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008 Kids' Choice Garden Veggies
Season 1 Episode 8
Want to get your kids out in the garden, growing food that they will enjoy eating, too? Pam Farley, The Brown Thumb Mama, has suggestions for Vegetables and Fruits Kids Love To Grow.
Roses are bloomi…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
007 Feed Your Soil, Not Your Plants
Season 1 Episode 7
Quit fertilizing your plants! Feed your soil instead.
Episode 7 goes deep into what makes for a successful plant. If you think plant roots are sucking up the liquid or granular fertilizer that your p…
Published on 5 years, 3 months ago
006 Chickens! Weeding Easy.
Season 1 Episode 6
People lately aren’t just starting vegetable and flower gardens as a way to help them get through the Coronavirus pandemic. They’re getting chickens, too. There’s been a big demand for baby chicks. P…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
005 Garden Money (And Time) Savers
Season 1 Episode 5
We save some money and some time on today's episode. Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms tells us about his "Cheapskate Salad Bowl": how you can grow and harvest lettuce quickly (within a month) and cheapl…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
004 Grow popcorn. Battling aphids. Family gardening tips.
Season 1 Episode 4
We talk with nationally known family life blogger Pam Farley, also known as the Brown Thumb Mama, about garden activities to do with the kids while you are sheltered in place.
Our favorite college h…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
003 How to Plant Tomatoes and Peppers (You might be surprised!)
Season 1 Episode 3
On Episode 3 of Garden Basics with Farmer Fred, we have a nifty way to stick tomato and pepper plants in the ground, a method guaranteed to produce a stronger plant.
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We talk about a r…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
002 Growing microgreens. Backyard blueberry plants. Importance of thinning vegetables, fruit.
Season 1 Episode 2
Master Gardener Gail Pothour tells us how to have a microgreens garden in the kitchen. Choosing the tastiest blueberry varieties; how to grow blueberry plants. The importance of thinning young vegeta…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
001 Garden Basics: Starting Your Victory Garden 2.0
Season 1 Episode 1
:00 Why another garden podcast?
1:14 The importance of gardening during these days of "Shelter in Place". What is Integrated Pest Management? The right plant in the right place.
5:51 The Victory Garden…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago