My Chicago Garden

It’s with a sad heart that I say that I must discontinue the podcast. I’ve decided to switch to the less time consuming blog format. To get a perspective on the effort involved in doing a 10 to 15 minute podcast like MyChicagoGarden, I was finding that I would have to spend a good [...]

In this episode I’ll give another update on the status of the garden. But before I get into that I had a few people over the last month ask me to mention a gardening related event that some of you may be interested in.  If you, or your organization, live in the Chicago area and would like me to mention your event on the podcast send an email tyler@mychicagogarden.com.

First we have a Garden Sculpture Workshop that is being held at the Chicago Botanical Gardens.  It runs for four days from 9am to 3:30pm on Monday August 20th through Thursday August 23rd.  It’s being run by the award-winning sculptor, DJ Garrity the Sculptor-In-Residence of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.  The cost is $599 for members and $720 for non-members. Space is limited, and I’m told that only a few spots are left.  You can find a link to the workshop description on the MyChicagoGarden website.

And lastly, I got an email from a listener inviting me to attend the Mens Garden Club of Villa Park.  Don’t let the name fool you though. It’s actually open to anyone.  They have a club greenhouse, a plant sale every year and various discounts on garden material for members and every meeting they have a guest speaker.  Their next meeting is August 25th at 7:30PM.  If my schedule will allow it I plan on attending as Villa Park is just a few miles east of Wheaton.  Their website is www.homegardening.org.

So what has been going on in the garden.  I installed two different drip irrigation systems which you can see in a video segment I submitted to gardenfork.tv.  A link to the video is up on the MyChicagoGarden website.
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I filmed a quick episode of MyChicagoGarden for Eric over at gardenfork.tv. He was kind enough to run it on his internet TV show/blog/podcast thing. I’m linking to it from here so folks can check it out. More to come!

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The family and I visited a worm farm, actually it’s a purpose built garage behind a house in the middle of a sub division. But the owner can produce 80 tons of worm castings a year and hundreds of thousands of worms.  If you have visited a local Ace Hardware store in the last [...]

Over the last two months we’ve been moving in to our new house and getting all the emergency repairs done, like a new roof and plumbing in the laundry room.  A few weeks ago we had a load bearing wall removed in the kitchen to make room for a more open floor plan in the major living areas of the home.  But what does that have to do with a garden podcast?  I mention all this to explain why the podcast has been on hold for the last two months.
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