In The Garden

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the radio; 810 KSFO to be precise, 9 to 10 am each Sunday morning Pacific time (and streaming live on KSFO.com).  Meanwhile, this here is the podcast "on demand" version, which has the music and most of the ads edited out for your convenience. We took calls from around the bay this summery weekend as people recover from their fireworks displays la...

Happy Sunday from the cast and crew of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our show plays live on KSFO.com worldwide and on the radio at 810 KSFO across Northern California, each Sunday at 9:00 local time.  This here is the podcast edition, which is just like the original minus the musical segments and most of the ads.  This week we took calls from our summer gardening audience, and...

Welcome and Happy Fathers' Day from all of us here at the Tanem show and at KSFO!  This is the podcast edition of the Bay Area's premiere radio talk show about organic gardening, heard Sundays at 9:00 am local time on 810 KSFO San Francisco, and worldwide on KSFO.com. Edie did a bit of a tribute to her dad, Bob Tanem, remembering him and fondly recollecting the preparations they would do for...

Good morning on this summery June Sunday as we broadcast to  you the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem show!  We took calls, discussed events and opportunities around the bay area, and generally talked up organic gardening for a whole hour on 810 KSFO. This podcast edition represents the full hours' broadcast, minus the musical bits and most of the ads.  Our show is live and u...

Welcome to Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem, the bay area's radio talk show about organic gardening.  It's a beautiful summery day here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and there are gardening events to talk about, as well as people calling in with their own gardening puzzles.  The hour is over before you know!  For this podcast edition, all the musical interludes and most of t...

Welcome to the SF Bay Area's premiere radio talk show about organic gardening; In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air! Our guest this morning was Lance Walheim, a perennial favorite expert that Bob first had on over 20 years ago.  That because Lance is one of Northern California's premiere experts on Citrus planting, including both commercial and back yard oranges, lemons and other citru...

Welcome to Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem, the Bay Area's premiere radio talk show about organic gardening!  Our show is live on the air at 810 KSFO each Sunday morning at 9:00 local time; the show streams live on KSFO.com as well. This here is the Podcast edition, which reflects the original program minus musical interludes and most of the ads. This mornings' show featured a lot of...

Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air; Sundays 9am to 10 Pacific time on 810 KSFO, and on KSFO.com.  This then is the podcast edition, played back on demand any time. Our guest this week is Joe Skibbie of Beats Beds and Browns -- an interesting enterprise that puts out a video podcast focussing on music (specifically hip-hop, e.g., 'Beats'), beds (e.g., organic local gardening...

Happy Mothers' Day from all of us here at 810 KSFO and at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our humble Sunday morning gardening talk show on the radio.  This podcast is a reproduction of that original broadcast, minus all the music and the bulk of the ads, but inclusive of all the good gardening advice and stories. This morning we talked about gardening events around the bay, and took...

Good morning and happy May from all of us here at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem!  Our guest this morning is Ben Bloom of Bloom's Wholesale Nursery -- a growing nursery supplying high-quality locally-oriented plants to non-box-store local nurseries throughout the Bay Area.  Ben is from the second generation of Blooms running the nursery, and has developed a passion for native pl...

Here we are with another edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem!  Todays' show featured recorded audio that Edie brought back from a visit to the Sonoma Botanical Gardens in Glen Ellen; in addition to their usual and extensive collection of plants, there are currently sculptures on display by Oaxacan artists Maria and Jacobo Angeles - the Spirit Guides exhibit will be up through S...

Here we are, In The Garden with Edie Tanem, on a lovely warmish Saturday in mid April.  We took calls, talked about current gardening events and opportunities, followed up on a few emails, and took some calls from the live audience.  This podcast reflects the original broadcast, with most of the ads and all of the music edited out, as per policy.  Otherwise, this is organic gardenin...

Welcome to Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem, the Podcast Edition (lightly edited to lift out most music and advertising).  On this mornings' show we invited callers, which did not happen until the 2nd half, so Edie offered a wealth of information on upcoming gardening events along with some seasonal gardening advice.   Tune in to our show live on Sundays at 9:00 Pacific time on 81...

Happy Easter Sunday from all of us here at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem!  Holiday or no, we have a guest this morning; Lisa Steele is the author of Gardening with Chickens: Plans and Plants for You and Your Hens, which is now in its' newly revised and re-illustrated 10th edition.  Lisa joins us to discuss the integration of gardening with raising chickens, celebrating the new...

Good morning from all of us at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; happy Palm Sunday as the sun comes up early on the San Francisco Bay Area, we were live on the air on 810 KSFO!  We took calls and Edie monologued about a wide range of gardening subjects, there was no formal guest. This podcast edition of the show is the time-shifted original live show, minus the musical interludes and m...

It's spring time and the gardening show on KSFO is getting lots of questions -- Edie Tanem, host of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem, has lots of answers.  We got calls and emails today, and you can listen to the whole hour right here on the podcast edition of the show, it's a  recording of the live show from this morning, minus musical interludes and a lot of the ads. See omnystu...

Our live radio programming is all about organic gardening in the Bay Area, and this week was reserved for local goings on and your calls.  The subject wandered up and down the bay area and from trees to squash, the weather and the wind, and back again; this podcast is the entire original broadcast hour with musical interludes (and most ads) lifted out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

It's garden talk radio with Edie Tanem on the Bob Tanem In The Garden radio show on KSFO!  We were live this morning and taking calls, and the result is available for your listening pleasure on this podcast: 45 minutes of gardening advice,  ideas and ruminations.  In addition, Edie attended the Bonsai show and sale over the weekend and has that experience to talk about. This podcast...

Our first guest this morning was Suzanne Muller, a woman of many hats at the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt -- a non-profit all-volunteer run garden nurturing an amazing collection of miniaturized trees in the Japanese Bonsai tradition.   Top of mind is the Gardens' annual fundraiser event -- the Mammoth Auction and Sale is this coming Saturday and Sunday March 7 and 8.   Our second guest...

Good morning and happy February from all of us here at Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem...!  We are joined this morning by Jeff Harris of the San Francisco Orchid Society, here to talk up the 2026 Orchid Exposition he'll be presiding over at the SF County Fair building in Golden Gate Park, starting Thursday Feb. 26 and running through Sunday March 1.   Jeff reminded us of just how...

It's Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem, the podcast edition -- featuring this weeks' guest, show favorite Ed Laivo, known to the Interwebs as Ed Able of Ed Able Solutions -- which is the name of his YouTube channel of many years.  The subject? Fruit Trees!  Ed is an expert on this subject, and on citrus in particular.  Today Edie and Ed discussed among other things the trend t...

It's open phones on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem this morning, and we got lots of calls today.  A certified Master Gardener, a certified nursery person, and the daughter of Bob Tanem, Edie hosts this gardening talk show live on the air each Sunday morning on 810 KSFO, taking gardening questions and occasionally interviewing experts.  Here, we present the podcast replay, from w...

We presented a "Best of" broadcast with 2 segments of Edie Tanem interviewing author Amy Stewart this past fall, and 2 segments of Bob Tanem interviewing the same author 10 years ago in October of 2015.  This podcast edition includes light editing to remove musical content and most advertising. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's America's happiest gardening show, Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem.  We broadcast live on 810 am KSFO on Sunday mornings at 9:00; sometimes we have a guest but some days -- today, for example --we just take calls and talk about stuff in, around and for the garden. Concerned about recent cold snaps?  The tip of the day came from caller Neil at the very end of the show, who su...

Our guest this morning on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is Kenny Phillips, certified arborist with Davey Tree company .  Davey is our go-to source for up-to-date, less toxic expert tree care; they are a national company but it is employee owned; the employees bought out the founding Davey family back in 1979.   There are several offices around the Bay Area where listeners can a...