interested in starting one.
She also answered the question about fertilizing your plants during the winter. What do you think she said?
If you’re want to catch her gardening videos she will be posting them on the Spruce Street Community Garden Facebook page. Links will be in the show notes.
Her themes will be:
November: Putting Your Garden To Bed For the Winter
December: Stocking Up For The Winter: Everything you need to know so you will be sustainable for a year or two.
January: Growing Food Indoors
February: Starting Plants From Seed
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Bettylou's Updated email address: Bettylousandy18@gmail.com
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There are suggestions on themed gardens such as “A Harry Potter Garden”, “A Young Chef's Garden”, or a “Monarch Butterfly Superhero Garden” for budding Naturalists and places to either sketch or photograph your plants to remember their appearance for the next growing season.
You'll be amazed at how much you will learn by journaling about your garden!
Music
A special thank you to Gene Tullio for writing and producing this music. He has given me special permission to use this song for the show.
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Album: The Dreamship| The Forge Of Life| Copyright 2018
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