In this podcast, Amy Grisak shares how to deal with powdery mildew on your rosemary plants. Every winter I bring my rosemary plant indoors and count down the days until it can go back outside. Rosemary isn’t thrilled being in a pot in a warm, dry house, which makes it susceptible to to diseases and ...
ListenIn this podcast, Ellen Wells instructs us on how to train cucumbers to grow on a trellis. It can be tricky to get them vertical! “I grew my cucumbers vertically up a cattle fence panel and I’ve never had such a huge harvest,” my brother mentioned to me during our Thanksgiving catch-up phone call. Craig ...
Listen | Edible GardeningIn this podcast, Ellen Wells from our 'Just Veggies' blog shares the best way to grow raspberries on a trellis and why you'll never go back. Grow raspberries on a trellis system and you’ll never look back. That’s basically what my brother Craig said about his favorite new bramblebush growing method. Both Craig and I ...
Listen | Edible GardeningIn 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 ...
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