Dave and Colleen visit Ciscoe’s garden

Famous Seattle gardener Ciscoe Morris has a to-do list for you this weekend. To celebrate the start of spring, he took KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross and Colleen O’Brien on a tour of his personal garden.

“The kids call this garden the jungle and there’s good reason for that. You should see it in the middle of summer. Ooh la la.”

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It’s time to tame those tangled messes. Much like rhododendrons and forsythia, Ciscoe said prune your camellia the minute it’s done blooming.

“After they’re done blooming, they put out new growth and set their buds for next spring. That’s what blooms next year. If you wait too long, you interfere with that process,” he said.

While you’ve got the shears out, Ciscoe said to thin out your camellia. His former professor told him a bird should be able to fly through it when you’re done.

If you’re like Dave and don’t appreciate a brown camellia bloom, Ciscoe recommends the C.W. Wilson variety.

If you’re itching to plant veggie seeds, Ciscoe said any kind of peas do well in cooler spring weather. He likes sugar snap peas.

“It’s been scientifically proven no one can take a bite of one right off the vine without their socks rolling up and down. So be careful,” he said.

It’s also time to plant greens like spinach and arugula.

Ciscoe said he’s going to try something new this year: the Ketchup ‘N’ Fries tomato plant. Someone figured out how to graft a potato onto a tomato so that the roots grow spuds. He said the plant is expect to produce about 45 pounds of potatoes, in addition to small cherry tomatoes above ground.

Molbak’s and Swansons nurseries will likely get the new tomato plant in mid-April, according to Ciscoe. Don’t plant a tomato plant before Mother’s Day, he warned.