In The Garden

Our live radio programming is all about organic gardening in the Bay Area, and this week was reserved for local goings on and your calls.  The subject wandered up and down the bay area and from trees to squash, the weather and the wind, and back again; this podcast is the entire original broadcast hour with musical interludes (and most ads) lifted out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's garden talk radio with Edie Tanem on the Bob Tanem In The Garden radio show on KSFO!  We were live this morning and taking calls, and the result is available for your listening pleasure on this podcast: 45 minutes of gardening advice,  ideas and ruminations.  In addition, Edie attended the Bonsai show and sale over the weekend and has that experience to talk about. This podcast edition has been lightly edited to remove musical content and the bulk of the advertising.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our first guest this morning was Suzanne Muller, a woman of many hats at the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt -- a non-profit all-volunteer run garden nurturing an amazing collection of miniaturized trees in the Japanese Bonsai tradition.   Top of mind is the Gardens' annual fundraiser event -- the Mammoth Auction and Sale is this coming Saturday and Sunday March 7 and 8.   Our second guest was Bonsai enthusiast and podcaster Addison Galambos.  Addison is a board member at the Garden and a Bonsai "Builder" himself -- in fact he runs a podcast called the "Bonsai Builders Podcast" that is available at your favorite podcast site or on YouTube.   The rest of todays' broadcast was discussion of current gardening stuff, and listener calls.  This podcast is a repackaging of our original radio broadcast on 810 KSFO; all music and most ads have been edited out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good morning and happy February from all of us here at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem...!  We are joined this morning by Jeff Harris of the San Francisco Orchid Society, here to talk up the 2026 Orchid Exposition he'll be presiding over at the SF County Fair building in Golden Gate Park, starting Thursday Feb. 26 and running through Sunday March 1.   Jeff reminded us of just how fabulous an event this is for anyone interested in orchids; whether seeing the best on display or actually buying plants at the marketplace they include at the event.  And as Jeff further pointed out, this is a terrific time of year to take a walk among some of the other park attractions that are right there, as well as the area's abundant walk-up restaurants. In the second half of the show we took calls from our live audience; this podcast is a repeat of the actual broadcast at 9:00 local time in San Francisco on 810 KSFO; the musical interludes and the bulk of the adverts have been lifted out for your protection.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem, the podcast edition -- featuring this weeks' guest, show favorite Ed Laivo, known to the Interwebs as Ed Able of Ed Able Solutions -- which is the name of his YouTube channel of many years.  The subject? Fruit Trees!  Ed is an expert on this subject, and on citrus in particular.  Today Edie and Ed discussed among other things the trend toward summer pruning to keep trees lower; in addition to keeping the fruit where you can reach it, keeping your trees to 7 feet or below also enables putting a grow cover over them to disrupt pests at key times, and causes the trees to require less water -- without materially affecting production volume.   Ed works with a number of growers and nurseries in the California central valley, and recently re-wrote the "Back Yard Orchard Culture" feature on Dave Wilson Nursery's web site (the first time that article was updated in many years).  Ed makes a wonderful guest, and the hour flies by. This podcast edition our show has been lightly edited to remove musical content and much of the advertising.  The show airs live in its' entirety on Sunday mornings at 9:00 on 810 KSFO, and streaming on KSFO.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's open phones on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem this morning, and we got lots of calls today.  A certified Master Gardener, a certified nursery person, and the daughter of Bob Tanem, Edie hosts this gardening talk show live on the air each Sunday morning on 810 KSFO, taking gardening questions and occasionally interviewing experts.  Here, we present the podcast replay, from which musical interludes and most ads have been edited out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We presented a "Best of" broadcast with 2 segments of Edie Tanem interviewing author Amy Stewart this past fall, and 2 segments of Bob Tanem interviewing the same author 10 years ago in October of 2015.  This podcast edition includes light editing to remove musical content and most advertising.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's America's happiest gardening show, Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem.  We broadcast live on 810 am KSFO on Sunday mornings at 9:00; sometimes we have a guest but some days -- today, for example --we just take calls and talk about stuff in, around and for the garden. Concerned about recent cold snaps?  The tip of the day came from caller Neil at the very end of the show, who suggested "heat tape" -- a product originally designed for use to prevent pipes from freezing, it plugs in to 110 power and comes on automatically at 38° F, and shuts off at 40° F.  Neil says you can put it at the base of trees or wherever you're concerned about frost damage.  Of course Edie reiterated Bob's old trick of using incandescent holiday light strings for a similar purpose, though those are getting harder to find; LEDs don't produce enough heat to help.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest this morning on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Kenny Phillips, certified arborist with Davey Tree company.  Davey is our go-to source for up-to-date, less toxic expert tree care; they are a national company but it is employee owned; the employees bought out the founding Davey family back in 1979.   There are several offices around the Bay Area where listeners can arrange for an arborist to come out and evaluate a tree at no charge (some conditions apply). Kenny spent the better part of the hour with us talking about several aspects of tree care and lifecycle management.  Also discussed are a variety of options for dealing with post-use Christmas trees.  We also took a call or two from the audience, with questions for Kenny. This podcast is a reproduction of the original live broadcast on 810 KSFO San Francisco.  The show has been lightly edited to remove all musical content and most of the advertising.  Our show can be heard live on the air and on KSFO.com from 9 until 10 am Pacific time each Sunday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest this morning on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Sandra Mao -- author of the just published book, Vibrant Harvest: Cultivating a Kaleidoscope of Colors in Your Vegetable Garden with Heirlooms, Modern Hybrids, and More.   This book is a refreshing approach to gardening; it's container-garden friendly and emphasizes some of the less commonly planted varieties -- promoting an "eat the rainbow" approach to diet and fresh home grown produce. This podcast is a replay of the original broadcast live on 810 KSFO; we're live on the air in San Francisco and online at KSFO.com each Sunday morning from 9 until 10.  This podcast edition has been lightly edited to remove music and most advertising.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Still the premiere radio show about Organic Gardening in the SF Bay Area, Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is live on the air on 810 KSFO each Sunday morning at 9:00 am local time in San Francisco.  This podcast is the time-shifted version; we've edited out most of the ads and all of the music, and left in all the calls and all the gardening advice for you to enjoy.  Today we discussed (along the way) soil remediation with epsom salts or with hydrogen peroxide (hint: proceed with caution!), tree care and community gardening. Folks called about their citrus trees, hummingbird feeder formula, and many other topics.  For more information about our show including text archives from Bob, see bobtanem.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest this morning on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem was  you -- the bay area gardeners who call in.  We had some out-of-area gardeners weigh in too when it comes to that, but this is the Bay Area's premier radio talk show about organic gardening, after all. Originally aired live on Sunday morning on 810 KSFO San Francisco, this podcast on-demand edition of our show is the same as the original, but has most of the advertising and all of the music edited out, for your protection and that of the license holders.  No license is required to grow things in your garden, so here we are!  For the unedited experience join us live, 9:00 to 10 am Pacific time on 810 KSFO, and on KSFO.com streaming live.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Podcast Edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we present a faithful reproduction of the live (Sunday 9 to 10 am on 810 KSFO San Francisco) radio show, edited lightly to remove most of the ads and all of the music. Our special guest this morning was Tamara Jo Hicks, co-author of the Feasts on the Farm cookbook along with Jessica Lynn MacLeod.  This is a homegrown recipe book out of the Tomales neighborhoods of West Marin, where Tamara and her husband run a goat and sheep milk outfit called Toluma Farms.  Sourced from locals, and with a foreword by Alice Waters, the recipes in this book come with stories and pictures, making this a beautiful work of art, featuring artistic culinary creations using local ingredients.  The book is available at local bookstores and and select Bay Area farmers' markets.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest on the garden show -- Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem -- this morning is Dan Posey.  Dan was a colleague and sometimes competitor with Bob Tanem in the nursery business, they met competing with their show gardens at the Marin and Sonoma county fairs many years ago.  Edie has known Dan since she was, well, a lot younger. These days, Dan is with Oaks of Hebron, a non-profit service agency in Sonoma County, and he is mentoring a new startup nursery in Sebastopol called Growing Together Nursery, which complements Growing Together Farm and other endeavors.   The nursery is located at the former California Carnovores retail location at 2833 Old Gravenstein Highway in Sebastopol, and is open Tuesdays through Thursdays from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, and on Saturday from 8:00 to 4:30 pm. and is open to the public.  Dan reminisced with Edie about old times, county fairs, and then talked about their more recent endeavors. Of seasonal interest, Dan is offering an old-fashioned Christmas Wreath making workshop; there are public workshops at the nursery, and for groups of about 10 or more, Dan will do a private class -- either at the nursery, or wherever the party is.  Materials and instructions are included, and participants will leave with a hand made wreath.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's live and local talk radio on 810 KSFO Sunday mornings with the garden show!  Bob Tanem In The Garden is presented 9 to 10 am on the air live, and -- in a slightly edited version -- archived on this podcast edition.  We are obliged to remove most of the adds and all of the music from this on-demand media. We talk about all things of interest to the home gardener, which this morning extended to street tree issues, fertilization, and coping with powdery mildew -- among other topics raised by callers from around the bay and outside the state.  Edie also offers information about garden related events coming up around the San Francisco Bay Area.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to this weeks' edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we broadcast live each Sunday morning on 810 KSFO, and this podcast edition -- lightly edited to lift out most of the ads and all of the music -- is available 24/7 on demand. This week we talked about last weeks' bonsai show, about garden railroads, and quite a few other subjects of interest to the Bay Area gardening community.  We took a few calls in the 2nd half of the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Once again we went live on the air on 810 KSFO on a Sunday morning, with the Bay Area's premiere radio talk show about Organic Gardening!  We do this every Sunday at 9:00 am local time, and then post this here podcast afterwards for your on-demand listening enjoyment.  The podcast is identical to the original broadcast, except we edit out all the music and most of the ads. People call in and ask our host Edie all kinds of questions about growing stuff in the garden, dealing with pests and plant issues, which she cheerfully answers -- and all the while, we seek to keep things as organic as practically possible. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest on the radio program this morning was Kenny Phillips, certified arborist with Davey Tree Bay Area.  We like to have arborists on from time to time to check in about trees and tree issues; this extends to both wild and landscape tree as well as cultivated specimen such as citrus or other fruit trees.  Davey is an employee owned organization with deep roots in the bay area, and the Tanems have worked with Davey for many years for various tree issues, from nurturing through removal. This podcast is a replay of the live radio show heard on 810 KSFO between 9 and 10 am this morning; most commercials and all musical content have been removed.  Edie Tanem is a certified Master Gardener, and follows in her fathers' footsteps hosting this radio show each week.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hot off the presses this morning, it's the latest edition of the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem radio show!  OK so we don't use presses for radio, but you get the idea. We did broadcast this program live on 810 KSFO this morning, and we attracted gardeners from around the Bay Area and beyond to call in with their organic gardening questions.   Edie also highlights a number of local events of interest to gardeners.   It's all in one action packed hour, with all the music and most of the ads removed from this on demand edition!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest this morning on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem was Sandi Duncan, who took over the reins as Editor of the Farmers' Almanac a couple of years ago.  This years' edition features some minor changes to reflect Sandi's touch, but as always the Almanac has stories, anecdotes, seasonal and calendar items, and more.  Trivia buffs will especially love this publication -- published annually since the 1800's -- because it's full of fun facts.Sandi spent the hour with us and gave us a glimpse under the curtain for how the book is curated and the thought processes that are behind it.  The 2026 edition went onsite at farmersalmanac.com and on grocery checkout stands everywhere; it's the orange and green one. This podcast edition of the radio show is identical to the original broadcast, minus some of the ads and all of the music.  The show is heard live on Sunday mornings from 9-10 Pacific time on 810 KSFO, and streaming on our website at KSFO.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.