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After all the effort you've put into cultivating your garden, it can be a letdown to find that some of your vegetables just aren't producing as they should. This week, we'll talk about some of the things that can afflict your plants, and keep them from performing their best!

I’m Emilie Moll, editorial assistant for Meadowlark Press, for the High Plains Public Radio Summer Reading List. Our small, independent press specializes in stories from the Midwest, and today I'll be talking about a Meadowlark Book, I’ve Been Fighting This War Within Myself by Antonio Sanchez-Day.

This is James Kenyon for the High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Summer Reading list. My book, A Cow for College tells 22 stories of a Western Kansas farm boy’s life. There were four children in our family spaced over 16 years.

MIA – Hi, my name is Mia Mendez and I’m 13 years old and I’m from Cimarron, Kansas. I recently read the book Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P Dobbs and her second book continuing on to that story The Other Side of the River.

This week Luke discusses a totally new way to cook outdoors. Rocket stoves come in many different designs but all produce an intense heat that is ideal for preparing a quick meal in the outdoors. Click and learn more about using these little stoves. Luke and Larry Weishuhn just released their new book about wild hogs. Signed copies are available at www.catfishradio.org.

One day last week, I went to a coffee shop downtown to meet a friend. I had a hardback book tucked under my arm to give to the friend, a historian who shares my interest in the twisting and sometimes tortured arc of American democracy.

You can put in all the effort you want, but no garden can thrive to its fullest potential unless it has good soil. This week, we'll talk about the importance of soil testing, and how to get your soil into optimum shape for growing!

This is Leslie VonHolten from HPPR’s Radio Readers on-air book club. This fall we invite you to read along with us as we explore books narrated Through the Eyes of a Child.

This classic explores the wondrous, sometimes bizarre of Alice on a journey through wonderland as she encounters a hookah-smoking Caterpillar, the Duchess with her baby (one that becomes a pig), the Cheshire Cat and a tea party with the Mad Hatter and March Hare.

As we move into the fall weather, and things start to cool off, autumn is the perfect time to grow lettuce and root vegetables for salads. This week, we'll talk about how to add to your kitchen table with some of the bounty from your garden!