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On today’s show I take another round of listener questions and feedback. What to do about uneven growth under growlights? A question about my techniques of irrigation (or lack thereof). How to water seeds and seedlings. What to do about poor germination rates with direct sowing. How to plant seeds the easiest, most successful way . . . → Read More: Episode 179 Listener Questions and Feedback What plants can be direct sowed If it makes a big root or tuber – direct sow it. If it grows really tall direct sow it. If it’s a legume direct sow it. If it’s a leafy green. Corn, okra, sunflowers, beans, peas, potatoes, garlic, beets, turnips, parsnips, carrots (exceptions are onions, leeks). Lettuce, mesclun, spinach, dill. Optional . . . → Read More: Episode 164 Direct Sowing Working with children and getting them interested in gardening is a passion of mine. Its not only something that I want to work with my son with this year but I’d like to share my experiences in the hope that I can help others in their efforts. So this is the first post in what . . . → Read More: Gardening With Children – Starting Seeds In today’s episode we talk about coplanting. Most definitions of coplanting is just another term for companion planting (I guess its easier for lazy people to say!). I do not consider it companion planting. Its a combination of nurse planting (using another crop to protect and shield a future crop), interplanting (planting unlike plants among . . . → Read More: Episode 154 Coplanting Today we cover the art of starting seeds…but in a limited manner. I didn’t want to talk about the when. Its so subjective with when. I wanted to talk about the following things: How a seed works… Parts of a seed Embryotic plant (plant fetus) one or two seed leaves, radicle (seed root), plumule (stem) . . . → Read More: Episode 142 Starting Seeds Revisited I wanted to talk about herbs that are common, easy to find, not thought of as cooking herbs. I believe as many do that a good deal of food is medicinal in some way. So I’m not going to tell you to grow dill or cilantro or oregano. I’ve already told you that. I think . . . → Read More: Episode 141 Essential Practical Medicinal Herbs
Today’s show is a special Halloween show and it is a two-parter. The first part is about pumpkins: *The general history, naming, etc. *Some uses. Some common and some you might never have thought of. *How they figure into Halloween. They weren’t the original Halloween vegetable. *The legend behind Jack of the Lantern. . . . → Read More: Episode 129 Ghosts, Demons, Pumpkins and Zombies |
 
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