Upside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast

6. Tomatoes: How to Grow Plump Things With a Navel

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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5. Lettuce Turnip the Beet: Learn How to Harvest

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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4. Garden Bugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Squirrels

This is one action packed episode:  Featuring vengeful zucchini plants, spaghetti squash that look like badminton racquets, and a commercial featuring the snarkiest squirrel of all time.  Find out what Christy did to precipitate an attack by hundreds of sleepy ladybugs. And (dramatic pause) is Alice the Tomato still alive?  Garden hacks, bug attacks, Mother Nature cracks wise about fancy produce sections - it’s all here.  All it lacks is you.

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3. Creeps! Obnoxious Weeds and Plants That Can't Take a Hint

Put on your garden clogs and get ready to listen to our third episode, where Edith and Christy tell entertaining stories of noxious weeds and invasive plants. Plus, you can find out answers to these important questions:

• How do you comb a plant?
• Why is Edith eating weeds?
• What does The Brady Bunch have to do with Christy's tomatoes?
• Can you stake a zucchini plant?

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2. First Two Commandments of Gardening: How to Water and Mulch

Mother Nature came down from the mountain to give us the two most important commandments for the garden: watering and mulching.  And yes, there’s a right way and a wrong way.  Or, in gentler terms, there’s a good way and a way that wastes water and can spread disease. Is it even a contest? There, we are being delicately rough.  (See Ep. 1 for reference.) 

We discuss Edith’s pandemic haircut (not good) and agree that the garden doesn’t judge. A listener’s concern about blossom end rot on his tomatoes is discussed. As is tomato rust. And mulch. Why you should always mulch it! Where and how. A mystery: what is growing out of Christy’s compost pile? How might it involve a little bird’s butt? What the heck is evapotranspiration? What is the meaning of life? No, we don’t solve that, but it probably comes down to gardening.

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1. Announcing Our Top Ten Favorite Gardening Mistakes

Meet Christy and Edith. We are unemployed theater people and gardeners, and share our top ten gardening mistakes.

You learn how not to sow carrots, how to plant your seedlings in ways that don’t slowly kill them, and some awful mistakes made using plastic in the garden. Have you unwittingly nurtured a weed, thinking it was a flower? We have. Have you planted something you had no idea was invasive and now have a battle of wits with a plant that will go on for decades? We’re nodding. We’ve done it. From the pain of power raking bindweed to planting tulips upside down to a paralyzing fear of harvesting-you’re not alone. 

Join us for some gardening knowledge, some laughs, and our reassuring motto: “If you make a mistake, the garden will forgive you.”  And remember, if you want more, check out blog and the amusing and helpful Upside Down Dictionary on our website.

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Upside Down Tulips Trailer

Join Christy and Edith as they give you a sneak peak of their fun podcast that celebrates gardening gone wrong.