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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 Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Winter Sowing 2! Good news! You don’t have to wait to garden. We answer your questions about how to sow seeds, outside in the winter. Does it matter where you live? When is the best time? Can you use compost? What is the best way to water? What kind of light? Should you ever take the tops off? What if it gets really cold? Along the way we have a hilarious headline correction from England, living bridges in India, and new ways to garden: free planting and leaving vegetable roots in the ground. Informative and funny, gardeners we’ve got your backs.
Click HERE to listen to Winter Sowing Part One
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Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
In this Encore Episode, 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 also 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. Edith has a compost experiment and says “at least it doesn’t stink.” Wow, someone’s standards have sunk to a new pandemic low.
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Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Things to consider when planning your 2022 garden. How to lengthen the season in colder zones, new ways of watering, and inexpensive ways of providing shade. The new way Christy will plant her expensive herbs and the one herb Edith will never plant again. What you need to do in January to ensure getting the garden you want in July. Two treats for theater lovers: Hamlet and Ophelia in their frozen garden, and a mulch pile begging to be spread belts out Broadway tunes. “Ah, five, six, seven, EIGHT!”
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Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
You want to plant a garden. Now what? In this Encore Episode, we explore Gardening 101: 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?
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
"I can use some socks.”
If that quote doesn’t signal an exciting episode, we don’t know what does. It's our annual Favorite Mistakes of the Year! We go through our many gardening mistakes of 2021, some of which ended in... plantslaughter! From too much sun to not nearly enough, from a hostile poppy takeover to accidentally killing houseplants - learn from us. And laugh with us!
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Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Blanket yourself with this delightful Christmas quilt of an episode. From the care of your Christmas tree, poinsettias, and amaryllis to a mailbag featuring two of the most heartwarming stories we’ve ever heard. Plus, the most unusual “12 Days of Christmas” you’ve ever heard, a way to frustrate scammers, and a stomach churning Gift of the Magi. And “The Ghosts of Gardens Past” to warm your eggnog. Happy Holidays!
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Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
In this Encore Episode, learn how to grow herbs! Have a container? A small patch of land somewhere? Plant herbs! There is nothing like fresh herbs that you have grown for your health, happiness, and recipe success. Let us help you with tips for sowing, growing, and harvesting your herbs. Plus intriguing truths:
- What is the most popular spice? (Hint, it isn't Baby)
- How the Romans used the herb savory. Why medieval monks were forbidden to grow it.
- Meet an herb whose leaves tastes SO GOOD to 8o% of humans, is inedible to the other 20%, and then produces seeds that are a whole different spice!
- And the name of which herb is featured in what is arguably the best play written in the 20th century!
Journey through thyme (ha ha) with Upside Down Tulips. Plus - a special couple of humorous "pod plays" that celebrate The Natural State.
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Edith and Christy search the globe and outer space, looking for unusual gardens. From above the Arctic Circle, to the indigenous forests of Africa - from the ketchup and fries plant, to where you can find gardens inside taxicabs, to a parody of “The Martian” - so much great information presented alongside funny letters to Santa and groan worthy puns. The elves Wunorse Opanslae and Shinny Upatree warn us about the one gift they never should have given Mrs. Claus. Believe it... Or not!
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
In this Encore Episode, you can 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.
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Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving! Like friends and family coming to our table, we have new letters from listeners as well as favorites from last year. They run the gamut from the missing mashed potatoes to Spudsgiving. Plus a new podplay about the Cranberry Wars. Oscar Wilde, the Buddha, and the Minneapolis Miracle are already seated. We’ve saved a place for you. We would be grateful if you joined us.
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