In The Garden

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...

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 podcaste...

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 anyo...

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 ...

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 ad...

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 or...

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 a...

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...

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 remediat...

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 o...

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 neigh...

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,...

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, fert...

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 t...

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...

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 fo...

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...

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 -- be...