Gardenerd Tip of the Week

Lois de Vries created the Sustainable Gardening Library to make sure everyone has access to accurate, science-based, gardening knowledge they can rely on.

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Our guest this week on the Podcast is Helen Atthowe. She has develop techniques to reduce and eventually eliminate fertilizer inputs. It's all in her new book.

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The Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast features great pest control tips from our guest experts. We combed through our archives for the best tips to share with you.

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On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week, we’re sharing the best tomato & pepper tips from our archives. Listen to segments of past interviews for helpful tips and bountiful knowledge from our guest experts. Just in time for salsa season! These excerpts are from earlier in our podcast history, when we recorded […]

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Our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week is Bevin Cohen. Nerd alert! He's here to talk about growing and pressing your own edible oils.

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We have our youngest guest ever on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week. 7 year-old Kendall Rae Johnson is the youngest Certified Farmer in Georgia. She and her mom and dad, Ursula and Quinton, own and run aGrowKulture Urban Farm.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we dive into edible flowers with Loria Stern. She's the author of Eat Your Flowers, a book bearing the name of her garden-to-table catering and private chef business.

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This week's guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, Maria Rodale, has a family lineage tied to the foundation of organic gardening research.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Chris McLaughlin. We chat about her newest book, The Good Garden, & how to create a garden that is good for both us & the planet.

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Em Shipman is the executive director of KidsGardening.org. She helps guide parents, caregivers, and teachers with ideas for gardening with kids.

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Our guest this week is Nicky Schauder from Permaculture Gardens. We talk about her grant-funded study of the effectiveness of compost tea

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Lisa Kivirist. She's an author of 6 books, an advocate for entrepreneurs, and is co-owner of Inn Seredipity Farm.

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Noelle Johnson (the AZ Plant Lady) is our guest this week. She shares her tips for growing a beautiful, lush garden in dry climates, which can be found in her new book, Dry Climate Gardening.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we chat with Jill Ragan, author of The Tiny but Mighty Farm.

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Aaaaand we're back with spring tips with Christy! Our first podcast of 2023 gives you an update on what's growin' on and helpful To-Dos for your winter/early spring garden.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Rick Nahmias, the founder and CEO of Food Forward.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Charlotte Ekker Wiggins, a fellow beekeeper and writer. We chat about her ingenious beekeeping tips, as well as her tricks for gardening on a limestone hillside.

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Our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week is Ashlie Thomas, author of How to Become A Gardener. Her popular Instagram feed, @The.Mocha.Gardener, is filled with gardening inspiration and tips for newbies.

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We go full-nerd this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, with Jeff Lowenfels and his new book about endophytic bacteria. Learn what they are and why they are important.

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Today Robin Jones of Honey Girl Grows returns to the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. We chat about bees and monarchs and stuff you might not know yet.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we're chatting with Joe Lamp'l about his new book and his garden in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Teri Speight is back on the podcast this week. She spoke with us a few months ago about her book, The Urban Garden, which she co-authored with Kathy Jentz. Today we’re chatting about her other book, Black Flora.

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Our guest this week on the Podcast, Jose Ramirez, was featured recently in the LA Times for his home orchard. He transformed a weedy patch of land into a low-water, fruit-filled paradise.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we address the need for a garden sabbatical with Devorah Brous.

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On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week, we travel to Australia to chat with Adina Oosterwijk about community greening.

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On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week we chat with Dan Lambe, the CEO of The Arbor Day Foundation. Dan shares his knowledge of how important trees are for the continuation of life on earth.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week is David King of The Learning Garden. He's been on the podcast before, but we brought him back to talk about a major construction project that destroyed the Learning Garden during the pandemic.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, it's change of pace day. Just you and me, gardenerds. In this episode I address a few topics that keep coming up with clients and curious minds alike.

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On this week's Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we talk shop with Catherine McLaughlin, the Design Studio Principal from Farmscape about the rookie mistakes even professional landscape designers make when it comes to raised bed vegetable garden design.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we're chatting with Marcus Bridgewater. He's the author of the new book How To Grow: Nurture Your Garden, Nurture Yourself.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we cover urban gardening ideas with Kathy Jentz and Teri Speight.

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Alexia Allen lives on Hawthorn Farm in Washington state, where she and her husband spent the entire year of 2017 eating only hand-harvested food.

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Our podcast guest this week is Kim Flottum, long time beekeeper and author of more than 6 books. His latest book, is all about common sense natural beekeeping.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Kay'aleya Hunnybee Bonnette of The Herbal Womb. She's a clinical herbalist and integrative health educator.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we explore what makes a healthy garden with Mary-Kate Mackey.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we chat with Stephanie Rose about regenerative garden projects that create change in your garden.

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Nerd alert! This week's guest is all about the "woodchip" as they say in Great Britain ("wood chips" for Americans). Ben Raskin joins us this week.

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This week on the Podcast, we journey down an unconventional rabbit hole with Joseph Lofthouse into landrace gardening.

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This week we chat with a long-time colleague and fellow gardenerd, Robert Kourik.

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We welcome back Rishi Kumar of Sarvodaya Institute to the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week. Rishi has been a guest once before, but things have shifted since our last c

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We've had great guests on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this year. In our last episode of 2021, Christy shares her year-end thoughts from the year.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Justin West, co-founder of Thrive Lot. Justin developed Thrive Lot after a decade in a successful career in marketing.

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This week we're talking with Nicole Burke of Gardenary. She created a successful gardening business built on efficient edible gardening techniques. She shares some of her knowledge and expertise in this episode of the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podc

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Toni Gattone is our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. Toni is a garden speaker, educator, and the author of The Lifelong Gardener: Gardening with Ease and Joy at Any Age. She shares her tricks for adaptive gardening and gardening as we age.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we’re chatting with Jeff Pierce, an urban homesteader in Sonoma County, California. Jeff and his wife raise bees, veggies, fruits, and mushrooms.

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This week our guest is Liz Zorab, author of Grounded: A Gardenerd's Journey to Abundance & Self Sufficiency. She and her husband bought a barren stretch of land in the middle of agricultural territory and turned it into a Permaculture paradise called Byther Farm.

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Sonya Harris learned how to garden with kids as she learned to garden herself. She went from finding dirt "icky" to growing food for her community at the Bullock Garden Project. We chat about her journey from newbie to expert in this episode of the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast.

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This week we’re chatting with Leslie Harris of LH Gardens in Charlottesville, Virginia. Leslie has over 30-years of experience as an educator, coach, and passionate home gardener. She also has her own podcast called Into the Garden with Leslie.

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Our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week is Greg Peterson of The Urban Farm in Phoenix, Arizona. Greg is a permaculturist and green living innovator specializing in urban sustainability and growing food on dry lands.

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This week's guest, Naomi Wentworth, goes beyond basic composting with her company, The Compost Group. She started a local compost hub in San Diego, CA, a

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Our guest this week is Mike Lizotte of American Meadows. He’s better known as “the Seed Man” because of his passion for planting wildflower gardens.

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Our guest this week is the ever-enthusiastic evangelist about biodynamics, Steven Wynbrandt. He's the founder of Wynbrandt Farms and Wynbrant Farms Biodynamic Compost. Steven teaches biodynamics around the world and puts his training into practice in his own garden in Los Angeles.

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Back in April we spoke with a fellow Great Grow Along speaker, Wendy Kiang-Spray about growing and cooking with Asian vegetables. Wendy is the author of The Chinese Kitchen Garden: Growing Techniques and Family Recipes for a Classic Cuisine. She's a speaker and inspirational garden blogger, and she just lived through the cicada emergence in Maryland.

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This week we're delighted and honored to have Ira Wallace as a guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. Ira is co-owner of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and is a well-known seed saver and educator.

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Our guest this week is Matt Rees-Warren, author of The Ecological Gardener: How to Create Beauty & Biodiversity from the Soil Up. He chats with Christy from his home in England about how we can reduce plastic, conserve resources, and create ecosystems in our gardens.

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This week's guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is an inspiration in every way. Tasha Powell took her own journey toward growing food, and turned it into the community-led non-profit organization now called Appetite for Change, in North Minneapolis, MN.

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Our guest this week is Lisa Steele of Fresh Eggs Daily. She shares how to keep chickens and a garden at the same time. Listen in and learn more.

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Amanda Thomsen was one of the early bloggers on the gardening scene, and her attitude is best explained by the title of her blog and first book: Kiss My Aster. Amanda is our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, where she shares her philosophy along with some great tips for garden design, planting success, and more. 

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This week we travel to Compton, CA, where Kathleen Blakistone runs Moonwater Farm. Livestock, a garden, a pond, a food forest, and teaching spaces make up the heart of this urban farm. Kathleen shares her journey of bringing the farm to life amid asphalt and other urban influences in this historically agricultural community. 

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You can expect an interesting conversation on this week's Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast as we chat with Ellen Zachos about foraged foods.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is landscape designer, author, and speaker Jan Johnsen. In addition to running her own landscape design firm, she is an award-winning instructor at the New York Botanical Garden.  

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We're excited to talk pest control with Susan Mulvihill this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. Susan uses IPM to manage pests in her garden, and her latest book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, gives gardenerds the tools they need to tackle any pest problem.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Tessa Wardley, a former global environmental policy consultant, and current policy advisor to the UK’s Department of the Environment.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we chat with Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening.

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Our first guest of 2021 is Carmen Eldridge. She and her husband Tripp are the full-time farm directors at The Arden Agrihood, a 5-acre community farm in Palm Beach, Florida

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The title of this week's podcast with Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm doesn't come close to describing all that we touched on in our conversation. If you add the topics of history, racism, enslavement, capitalism, labor laws, nutrition, and policy advocacy you might scratch the surface.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we're chatting with Charlie Nardozzi about his new book, The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening. He shares his tricks for laboring less to build better soil.

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This week on the podcast it's just you and me, gardenerds, and we're talking bare root fruit trees and perennial vegetables. Now is a great time to pre-order these items for your garden

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we chat with Sanjay Rawal, the director of the new documentary film Gather, and the award-winning film Food Chains.

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The pandemic has led to cabin fever and Zoom burnout, so this week our conversation with Rachel Jepson Wolf inspires unplugged family activities that celebrate the seasons.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we explore native habitats and landscapes with David Newsom of Wild Yards Project. David is an amateur native plant enthusiast but you'd never know it when you see his garden.

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Our guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Rebecca Tickell this week. She's the co-director and producer of Kiss the Ground, the new documentary from Big Picture Films.

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This week's podcast guest is Brittany App, professional photographer and documentary filmmaker. Brittany is completing her film, Where There Once Was Water, which dives into the California drought and the quest for a sustainable future.

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Our guest this week is David White of Center for Regenerative Agriculture. He's got a PhD in cell biology and uses compost tea and other regenerative practices to rebuild dead soils. He shares his tips for growing healthy soil in your garden.

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This week's guest is Natalie Flores, founder of Nourish LA. Natalie answered the call to action during the Covid-19-induced food crisis. NOTICE: We're moving our podcast RSS feed to a new URL. You may see duplicated posts during this time.

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Our guest this week is Manju Kumar of the Sarvodaya Institute. She shares her philosophy about gardening and her favorite sub-tropical and tropical fruits to grow.

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Our guest this week is Randy Ritchie, co-founder, CEO, & director of Sales & Marketing for Malibu Compost. We talk about true organic gardening methods, how Malibu Compost came to be and much more.

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My guest this week is Eric Werbalowsky of Ventura Organic Garden Design. Eric is a permaculturist, edible landscaper designer, and award-winning compost master also known as Doctor Compost.

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This week's guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Tom Spellman of Dave Wilson Nursery. He shares his best tips for growing fruit trees for a successive harvest over several months up to year-round.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we bend the ear of Guy Frenkel, LA's own sourdough mad scientist. His popular Instagram feed shares picture-perfect, wildly-colored loaves of bread made from ancient grains.

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It's change of pace week on the podcast. Instead of interviewing a guest, Christy focuses on your questions to give you the answers you need to garden successfully this spring.

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On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast this week, we chat with author Kim Eierman about her book, The Pollinator Victory Garden.

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Emily Murphy is an organic gardener and botanist in Northern California, where she produces articles, podcasts, and videos for her website, teaches classes, and designs gardens. She highlights some favorite recipes from her book in today's podcast.

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We had to cancel all the classes at TomatoMania this year, including Yvonne Savio's talk on tomato transplanting. But we recorded an podcast with her this week over the phone to bring you some great tomato tips in time for spring planting

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Larry Kandarian of Kandarian Organic Farms. He grows heritage grains, legumes and pulses in central coastal California.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Doug Tallamy. Doug is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware.

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Our first podcast of the year starts us off on the right foot as we chat with Farmer Rishi Kumar about Healing Gardens.

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Valerie Borel chats about fire-safe landscaping

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arah O'Neil is known as Sarah the Gardener in New Zealand, where she grows most of her own food. She's an author of 3 books, an award-winning blogger, and a keenly adventurous gardener.

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Michael Wittman of Blue Sky Biochar is our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. We chat about using biochar, wood vinegar and other nerdy stuff in your garden.

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This week's guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Bren Haas, creator of the popular Twitter chat group, #Gardenchat.

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Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Robin Jones of Honey Girl Grows. She designs and maintains culinary and pollinator gardens for resorts and corporate clients. Robin is also a science-based beekeeper who stewards hives around Southern California. We chat about what she grows for the bees and butterflies, […]

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This week's podcast shakes things up a bit. We're answering your questions from Ask Gardenerd about soil prep techniques, and soil biology.

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This week's podcast guest is Jessica Walliser, horticulturalist, garden columnist and author of several books including Good Bug, Bad Bug; and the award-winning Attracting Beneficial Bugs to the Garden. We chat about her newest book, Gardener’s Guide to Compact Plants: Edibles and Ornamentals for Small-Space Gardening.

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Nicole Gennetta runs Heritage Acres, a 2-acre hobby farm in Pueblo West, Colorado. She and her husband tend poultry, bees, a garden and orchard. She’s also a medically retired paramedic and firefighter who teaches CPR and community college classes. We’re excited to have her as our guest this week. We chat about beekeeping, tending the […]

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C. Darren Butler is more than a tree expert. Yes, he’s a certified and consulting arborist. But he’s also a Master Gardener, an ecological landscape designer, and a landscape consultant. In this week’s podcast, we chat with Darren about proper tree planting techniques and tree care. We also cover his online gardening resource for Southern […]

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Our guest on the Gardenerd tip of the Week Podcast this week is Shawna Coronado. She's a gardener, photographer, a radio and TV personality, a healthy lifestyle expert, and author of 6 books.

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Roe Sie fell in love with milling his own grains after he fell down the homesteading rabbit hole. His passion manifested into The King's Roost, a homesteading shop, grain mill, and classroom on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA.

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This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we chat with Niki over Skype from her home in Nova Scotia, Canada. She shares her tips for growing year-round, as well as the details behind her recent award-winning book

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Our latest guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Nate Looney, owner of Westside Urban Gardens. Nate is business-savvy army veteran who offers consultation services for controlled environment growing operations (read: hydroponics and aquaponics).

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Jo Anne Trigo runs the only certified organic nursery in LA County, and if that's not enough, she runs it out of her home. Two Dog Organic Nursery supplies Angelinos with fruit trees, vegetable seedlings, and culinary herbs and edible flowers year-round

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John Kohler of Growing Your Greens stopped by Gardenerd HQ to shoot a video for his YouTube channel, so I took the opportunity to interview him for the Podcast. John shared a lot of information in under 30 minutes. We chat about John’s journey toward recovery from a life-threatening illness, growing techniques for extreme weather, […]

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This week's podcast guest is Shirley Bovshow, the Garden Lifestyle expert seen regularly on Hallmark’s Home and Family Show.

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This week's podcast guest is Conor Fitzpatrick, founder of MiniFarmBox and owner of Fig Earth Supply nursery in Highland Park, CA. He shares his tips for growing veggies, fruits, and medicinal herbs in small spaces.

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This week's guests are John and Molly Chester, the owners of Apricot Lane Farms and stars of a fantastic new documentary opening in theaters on May 10, 2019, The Biggest Little Farm. I visited Apricot Lane Farms for Press Day to tour the farm and interview this brave duo.

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This week's podcast guest is Tara Austen Weaver, freelance writer and author of Growing Berries and Fruit Trees in the Pacific Northwest. Tara shares her passion for home-grown fruit and berries, and tips for a successful harvest from your back yard.

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Jere Gettle, founder of Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, is hard to pin down for an interview, but we finally found time to chat in this week's podcast.

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Chris Smith is obsessed with okra, and in our latest podcast we explore his new book on the endless possibilities of this oft-scorned fruit. The Whole Okra: A Seed To Stem Celebration, recounts Smith’s endeavor to trial 72 varieties of okra in North Carolina. It is a “lighthearted but information-rich collection of okra history, lore, […]

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This week’s podcast features a conversation with Amy Stewart, the New York Times best selling author of Wicked Plants, Flower Confidential, and The Drunken Botanist. We chat about her latest novel series, The Kopp Sisters, and Amy shares some of her favorite plants to grow for cocktails. Gardening & Writing Hand in Hand Our conversation […]

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My guest this week is Erica Wohldmann, professor of Psychology at Cal State University Northridge and avid forager of urban and wild places. She spent 6 months gathering food and medicine in the forest to live off, without spending a single dollar on meals. She shares her knowledge and philosophy with us today. Foraging in […]

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This week's guest is Rose Lawrence, owner of Red Bread Bakery. She's a Master Food Preserver, personal chef, and activist in food justice issues.

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Joanne Poyourow is a change-maker. She started two community gardens, created a seed company, founded a grassroots environmental activism group, and wrote a book that started it all. In today’s podcast, Joanne shares her journey from feeling helpless about Climate Change, to fostering a positive impact on her local community and beyond. She has funneled […]

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Our final interview from the 2018 Heirloom Expo is with Dr. William Woys Weaver, steward of the Roughwood Seed Collection. Dr. Will is author of 16 books, and a fascinating food historian and epicure. We chat about how he discovered the Roughwood Seed Collection at the bottom of his grandfather’s freezer. Dr. Will’s knowledge of […]

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I met Astrid Hoffman back when she and her husband Matthew had just started The Living Seed Company in northern California. Since then, their company has grown to showcase far more than the original 22 seed varieties they sold in the beginning. Now they’re providing locally adapted seeds from around the world. During our interview, […]

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If you don’t already know Pamm Larry, you’ll want to. She’s the fearless leader of Good Food Brigade, fighting for safe, just, healthy, and regenerative food for all. In our latest podcast, we chat with Pamm about her battle against GMO food production, and we discuss what we can all do to take back control […]

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I’ve dreamed of moving off-grid for years. Tiny house, a few acres of open space, composting toilet, and most of all: peace and quiet. The whole deal thrills me, but not without reservation. Meet Doug and Stacy, two folks living what I call the real American Dream. Doug and Stacy host their YouTube Channel, Off-Grid with […]

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For our very first YouTube Space LA video shoot, we invited Jessica Aldridge to bring her wealth of knowledge and her bag of tricks to enlighten us. She answers the questions: Can you compost that? Can you recycle that? When it comes to single-use garden stuff, the answers will surprise you. Our original podcast on […]

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Growing Squash with our podcast guest, Anna Peach

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Explore Bee-Friendly Gardens with our podcast guest, Kate Frey

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Enjoy this in-depth conversation with the ever-fascinating John Jeavons.

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Today's guest is Jeff Lowenfels, author of 3 books including the popular Teaming with Microbes: the Organic Gardeners Guide to the Soil Food Web. He lives and gardens in Alaska and is the founder of Plant a Row for the Hungry.

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Thinking about starting a flower farm? Listen to our podcast with Diana Rodgers about her own.

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Jessica Aldridge is a hotshot in the recycling world. Her passion for environmental education led to creating Zero Waste programs and other sustainability projects for corporations, cities, and municipalities in Southern California. In this week’s podcast she shares what gardening supplies can and can’t be recycled, and what happens to them when you put them […]

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This week’s guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Nan Sterman, the host of A Growing Passion and author of the new garden design book, Hot Color, Dry Garden: Inspiring Designs and Vibrant Plants for the Waterwise Gardener. Nan shares her best design tips and ideas for a colorful low-water garden. Nan […]

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This week’s Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast features a chat with Ceebs Bailey, who keeps 17 chickens in the middle of the city. Ceebs helps run Honeylove.org and is our beekeeping mentor, but today, we’re talking about chicken keeping. She shares her favorite tricks for integrating new chickens, introducing chickens to dogs, and feeding […]

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Beginners Tips to save Easy Seeds with our podcast guest, Eleuterio Navarro

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LA used to be agricultural. Learn all about the Rise and fall of Farming in Los Angeles with our podcast guest, Judi Gerber

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Homesteading and cleaning products this season with our podcast guest, Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne

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Learn about our Favorite grains to grow and bake with this season with our podcast guest, Dana Morgan

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Tried and True Tips for Healthy Tomato Plants this season with our podcast guest, Barbara Spencer

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Explore Treatment Free Beekeeping Methods with our podcast guest, John Lyons

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Our podcast is all about the bee with founders of Honeylove.org, Rob and Chelsea McFarland.

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We talk shop about Landscaping Tips with our podcast guest, Billy Goodnick

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Celebrate TomatoMania with our podcast guest, Scott Diagre

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Learn the basics of grafting with our podcast guest, David King

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We write a lot about pest control from an organic perspective, but you might not notice. You might expect us to talk about which USDA organic sprays to use, but we don’t do that lately here at Gardenerd (our older posts include sprays and powders that are OMRI and USDA approved). Instead, we focus on […]

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Learn about soil microorganisms and compost teas with Sheri Powell

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Tips to take special care of Birds in Winter

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Building Community and Teaching Kids how to grow & enjoy vegetables and fruits aiming environmental awareness.

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Time to prepare your garden for the spring season.

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Join The Good Food Brigade and help take back our food system.

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Shared some of the favorite recipes in Thanksgiving

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Mother Earth News with List of helpful Tips on Thanksgiving

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Need help learning how to compost?

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How to conserve energy with Mobile Localization Plan

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All about Soil Chapter

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Making your own Pumpkeen Puree is easy

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Tasks to take care in your garden this fall

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Get this great pesto recipe to use up the basil in your garden this fall

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Fall Crops

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Avocado Summer

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Outdoor Grilling

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Plant out when weather cools

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Plant buckwheat this August

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Spreading love all over the world

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Ornamental Crops

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Onion Maggots

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Growing Lettuces

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Protecting Tomatoes

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How to protect Bird Nests

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400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success

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400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success

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Recipe Guide for Baked Parmesan Zucchini

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Tips for Certified Wildlife Habitat

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Tips for Rat-Proof Wheat Harvest

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Tips for Getting Rid of Fungus Gnats

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Tips for Pruning Asparagus

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Just about any mustard can be grown for seeds

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Tips for Pruning Cucumber Flowers

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Tips for Seed Savers Exchange

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Tips to Grow Tomatoes

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How to get rid of Possums in the Garden

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Effective Methods to Grow and Use Harvesting Ginger

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More about Artichoke

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More about Spiders

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More about Open Source Seed

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More about Hula Hoes

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Common garden terms you should know

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Many tips for growing onions

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How to reduce fungal infestation

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How to keep your soil healthy

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Connect with local growers

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Tips for your garden after it rains

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DIY ollas and how they are effective

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Seeds, seeds, and more seeds!

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Tips about growing and harvesting garlic.

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How to enjoy your cabbage and greens longer

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Is expanded shale safe for my dog?

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Information about which bulbs to plant, and when and where to plant them or take them out.

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How gardening helps veterans

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Check under kale leaves and combat pests to grow fuller plants

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How to participate in Teal Pumpkin Halloween

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Healthy snacks and dishes to substitute in place of traditional holiday sweets and candy

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Why to dry your garlic before braiding.

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Get your garden ready for Fall.

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Learn the right materials for compost tea bags.

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Tips from Melinda Barnett of Stanwood, Washington in Mother Earth News Magazine

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How to save seeds

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Preserving shallots

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How to harvest watermelons

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Help bees stay hydrated inbetween flights.

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Time to harvest for now or later!

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Take the right steps to prepare for fall.

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Learn about how eucalyptus might be affecting your tomatoes.

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Don’t let those beans go to waste!

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What to do if your plants are only producing male flowers

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When and how to harvest your green beans

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Blythe asks, how to deal with bugs in seeds.

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What is the best type of mulch to use?

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The best control is to interrupt the life cycle with beneficial nematodes. Steinernema feltiae is a good nematode that eats over 230 different pests; it focuses on those that incubate in soil, like grubs, fleas, weevils and fungus gnats.

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During the summer, that means squash, cucumbers, and melons, among other things. We leave nothing to chance when it comes to squash. We hand pollinate.

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Use your thumb and index finger to rock the berry back and forth a little. If it’s ready it will separate easily. If it resists, leave if for another day.

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Are strawberries clean from pesticides? Check out 2016’s Dirty Dozen to find out

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To remove the casing, boil the beans for 3 minutes, then plunge them into an ice bath for another 3 minutes. The beans should pop out of the casing after that.

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With an Android device and a virtual reality viewer, users can relax and explore an immersive, stereo virtual reality world.

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If you want to grow cherries, you’ll need two different trees that pollinate one another. Choose varieties appropriate for your hardiness zone and required chill hours.

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E-waste recycling is an important way to keep hazardous waste and recyclable products out of our landfills.

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Sow bugs can be beneficial to the garden (or at least your compost bin) because they till the soil and are part of the Soil food web. But they are a problem because they eat decaying matter. But they also love strawberries.

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The queen takes a little more than half the worker bees and moves to a new location, leaving behind enough food and potential queen cells to hatch and lead after she’s gone.

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For crops like favas and grains, place stakes around the perimeter and run several levels of twine around the circumference. This will keep your upright crops upright.

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You can start seeds indoors or grab seedlings at any of the myriad spring seedling sales happening around the globe.

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All past gardening sins are forgiven and gardener’s amnesia takes over once again. Take good notes, gardenerds, as you begin your spring garden planting.

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You can sell or trade your own produce by uploading a photo, listing your asking price, registering a debit card for deposits, and that’s it.

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Give soil a boost before planting by adding compost and worm castings to your beds.

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An invasive species is categorized as a “non-native plant, animal or pathogen that causes economic or environmental harm or harm to human health,” according to the National Invasive Species Council.

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Bare root strawberries are often cheaper than nursery 6-packs and you have access to more unusual varieties through online seed companies.

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When carrots are about 1-inch across and beets are between 2-3 inches across, they are ready to harvest. Occasionally you’ll harvest a really short, fat carrot, but most of the time this works.

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Choose just one variety of corn and get your neighbors to grow it with you.

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We found the best vegan chocolate mousse recipe that uses 2 avocados per batch.

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Take time to take inventory and make a list of supplies needed for the coming growing season.

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Beach sand is very smooth, which interferes with drainage and air circulation, and it’s full of salts and who knows what else.

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Instead of making resolutions, how about making a list of a few hopes and aspirations for the year?

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Time to spray fruit trees with dormant oil in warm-winter areas. At the end of this month, you can start pruning those fruit trees as well.

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Cover crops not only fix nitrogen, but help sequester carbon in soils.

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Garden-made gifts take time, but if you start now they’ll be ready in time for the holidays.

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Time to do some Fall cleaning to help support the coming months

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Tomatoes need temperatures above 70 degrees to set fruit.

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Tuck green onions in between other crops, grow shallots next to your chard.

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Plant native plants now for them to flourish in the Spring

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Learn how to roast and prepare squashes this fall

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Learn how to roast and prepare squashes this fall

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Fall planting season is here, don’t miss it!

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The importance of pruning trees

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Learn how to use ollas for watering plants

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Do not forget to water your trees during the drought

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Come see Dr. Vandana Shiva talk about her work promoting heritage seed and her new book Soil Not Oil

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Eat well and eat in-season

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Time to take action with August To-Dos and increase production

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How to deal and get rid of Bagrada bugs

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How to grow ground cherries

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Recipes that use plums

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Keep your compost seed-free

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Get inspired by these webinars for seedsaving

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Helpful tips when your planning a vaction

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Blackberry season is short, extend it by preserving your blackberries.

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Replace thirsty lawns with sustainable landscaping.

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SaveSeedSharing.org offers information about the issue and even a petition to sign to help the cause. Find out more details and help to preserve our right to save seeds and share with our neighbors like we have for centuries.

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Plant luffa and you’ll have a plentiful supply of natural scrubbing sponges for the tub. Luffa is a gourd that vines up a trellis.

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To avoid that long, leggy look in your tomato seedlings, try tickling young tomato plants.

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Interplanting is a great way to use up open space while protecting the soil from exposure to the baking sun.

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Earth Day is April 22nd, but you can celebrate and focus on our big blue planet all month.

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How to deal with fruit flies using rosemary and homemade fruit fly traps

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The Urban Soil Summit we recently attended left us with tons of information and even more resources to follow up on later.

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Add mulch to reduce weeds.

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Green is all around us. Next week is not only St. Patrick’s Day but March 16th is National Artichoke Heart Day.

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March is National Celery Month, which coincides with just about the right time to harvest celery if you planted it in the fall.

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There are over 600 varieties of tomatoes out there. How do you know which options will work for you?

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Prepping your beds for spring is the most important task a gardener can do before planting..

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Squirrels will take a bite out of every single piece of fruit on your nectarine tree if they can. Here are some tips to keep them from getting their in the first place.

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This tip comes from Organic Gardening magazine and Jeff Cox’s book 100 Greatest Gardening Ideas.

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Take a look at some of our favorite winter pie recipies for Nation Pie Day.

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Keeled treehoppers are sucking insects belonging to the same order as aphids. They use sharp mouthparts to pierce plant tissue and suck the life out of a plant over time.

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The State of California just passed a new law that protects apartment dwellers from having to remove edible gardens from their patios and balconies.

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Learn how to make a root cellar out of a trash can

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Make your holidays as light on the planet as possible with these tricks: use last year’s seed catalogs to wrap presents.

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Winter may not official start until later this month, but fall offers great seasonal ingredients for hearty winter meals.

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Check out her new site on http://www.minnieandmoon.com/?Click=1049 for holiday gifts (and a little something for yourself)

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This is a film dedicated to growing giant pumpkins

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Gardenerd answers this week what the best way to break up clay soil.

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Pumpkin carving dates back to an Irish tradition of carving turnips and potatoes.

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