Environment & Outdoors

Tips for Hardy Gardeners: take your calcium and drink plenty of water

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published February 5, 2019 at 9:05 AM CST

There are a lot of workshops and classes this month geared toward gardeners itching to get their hands back in the dirt and make things grow.

A quick search of "gardening workshops" will turn up several right off the bat.

In other news, blossom-end rot can be remedied with a little more calcium and a little more water.

Now people aren't tomatoes, but maybe have another glass of milk (and fill up that water bottle) anyway. Why tempt fate?

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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