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Mid-Season Fertilizing: How to Know What Your Vegetables Actually Need - Ep. 306
Episode 306
It’s June, your tomatoes are climbing, your corn is waist-high, and the internet is full of fertilizing advice—most of it missing the most important …
2 months, 1 week ago
Early Blight Versus Late Blight in Tomatoes: Don't Get This One Wrong! - Ep. 305
Episode 305
Every June, one of the most common questions that floods gardening groups, emails, and extension offices is some version of: “My tomato leaves are tu…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Manage Squash Vine Borer - Ep. 304
Episode 304
Every year, gardeners across the country watch their squash plants collapse overnight and have absolutely no idea why until it’s too late. The culpri…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Identify and Manage Perennial Weeds (Without the Viral Sprays) - Ep. 303
Episode 303
Perennial weeds are in a different category than annuals. They don’t just re-seed, they regrow from the ground up, season after season, from root sys…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Mulch Matchmaking: Choosing the Right Mulch for Your Vegetable Garden - Ep. 302
Episode 302
Mulch is one of the highest-return investments you can make in your vegetable garden and yet most gardeners are using whatever happens to be availabl…
3 months ago
Spring-Planted Bulbs and Summer Blooms: A Guide to Growing and Storing Dahlias, Gladiolus, and More - Ep. 301
Episode 301
A listener asked for a deep dive on dahlias and I’m delivering, from the ground up (pun intended). But we’re not stopping there. In this episode, I’m…
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 300: The Questions You Keep Asking (and What the Research Actually Says)
Episode 300
We made it to 300 episodes! And to celebrate, I’m doing something a little different. I went looking for the questions home gardeners are asking most…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Topping Peppers: What does the science say, yay or nay? - Ep. 299
Episode 299
The subject of whether you should top your pepper plants can bring on a pretty strong debate among gardeners. That’s because this is one of those top…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Growing Tomatoes, Peppers, and Lettuce in Pots - Ep. 298
Episode 298
Last week on the show we talked about the basic considerations for growing in containers, and that included how to evaluate whether a crop is a good …
4 months ago
Container Gardening 101 - Ep. 297
Episode 297
No yard? No tiller? No problem. If you've got a patio, a porch, a balcony, or even a sunny driveway, you can grow a real, productive vegetable garden…
4 months, 1 week ago