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The Best Roses For Cut Flowers
(From a 2022 interview with Master Rosarian Debbie Arrington. Originally aired on May 20, 2022, Garden Basics podcast)
Farmer Fred
What is America's fa…
2 years, 11 months ago
Flea and Tick Control Tips
As the weather warms, so do outbreaks of fleas and ticks. Today’s newsletter podcast features an interview with retired veterinarian and Master Garde…
2 years, 11 months ago
Can Human Food Also Be Plant Food?
Interview with Robert Pavlis of GardenMyths.com:
Can Human Food also be Plant Food? (It depends how you apply it.)
(originally aired in Episode 126 of …
2 years, 11 months ago
Happy Tomato Planting Day! But Which Varieties?
For years (decades, really), I’ve been promoting April 28 as Official Tomato Planting Day* for our area here in Northern California (Southern Sacrame…
3 years ago
You Grew It. Now Eat It!
The healthiest food you can eat is the food you grow yourself. It doesn’t get any fresher than that. In today’s newsletter podcast, we talk with two …
3 years ago
Tomato Growing Tips For 2023
For the best tomato growing season ever, we have tips. Just a few tips.
Today’s newsletter podcast features excerpts from two episodes of the Garden B…
3 years ago
Backyard Beekeeping Advice
If the idea of raising backyard chickens appeals to you, you just might be mulling over the thought, “Well, why not raise backyard bees, too?”
You may…
3 years ago
Jumping Worms: An Update, Again
Jumping worms, and the publicity about them, are spreading. Debbie Flower (America’s Favorite Retired College Horticulture Professor) and I talked ab…
3 years, 1 month ago
If You Can’t Dig Down, Grow Up! Raised Bed & Container Planting Tips
In today’s “Beyond the Garden Basics” newsletter/podcast, we revisit a chat we had three years ago with Linda Chalker-Scott, Washington State Univers…
3 years, 1 month ago
How Honeybees Say, "Come and Get It!"
One in every three bites of food you take comes courtesy of a bee. Without their pollination efforts, our diet and our gardens would be, to say the l…
3 years, 1 month ago