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How to Grow: Keyhole Gardens

Listen to this podcast on how to build and grow a keyhole bed and garden.   It's time to start thinking about your vegetable garden. Many gardeners have transitioned from flat, straight rows to raised beds. Raised beds warm up faster in spring, drain water sooner and allow you to garden more intensively without as much work. But the next level of raised beds is the keyhole bed. Originated in Africa and used in permaculture gardens, the keyhole raised bed is a way to save space, reduce pathways, garden intensively and integrate...

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How to Grow: Kohlrabi

Listen to this podcast on how to grow and care for kohlrabi in the vegetable garden. podcast transcript Go here for a Video on Kohlrabi Growing Now here's one weird looking vegetable. When I show kids a kohlrabi (Brassica oleracea), they say it looks like a satellite or spaceship. It's always a conversation piece when people visit my garden. In spite of its looks, kohlrabi is an easy, cabbage-family vegetable to grow. It's wildly popular in Eastern Europe, but just catching on in this country. While you can eat the leaves, it's the round...

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How to Grow: Lasagna Gardening

Learn about the simple technique to build a new garden end without having to dig up the lawn. Listen to Podcast: I'm an Italian-American and if there's one thing I know about it's lasagna. I've been eating it since I was a little bambino. While lasagna is a great food, it's also a great gardening idea. Starting a new flower or vegetable bed can be back breaking work. Many gardeners dig out sod and weeds, bring in topsoil and compost and generally sweat a lot. My solution is to borrow the wisdom of the lasagna. Lasagna gardening is a way to...

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Podcast Shrubs Trees

How to Grow: Lilacs

Learn about lilacs, including how to plant and grow them. Listen to podcast: podcast transcript How to Grow: Lilacs Syringa vulgaris and hybrids   Other Name common lilac   Sun Requirements full sun, part sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Spring in many shade of blue, purple, red, pink and white   Mature Height x Spread 5 to 15 feet x 6 to 12 feet   Added Benefits attracts beneficials, attracts hummingbirds, deer resistant, drought tolerant   One of the signature shrubs of New England is the lilac. Spring in New England...

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Garden Design & CarePodcastVegetable

How to Grow: Making a Raised Bed

Listen to this podcast on how to build, plant and care for a raised bed in the vegetable garden. One of the biggest trends in the last 20 years in vegetable gardening has been the expanded use of raised beds. It's not a new idea, but it seems everyone is embracing a raised bed to grow better tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, and many other crops. It's a smart idea. Raised beds are more productive. The soil warms and dries out faster and it doesn't get compacted because you don't have to step on the beds. Raised beds are easier to weed, water,...

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FruitPodcast

How to Grow: Melons

Learn how to plant and grow melons in your garden. Listen to Podcast: podcast transcript My wife Wendy grows a big patch of melons (Cucumis melo) each year. Come late summer it's a literal vigil to see when the first melon is ripe. There's good reason to be so interested. Fresh melons picked warm from the garden are sweet, juicy and certainly a decadent treat, much better than anything bought in the grocery store. While melons love the heat, you can still grow these sweet treats in the Northeast if you select the right varieties and have...

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HerbPodcastVegetable

How to Grow: Microgreens

Learn how to grow microgreens indoors in winter to get a taste of greens on your salads. Listen to Podcast: Charles Warner once said, “Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.” After our recent cold snaps, finding crisp, fresh and sparkling lettuce in your garden may be impossible. Unless you have a greenhouse or a hoop house system, you're probably relegated to buying your greens. But you can grow your own greens indoors without an elaborate set up. Grow...

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How to Grow: Mint

Listen to this podcast and read about growing and caring for mint plants including how to stop them from being invasive.   podcast transcript One of the biggest drawbacks to mint is not getting it to grow, but keeping it under control. But it’s worth the effort. Mint is a flavorful herb that comes in many flavors, such as spearmint, orange, melon, apple, and chocolate peppermint. Not only is it a great addition to drinks, teas and cooking, the plant is an attractive ground cover as well with colorful pastel, blue or pink, colored...

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PerennialsPodcast

How to Grow: Ornamental Grasses

Learn about ornamental grasses, including how to plant and grow them. Listen to podcast: podcast transcript How to Grow: Ornamental Grasses various species   Other Name Many different types   Sun Requirements full sun, part sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color late summer and fall in shades of brown, purple, red, and silver   Mature Height x Spread 1 to 6 feet x 1 to 3 feet   Added Benefits native, attracts beneficials, drought tolerant, deer resistant   Ornamental grasses have become all the rage in landscaping circles and...

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AnnualsPodcast

How to Grow: Oxalis

Listen to this podcast on how to grow oxalis as a houseplant and outdoors. Depending on who you talk to oxalis or the shamrock plant is an invasive weed, a sour tasting groundcover or a cute houseplant. All three are right. In warm climates oxalis can be an attractive groundcover or a weed. In colder climates yellow sorrel is an oxalis that grows as an understory plant in the forest. And then there's the tender houseplant versions. This is where oxalis becomes more interesting. Oxalis may be called the shamrock plant, but it's not related...

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