Environment & Outdoors

Tips for Hardy Gardeners: monstrous tomatoes and other hazards of July

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published July 23, 2019 at 9:35 AM CDT

1978's Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (which got 8 out of 11 "rotten tomatoes" on Rotten Tomatoes) takes a darkly comedic, musical-theater look at sentient tomatoes revolting (!) against humanity.

Tom Kasper says if your tomatoes are starting to look a little menacing, stop feeding them. The combination of fertilizer and perfect growing weather may cause the plants to grow like crazy, but they're probably producing fewer tomatoes.

Plus watering tips and the spiritual awakenings of a garden, this morning on Tips for Hardy Gardeners.

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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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