SEED UP! Season Two

All right people, remember, there’s always something to do in the garden and the Merritt-based video program SEED UP! is going to show you how.

Our second season includes more unique garden tours, including how to have a fabulous garden design using vegetables. We tag along with Oakland’s 40th Street Guerilla Gardener and find out how to make our street medians lush habitats. We travel to the beautiful rolling hills of Sunol, California to get a look at an awesome roof garden with design instructor, Chris Grampp. And a tour of a Victorian garden in downtown Oakland by our garden historian, Richard Orlando!

And this season we have a chef showing us how to cook healthy from the garden.

Then we get down to work with irrigation and grafting tips and finish up with how to make an evergreen wreath for the holiday season. And don’t miss the talking duck and chickens! (You have to see it to believe it.)

The broadcast schedule for the streaming live shows and the Comcast Cable Channel 28 is the same:

• Wednesdays at 11:30 am
• Fridays at 4:30 pm
• Saturdays at 10 am
• Sundays at 2 pm 

Several segments have made their way to You Tube. You can also see it streaming live on the web at http://www.peralta.tv/

Jeanette's Garden is on YouTube!

Patti Tauscher's Seed Up! program did a segment on Jeanette's Garden this spring. Jeanette walks through her garden chatting away while Patti and her videographer follow along. Here is the link to YouTube to see it. Jeanette's Garden on YouTube.

Palms and Cycads Growing at Merritt

Ken Mohler has become a real palm grower. He has 210 species he is working on now. Ken's Palm List October 2009  Many are in one gallons, many are still germinating. The one gallon plants will be on sale at the Plant Sale October 17, 2009. He grows them at Merritt in the orchid greenhouse and in the nursery.