Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is none other than Amy Stewart - a perennial favorite on our show over the years. Amy has written many books, most recently The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession. Amy shares with us some of the behind-the-scenes stuff leading up to the publishing of the book, namely the gathering of ma…

Our Guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Jeff Harris, show chair for the San Francisco Orchid Society; he'll be talking about the big Orchids In The Park event coming up in San Francisco July 27 and 28. Also, gardening questions were asked and answered by Edie, our resident gardening expert and show host! See omnystudio.com/listener …

Welcome to this weeks edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guest this morning is Cynthia Stewart, of Bloom Nurseries -- a wholesale nursery that supplies neighborhood scale retail nurseries with fresh local plants grown in the Bay Area. Cynthia and Edie have a friendship formed over many years of being professional colleagues in …

It's Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; the Bay Area's premier radio talk show about organic gardening! We're open phones this morning and following a monologue, we got calls from gardeners all around the Bay; much of the subject matter revolved around the coming heat wave this week, as well as pollination and propagation questions among othe…

Edie Tanem is the host of Bob Tanem In The Garden, which airs on KSFO in San Francisco each Sunday at 9:00 local time. This here is the podcast edition of the show, which has been lightly edited to remove musical content. Our show is a call-in talk show about organic gardening in the Bay Area and beyond. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info…

This is the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem radio show; todays' guest on our air is Cal Agrifolia of Davey, the Tree Experts. You've seen their big green trucks, because this employee owned company has grown throughout the Bay Area region and has teams of expert certified arborists for both residential and commercial deployments. Cal is kno…

This is Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; the Bay Area's premier radio show about organic gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area and sometimes beyond. Ours is a live call-in show, broadcast on KSFO 560 AM in San Francisco at 9:00 local (Pacific) time each week on Sunday; you can participate in future shows by calling 415 808-5600 during the…

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem this morning is Doug Tallamy, co-author of The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden. Doug is an entomologist with the University of Delaware, and is particularly interested in the interaction between insects and plant life, the "food web" ecosystems in nature…

It's Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem, and here we are on Sunday morning taking calls live on the air. Spring has sprung in the Bay Area and lots of people have questions about their yards, gardens, trees and shrubs. Got Bugs? Call Edie and discuss it on the air! Musical interludes have been edited out to comply with legal requirements. See …

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air live 9a-10a on Sunday mornings on KSFO 560 San Francisco; it's also on this podcast each week. Todays' show features open phones call-in for gardening questions and general garden information for the Bay Area and beyond. For this podcast edition, the musical elements have been lifted from the sh…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is heard live Sundays on KSFO 560 San Francisco; todays' edition is a call-in show featuring questions and answers between the listening audience and Edie Tanem, daughter of Bob Tanem, original host of the show. Edie is a certified nursery person and a Master Gardener, and has hosted the show since Bob passed…

Happy Cinco de Mayo from all of us here at KSFO and the Bob Tanem In The Garden show with Edie Tanem! Our guests this morning are YOU, the gardening public, in and around the Bay area and sometimes beyond. We had calls right from the start and all hour long; Master Gardener Edie Tanem answers questions on Rhododendrons, Fruit Trees and many others.…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is a live radio show on Sunday mornings, 9-10 on 560 KSFO San Francisco; this here is the podcast playback-on-demand of that show; our host is expert in gardening around the Bay Area and beyond; we feature call-in questions from our live listening audience. For compliance with applicable rules, we lightly edi…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air! This podcast is the recorded playback of the live show; today we had no guest and open the phone lines wide. It being a fine spring like clear day in the bay area, it was not at all surprising that there were lots of calls from gardeners! Musical interludes have been trimmed from the original p…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is On The Air! The first half our show this morning featured a guest; Sarah Blunt is with Integrated Community Services, and she uses the gardens at New Beginnings to engage with people with disabilities. This also helps the gardens with volunteer labor, creating a natural symbiosis; job training, work experi…

It's the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guests this morning are Douglas Airhart from Tennessee Technological University and April Ellis, Registered Horticultural Therapist in San Mateo. Our subject? Horticultural Therapy, which is a wide descriptor for plant related therapies ranging from physical through emotional and back again. Our…

Welcome to the podcast edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; todays' guest is Sherry Larsen, longtime producer of the San Francisco Bay Flower and Garden Show. Back in the days when that show originated from the Cow Palace, KSFO would broadcast live for this program; nowadays the show is at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton…

Open Phones on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we took calls from around the bay and beyond, all about gardening the old fashioned way: organically. Next week we'll be broadcasting live on Easter Sunday! Musical interludes have been edited out of this podcast for compliance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

And a Happy St. Patty's day from all of us at KSFO, as we present this mornings' Bob Tanem In The Garden show with Edie Tanem. Our guest is none other than Ed Laivo, famed author and videographer on Youtube, fruit tree and edible landscape expert, and all around nice guy. Ed -- who has known the Tanems for many decades -- attracted lots of calls, a…

Happy Daylight Saving Time from the cast and crew at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; we're right on time and talking about gardening this morning! People call in from around the bay and beyond to talk about vegetables, flowers, trees and lawns, wildlife and compost, among other things. The original broadcast has been lightly edited to remo…

Our guest this morning is Suzanne Bontempo, an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) advocate, environmental educator & professional horticulturist. She joins us to talk about managing pests with minimal use of pesticides; be they bugs or rodents or what have you. There are alternatives that are organic compatible and better for our bodies and the world…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is live and on the air Sundays at 9:00 local time here in San Francisco; this podcast is a faithful repeat of the entire hour, minus the commercials and music! Todays' show is a call-in program; gardeners from around the bay called up and asked questions of our Master Gardener, live and unrehearsed here on KS…

Our guests on the show this morning are Ken Litchfield and Enrique Sanchez, both members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco - at MSSF.org - and are experts on mushrooms; wild, cultivated, food or poison. We host a 3-way conversation between these gentlemen and our host, Edie Tanem. The original broadcast has been lightly edited to remove m…

Welcome to Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guest this morning is Jeff Harris of the San Francisco Orchid Society, here to tell us about the upcoming Pacific Orchid Exposition Show and Plant Sale. The event will be held in San Francisco at the County Fair Building at 1199 9th Avenue in San Francisco; a gala preview night for those 21 or…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air once again; it's a live show on Sunday mornings rain or shine and in this case, rain; it's about the biggest storm of the season in progress as we broadcast. Calls do trickle in from around the bay and beyond; we take all kinds of gardening questions all hour long. The original broadcast is ligh…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is On the Air! No guest this week, we feature listener calls all hour on the Bay Area's premiere radio talk show about organic gardening. This podcast presentation of the live broadcast has been edited to lift out musical content; them's the rules. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Edie Tanem is live on the air this morning with Bob Tanem In The Garden; the Bay Areas' premiere live radio talk show about gardening. We had open phones for gardeners of all stripes this morning and the lines loaded up! The program has been lightly edited to remove musical content in order to satisfy podcasting license restrictions. See omnystudio…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air for January 14 2024; this is an open phones gardening show segment; Edie answers listener questions from around the bay and beyond! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cumulus Media San Francisco / Bob Tanem In The Garden

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air! Edie's guest today is Douglas W Tallamy, entomologist at the University of Delaware and author of Nature's Best Hope. This podcast presentation of the show has been edited to remove musical content due to licensing restrictions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

It's the last day of the year, and the last show in 2023 for Edie Tanem! We took calls and listened to Edie's monologues this morning; it's all about Gardening here in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area -- and beyond. This podcast edition of the show has been lightly edited to remove musical content due to licensing restrictions. See omnystudio.c…

Happy Christmas Eve from the Cast and Crew here at KSFO and the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem show! Todays' live broadcast is featured here as a time shifted podcast, minus the musical segments per the rules. It was open phones and we got a lot of calls about winter gardening here in the Bay Area and beyond! See omnystudio.com/listener fo…

Edie Tanem hosts the Bob Tanem In The Garden show; we took calls about gardening, and had an expert guest join us at the half way mark; Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago joined us by phone from Puerto Rico at 9:30. Perla is the author of a current gardening book called Verdura: Living a Garden Life. She discussed many aspects of what this means, in a do…

Edie Tanem is our show host here on KSFO's Bob Tanem In The Garden show, and today is open phones! We started getting calls about 20 minutes into Edie's monologue. Lots of gardening info, including some gift suggestions for the gardener in your life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Welcome to our little garden program! Today Edie Tanem featured a special guest; Hadley Dynak is the latest steward of Western Hills Garden in Sebastopol. Now running the operation as a non-profit, the current iteration of this historic site is a treasure trove of exotic and native trees, among other things. Haley filled us in on the history of and…

Edie Tanem is the host of Bob Tanem In The Garden, and our guests this morning were Marion Weinreb and Alephia Larson of The Living Room of Santa Rosa; a women's shelter and community resource serving Sonoma County. Among the innovative programs there are food producing gardens that both employ and feed members of the community. Our guests stayed f…

Edie Tanem is your show host on Bob Tanem In The Garden, memorializing her father as part of the show name. Our show was live on KSFO, this podcast edition has been lightly pruned to remove musical content per our licensing. It was a call-in show this morning, with people around the Bay Area and beyond calling about their various plants, planting a…

There's no need to fear, Edie Tanem's here; host of Bob Tanem In The Garden on KSFO. It's an all-calls show today (no guest speaker) so we invited folks to phone in and they did; from all around the Bay Area and beyond, Edie answers gardening questions and talks more about her experience getting started with Straw Bale Gardening! See omnystudio.com…

Edie Tanem is the host and today Joel Karsten is our guest; he's the StrawBale Garden guy and he's just got the latest edition of his book -- Straw Bale Gardens Complete -- out in time for the closing up of the pumpkin patches this coming week! Joel's technique is not just using straw bales as planters, but actually starting and controlling a decom…

Happy fall; Edie Tanem hosts Bob Tanem In The Garden and we took calls all hour long. People call from near and far with a variety of challenges and queries for Edie and for the audience! Interactive talk radio and it's all about organic gardening. Musical interludes have been lifted from this podcast presentation of this mornings' live show. See o…

Happy October; cooler weather is here and Edie Tanem is on the Air with the Bob Tanem In The Garden show on KSFO! We took calls all hour from gardeners around the Bay Area and beyond. This podcast is the full hour, minus musical segments. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Cumulus Media San Francisco / Bob Tanem In The Garden

Our guest this morning is Jeannie Perales, executive director of the Sonoma Botanical Garden in the Sonoma / Glen Ellen area of the Valley of the Moon, in the heart of NorCal wine country. Jeannie spoke to us about current projects and presentations at the garden, which she views in much the same way a museum director would preside over a collectio…

Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Peter Geiger, editor of the Farmers' Almanac -- specifically, the orange and green one, not the "old" one; both contain good info but the Tanems have long sworn by this "original" one. Peter spent the hour with us discussing the weather, 2024, and more -- but no politics, and no election predi…

Here she is; Edie Tanem -- host of Bob Tanem In The Garden these days -- and the show starts off with a wide ranging monologue from Edie before the gardening questions start rolling in on the KSFO live lines! This podcast reflects the live radio show in full, except for the fact that musical interludes have been redacted. See omnystudio.com/listene…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; today featuring special guest Pam Peirce, expert gardener now celebrating the 30th year edition of her acclaimed bay-area focused gardening book, Golden Gate Gardening. Pam spent the whole hour with us discussing the realities and rewards of gardening in our beautiful part of the world. See omnystudio.com/li…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air, and it's our much anticipated Goat Show today! Joining Edie are Genevieve from City Grazing -- a local non-profit that maintains and rents out a large herd of goats -- and Molly, from Goats On The Go, Oakland; a recent local startup affiliating with a larger network of herbivorous land clearing…

Good morning gardeners! Welcome to the Bay Area's premiere talk show about organic gardening: Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem. As the hour progresses, Edies' monologue gives way to gardening questions from the audience -- gardeners around the Bay Area and beyond! The original broadcast has been edited for this podcast by extricating all mus…

Our Guest this morning is Jill Sowards, expert gardener extraordinaire! She joins Edie Tanem -- host of the Bob Tanem In The Garden radio show -- for the entire hour of this weeks' broadcast, which is presented here as a podcast. Podcast rules require us to remove musical content from the program, so the show has been lightly edited. See omnystudio…

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air! And, on Podcast (though musical interludes have been edited out). Here there be phone calls from listeners and gardening advice from someone who sprouted and grew up amid a working nursery; Edie Tanem: America's favorite gardeners' daughter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

Edie Tanem hosts Bob Tanem In The Garden Sundays at 9:00 on KSFO San Francisco; today Edie interviewed David Kamp, author of a fascinating new book offering the learnings from a lifetime in landscape design. Nature Design and Health: Explorations of a Landscape Architect is the resulting thoughtful tome recently published by Mr. Kamp. This podcast …

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air! It's all callers on this mornings' show; no guest. It's a nice full hour with lots of different questions from all over the bay area and beyond! The show has been lightly edited from the original broadcast to extricate all traces of music, due to licensing concerns. See omnystudio.com/listener …