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Gardening tips for Duluth's Northern climate, hosted by Master Gardener Tom Kasper.

Tips for Hardy Gardeners: Wanted: for murder

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Grasshoppers and potato bugs will damage your flowers and vegetables, yes.  But leaf hoppers, despite their tiny size, are the malarial mosquitos of the plant world.

Leaf hoppers can carry the aster yellows bacteria, and once a plant is infected, there's no saving it.

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The peas are ready for picking!

In other news, Tom Kasper delivered over 60 pounds of food to the Damiano Center last week and he's hoping to double that amount this week.  For more information on the Open Hands Food Project and how you can help, more information is available here.

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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