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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 Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Meet Kathryn! Our first new guest host who has great info on how to change your lawn into a new garden space. Christy is back from vacation and her garden is still alive! But no one snuck zucchini on her front porch.
If you have Japanese beetles, you won’t want to miss our talk with John Libs, the CEO of grubGONE! and beetleGONE! Learn more about the science of the beetle we love to hate and how grubGONE! has worked in Christy’s garden this summer. And what you can do NOW to get the upper hand next year.
We’ve got new fun pod plays made just for the gardener about missing garden forks and how to make sure your bovine poo is the best it can be. Plus a great letter about what to do about squirrels and how Jane Goodall might be the solution. Laughs and learning all over the place this week!
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Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Let’s celebrate Edith’s best moments on Upside Down Tulips! We’ve got her stories about an Elvis-fearing squirrel and the Great Denver Beaver. Plus, the Grapefruit Caper and Bokashi Reveal. Do you remember how Edith cuts her hair or what her favorite spice is? Or why we had to bleep Edith on our Christmas episode?
As always, great garden tips like: how to grow bacon. And our favorite pod plays, mail bag and inspiration that lift up the witty, the silly and the profound: Edith Weiss.
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Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
It’s our Second Anniversary and Edith’s last show! This one has all the feels. Find out what is going on in our garden during the dog’s days of summer. Then we share a bunch of garden tips and tricks we forgot to tell you over the last year. Including answers to such burning questions like:
- How to tell if you have Verticillium wilt and what to do about it?
- What should you never put in your refrigerator?
- What the heck does a shoe organizer have to do with gardening?
Plus BRAND NEW pod plays of The Old Woman Who Used to Live in a Show and Antelope Twomey. And a surprise mailbag that has us in tears. Don’t worry – lots of laughs, too.
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Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Thrifty gardeners, take note. This is all about doing it yourself. You can collect your own seeds, (but be very careful of one thing), make your own seed pots, fertilizer, compost, pesticides, soil test and potting soil. All organic, mostly made with stuff you have in your shed or pantry.
Plus a quick reprise of the ever popular Bokashi and the many maggots story. And why kids eating mud pies could be a very good thing.
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
It’s June, and the garden is action packed. There are peas to be harvested, garlic scapes to collect, and it’s time to resow or replant seedlings that didn’t make it. Is it too late to winter sow? You might be surprised by the answer.
Speaking of surprises, see how our gardens both surprise us (Wow!) and frustrate us (Ugh!) We talk radishes, roses, iris, leeks, peaches and aloe vera. Take action now to battle weeds, bugs, powdery mildew, and unpredictable weather. We'll show you how. And take note: The Japanese beetles are coming!
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Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Let’s deep dive into tomatoes 2022! We've got breaking news on tomato health benefits, nutritional value of raw vs. cooked, the use of their pigment in making solar panels. Also - how to pick the best tomato plants from your local nursery, and what we are growing in our gardens this year. Plus:
- Why is a Better Boy tomato better than a Big Boy tomato?
- What is the difference between Sweet 100 and Supersweet 100?
- What the heck is an Inditerminate tomato?
- Are hybrids organic?
And of course, fun Pod Plays! This week we have tomato boxing at Madison Square Gardens and a brand new Old Woman Who Used to Live In a Shoe, who waxes philosophical and funny in her garden.
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Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
You can roast it, grill it, soup it, zoodle it, sweet or savory it - it’s the amazing, versatile squash. And we tell you how to plant it, water it, protect it, cure it, and store it all the winter long. From the sweetest to the largest to the oddest; grow squash and gets pounds and pounds of food and a hedge against inflation. Plus,
- How to make an anti-fungal agent that protects against powdery mildew.
- How to hynotize a chicken, should you have the need to.
- Want to grow marigolds this summer? Thanks to a listener, we show you how!
- Stranger Garden Things are afoot as we premiere a new pod play. Oh My Gourd!
- And what is that white stuff falling from the sky?!
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Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Gardeners care about the planet, and if you are choosing between a lawn, an alternative, or a mix of the two - we have some very pertinent info on how to mow, how to water, how to fertilize, carbon removers, forever chemicals, ground covers and what kind of grasses are good for your zone.
And while you mull over these questions you can also:
- Celebrate what is blooming in our gardens. (Yay!)
- Find out what is dead in our gardens. (Ack!)
- Enjoy to a beautiful letter sent in from a listener - “A Sonnet to Spring”. (Cause gardening and poetry do have a lot in common.)
As Antelope Twomey, the Poet Laureate of Wyoming would say, “It’s mandatory”.
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What grass is best for your area?
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Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
With World Naked Gardening Day just around the corner on May 7, we thought we would share one of our favorite pod plays.
Good laughs and celebrating the garden are what we are all about at Upside Down Tulips. Most of the time we even have clothes on. We will be back next week with a brand new episode filled with our fun garden tips and tricks and bad jokes.
xoxo
Edith & Christy
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Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Judy Seaborn, founder of Botanical Interests seed company, stops by to share her favorite gardening mistakes - and gives us so many great tips.
- Which plants won’t benefit from starting early?
- Which don’t like being transplanted?
- How do you keep your seeds from clumping in one place in the garden?
- What plant is a must in Judy's garden this year?
Plus: If you plant onions in a circle do you get onion rings? Dandelions - good for bees or not? (The controversy begins.) We talk mugwort and borage, two ‘witchy” herbs. And we celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday with podplays featuring Hamlet and Ophelia; and Imaboil and Esmepus, 2 witches from Macbeth. Learn and laugh with us!
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Live in Denver? Come see the play we worked on! Runs until May 14, 2022
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