664: Growing Flowers to Love Your Veggies
A Garden Chat with Lisa Ziegler. – Every vegetable garden can benefit from having beautiful flowers in and around the area. Beautiful blooms can boost the aesthetics and add a wide pallet of colors. Some flowers can repel unwanted pests, and some flowers can bring in healthy pollinators. Some flowers are even…
659: Companion Planting
A Seed Chat with Bill McDorman. – This is the December 2021 class discussing companion planting. Why work so hard in your garden? Gardening should be fun, relaxing and stress free. Unfortunately many of us don’t subscribe to that philosophy. We worry, we fret and we fear we aren’t doing…
632: Growing Fruit in Small Spaces
Don’t Let Yard Size Determine Your Harvests. – Are your fruit trees an experiment or an investment? Christy Wilhelmi talks about the steps needed to ensure that the fruit trees you plant in your yard are an investment that bears fruit. She covers every stage of the process, including planning your…
611: Caring for orchards with holistic biodynamic Tree Paste
Gardening tips, tricks, and advice in short, bite-size episodes: Greg is excited to speak with Andrew Faust about biodynamic tree paste, a concept Greg learned about years prior, yet it is not widely discussed. Andrew is an expert on biodynamics and he educates us on this…
610: Saving Seeds of Cucurbits
A seed chat with Bill McDorman: This is the May 2021 class discussing the main cucurbit species, crossbreeding squashes, and so much more on the main species of cucurbits and their differences that allow for ‘wild crosses’.
609: Growing Cover Crops for Multiple Benefits
Gardening tips, tricks, and advice in short, bite-size episodes – Marlene Simon from Flower Power Garden Hour Podcast returns to reveal the many ways that cover crops can be used in the garden to add nitrogen, shade, moisture, and more. Marlene explains the process of…
594: Designing Your Edible Landscape
A Garden Chat with Kristin Parsons – We visit with Kristin Parsons who helps us explore the beneficial concepts of permaculture design and how to integrate functionality into the outdoor living space. We cover the important components of…
588: Jessica Walliser on Science-based Companion Planting
Using tested methods to plan garden planting. Discovering the science-based facts behind companion planting, Jessica Walliser captivates us with her expert knowledge on the unique benefits that arise when pairing plants together. Jessica explains how companion planting can be used as a strategy to…
