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Hi! We are Christy and Edith, backyard gardeners from Colorado. Lately, we have noticed more and more people picking our brains for tips and trouble-shooting about gardening. We think it’s kinda funny, because we’re not experts. We just learned a lot about gardening from the mistakes we made along the way. You always hear about Victory gardens – but what about all the garden failures? Gardening is about learning, experimenting and rolling with the punches. Every week we share our most epic garden failures and our biggest garden lessons. Most gardens are the result of trial and error. To reduce your chance of failure, join us in our gardens. And learn why you should plant your tulips butt side down. Winner of Best New Podcast at 2020 Colorado Podcast Awards!
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Well, slap some bacon on that Vitamin K, it's an encore! We discuss tomatoes from seeds to BLT’s. In the Middle Ages, Europeans thought of them as poisonous, the French thought they were an aphrodisiac and called them love apples. The Aztec called them “plump things with a navel”.
Plus: The difference between determinate, indeterminate, heirloom and hybrid tomatoes are discussed. All you need to know about planting, staking, and harvesting tomatoes. What to do about blossom end rot, blotches, wilt, rot, fungal diseases and pests. We unbox tomatoes that have been sitting in Christy’s attic for almost a year.
Then - new stuff! Health benefits! Edith finds out which tomatoes can grow in Siberia and Christy goes all hybrid for a while to outwit the fungus.
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Tuesday May 25, 2021
Tuesday May 25, 2021
Pardon our garden clogs as we take time to work in our gardens and present our second episode of all garden comedy. Every gardener has a sense of humor. How else can we survive all the missteps and surprises?
Can bindweed make you laugh? We think so - revisit the Bindweed Singles Service and the worse come on lines you’ve ever heard - and we hope you will agree. Remember Agnes, the easily distracted creative writing teacher who also has a call in gardening show? We’ve got all the Agneses right here. Plus the Gardeners of the Galaxy, the Society of Gardener’s Patience, the Garden State and Yoga with goats and more. Enjoy!
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Tuesday May 18, 2021
Tuesday May 18, 2021
“No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall." This is the catalog description of a rose named for a former first lady. Her reaction to it is priceless.
We’ve got the info on how and where to plant, prune, fertilize, water and care for the Queens of the Garden: Roses. Save money and up your rose game with our easy homemade fertilizer suggestions. We tell you about a thousand year old climbing rose that survived a WW2 bombing that destroyed the cathedral on whose walls it grew. Plus: do those Japanese beetle bags that attract and trap those pests work? And in addition to all this great stuff we have eunuchs in tunics, Romans in togas, cheesy dribs and limequats. Something for everyone, really. A whole episode about roses and we never use the word “prick”. Go us.
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Tuesday May 11, 2021
Tuesday May 11, 2021
And just how supple do you think Sleeping Beauty was after she slept for a hundred years? It does have something to do with gardening, we swear.
We discuss the unique requirements to grow perennial vegetables: rhubarb, horseradish, artichoke, asparagus and leek. They come back year after year with minimum care. And not just for food: here’s a recipe to lighten your hair naturally with rhubarb. We also reveal the answer to why asparagus makes your pee smell funny and the artichoke’s secret: it is mainly a butter delivery service, let’s be honest.
Great tips on caring for your forsythia bush, potted or not. And a quote by Derek Jarman that ends like this ”…..it’s the amen beyond the prayer.” That quote alone is worth your time.
SPECIAL TREAT: Not only do we have a new "Ask Agnes" sketch for you, but we couldn't resist bringing back "Stranger Garden Things" and Christy's beloved Rhubarb. BARB!!!
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Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
The Puckerbutt Pepper Company. Now that we have your attention, meet the subject of this episode, the superstar of perennials: the Iris. Used in perfumes, Bombay Saphire gin, and immortalized by artists: you gotta grow an iris. Really, so easy. We tell you, in detail, everything you need to know to keep this flower, grown by the Greeks and Egyptians, alive and thriving. With not a lot of effort. You don’t even have to mulch it! And you can ship it! Why painting them kept Van Gogh’s sanity (for a while anyway)and had O’Keefe keeping us wondering about lady parts all these years later. And why the Puckerbutt Pepper Company is aptly named. And back by popular demand, The Squirrel comes back in an all new fun sketch.
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Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Tuesday Apr 27, 2021
Have a container? A small patch of land somewhere? Plant herbs! There is nothing like fresh herbs that you have grown for your health, happiness, and recipe success. Let us help you with tips for sowing, growing, and harvesting your herbs. Plus intriguing truths:
- What is the most popular spice? (Hint, it isn't Baby)
- How the Romans used the herb savory. Why medieval monks were forbidden to grow it.
- Meet an herb whose leaves tastes SO GOOD to 8o% of humans, is inedible to the other 20%, and then produces seeds that are a whole different spice!
- And the name of which herb is featured in what is arguably the best play written in the 20th century!
Journey through thyme (ha ha) with Upside Down Tulips. Plus - a special couple of brand new humorous "pod plays" that celebrate The Natural State.
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Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Tuesday Apr 20, 2021
Wanna grow fruit on trees, vines, shrubs or in containers? We’ve got you covered. With information on planting, pruning, and fertilizing your fruit bearers. Even growing citrus in your house. Cutting back your raspberries and giving your strawberries a haircut - who knew? Edith has some complaints about a company that did her (and maybe you) wrong. But she is avenged. Ground cherries are an endangered heirloom, as so few people are growing them. But we give you good reasons to grow them. Christy meets and gets advice from a superstar but you’ll have to listen to find out who it is. Dracula, Al Davis, and Phoebe of Phenoma Nails fame also make appearances.
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Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Don’t have a yard or community garden? No problem! Learn how to use containers. A porch, a stoop, a stair, a roof, or a hook somewhere for a hanging basket will be enough to grow something. Terra cotta pots, plastic pots, grow bags, shoe racks, etc - it all works. We tell you which veggies, herbs, and flowers flourish therein. Thriller, spiller, filler - not a rip roaring Godzilla movie- it’s a container technique. As well as: make your own potting soil! We have the recipe right here. We’re following Christy’s battle with quack grass, and the many, many events that call on April to honor them - National Straw Hat month? Are you serious? Yes they are.
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Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
We have things that sleep, creep, and leap. Things that died, survived and are taking over. Advice on how deeply to plant all your seeds. Which seeds like a good soaking before they go into the soil, and how to protect them from birds and wind before they sprout. We’re not judgmental people, but there’s a right way and a very wrong way to pull seedlings out of their pots. And by wrong we mean it could kill them. And then - if they’re rootbound or their roots are whirling in a circle, what are you gonna do, Rootbusters? We tell you. Cause that’s the kind of gardening podcast we are. That plus laughter. You’re welcome.
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Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
From April to August, we walk you through what veggies and flowers to plant according to frost dates. Also in this action packed episode: when to deadhead flowers and divide your iris and tulips. Welcome back June and Madge, The Suburbanites, as Madge clutches her pearls and June busts out of her tight sweater and puts on garden overalls. Christy finds forgotten crocuses and Edith, known for her use of sophisticated words that don’t exist, talks about mucousy spinach. Something was said about Nebraska- no wonder we only have one listener there. Whoever you are, we both apologize for it and beg you to stay.
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