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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 Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
To celebrate National Gardending Day on April 14, we packed this episode with a wheelbarrow full of Spring tips and tricks!
Then, we give you something new! We interview an expert: Brittany Pimental, the Equity and Food Access Director at Denver Urban Gardens. We learned so much. Just about every city has a community garden program and they’re there to help you. We learn about viable seeds in ancient Egyptian tombs. Sustainability swaps? No, not a way to reignite the spark in a marriage. Find out what a food swamp is and if you’re in one.
Plus, Edith has a garden hack that grosses Christy out. Edith gets bleeped for the third time and Christy dreams of Japanese beetles. And what’s this about thanking your tool?
Come see the play we are working on! YOU WILL GET SICK by Noah Diaz
Check out our friends at Denver Urban Gardens
Find out where YOUR community garden is!
Don't Know Your Zone? Find it HERE
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Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Can you smell the lilac? It’s all about common and not so common scents in the garden. Combat the malodorous smells of modern times - the exhaust, the garbage, your overly patchoulied co-worker - with the gentle scents that certain trees and plants will provide. Which ones are our favorites, which ones have medicinal properties, which plant can be sowed straight from a teabag. Listen as a letter from Doug gives instructions on building a chicken wire rabbit deterrent fence that just might work. And enjoy a new pod play parody on the TV show, Succession!
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Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Using the Academy Awards as our inspiration, we give awards to the favorites, and also the disappointments, in our gardens. Along the way we share what made our successes shine and what might prevent future failures. Trees to vines to veggies to flowers- from best ensemble to the most dependable to the villains - Garden 2021 has been a heck of a year. Plus buggy hollyhocks, raging at the radish, and the little seedling that could.
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Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
We’re gardeners and sports lovers, so let’s say this episode is smashmouth gardening. Where else are you gonna get that? We tell you which are the easiest veggies and flowers to grow, and give you tips to ensure your success. Do you like beans, carrots, zucchini, lettuce, and peas? Do marigolds, zinnias, cosmos, sunflowers and morning glories please your eyes? Add some hardy perennials and you have a beautiful easy peasy garden.
Plus an all NEW Who Killed Rosemary: Misty Contour, intrepid podcaster trying to find out who killed Rosemary, visits a neighborhood where she is stonewalled by all the neighbors. Door after door is slammed in her face. What are they afraid of? Is Misty in danger? The list of suspects grows...
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Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
We'll Take Worm Composting for $1000, Ken. And Let's Make it A True Daily Double! We explore vermiculture, which ensures that you can grow the most nutritious vegetables, the most beautiful flowers because you can make the best fertilizer in your backyard, under the sink, on your balcony. Are we pulling your garden-overalled leg? No, we’re not. Vermiculture is raising worms for their precious poop, and we give you the inside scoop. Where to put them, what to feed them, how to keep them alive.
Final Jeopardy: How planting sunflowers can take heavy metals out of your soil and how to get rid of poison ivy.
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Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
What you can and what you shouldn’t do in your March garden. Direct sowing, soil conditioning, temperature watching, winter sowing, indoor seedling starting, perennial clean up - it all starts now. When, what, and why to prune off your trees. And take time for Your Morning Wordle - our new pod play in honor of you, the gardeners.
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Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
We took notes and name names. Of our favorite greens. Our goal is to have 9 months of fresh green salad stuff from the garden. Tips on growing endive, arugula, perpetual spinach, dwarf kale, corn salad, romaine and more. How to plant, harvest, care for, and fertilize. Along the way we get wayword and curdled noddles, grief stricken vegetables, and all root and no bulb enter the fray. Plus a brand new Old Woman Pod Play!
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Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
“Butterflies are flying flowers and flowers are tethered butterflies”
Saving our bees and butterflies is also saving our food sources. We explain how you can help whether you have a garden or a balcony or somewhere to plant milkweed seeds for Monarch butterflies. And how to get those seeds for free. What colors and plants attract not just a butterfly but a kaleidoscope of butterflies. Not just a single bee but perhaps a bike of bees. Why you should never plant a butterfly bush, perversely counterintuitive though that sounds. Plus a podcast within a podcast: we’re getting closer to finding out who killed Rosemary, in a brand new pod play!
Find Your Local Native Plant Society Here!
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Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Find out which heirloom seed company will ship you seeds with no shipping fees, and hear what may be the worst joke in the world. Then learn how to make two or more houseplants out of your existing houseplants by rooting, stem cutting, or dividing. Discover what pantry staple can be used as a rooting hormone. And if you think a "rooting hormone" has anything to do with why you are loathe to leave the house, give us a listen.
Also: What happens when a Crazy Cat Lady meets a Crazy Plant Lady? FInd out and have a laugh or two in a brand new hand-crafter pod play just for the gardener.
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Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
In this week's special encore episode, we share the difference between dirt, soil, top soil, potting soil, and seed starting soil. Who knew? We didn’t! But we do now. Also:
- How many worms in a shovelfull of good soil?
- How to use the principles of regenerative agriculture in your garden large or small.
- How do worms procreate and why should you care?
- Why does Plato the Greek philosopher think people are like dirt, and why you’ll agree with him.
So many questions. We have answers to a lot of them. Don’t confuse rotorooters with rototillers and the secret to a good marriage. Okay, we didn’t say one has anything to do with the other. Or did we? Listen to find out.
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