In this podcast, Leslie Miller goes over the history and benefits of Ironweed in your garden and the pollinators around you. One fall several years ago, I found a volunteer flower on the edge of my woods, in a sunny spot. Despite having a yard full of pollinator-attracting plants, this volunteer had more activity than ...
Listen | Gardening BasicsIn this podcast, Leslie Miller extols the virtues of bees and how to help them with your garden. In my gardens, bumble bees are some of my favorite visitors. Besides being exceptional pollinators, I think they are incredibly beautiful insects. I liken them to flying school buses because they don't appear to be particularly aerodynamic, ...
Listen | Gardening BasicsI dedicated four posts in early spring based on a do-it-yourself DIY log-grown mushroom class. This harvest-related update is built on upon those four posts: Phase 1, Substrate Acquisition Phase 2, Inoculation Phase 3, Spawn Run Phase 4, Production Did I Harvest? Yes! Round about early June I noticed one small pancake-sized shiitake mushroom growing ...
Listen | Container GardeningPlantlingsPlus to the rescue for any of you who have forgotten to sow a crop of greens and cold-season crops for fall harvest. The Fall PlantlingsPlus Collection from Ferry-Morse is a line of 20 varieties of vegetables, herbs and ornamental flowers that are at least 4-6 inches tall when they arrive at your door. With ...
Listen | Container GardeningI used vertical supports to hold my four zucchini plants off the ground this summer. I had given up using tomato cages a few years ago for several reasons, but still had the cages hanging around the garden. Employing them as supports for my zucchini was one of those “Huh, I’ve never done this before, ...
ListenIn this podcast, Elizabeth Morse shows how Container Gardening with Flowers and Vegetables combines form and function. Container Gardening with Flowers and Vegetables combines form and function. I adore sneaking edible plants into "pretty" containers to maximise my harvest and add huge interest to arrangements. Follow these tips: Increase Your Bounty Anywhere you plant flowers ...
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