Upside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast
170 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -Hi! We are Christy and Edith, backyard gardeners from Colorado. Lately, we have noticed more and more people picking our brains for tips and trouble-shooting about gardening. We think it’s kinda funny, because we’re not experts. We just learned a lot about gardening from the mistakes we made along the way. You always hear about Victory gardens – but what about all the garden failures? Gardening is about learning, experimenting and rolling with the punches. Every week we share our most epic garden failures and our biggest garden lessons. Most gardens are the result of trial and error. To reduce your chance of failure, join us in our gardens. And learn why you should plant your tulips butt side down.
Winner of Best New Podcast at 2020 Colorado Podcast Awards!
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It’s Time for Your Daily Garden Wordle: March! Seeds! Plant! Clean!
March 02, 2022 01:00 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBWhat you can and what you shouldn’t do in your March garden. Direct sowing, soil conditioning, temperature watching, winter sowing, indoor seedling starting, perennial clean up - it all starts now. When, what, and why to prune off your trees. And take time for Your Morning Wordle - our new pod play in honor of you, the gardeners. Learn How to Winter Sow! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards! Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merch! Visit our website for pix, goo...
76. It’s Time for Your Daily Garden Wordle: March! Seeds! Plant! Clean!
March 02, 2022 01:00 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBWhat you can and what you shouldn’t do in your March garden. Direct sowing, soil conditioning, temperature watching, winter sowing, indoor seedling starting, perennial clean up - it all starts now. When, what, and why to prune off your trees. And take time for Your Morning Wordle - our new pod play in honor of you, the gardeners. Learn How to Winter Sow! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards! Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merch! Visit our website for pix, goo...
75 - Oh Kale Yeah! Lettuce Grow all the Leafy Greens
February 23, 2022 01:00 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBWe took notes and name names. Of our favorite greens. Our goal is to have 9 months of fresh green salad stuff from the garden. Tips on growing endive, arugula, perpetual spinach, dwarf kale, corn salad, romaine and more. How to plant, harvest, care for, and fertilize. Along the way we get wayword and curdled noddles, grief stricken vegetables, and all root and no bulb enter the fray. Plus a brand new Old Woman Pod Play! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards! Get a UD...
75. Oh Kale Yeah! Lettuce Grow all the Leafy Greens
February 23, 2022 01:00 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBWe took notes and name names. Of our favorite greens. Our goal is to have 9 months of fresh green salad stuff from the garden. Tips on growing endive, arugula, perpetual spinach, dwarf kale, corn salad, romaine and more. How to plant, harvest, care for, and fertilize. Along the way we get wayword and curdled noddles, grief stricken vegetables, and all root and no bulb enter the fray. Plus a brand new Old Woman Pod Play! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards! Get a UD...
74 - How to Attact Flutters of Butterflies and Bees on Bikes for a Beautiful Garden
February 16, 2022 01:00 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MB“Butterflies are flying flowers and flowers are tethered butterflies” Saving our bees and butterflies is also saving our food sources. We explain how you can help whether you have a garden or a balcony or somewhere to plant milkweed seeds for Monarch butterflies. And how to get those seeds for free. What colors and plants attract not just a butterfly but a kaleidoscope of butterflies. Not just a single bee but perhaps a bike of bees. Why you should never plant a butterfly bush, perversely...
74. How to Attact Flutters of Butterflies and Bees on Bikes for a Beautiful Garden
February 16, 2022 01:00 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MB“Butterflies are flying flowers and flowers are tethered butterflies” Saving our bees and butterflies is also saving our food sources. We explain how you can help whether you have a garden or a balcony or somewhere to plant milkweed seeds for Monarch butterflies. And how to get those seeds for free. What colors and plants attract not just a butterfly but a kaleidoscope of butterflies. Not just a single bee but perhaps a bike of bees. Why you should never plant a butterfly bush, perversely...
73. Pot it Like It’s Hot: How to Propagate Your Houseplants
February 09, 2022 01:00 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBFind out which heirloom seed company will ship you seeds with no shipping fees, and hear what may be the worst joke in the world. Then learn how to make two or more houseplants out of your existing houseplants by rooting, stem cutting, or dividing. Discover what pantry staple can be used as a rooting hormone. And if you think a "rooting hormone" has anything to do with why you are loathe to leave the house, give us a listen. Also: What happens when a Crazy Cat Lady meets a Crazy Plant La...
ENCORE: We Have the Best Dirt on Soil. Get Digging!
February 02, 2022 01:00 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBIn this week's special encore episode, we share the difference between dirt, soil, top soil, potting soil, and seed starting soil. Who knew? We didn’t! But we do now. Also: How many worms in a shovelfull of good soil? How to use the principles of regenerative agriculture in your garden large or small. How do worms procreate and why should you care? Why does Plato the Greek philosopher think people are like dirt, and why you’ll agree with him. So many questions. We have answers to a l...
72. More Winter Sowing: How to Bring Seeds to Life in the Dead of Winter
January 25, 2022 21:14 - 48 minutes - 66.1 MBWinter Sowing 2! Good news! You don’t have to wait to garden. We answer your questions about how to sow seeds, outside in the winter. Does it matter where you live? When is the best time? Can you use compost? What is the best way to water? What kind of light? Should you ever take the tops off? What if it gets really cold? Along the way we have a hilarious headline correction from England, living bridges in India, and new ways to garden: free planting and leaving vegetable roots in t...
ENCORE: Take Out Your Jugs and Learn How to Winter Sow
January 19, 2022 01:00 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBIn this Encore Episode, Christy teaches us how to winter sow, and it’s about the coolest thing a gardener can do. Meet Johnny Hardscribble, a tough guy who needed a Hail Mary to save his spirits and found one in his garden. Meet the Gardeners of the Galaxy: The Fairy Godwater, the Bee Team, and the Mulch Master. We also answer the tough questions: can you put deer poop in your compost? What is a knot nematode? And if someone offers you bunny honey, don’t spread it on your bread. Edith has ...
71. Edith & Christy Plan Planting by the Seat of Their Pants: Our 2022 Garden
January 12, 2022 01:00 - 47 minutes - 65.2 MBThings to consider when planning your 2022 garden. How to lengthen the season in colder zones, new ways of watering, and inexpensive ways of providing shade. The new way Christy will plant her expensive herbs and the one herb Edith will never plant again. What you need to do in January to ensure getting the garden you want in July. Two treats for theater lovers: Hamlet and Ophelia in their frozen garden, and a mulch pile begging to be spread belts out Broadway tunes. “Ah, five, six, seven, ...
ENCORE: From the Ground Up: The First 3 Things To Do
January 05, 2022 01:00 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBYou want to plant a garden. Now what? In this Encore Episode, we explore Gardening 101: where to put your garden, how to determine what kind of soil you have, and how to amend it. But along the way we’re discussing Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania and Sir Walter Wally in Raleigh NC. We have tips on why thinning out boyfriends and carrots are important. We share soil tests you can do at home, with stuff from your pantry! Knot nematodes, spineless cactus, plumcots and cat skulls may not seem...
70. Our Favorite Mistakes 2021: Confession is Good for the Soul
December 28, 2021 02:00 - 42 minutes - 57.9 MB"I can use some socks.” If that quote doesn’t signal an exciting episode, we don’t know what does. It's our annual Favorite Mistakes of the Year! We go through our many gardening mistakes of 2021, some of which ended in... plantslaughter! From too much sun to not nearly enough, from a hostile poppy takeover to accidentally killing houseplants - learn from us. And laugh with us! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards! Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merch! Visit...
69. All the Jingle Ladies: An Upside Down Christmas
December 22, 2021 01:00 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBBlanket yourself with this delightful Christmas quilt of an episode. From the care of your Christmas tree, poinsettias, and amaryllis to a mailbag featuring two of the most heartwarming stories we’ve ever heard. Plus, the most unusual “12 Days of Christmas” you’ve ever heard, a way to frustrate scammers, and a stomach churning Gift of the Magi. And “The Ghosts of Gardens Past” to warm your eggnog. Happy Holidays! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards! Get a UDT Cof...
ENCORE: How to Grow Herbs - Here Today, Tarragon Tomorrow
December 15, 2021 01:00 - 48 minutes - 67 MBIn this Encore Episode, learn how to grow herbs! Have a container? A small patch of land somewhere? Plant herbs! There is nothing like fresh herbs that you have grown for your health, happiness, and recipe success. Let us help you with tips for sowing, growing, and harvesting your herbs. Plus intriguing truths: What is the most popular spice? (Hint, it isn't Baby) How the Romans used the herb savory. Why medieval monks were forbidden to grow it. Meet an herb whose leaves tastes SO GOO...
68. Gardening in Poo and Other Strange & Bizarre Gardens
December 08, 2021 02:22 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBEdith and Christy search the globe and outer space, looking for unusual gardens. From above the Arctic Circle, to the indigenous forests of Africa - from the ketchup and fries plant, to where you can find gardens inside taxicabs, to a parody of “The Martian” - so much great information presented alongside funny letters to Santa and groan worthy puns. The elves Wunorse Opanslae and Shinny Upatree warn us about the one gift they never should have given Mrs. Claus. Believe it... Or not! Suppor...
ENCORE: Tis the Gift to be Simple - Garden Gifts!
December 01, 2021 01:00 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MBIn this Encore Episode, you can end re-gifting with our suggestions of wonderful gifts you can make FROM the garden and FOR the gardener. From body butter to soup of the month to sage bundles to Herbs de Provence - in these times where so many of us are operating on a Bob Cratchit budget, make wonderful gifts for about a ha’penny. We also suggest some simple gifts for that special gardener in your life. Or for yourself! Or for us! We think we may be headed toward The Bigger Time - ca...
67. It‘s an Upside Down Thanksgiving! So Eat, Drink and Cranberry with Us!
November 24, 2021 01:00 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBHappy Thanksgiving! Like friends and family coming to our table, we have new letters from listeners as well as favorites from last year. They run the gamut from the missing mashed potatoes to Spudsgiving. Plus a new podplay about the Cranberry Wars. Oscar Wilde, the Buddha, and the Minneapolis Miracle are already seated. We’ve saved a place for you. We would be grateful if you joined us. Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards! Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merc...
66. Are You Ready for Some Garden Good News?
November 17, 2021 01:00 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MBWe have gathered only good news, because things have been stressful and we needed it. News about how gardeners like you are helping with climate change, how architects are designing skyscrapers that are covered in gardens, how Maine has put itself in the forefront of the right to grow your own food and how a gardener in Atlanta created a sitting garden for her neighborhood. And more! Also, an unsolved garden mystery involving a huge zucchini and a bad assed gardener who takes his cue from...
ENCORE: Good Garden Tools and Hacks That Don‘t Blow
November 09, 2021 19:39 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MBIn this Encore Episode, we talk about tools - not humans with appalling behavior but garden tools that help us out. Christy’s cartoon thumb bears witness to the importance of tools. She has definitely paid the price for yanking the cosmos. Hori knives in holsters, hand weeders, hacks you find in your kitchen or garage. Tools that blow which might make you feel like you’re licking the sidewalk. Waste of money tools. Tools with cancer warnings that has Edith playing detective. Meet Janell...
65. Things Get Better With Sage: How to Grow Herbs Indoors
November 03, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MBIt's go thyme! This week is all about how to grow an indoor herb garden. But first, Edith encounters a persnickety security system demanding a “secret word”, Christy is starting a produce section in her attic, and we both had a fennel fail. What is the Persephone Period? We will tell you. If you’re as determined as we are to grow fresh herbs indoors this winter, give us a listen. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme - not just an old Simon and Garfunkle song. It could be part of your kitchen ...
64. The Legend of Creepy Colorado Gardens - Upside Down Halloween Special
October 27, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 66.1 MBIt’s Halloween 2. We’ve got Tom Cruise, Ichabod Grain, and Canable Pectin. Wrap yourself in our Halloween quilt with the best stories from last year, new stories from our listeners, and two new podplays. We have tricks: how to eat an eyeball if you have to; and treats: The Silence of the Lamb’s Ear and a headless garden ghost. Revisit the haunted Fordney mansion which holds a true ghost story and find out what could happen if you garden after dark on Halloween. We’ve got tricks, treats a...
63. Do You Know What We Did Last Summer? We Spill the Beans
October 20, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBWe share new things we tried last summer and how they worked out. Good, bad, and ugly things. Important things like which tomatoes to plant to get rid of a soil fungus, the easiest beautiful annual to care for, how to have fresh greens in your garden for 8 months, and what is and how to grow a successful moon garden. Do you know what a Maximillian sunflower is and why it’s great to have it in your garden? And for chuckles, pod plays about being the quarterback in a garden football game and ...
62. Bring It In and Bring It On: How to Overwinter Your Favorite Plants
October 13, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 64 MBDo you want to have a headstart for your plants in next year’s garden? We have the details on bringing in geraniums, rosemary, and peppers. The harden off/soften on method, the pruning, misting, microclimating, and dormancy inducing techniques that help your plants survive the winter in your house. Plus how to grow plants from cuttings. As well as a question about broccolini, a story about beavers, a 172 lb. cabbage, and a 76 pound rutabaga. It’s a supersized episode! Both of us laugh, bot...
61. We Can Can and We Can Freeze. Won‘t You Join Us?
October 06, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MBWe are not an “organic proprietary mixture”, although we get a little ticked off by something that claims it is. We go into all the dos & don'ts and pros & cons and easy tips for how to freeze and can your harvest for the winter. Plus more drama: what died all by itself on Edith's hügelkultur? Why does Christy's pumkin look like Walter Matheau? Why is Edith afraid of canning equipment? And what, in the garden, will give you more, the more you use? These kind of miracles, giving trees, and ...
60. Why a Toilet Paper Roll is Perfect for Your Garden & Other Repurpose Ideas
September 29, 2021 00:00 - 42 minutes - 58.3 MBA spanking new episode exploring upcycling for your garden: toilet paper rolls are not just for making chunky necklaces anymore. Second lives for soda bottles, boots, toilets, broken tools, bathtubs, tires and more. Learn to make your own pots for seedlings and then use a ‘seedling apartment building’ to shelter them. Whether it’s a recipe for drying cherry tomatoes with zero energy use, or a recipe for roasted tomato salsa, or the recipe that might have kept Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara...
59. We Have a Garlic Crush. Let‘s Learn How to Grow Better Garlic
September 22, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutes - 56.3 MBEverything you wanted to know about growing, curing, and storing garlic. The difference between hardneck and softneck garlic. What they have in common are fantastic health benefits. In Romania it is often considered as good as antibiotics! Plus eat the rainbow that’s not Skittles - a vegetable’s color is an indication of its health benefits. We explain. What we’re planting now - hoping it will overwinter and give us vegetables early in Spring 2022. And we pepper this barrage of informati...
58. This Week We are Inappropriate, in the Raw and in the Garden
September 15, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MBEating raw fruits and veggies is not only great for your health, but for your energy bills, and the environment as well. Not enamored of eating a pile of plain raw veggies for dinner? We have suggestions: recipes for cold soups, sauces, salsas and smoothies. If a Colorado garden zone 5B can produce fresh greens allowing you to eat uncooked nutritious foods for about 7 months, so, most likely, can your zone. Better skin, great gut health, improve your immunity: eat it raw. Plus we solve the...
57. Will We See You in Your September Garden? We Hope So!
September 08, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBThe September garden: watch out for frosts and for insects making homes in your garden cantaloupes. A to-do list that includes the hows and whys of watering, planting, harvesting, fertilizing, and weeding. What to do with a tsunami of tomatoes. Taking care of your lawn, flowers, and trees. We are so full of good information we could burst like Christy’s forgotten pumpkin. We also have questionable information as Edith gives her theory of the evolution of the French language. Could it possibl...
56. We Are Ripe for the Pickin‘ - So Let Us Help You Know When to Harvest
September 01, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MBWe want you to have a happy harvest so we let you know when your veggies are ripe. From beans to zucchini and most things in between, it’s about color, texture, smell, shriveled stems, green caps, tight heads, and leaves dying back. It might surprise you that in most cases, size doesn’t matter. Seed collector alert: what to start looking for before they blow away. Meet Buff Biffins the plant homicide detective who learns that sometimes you gotta be cruel to be kind in the garden. Saints, ass...
55. Linger in Your Garden Longer: How to Extend Your Season
August 25, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBWe give a tip of the hat to our Curmudgeons and share a story about the power of unexpected kindness. What you can plant today and still harvest before winter and why you should plant trees now. How to extend the life of the vegetables you have past your first frost date, the Persephone period explained, and sheltering plants for the winter so they’re alive come Spring. What happened to bad smelling Gunther and why the Dormouse accuses Alice of being a poisoner and a perv. We know better ...
54. Why Do We Love to Hate Bindweed? It's Kinda Convoluted
August 18, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MBThe ubiquitous bane of the gardener - Bindweed. There seem be at least 50 ways to fight your bindweed - pulling, snipping, solarizing, suffocating, boiling, blow torching (really), using strong chemicals that kill everything around it and sometimes leaving bindweed standing alone on the hill, victory flag in hand. Yes, gardeners, it’s war. We’re on your side discussing what could work and how long it could take. Note: Be patient. And presenting 3 short comedies to ease your (and our) frustr...
53. The Best Ways to Save Water in Your Garden. Now Almond Free
August 11, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBWe’re talking ways to save water that is both nutritious and free. There’s more to watering than what comes from your hose. We’re talking rainwater, gray water, black water, cooking water. One of these things is not like the other, however. How to collect water, store it, apply it to your garden. How to help save your lawn and water bill in this heat. From sprinklers, soaker hoses, rain barrels, and water absorbing polymers to aeration and hydrozoning, we cover this topic as thoroughly as...
52. What's the Matter With My Tomatoes? BLT Help is Here
August 04, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MBWe discuss the things that can happen to your tomatoes, the ‘risks’ as it were: blossom end rot, blossom drop, not setting fruit, not ripening, Septoria, early blight, late blight, middle aged blight (just kidding on that last one). We tell you how to fix what can be fixed and when to throw in the trowel and not beat yourself up about it. Cause it’s probably not your fault! Plus Antelope Twomey is back with a moving and funny poem called “Ode to the Gardener”. It’s all about you, our gentl...
51. The Best Garden Tips Are From Your Good Friends
July 28, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 66.5 MBWe discuss what we (and hopefully you) learned from each other this past year. Like how to do your own soil test, and what is Soil Pep? (It has nothing to do with pompoms or short skirts). We discuss gardening by grid, taking suckers off of tomato plants, how to garden without disrupting the natural way of things, why Christy has changed her mind on a certain store bought fertilizer and what went horribly, nauseatingly wrong with Edith’s Bokashi experiment. Gardening is not for the squeami...
50. First Anniversary Special: Good Thymes in the Garden
July 21, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MBIt’s Episode 50! And our First Anniversary! (Which means we’ve been doing this for a year and we’re not so good at math.) Thank you to everyone who has listened over the last year! We truly love this community of gardeners, friends and stewards of the planet. To celebrate, we share are a few of our favorite moments from the year: From the silly - shredded tweet and Salvadore Dilly, to the profound - May Sarton’s quote about gardening, we’ve got you covered. We fill in between the tw...
49. Upside Down Grub Hub: How to Deal With Japanese Beetles
July 14, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBIt’s hot and dry July. The early season plants are reaching their endtimes, flowers need to be deadheaded and the Japanese beetles are back! To temper the horror of that, Edith wrote a poem! We then talk 50 ways to kill your Japanese beetles. You could sweep, bag, spray, trap, grind, or entice them with a lovely fruit cocktail. (Fruit cocktail? What is this, 1954?) You could also try Neem Oiling or Milky Sporing them to their everlasting rest. Then, for a little dark humor, we brought ba...
49 - Upside Down Grub Hub: How to Deal With Japanese Beetles
July 14, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBIt’s hot and dry July. The early season plants are reaching their endtimes, flowers need to be deadheaded and the Japanese beetles are back! To temper the horror of that, Edith wrote a poem! We then talk 50 ways to kill your Japanese beetles. You could sweep, bag, spray, trap, grind, or entice them with a lovely fruit cocktail. (Fruit cocktail? What is this, 1954?) You could also try Neem Oiling or Milky Sporing them to their everlasting rest. Then, for a little dark humor, we brought ba...
48. This is July & We Love Hanging With Our Gnomies
July 07, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MBThe start of July means summer is in full swing and our gardens are at the peak of the season. It is also a big month for garden maintenance. So we have gathered together over 20 tips on what you should be doing in your July garden - what not to plant, what you can plant, what to deadhead, how to get broccoli baby heads even if your original plant goes to seed. Plus: helpful info on pinching, watering, weeding, staking, dividing, mulching. So many "ings!" Don’t know what a farrier is? Nei...
47. Victory is Vine! Why We Love Climbers and Scramblers
June 30, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes - 68.4 MBWe’re thrice potting cucumbers and shaking seed heads, all while exploring the world of vines. So much more than just a conveyance for Tarzan, vines shelter, give beauty, grow food, attract pollinators and hide unsightly views. Not even to mention that’s how grapes grow and that’s what makes wine! Which vine’s seeds cause paralysis, labored breathing and convulsions- and still has “sweet” in its name? (That may be taking forgiveness a step too far.) Let us introduce you to the Lazy H...
46. Announcing Top 10ish Garden Tips We Forgot to Tell You
June 23, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MB“Hope is being planted and I feel it growing.” We’re quoting from a listener’s letter because we’re too hot to say anything worth quoting. BUT we did have the presence of mind to gather about 10ish garden tips we forgot to tell you in the past year. Like what is well drained soil? Can you plant in a ziplock bag? Do you need different fertilizers for different plants and what is elbow soap? Why you should pinch your mum now and what the appearance of dog vomit slime mold tells you. Free r...
45. Here is the Poop on Fertilizing Your Garden
June 16, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 63.1 MBThings are popping in the garden and we’re getting down with our hoes. Christy’s roses are opening, something absconded with her cauliflower plants, and her rosemary after surviving the grim winter, has a ceased to be. It’s like a vegetal soap opera! If you think NPK is an arm of the Russian Secret Service, you need this episode. If you want to know why Edith is reading War and Pees in her bathroom, you should listen. We explain how and when to fertilize flowers, vegetables, roses, and hous...
44. June is Bustin' Out All Over in the Garden
June 09, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBHere is your June "Get 'Er Done" List! Someone once said if you have to tell people you’re hip and relevant, you’re probably not. We politely yet vigorously disagree. Cause we’ve got slamming plants and vibrating stamens. Exploding gardens and hoe jokes. Doing the ‘what is dead’ search. It sounds like an action filled sci fi adventure, but it’s just another week in the gardens of Christy and Edith. From succession planting to mulching, supporting and staking, and it’s last call for se...
44 - June is Bustin' Out All Over in the Garden
June 09, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBHere is your June "Get 'Er Done" List! Someone once said if you have to tell people you’re hip and relevant, you’re probably not. We politely yet vigorously disagree. Cause we’ve got slamming plants and vibrating stamens. Exploding gardens and hoe jokes. Doing the ‘what is dead’ search. It sounds like an action filled sci fi adventure, but it’s just another week in the gardens of Christy and Edith. From succession planting to mulching, supporting and staking, and it’s last call for se...
43. Mostly Fresh Tomatoes: A Special Encore of Plump Things
June 02, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MBWell, slap some bacon on that Vitamin K, it's an encore! We discuss tomatoes from seeds to BLT’s. In the Middle Ages, Europeans thought of them as poisonous, the French thought they were an aphrodisiac and called them love apples. The Aztec called them “plump things with a navel”. Plus: The difference between determinate, indeterminate, heirloom and hybrid tomatoes are discussed. All you need to know about planting, staking, and harvesting tomatoes. What to do about blossom end rot, blotch...
42. Garden Laughs 2: More of Just the Funny
May 26, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBPardon our garden clogs as we take time to work in our gardens and present our second episode of all garden comedy. Every gardener has a sense of humor. How else can we survive all the missteps and surprises? Can bindweed make you laugh? We think so - revisit the Bindweed Singles Service and the worse come on lines you’ve ever heard - and we hope you will agree. Remember Agnes, the easily distracted creative writing teacher who also has a call in gardening show? We’ve got all the Agneses r...
41. Roses: Good in a Bed and Up Against the Wall
May 19, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MB“No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall." This is the catalog description of a rose named for a former first lady. Her reaction to it is priceless. We’ve got the info on how and where to plant, prune, fertilize, water and care for the Queens of the Garden: Roses. Save money and up your rose game with our easy homemade fertilizer suggestions. We tell you about a thousand year old climbing rose that survived a WW2 bombing that destroyed the cathedral on whose walls it grew. Plus: d...
40. Perennial Discretion Advised: Rhubarb Murder & Other Strange Tips
May 12, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBAnd just how supple do you think Sleeping Beauty was after she slept for a hundred years? It does have something to do with gardening, we swear. We discuss the unique requirements to grow perennial vegetables: rhubarb, horseradish, artichoke, asparagus and leek. They come back year after year with minimum care. And not just for food: here’s a recipe to lighten your hair naturally with rhubarb. We also reveal the answer to why asparagus makes your pee smell funny and the artichoke’s secre...
39. How To Grow Irresistible Iris: We Don't Squirrel Around
May 05, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes - 67.9 MBThe Puckerbutt Pepper Company. Now that we have your attention, meet the subject of this episode, the superstar of perennials: the Iris. Used in perfumes, Bombay Saphire gin, and immortalized by artists: you gotta grow an iris. Really, so easy. We tell you, in detail, everything you need to know to keep this flower, grown by the Greeks and Egyptians, alive and thriving. With not a lot of effort. You don’t even have to mulch it! And you can ship it! Why painting them kept Van Gogh’s sanit...
38. How to Grow Herbs - Here Today, Tarragon Tomorrow
April 28, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutes - 64.8 MBHave a container? A small patch of land somewhere? Plant herbs! There is nothing like fresh herbs that you have grown for your health, happiness, and recipe success. Let us help you with tips for sowing, growing, and harvesting your herbs. Plus intriguing truths: What is the most popular spice? (Hint, it isn't Baby) How the Romans used the herb savory. Why medieval monks were forbidden to grow it. Meet an herb whose leaves tastes SO GOOD to 8o% of humans, is inedible to the other 20%, ...