Summer in the Vegetable Garden and Hardy Apples

Summer Vegetable Garden

In the first part of the show, we chat with vegetable gardening expert Niki Jabbour.

She shares tips about:

• Summer vegetable garden succession crops
• Growing vegetables in pots
• Supporting tomato plants
• Managing slugs

Jabbour is an award-winning author of four books: The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, Veggie Garden Remix, and Growing Under Cover. As well as hosting and producing The Weekend Gardener radio show, she is a CBC radio columnist. Her award-winning website is savvygardening.com.

Hardy Apples

In the second part of the show we talk about hardy apples with Bob Osborne.

He tells us about:

• Choosing a location for apple trees
• Apple rootstock
• Tips for growing apples in cold climates
• Apple varieties
• Cider apple varieties

Osborne has over 40 years experience propagating and selling apples. He runs Corn Hill Nursery in New Brunswick, and is a CBC radio columnist, and the author of the book Hardy Apples: Growing Apples in Cold Climates.