The Northwest Flower and Garden Show
Feb 3 through Feb 7
My show is live from the Northwest Flower and Garden Show at the Convention Center. Lots of exciting guests will joing me at the show:
It's going to be a great show. Come find me and watch it live!
Gardening with Ciscoe KIRO radio shows are now available as podcasts! Go directly to Ciscoe's Podcasts on MyNorthwest.com to listen or download a show that you missed or that you want to hear again. They go back several months and new ones will be added every week.
On another note, I will not be making any new podcasts for Northwest Cable News. Thanks so much for listening to them. They were a lot of fun and I will let you know if they get resurrected in the future.
Remember that I am on News Talk 97.3 KIRO FM. The call in number is 1-888-973-KIRO
I'm happy to announce that I will be hosting a Mariners East Coast Road Trip! We leave on Monday, August 16 and return home on Wednesday, August 25, 2010. We will go to the Mariners vs the Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Included are stadium tours of Camden Yards, the new Yankee Stadium, and the festive Fenway Park. If baseball isn't fun enough, we will tour the Baltimore Harbor, Washington DC monuments, New York City, and the Gettysburg Battlefield. Finally, we will tour Boston via a Boston Duck Tour. We will not go to any gardens as a group but you can ask me all the garden questions that you can think of in 10 days! Get more information on my travel page or at Northwest Travel.
Feb 6 I am speaking at the NWFG show.
For those of you on the east side of the mountains, I will speaking in Wenatchee on Sunday, February 7.
All the details are on my talks page.
You will find the complete list of sales and tours at the Miller Library website. My list showcases a few select upcoming events that go beyond sales and tours.
On Jan 9th, my guest was Bob Spencer from the 'Residential RainWise Program' at Seattle Public Utilities. We talked about projects Seattle is doing to reduce the amount of runoff going into storm drains, and also what home dwellers can do to reduce runoff from their landscapes. Visit the City of Seattle Rain Wise website where you can find out how much runoff you have at your address.
I escaped that week of cold and went to the Yucatan. Here are a few pictures from Mexico.
Help your community out by keeping your storm drains clear of debris. Not only will it help the cars in your neighborhood, but the bicyclists and pedestrians will thank you too. Visit Adopt-a-Drain and take winter by storm for more ideas to deal with blustery and stormy weather.
If you are planning have a community gardening project, consider applying for a grant from Fiskar's Project Orange Thumb. Project Orange Thumb® is a grant program that provides community garden groups with the tools and materials they need to reach their goals for neighborhood beautification and horticulture education. The application deadline is Feb 19, 2010.
Twenty-six local nurseries across King County are leading the way with this initiative, helping consumers start or maintain green gardens that are easy on the environment and the pocketbook. From landscape planning advice to facilitate the longevity of a garden to natural yard care products that prevent the use of harsh chemicals and pesticides, the 2009 Natural Yard Care Nurseries are local resources for sound advice and environmentally-friendly products. Here is a full list of nurseries.
There are many opportunities around the Puget Sound to learn about Rain Gardens. Rain gardens work like a native forest by capturing and infiltrating stormwater from rooftops, driveways, and other hard surfaces. Here are the benefits of Rain gardens
The Stewardship partners is an organization that helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of Washington State. On their website, you can get more information about creating a rain garden. They also have a schedule of upcoming workshops.
If you are a Seattle Public Utilities, remember: Don't use regular plastic bags for your kitchen scraps. Use biobags or line your kitchen composter with newspaper. This is really important because regular plastic is the worst thing that can get into the compost. Also, be careful that you don't accidentally put any glass in the yard waste container.
Lynne Vea of PCC is the regular chef on Gardening with Ciscoe. Of course, Meeghan and I help her out! Check out all of our past Recipes.
Be sure to check out the PCC Natural Markets blog called Stir-Fry. Karen, the blogger, posted one recently about my shoot with Lynne Vea..
If you have not checked out the Master Gardener Magazine, look at it online. You will find great articles in there and lots of useful information.
The list has changed over time so contact your local nurseries to see if they recycle pots. Many do.
The good news is that, starting March 30, 2009, Seattle Public Utilities allows Seattle residents to recycle plastic plant pots. Simply clean them out of dirt and debris and put them in your recycle bin.
Many of you have heard the ads for the Millionair Club on the radio and have asked me for their website. Find more information at the Millionair Club.
Ciscoe Morris doles out garden advice on his weekly radio show "Gardening with Ciscoe" on 97.3 FM Kiro radio. He also appears on numerous TV shows including "Gardening with Ciscoe" which he co-hosts with Meeghan Black.
