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This week on Garden Guy Dale K's Big Backyard... tips for growing the perfect backyard tomatoes, my top 5 plants to attract humming birds, plus my plant of the week, all this and a whole lot more!

Memorial Day weekend is upon us, my easy top 10 ways you can improve your curb appeal plus taking care of the BBY invasion of mozzies (mosquitos)
Plus my summer vibe plant of the week!

This week we'll look into No Mow May. Is it just a social media fad? The University of Minnesota released a statement this week on this, plus a follow up to robotic mowers. Plus a whole lot more fun gardening talk!

 It's house selling season .... so what is the best way to make sure all your plants make the move? 
Plus the dirt on weed prevention in your yard plus my plant of the week! 

Earth Day April 22nd , this week how you can be sustainable in your own back yard ... plus as promised my top 5 spring must do's s as no my plant of the week !

 Links: www.OMRI.org

This week I have some definite spring vibes going on with my first spring combination planter, plus a new segment, My Plant of the Week! 
Is rabbit damage getting you down? Tips to mitigate rabbit damage over winter, all this and a whole lot more!
Links:  www.crescentgarden.com

This week my 5 top veggies you should be planting right now, plus step by step tips to straw bale gardening, and how do the gardeners at the Maters Golf Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club get those azaleas to look so beautiful! 

Back to Basics

As spring approaches this week I'll take you through my Top 7 Gardening tips ... plus my 

"Go to Herbs" for the kitchen garden, and one that might surprise you…what goes into my Pineapple Shrub Cocktail! And as always, some great questions from BBY listeners.

Shrub Cocktail Recipe

1/2lb prepared chopped pineapple

3-5 sprigs tarragon

1 cup cane sugar

A pinch kosher salt

½ cup apple cider vinegar

1 cup white wine (whatever you like to drink )

Seltzer water 

Using a wooden spoon smash prepared pineapple add and muddle two sprigs of tarragon.

Add sugar and salt and cover and let sit at room temperature for a couple of hours. With a fine sieve strain pineapple mixture into a large measuring bowl, pressing on fruit to release as much syrup as possible. Discard solids.

Add wine and vinegar into shrub mixture, stir to combine.

Prepare glasses of ice and pour shrub mixture into the glass and top up with seltzer water. Add sprigs of tarragon to garnish. 

Enjoy!

The Numbers! What do the numbers on Fertilizer mean ?

Standing in the fertilizer aisle and the garden store or farm store can be confusing!

This week we talk about soil health and fertilizing ..... and as promised. What I do in my yard.

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This week I find inspiration from my past !

Coming up super easy veggies you can grow with your kids and grand kids and guess what ......you don't even need a garden!

My five essential pro tips to keeping your house plants healthy for the final stretch of winter.

Plus I'll introduce a BRAND NEW plant for 2023 that I'm super excited about that has my local Minnesota Roots!

And we'll answer some questions from the Big Backyard mailbag!

LINK: www.ars.usda.gov   USDA plant Hardiness zone map

This week we take a deep dive into gardening for privacy. As our backyard global revolution continues, there are so many natural ways to obtain privacy without the need  for a physical barrier like a fence. And I take a page out of Germany's traditional beer gardens to achieve this.

Stay tuned for my 2023 color of the year in the garden...It's going to give you some desert vibes!

Looking to garden and grow something right now? I'll share my 5 pro tips for growing micro greens indoors right now.

plus...some fantastic gardening questions from our big backyard community!

I talk live from beautiful Honolulu Hawaii!
I love visiting this area especially when its cold and frozen at home in the midwest. We talk about some history of the islands and my favorite things to check out if you're lucky enough to visit here. We also answer some listener questions!

It's a new year but still cold and bare out, especially in the midwest where I live. 
We'll talk about what we can do right now to think about the new gardening season!

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Master gardener Dale Konetschka dives weekly into plants, flowers, trees, fruits, vegetables, grasses, composting, water gardens, and answers other backyard questions. We'll look at the history, research, and future of horticulture. 
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