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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 Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
We start more seriously than usual, but soon we’re back to form with a show packed with humor and information.
- Which awards did we just win?
- Why you should never use one more than 239 beans for a soup.
- How you can avoid unknowingly eating a Bird Poopsicle?
- Why farmers in Botswana and Brazil are painting lion’s eyes on their cows’ rumps.
- How Christy catches Edith in a big fat lie. Will she, like the garden, forgive her?
- Which pick up lines to never use. Ever.
- Did you get your Upside Down Tulips T-Shirt?
- How can you join the Upside Down Tulips Patron Club?
Plus: We are laying plans for 2021 gardens: moon gardens, raised vegetable beds, wintersowing, corn circles, flowers, herbs and succulent beds. Find out what seeds we are going to plant and what seeds are so NOT gonna get sowed.
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Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
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Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
It’s our Curmudgeon’s Goodbye to 2020. Rosemary is for remembrance, parsley for regret. We remember our first podcast in which we stressed that we’re not experts, we garden by trial and error. And error. And error. So, we celebrate our Top Ten Garden Mistakes:
- Like the magical thinking Edith displayed in not taking out her ailing raspberry canes years ago.
- Christy not mulching soon enough, to the dismay of her tomatoes (Yes, Virginia, tomatoes have emotions),
- And not drying enough parsley before the frost.
- We share stories from “Gardeners Throw in the Trowel” (don’t do it!)
- What theater and gardening have in common.
And our Top Ten Garden Victories: growing cantaloupe successfully for the first time, a zucchini plant that stays in bounds, and Christy gardens butt out in her front yard with defiance: “Enjoy the View!”
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Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
End re-gifting with our suggestions of wonderful gifts you can make FROM the garden and FOR the gardener. From body butter to soup of the month to sage bundles to Herbs de Provence - in these times where so many of us are operating on a Bob Cratchit budget, make wonderful gifts for about a ha’penny.
We also suggest some simple gifts for that special gardener in your life. Or for yourself! Or for us! We think we may be headed toward The Bigger Time - cause we have merch! Get your Upside Down Tulips Gear HERE!
This blockbuster of an episode includes singing, jokes to make ye merry, and colorful characters like Lara Lura, the Jolly Green Giant, Saint Nickerless, Sandy Clause, and a listener from Oregon who - oops - ate the whole thing.
Get seeds from our pals at Botanical Interests: https://www.botanicalinterests.com
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Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
It's a Minisode! Which means we're doing the episode in really short skirts. (Of course that's not true - these are show notes, not our Dictionary, so let's get serious.) This week we share with you a little rom-com movie where Sam Hand meets Olivia Glove. Remember Christy's encounter with the splinter that landed her in Urgent Care? Well here we are turning slivers of wood into comedy gold. "Hands down, the strangest movie I've ever seen", said the L.A. Times. Does Hand go in Glove? Tune in and find out. That's all we got this week. It's after Thanksgiving and we're as stuffed as the turkey was.
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Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
While giving thanks to you, our listeners, we share your Thanksgiving stories: Serving bagged giblets in stuffing, how making gravy from a smoked turkey is like getting blood from a stone, leaving the thanksgiving table in tears, and a Spudsgiving in New York. There’s something for everyone to relate to in our Thanksgiving Special. Have you met the hostess who puts your coat on the back of your chair while you’re still eating pie? Also, planting peas in November, harvesting corn salad and the squirrel is back and thinks he/she is Arnold Schwartzenegger. Sorry, we are confused about the gender of this squirrel but does it matter? No, it doesn’t. We’re grateful for you, dear listeners. If you do the cooking, we’ll bring the sides. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
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Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
This episode is about tools- not humans with appalling behavior but garden tools that help us out. Christy’s cartoon thumb bears witness to the importance of tools. She has definitely paid the price for yanking the cosmos. Hori knives in holsters, hand weeders, hacks you find in your kitchen or garage. Tools that blow which might make you feel like you’re licking the sidewalk. Waste of money tools. Tools with cancer warnings that has Edith playing detective. Meet Janelle the strict parent of her seedlings and Rowena, the very nervous gardener who stunts all she touches. It’s all here. Plus the most beautiful inspiration we’ve found yet. Gardening: It’s like falling in love with the ground.
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Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Who else makes you laugh while giving gardening tips? Join us in our garden tent for a very special episode filled with the best of our fun, farcical (and completely fake) commercials.
Oh the people we’ll meet- the curmudgeon, the pesky squirrel, Deadheaders, Sherlock, the Shoe Living Woman and Jack Spratt. Oh the places we’ll go! A gardening fashion show, a farmer’s market, a Shakespearen garden and a Jeopardy game. Oh the questions we’ll answer! Can you use mulch at a wedding, at a hockey game, or as a substitute for toilet paper? (Thanks 2020!) Gardeners, we really are all in this together. Join us, will you?
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Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Christy has a profound realization: She’s a little bit (a little?) Martha Stewart and Edith is a little bit Mother Jones. (again - a little?) This week they bond over haboobs, which are not high breasted birds; to robins, which are red breasted birds; to gardening techniques. Hügelkulture, square foot gardening, gardens grown in containers, straw bales, milk jugs, hanging upside down from your porch - very much like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon built by Nebuchadnezzar… (very much? really?) Good news you can use: Denver Urban Gardens will lend you the land to garden, as well as cheap or free seeds and seedlings and Jovial Concepts will come to your house and do the gardening for you.
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