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Episode 161: A Field Trip to the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
Let's Argue About Plants - June 21, 2024 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsThere’s nothing nicer than being outside on a beautiful late spring day, especially if it means you get a whole day away from your desk. Danielle, Carol, and digital editor Christine Alexander recently played hooky from their editorial duties and went on a horticultural adventure at one of New E...
Episode 160: The RHS Chelsea Flower Show with Annie Guilfoyle
Let's Argue About Plants - June 07, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsDid you ever wonder what it would be like to get exclusive access to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show? Well, your dreams have come true because in this exclusive interview we got an all-access pass to THE horticultural event of the year thanks to Annie Guilfoyle, a 2024 judge. Annie is co-founder of ...
Best Practices & Expert Tips for Rose Gardening
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 17, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsWe’ve touched on rose pests and diseases. This episode is dedicated to getting your rose garden started. Ensure you have proper conditions, pick the right roses, and just get growing! You won’t be disappointed in the results when you provide your rose garden with everything it needs. Epic Garde...
Episode 159: Plants that Take Sun and Shade
Let's Argue About Plants - May 17, 2024 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsChances are, you’ve got mixed conditions in your garden. One area might be in full sun, while another spot a bit farther away is in full shade. Even beds that have the same exposure on paper may have larger plants that shade out the ground below. This presents a challenge for developing a co...
Disease-Free Rose Growing
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 16, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsMany rose diseases can be prevented through proper care, which prevents pests that can spread diseases as well. But dealing with any diseases that crop up isn’t that difficult. Heirloom Roses owner, Ben Hanna has the essential tips for tackling rose diseases. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https...
Common Rose Pests and Prevention
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 15, 2024 14:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsThere are three components to keeping pests away from your roses: proper sunlight, watering, and fertilizing. Most rose plants recover from pest feeding, and most gardens already have a healthy population of beneficial insects. In this episode, Ben Hanna discusses ways to monitor and control rose...
Own-root Roses and Bare-Root Roses - What’s the Difference
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 14, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsWhat are you getting when you buy a rose at a big box store? Usually a grafted rose. A better option is to purchase an own-root rose, which is not only hardier, but will live much longer. Ben Hanna of Heirloom Roses explains why here. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3KgskuN B...
The Story of Heirloom Roses
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 13, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings11 years ago, Ben and his wife, Kara purchased Heirloom Roses from the former owners. Before that Ben was an executive in an electronics company. Since this lifestyle change, Ben and his family have truly enjoyed working for themselves with gorgeous roses. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://g...
Designing a Next-Level Chicken Coop
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 10, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIt’s chicken season! As the founders of Coop, Jordan Barnes and AJ Forsythe are avid chicken farmers, and they have eggs coming out of their ears. Listen to them discuss the differences between homegrown, farm fresh eggs and mass-produced eggs. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/...
Cleanliness and Chickens
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 09, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsSometimes the coop can get a little messy. In this episode, Kevin, AJ, and Jordan discuss tips and tricks that help chicken-keepers with hygiene. They also cover a few anecdotes about their adventures in chicken cleanliness. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/44nRLDR Botanical I...
Urban Farming - Demystifying Dirt for City Slickers
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 08, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsChickens don’t just have a practical function, they are also super fun! AJ and Jordan have found that chickens changed their connection to food. They’ve also enriched their lives with their personalities, and their desire for attention. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3QtbiNm ...
Chickens Do More Than Lay Eggs
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 07, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsChickens are great egg-layers, but they’re also excellent pest controllers, and garden fertilizers. You can turn 95% of your kitchen waste into eggs quickly too! In this episode, Jordan and AJ cover all the ways chicken-keeping benefits the growing space. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://gr...
Homegrown Eggs Are Best
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 06, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIt’s chicken season! As the founders of Coop, Jordan Barnes and AJ Forsythe are avid chicken farmers, and they have eggs coming out of their ears. Listen to them discuss the differences between homegrown, farm fresh eggs and mass-produced eggs. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co...
Encountering Challenges in the Garden
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 03, 2024 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsNo matter where you are, gardening involves dealing with a host of problems specific to your locale. Meg deals with heat and humidity, which brings in pests and diseases. She and Jacques compare the difficulties they deal with, and how they handle them. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://grow...
Episode 158: Plants That Earn Their Keep with Irvin Etienne
Let's Argue About Plants - May 03, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsIrvin Etienne is the curator of herbaceous plants and seasonal garden design at Newfields, a 152-acre campus with art galleries, performance spaces, world-class public gardens, and a nature park in Indianapolis. Irvin has been a frequent contributor to Fine Gardening, sharing his horticultural e...
Livestock: Growing With Garden Helpers
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 02, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsBeekeeping and chicken keeping are Meg’s newest gardening passions. Beekeeping is a huge endeavor, and a whole science she has to learn. Chicken keeping is something she’s more familiar with. In this episode, hear her and Jacques discuss gardening with livestock. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: h...
Growing and Preserving Flavorful Foods
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - May 01, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsMeg is keen to grow her garden specifically for the delicious foods she can cook and preserve. Here, she and Jacques discuss their favorites for their tastiness as it stands, and for preservation purposes. They also cover the best ways to extend their enjoyment of the harvest. Epic Gardening Sh...
Chaos Gardening, or Gardening Instinctively
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 30, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsOne year, Meg was so busy she only had time to throw and sow some seeds in her garden. She didn’t have time to plan it out, nor was there an opportunity to be super meticulous about her garden. What resulted was some of the best harvests she’s had. This is what she calls Chaos Gardening. Epic G...
Meg's Gardening Journey
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 29, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsGardening has always been a dream for Meg Lloyd. As a pre-med student taking a botany class, she realized this is what she should have done with her life. Fast forward to today, and Meg has a thriving backyard garden on her quarter acre lot full of delicious produce. Epic Gardening Shop Homepag...
Orchards
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 26, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKris and Jacques reflect on their adventures growing fruit. Kris has had some mixed results with different trees. Jacques just installed six trees and bushes at his hermitage. In this episode, they outline the best ways to practice orcharding at home. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growe...
Desert Island Vegetables
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 25, 2024 14:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIn the event of a zombie apocalypse, what would Jacques and Kris grow? Probably not a plant you can only harvest once, and certainly one that tastes good. Here they discuss their favorite veggie plants that provide plenty of calories, and have great adaptability. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage:ht...
Styles of Preservation
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsPreservation is a great way to reduce waste in the garden. In this episode, Jacques and Kris discuss all their favorite (and not so favorite) ways to preserve the food they grow in their gardens. From freezing, to drying, these two have some pretty awesome secrets to share. Epic Gardening Shop ...
Gardening Side Business
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 23, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsKris has a consulting business, called Grow a Little Garden where she teaches people to garden in raised beds. Jacques truly enjoys teaching people how to grow food at home with his Jacques in the Garden channel. Both of them love their vocations, in and out of Epic Gardening, because growing foo...
Introducing Kris
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 22, 2024 12:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsJacques and Kris are two of the first employees of Epic Gardening, and both of them got into growing their own food around the pandemic. Both of them truly love food, cooking, and most of all, eating. These interests sparked their jobs teaching other people how to garden. Epic Gardening Shop Ho...
Growing Dahlias From Seed
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 19, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsGrowing dahlias from seed is very different from cultivating them in their tuber stage. The difference lies mainly in that they produce a whole new variety, genetically. This doesn’t dampen their ability to feed the bees, and attract pollinators, but it does shorten their vase life. Epic Garden...
Episode 157: Flowering trees for every season
Let's Argue About Plants - April 19, 2024 13:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 374 ratingsDue to their size and expense, gardeners tend to put a lot more thought into the trees they ultimately buy for their landscape. While a perennial might only live for 6 or 7 years, a tree might grace your garden for 50 years or more—outliving the person who so carefully selected it, in fact. H...
Growing Dahlias From Tubers
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsWhen should you plant dahlia tubers, and what are the best ways to care for them? Jennifer Gulizia, head farmer at The Flowering Farmhouse has a lot of experience growing dahlias. And she has all the information you need to grow your own here! Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3U...
Growing Flowers You Love
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 17, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsIf you try to grow what’s popular, and you don’t love it, you won’t have the motivation to care for it! This is the key to cut flower farming according to Jennifer Gulizia. If you’re passionate about a type of flower, focus on growing that first, and then expand to caring for other species. Epi...
How To Sell Cut Flowers
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 16, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsHow does one start their own cut flower farm? Jennifer Gulizia of the Flowering Farmhouse is a seasoned flower farmer, and she has expert advice on this very topic. It all starts with a thought-out business plan that is tailored to your lifestyle. Remain practical, and flexible, and you’ll be set...
Starting a Cut Flower Farm
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers - April 15, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsJennifer Gulizia of the Flowering Farmhouse didn’t start her career in cut flower growing first thing. It wasn’t until after she did a stint in the corporate world and worked as a wedding photographer that she was inspired to cultivate gorgeous blooms. Hear her story about how she got there, and ...
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