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BulbsHouseplantsPodcast

How to Grow: Paperwhite Narcissus

In this podcast, learn how to grow Paperwhite narcissus and how to force them indoors for winter blooms If want to add some fragrant, holiday flowers to our home, grow paperwhite narcissus. Paperwhites are small flowered daffodils and feature fragrant flowers. The beauty of paperwhites is they're easy to force into bloom indoors this time of year. Simply pot them up and they'll be in bloom 3 to 4 weeks later. While we think of white as the flower color of paperwhites, there are other varieties. Try the yellow flowered 'Bethlehem' or white...

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PerennialsPodcast

How to Grow: Peonies

Learn about peonies, including how to plant and grow them. Listen to podcast: podcast transcript   Go here for the All About Growing Peonies Video How To Grow: Peonies Paeonia spp   Other Name Garden peony   Sun Requirements full sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Late spring to early summer in colors such as white, coral, pink, red, yellow, and bi colors   Mature Height x Spread 3 to 4 feet x 3 feet   Added Benefits attracts beneficials, deer resistant   Peonies give your garden a boost in late spring with their large,...

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Garden Design & CarePodcastVegetable

How to Grow: Permaculture

Learn about some simple permaculture techniques to save space and grow better plants in your vegetable garden. Listen to podcast: Winter is a great time of year for garden planning. Whether it be a trip to Italy or a new garden bed, now is the time to get ready for the coming garden season. I've been reading Toby Hemenway's permaculture book, Gaia's Garden, and I have a few new design concepts I'm going to try. Many gardeners are shrinking the size of their gardens to reduce work and save space. But we still want to grow everything under...

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PerennialsPodcast

How to Grow: Plants for Problem Places

Listen to this podcast on the best plants for clay, wet, dry or shady places in your garden.   It seems every perennial flower garden I visit, or grow, has some area that is a challenge. Often the solution is simply growing the right plant in the right place. So let me run through a few perennial flowers for problem places in your yard. Most gardens have shade, but not all shade is the same. In dry shade, like under a large maple tree, try growing euphorbia, Soloman's Seal, epimedium, lamium and repeat blooming daylilies. Of course,...

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FruitPodcast

How to Grow: Plums

Learn how to plant and grow plums for a northern climate. Listen to Podcast: podcast transcript There are so many varieties of plums (Prunus)  available it's hard to grow just one. I've grown the American plums in my USDA zone 4 garden mostly because of their hardiness. European plums are less hardy, but are self fruitful. Japanese varieties can grow only in warmer parts of our region. There are also tart tasting, native plums and plums crossed with other stone fruits, such as apricots and peaches. These are called pluots. Most plums grow...

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AnnualsPerennialsPodcast

How to Grow: Poppies

Learn how to select, plant and grow poppies in your garden. Listen to Podcast:   podcast transcript Papaver spp   Other Name Many different types   Sun Requirements full sun   Bloom Period and Seasonal Color Summer and periodically again to fall in colors such as red, orange, white, yellow, purple, and pink.   Mature Height x Spread 8 inches to 3 feet inches x 1 foot   Added Benefits attracts beneficials, drought tolerant, edible, deer resistant   Poppies are like splashes of delight across a meadow, garden or field. There are...

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Garden Design & CarePodcast Shrubs Trees

How to Grow: Protecting Evergreens in Winter

Learn how to protect your evergreens trees and shrubs from damaging winter winds and cold. Listen to podcast: We've all seen it happen. A beautiful, broad-leaved rhododendron looks great going into winter. But in spring the leaves have browned and curled, turning our beautiful specimen into a deposit for the compost pile. So how do we get our broad-leaved evergreens such as rhodis, mountain laurel and pieris shrubs to make it through winter? It's all about protection. Broad-leaved evergreens continue to transpire moisture through their...

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Garden Design & CarePodcast Shrubs

How to Grow: Protecting Roses

Learn how to protect your roses from winter's cold and winds. Listen to Podcast: I'm Charlie Nardozzi and this is the Vermont Garden Journal on Vermont Public Radio. Fall is a time for wrapping up the garden, both figuratively and literally. It's time to pull out frost-killed annual flowers, cut back perennial flowers, compost leaves, and protect tender shrubs. One of the most precious flowers to protect are your roses. Because there are so many different types of roses, it's often confusing which ones to protect and how. Overwintering...

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FruitPodcast Shrubs

How to Grow: Pruning Blueberries

Learn how to prune old and young blueberry bushes.   I was on a roll in early March pruning my fruits. Then it snowed, got cold and I retreated to the cozy fire. But my blueberries still need pruning and once the snow melts, I'll be back at it. Blueberries are one of the easiest fruits to prune because young plants don't need much pruning. The goal in the early years is strong growth and setting up strong fruiting canes for the future. If any branches are dead, broken, diseased or rubbing against each other, they should be removed....

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PodcastVegetable

How to Grow: Pumpkin Seeds

Listen to this podcast on how to grow pumpkins for their edible seeds.   It's almost Halloween and lots of families are buying pumpkins for carving and decorating. It's fun to carve all types and colors of pumpkins from the small pie pumpkins to large field pumpkins. But one piece of the Halloween pumpkin carving ritual that sometimes gets forgotten are the seeds. Pumpkins and winter squash seeds are not only delicious, they're nutritious. Pumpkin seeds are loaded with minerals -- especially magnesium -- anti-oxidants that help with...

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