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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 Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Afraid of gardening? Grow a pear! Tune in as Christy and Edith take you through garden planning, deciding between seeds and seedlings, and finding out what category men under 35 lead in. Is Jupiter’s Beard a millennial male thing, and if so, why is Christy talking about having it in her garden? Without much gardening to do, Christy has musings and Edith has some shocking news about baby food, and promises to do more research for next week. What should you moisten before planting? Why don’t we know how to explain what “inoculating the peas” means? Cause we’re not scientists and we’re the first to admit there is so much we don’t know. But the things we do know - we share with you.
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Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
You want to plant a garden. Now what? In Gardening 101, we explore where to put your garden, how to determine what kind of soil you have, and how to amend it. But along the way we’re discussing Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania and Sir Walter Wally in Raleigh NC. We have tips on why thinning out boyfriends and carrots are important. We share soil tests you can do at home, with stuff from your pantry! Knot nematodes, spineless cactus, plumcots and cat skulls may not seem like they’re cogent in a gardening podcast; but you’ll see why they are. Also, an in depth discussion on why the word ‘moist’ is irreplaceable. You don’t want a clammy cake, do you?
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Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Like Michelangelo, we’re getting patrons, but we don’t have to paint a ceiling lying high on our backs. Gratitude to our supporters. Edith has a compost experiment and says “at least it doesn’t stink.” Wow, someone’s standards have sunk to a new pandemic low. Christy teaches us how to winter sow, and it’s about the coolest thing a gardener can do. Meet Johnny Hardscribble, a tough guy who needed a Hail Mary to save his spirits and found one in his garden. Meet the Gardeners of the Galaxy: The Fairy Godwater, the Bee Team, and the Mulch Master. We answer the tough questions: can you put deer poop in your compost? What is a knot nematode? And if someone offers you bunny honey, don’t spread it on your bread.
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Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.” - Michael Pollan And a Home Owner’s Association is human nature ruled by totalitarians. At least, that’s how it seems to Edith and Christy in this bonus minisode. They are visited by the President of the HOA -- also known as the Yard Nazi -- and she’s loaded for bear. Christy still has a Christmas wreath on her front door. Edith hasn’t cleared out every inch of her garden. A battle of rules, regulations, and subsets to the rules ensues. But, the ladies have a secret weapon and the Yard Nazi is hoist with her own petard.
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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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