768: Integrated Pest Management – A Garden Chat

A Chat with an Expert on, Gardening Basics, Pest ManagementLeave a comment

A Garden Chat with Teresa Watkins. – Integrated pest management is a concept that looks at all the ways of managing pest pressure and uses the least impactful one first. Greg talks with Teresa Watkins about how to use the least harmful method of pest control to the environment first, which could mean picking off insects off the plants, or even spraying aphids off a plant with water. It means using the best management practices to help prevent pests or diseases before they arrive…

Farmer Greg under a tree

611: Caring for orchards with holistic biodynamic Tree Paste

Biodynamics, Companion Planting, Education and Learning, Fruit Trees, Garden Based Education, Gardening Basics, Healthy Soil, Holistic, Homesteading or Farmsteading, Managing Plant Issues, Permaculture and Design, Pest Management, Podcast - Previously Patron Only (now free), Regenerative or Sustainable, Small Space GardeningLeave a comment

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…

586: Niki Jabbour on Growing Under Cover

Cold Region Gardening, Education and Learning, Frugality, Garden Based Education, Gardening Basics, Greenhouse or Hoophouse, Health, Homesteading or Farmsteading, Permaculture and Design, Pest Management, Podcast - Previously Patron Only (now free), Pollinator Animals, Regenerative or Sustainable, Seed Varieties, Small Space Gardening, Specialty FarmingLeave a comment

Protecting gardens from cold weather and pests and extending growing seasons. – An intriguing conversation on how to garden year-round in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour illustrates her growing techniques that she claims to be a ‘game-changer’ in her garden. Niki describes the different types of…

Garden eating culprit

What’s Eating My Garden?? An Epic Adventure with a Twist at the End!

A Blog Article on, Gardening Basics, Support systems4 Comments

By Guest Bloggers: Jim & Roxanne Malinski – We live in southeast Chandler, AZ in a neighborhood established 20 years ago.  Last year in mid-September (2018) we planted romaine lettuce, curly kale, rainbow blend carrots (all seed) and six small broccoli plants in my vegetable garden (raised 6’x12’ plot).  Within a couple weeks everything was…