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Mid-season Form at the Chicago Botanic Garden

June 24, 2017June 24, 2020 Mike Nowak Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Region Tree Initiative, Enbridge 5 pipeline, environment, For the Love of Water, gardening, Lisa Hilgenberg, Lydia Scott, Morton Arboretum, Regenstein Fruit and Vegetable Garden, The Mike Nowak Show, tree canopy

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Mike and Peggy talk mid-season veggies with Lisa Hilgenberg from the Chicago Botanic Garden, follow up on the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipe which runs under the Straits of Mackinac, and learn about a new study that focuses on the tree canopies in the Chicago region.

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May 28, 2017 – Veggies, Baby!

May 27, 2017May 31, 2017 Mike Nowak A Plus Pest Control, bed bugs, cedar oil, Chicago Botanic Garden, environment, gardening, growing tomatoes, mosquitoes, non-toxic pest management, The Mike Nowak Show, The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener, Tom Skilling, World Environment Day

Holly and Joey aka The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener talk spring veggies, Kristie Webber previews the World Environment Day celebration at the Chicago Botanic Garden, and Rick Moskovitz of A-Plus Pest Control has non-toxic pest control solutions.

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January 14, 2017 – Secrets of Selecting Seeds

January 13, 2017May 23, 2017 Mike Nowak Chicago Botanic Garden, gardening, GMOs, heirloom plants, hybrids, Peggy Malecki, Regenstein Fruit and Vegetable Garden, seed catalogs, The Mike Nowak Show

It’s another abbreviated version of The Mike Nowak Show with Peggy Malecki today. However, The Man has informed us that we get to broadcast for a full two hours on Saturday, January 21. We’ll see. However, this morning we welcome Lisa Hilgenberg, who is the horticulturist at the Regenstein Fruit and Vegetable Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden, back to the program. Her mission: to teach us as much as she can in about twenty minutes about which seed catalogs to order and how to get those little guys started–and when!

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