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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 Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
We’re talking fall clean up - not of your car, or your love life - of your garden. Christy is digging holes and Edith accidentally drops gutter gunk on her daughter. Along the way we touch on how giant hidden zucchinis are like the KBG, and how rosemary heads for the portal every March. A letter from Albuquerque teaches us about an exploding caterpillar, the importance of a back up caterpillar, and potato traps for pillbugs. Christy is in search of thrilling pumpkin stories. A first for UDT: a fashion show that previews what gardeners will be wearing next year. Plus all your questions about how and when to clean up and prepare your garden for a successful garden next spring.
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Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
It’s the 13th episode and the ladies are feeling lucky. Hear about recipes made from their harvest, what’s going on in their Fall gardens, and exploding hot and sassy sauces. But it wouldn’t be Upside Down if they didn’t take some unexpected detours. Such as: What is legs up and head down and isn’t playing football? Edith harvests a ping pong ball sized potato. Christy makes chicken stock and likens it to being happy, almost in a state of grace. Edith makes it and lifts a lid of fat. Edith encourages home made baby food. Christy makes pesto ice cubes; Edith prefers bourbon ice cubes. And the squirrel is back eating bulbs, bulblets, and edimentals.
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Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Oh oh. Three members of the Brady tomato family reside in Christy’s garbage can. What did they do? If maggots reside in your compost: what should you do? What does young Audrey Hepburn in WW2 have in common with Scarlett O’Hara during the Civil War? How do the ladies of Upside Down Tulips find themselves dealing with questions no one ever wanted answered? From bulbs to bulblets, they do answer your questions of how and when to plant, and how to care for, your fall bulbs. Plus the Old Woman has made a big mistake: will it destroy her marriage with Jack Spratt and send her back to living in the shoe?
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Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Are you ready to decompose? No, it’s not Beethoven rolling over and undoing the 5th Symphony, nor is it falling apart during this pandemic; but making you feel like a Superhero by composting. You can help fight climate change from your yard or kitchen counter. Compost adds nutrients to your soil, thereby adding nutrients to everything you grow. Enrich your soil and your life! Do it like nature does! We answer your important questions: Why to compost, who can compost, how to do it, when to do it, what to put in it. Play along with us on UDT Jeopardy. Yes, we're helpful, amusing, and kind of interactive.
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Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
From the garden to the freezer, the attic, the canning jar - we share how to preserve your harvest, which can supply you with your garden grown food for the winter. Just like great great grandma used to do. No wonder our ancestors lived long and prospered! So much information about freezing, canning, pickling, and drying your harvest. Edith has fears about botulism and hot jam happenings that Christy puts to rest.
In the garden update, we discuss the things we did (and that you can do) when an early frost threatens your harvest. And Edith finds something that has grown surprisingly large under the sheet. Be amazed as Edith and Christy simply cannot come up with the word “husks” - no more proof is needed that the show isn’t scripted. And of course, fun commercials and mailbag!
Find your local food pantry at: https://ampleharvest.org
Protect Your Garden From An Early Freeze
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Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
An episode that is international in nature.
We go from a seed depository 700 miles past the Arctic Circle to a bus in the Alaskan wilderness where a young man ate the poisonous seeds of the wild potato to the packet of split peas in your grocery store. We get a letter from Ladenburg Germany and also from Commerce City Colorado!
The Old Lady who lives in a shoe marries Jack Spratt and uses Upside Down Tulips to help her grow a garden. You know you’ve grown too many spaghetti squash when you contemplate using them as speed bumps.
Seed trivia: the oldest seed, the largest seed, the most seeds from one plant. The Zombie Apocalypse makes an appearance along with useful information about collecting and storing your own seeds.
And, just when you thought it couldn’t get better, the gardener as the Quarterback of his yard takes it to the house! Football, gardening, shoe living - it must be Upside Down Tulips.
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Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
The ladies, six months in to hanging out at home, get philosophical, and in Christy’s case, musical as she sings our theme song. Christy comes over to Edith’s yard with an upside down broom and a can of Panko. It has something to do with Japanese Beetles but - maybe she’s losing it just a little?
Fall transplanting talk - why you should, when to, how to, all without murdering your plants. Shakespeare drops in twice with gardening woes. Edith pulls out another cauliflower plant that is “all hat no cattle.” “All buckle no belt.”
Edith muses about being 14 again and finding different ways to ruin her life - she has new ideas. From Christy comes out with the pithy “Until it’s dead, it’s not.” And “Too many freaks not enough circus.” At which point we silently wonder if we are the freaks and the world is the circus.
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Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
It's not too late to grow something! The how’s and why’s of fall planting take center stage - radish, lettuce, spinach, kale and beets - and what to do to get one more harvest of vegetables before the first frost. Do you know the importance of thinning? (Your plants, not your pandemic bod.)
Plus, Christy and Edith discuss dog vomit slime mold, (appealing to the pre adolescent boy demographic perhaps?) cucumber suckers, (not what you think) and making bags of soup greens. Find out why Gertrude “A Rose is A Rose” Stein is dissatisfied with gardening. Christy finds an antidote to stress with Red Bird In Tree.
And of course, some fun commercials and letters from the mail bag!
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Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
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. Kind of explains all those wars they had. 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 Japanese beetles in your garden. We unbox tomatoes that have been sitting in Christy’s attic for almost a year. As exciting as the Masked Singer, only tomatoes don’t sing.
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Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
It’s harvest o’ clock - the happy hour of the garden. In this episode, Christy and Edith offer a cornucopia of information on how to harvest all the veggies you have carefully tended this summer. Learn when to harvest over 25 different vegetables!
- Broccoli needs to be tight.
- Corn should be milky.
- Use your fingernail on squash.
- Smell your melon.
- And protect your tomatoes from... SQUIRRELS!
Edith talks about a decades old harvesting mistake she made that haunts her to this day. Christy made a harvesting blooper last season that is in her attic. But is it, like a famous cat, still alive? Is it Schrödinger’s harvest?!
We come to the epiphany that “blame the real estate agent” is a working philosophy for life. Plus, the Grateful Dead and the Three Stooges drop in for guest spots. Informative and humorous, we’d love to share it with you. Check out more at upsidedowntulips.com
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