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Episode 8 – Companion Planting

This episode I’ll be talking about Companion Planting, or if used as a primary method in your garden, companion gardening. Done properly it can reduce, if not eliminate, the majority of reasons why you would need to use chemicals in your garden.

 
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Episode 7 – Getting Started Managing a Compost Pile (Part 2 of 3)

…Composting Part Two – Getting Started Managing a Compost Pile…

This is part two of our podcast series on compost and composting. I mentioned in the previous podcast that we are heavily leveraging the Rodale Book of Composting. You may find it useful to purchase the book as we move through the series. I also mentioned [...]

 
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Teaming with Microbes – A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web

As part of the January meet up of the garden bloggers bookclub, I finished reading Teaming with Microbes – A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web.  It’s not your typical garden book in my mind.  It spends a lot more time explaining science than is normal to find in the gardening genre.  As someone [...]

Episode 6 – Compost. Gardener’s Black Gold (Part 1 of 3)

…Composting Part One – Black Gold…

We are starting a three part series on composting, that black gold that every gardener dreams about…or should dream about. If you’ve never worked with really good compost you don’t know what you are missing. If you listened to episode 4 on the square foot gardening technique, you’ll remember that [...]

 
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What Makes a Gardener?

So Carol over on her blog May Dreams Gardens posed the question…

What Makes a Gardner?

She asked several questions that beg to be answered.

Do you consider yourself a gardener?

I guess I do. I’m not as good a gardener as others, but I guess if you play in the dirt and grow something you can [...]