232-Ecological Horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park, With Rebecca McMackin, Part I
Ecological horticulture is one of the most important methodologies that gardeners can adopt to combat the loss of biodiversity, but the term is still unfamiliar to many. To explain ecological horticul...
28 Okt 202157min
231-Vegetables Love Flowers (and Why You Should Grow More)
Adding a cutting garden to your landscape will mean fresh-cut flowers for you to enjoy and also an abundance of pollinators and other beneficial insects in your vegetable garden. To explain why vegeta...
21 Okt 202155min
230-Monarch Rx: The Prescription for Healthier Butterflies
As much as we love watching monarch butterflies fluttering in our gardens and landing on flowers to sip nectar, there is much about monarchs that remains a mystery to both gardeners and scientists. My...
14 Okt 202142min
229-Food Forest Basics: Creating Abundance Even in Small Spaces
Starting a food forest may sound like it requires more space than many of us have to work with, but the reality is even gardeners with small yards can implement this permaculture growing method. To sh...
7 Okt 202142min
228-Growing Great Garlic, With Alley Swiss of Filaree Farm
Growing garlic in the home garden opens up the opportunity to experience an array of flavors that you will never find with store-bought garlic. Growing garlic is easy, but there are a few important th...
30 Sep 202156min
227-The Humane Gardener-How to Nurture a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife
We gardeners, whether we grow ornamentals or vegetables, often run into conflict with wildlife that wants to eat what we grow. To share methods that we can employ to overcome critter issues in a human...
23 Sep 202152min
226-The Magical World of Moss Gardening
That special feeling that comes when you walk through a moss-covered forest can be recreated right in your own backyard. My guest this week, moss expert Annie Martin, aka Mossin' Annie, takes us into ...
16 Sep 202145min
225-Growing Roses Sustainably
Roses can be intimidating, so much so that many gardeners don't bother, but my guest this week, rosarian Paul Zimmerman, wants you to know that that reputation is not deserved. Paul is an expert on gr...
9 Sep 202149min
