at the washington state convention and trade center we attend the twenty fourth annual two thousand and twelve northwest flower and garden show we are at the washington state convention and trade center for the annual north west flower and garden show for two thousand and twelve twenty fourth annual event th so as we continue our second half we move away from the garden now and whole action where lots and lots of people around we're going to check out some of the vendor so one of the first stops we're going to make is this thing called pot lifter and it kind of caught my attention and we're going to talk to this young gentleman here and you are the name is tyler learn more information i'm sure you guys have a web site we do yes publisher dot com really simple just a product dot com ok well if you want to learn more information about it different way of being able to help you move par load like off the back of a truck and sharing that ride with other people that might be getting a yard or two and that way we're not using up banks which are petroleum based and we're not also i'm just wasting fuel so it's an ecological way to do it it's al much more economical for them to do it but what a lot of people don't know is cedar grove compost if you live in king county hard to know how much county this is actually made from the eat your food scraps in your yard waste that you put in your been at the curb so you the curb you take it ter facilities it's a state of the art facility where we do our magic with our technology and really enhance the natural process of composting and turn it into this wonderful compost that we use as a base for  back the natural nutrients and biology that they started with before you planted in em you're going to amend your soil with this you're going to put it in the soil you're going to mend it in the soil it ain't good news and we say hey use compost instead of bark because compost actually feature soil and bark is great for water retention and wheat suppression the compost actually feature soil so it gives it back the nutrients and the natural biology that the soil supposed to have i always say that if you use a lot of chemicals on your plants you kind of make junkies out of and the compost is like rehab so you're giving back all the natural things that the soil needs to to be naturally healthy and you know everybody knows that we started garden you start risk with healthy soil for so so you help make it too i think people in king county need to know that we get to make this great product that does great thing and in your garden because you put your carrot stick in the bucket and put it in your in your yard and out site so this is all of our material and we touch the community in the kitchen and in the garden and here at the show and it's a pretty cool sustainability model that we're part of what are some of these other self we make out to a top soil which is sand and compost so if you want to plant new plan thousands or landscapes it's a great many material to use i wanted a popular products we have which has a little bit more in our get material in terms of well this is also the cut the material that is used by local rosemary and so it's very very popular in rose gardens it's a great product to use and roast gardens and anything that's a heavy feeder like perennial gardens or vegetable gardens and the northwest garden mulch is there's a lot of people that like their bark and so we're trying to we're trying to help them wean away from barkin into compost so we have a bark and compost landis's north west garden m so we've taken the homemade compost that we've brought to our facilities and converted is beautiful compost we mix it with bark and that gives you a combination of the two so feeding feeding malt which is the compost and then you've got your your park component which kind of helps people make that transition to straight compost someday which is what we're we're hoping for so i'm not a big part for myself but well that's good because you know i mean barks pine in its applications bed cash we make all this and we have plenty of it available to our residents so let's use that compost instead of bark and add add health to the soil while we're all chain it's just a great natural thing to do nine when the city of seattle decided to take yard waste and start putting it into a compost implant there's actually people up there in it that don't don't remember a time when we used to when we didn't compost so we've been doing it for quite a while we like to think we were green company before it was trendy and then we've grown to two facilities in the greater puget sound region and we take in about four hundred thousand tonnes a year of food scraps in yard waste that's about two million pounds a day of food scraps in yard waste from residential and commercial sources and we turn it into this beautiful garden soil and so amendment that we get a show here at the show and you have a website for more from china and this is part of the tree and what we're doing right here we try to introduce the products and arts to the public that people know how to enjoy looking at this art and they can do it by themselves and pick at a lot of his story a lot a lot of information related  with people can spend hours at a time trimming and grooming these little trees it is you can when you have time you can spend an hour or a day but if you have no time you ok and how long you've been doing almost thirty years and you're very knowledgeable i'm still learning so i understand that a lot of your plants are sold around it but you don't have like a storefront for people usually to buy them from you or anything like that but you do have a website so if they do have questions and would like more infor idea he was in a gutter coil on the sides of the bed for beauty and also to absorb the heat from the sun and i think that's the green and the brown there are parts of the gutters that you can bend into a woman and got her ok i didn't spend it here and comes in thirty colors so you can get into different colors and they're they have a raised bed in there and maybe there is a condo or something they can actually have a garden out on their own i or something and not worry about the weather and not have to bend over to garden and today what is what is this little tents here over here we've got examples of our indoor mushroom patch and these are kids that individuals can purchase at home to prove fresh for me mushrooms right in your house and these are them are poisonous in there for the most part very very delicious but i think that depends on who you talk to but so what are some of the more northwest mushrooms there's a lot of northwest mushrooms some of the ones you see here the lion's mane and some of the others actually can be found in various regions of the northwest the more commonly you'll find people hunting out first hand trials and morales guides from the northwest region a lot for north america in general having a good field guide or going with a mushroom group is a really great way to find out which mushrooms are edible which ones you might want to stay away from there are a lot of different psychological societies in the northwest mushroom mushrooms in addition to being a great source of just nutrition in your diet have long been studied for their different therapeutic effects a lot of different medicinal mushrooms have been studied for everything from just overall immune support to lung and respiratory  function some of the mushrooms like our turkey tell mushroom is currently being used in clinical studies with relation to breast cancer so there's a lot of potential for medicinal mushrooms in the world and there's just a lot more research to be known or pretty excited about it t outside over the course of years they usually take about a year to mature and then they'll be ready to fruit for anywhere from three to ten years depending on the species of logging the size of logging ocular always used to mean you can keep picking those mushrooms over and over again from what you're growing them in over and over and over and over and over yeah once you binocular to the log for outdoor growth it'll continue to fruit off of that log until it's used up all the available nutrients and so it can fruits usually seasonally in the spring or the fall when there's more here in the temperature is appropriate and it'll keep doing that until it's eaten a log essentially and there's no more nutrition left in it how many years can it be i've heard is she talking logs routing for up to ten years if he had a really massive log it would take a some cases it uses up pretty much the whole thing  room like the ones that give you a little bit of room quite a bit different about the garden well and these are some of your samples our garden has a great story a long history and actually we love coming down every year to participate in the show so many people from seattle come to visit us so in a way this is just us reciprocating and coming to seattle to visit everyone here how big are the gardens the state is one hundred thirty acres and the developed area covers fifty five  victory a southern tip of vancouver island the tories are capital city and we're just north of there and what all do you do there i basically am in charge of anything to do with horticulture so  whole display the planning the greenhouse production nursery production planning design and all the fun stuff to do with stuff and i know it's been in bloom for over one hundred years how how many years granddaughter and her son is waiting in the wings and someday you'll be taken over so will be fifty generations so it's definitely stand in the family though that's the plan and that's a good plan so yeah we're looking forward to the next generation  thank you ok and that will close out our time here at the northwest learn garden show for two thousand and twelve or just have to wait for the twenty for next year two thousand and thirteen and have all your travel become an adventure learn more about the twenty fifth annual northwest flower and garden show with this year's stain being the silver screen takes root gardens go hollywood from february twentieth to twenty four at the washington state convention and trade center in downtown seattle freeway park at garden show dot com please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows well my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you the link and as always thank you for watching adventure t v where you go around there