All Things Gardening Podcast

By Mary Engisch, Charlie Nardozzi

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Seed-Save This Year's Zinni...

09.26.2021

While fall produces garden color from hardy mums, tree and shrub foliage and asters, nothing beats the knock-out colors from zinnias. Now is a good time to take stock of your zinnia flowers, explore other varieties and plan on seed-saving ...

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09.26.2021 Seed-Save This Year's Zinnias For Planting Next Spring While fall produces garden color from hardy mums, tree and shrub foliage and asters, nothing beats the knock-out colors from zinnias. Now is a good time to take stock of your zinnia flowers, explore other varieties and plan on seed-saving ...
09.19.2021 Johnny Appleseed's Contribution To The American Landscape It's apple season! In grade school, you may have heard of a character called Johnny Appleseed. Most of what you learned is true, as he was a real person who did travel the Appalachians and Midwest states, planting apple orchards ...
09.12.2021 Moving In; Bringing Your Outdoor Plants Inside For The Fall And Winter Certain plants can be rehoused indoors over the winter. We'll learn which ones make good candidates for the move!
09.05.2021 Beyond The Thump; How To Tell When Your Squash, Pumpkins And Watermelons Are Ready To Harvest Learn some techniques to determine when your squash and melons are ready to pick!
08.29.2021 A Perennial Climbing Vine You Can Bring Indoors This Winter Late summer vines like clematis are really thriving in the heat. Some varieties can take over and be too aggressive. Learn which summer vines are beautiful and won't crowd out your garden and lawn space.
08.22.2021 Dial Up The Drama In Your Late Summer Gardening With These Brightly Colored High-Wattage Blooms If you like big, colorful and showy flowers and your late summer gardening is suffering from a power outage, turn up the wattage by growing hardy hibiscus.
08.08.2021 'Encroachmint:' When Your Mint Plant Takes Over Your Garden (And Some Varieties That Won't!) Move over, peppermint and spearmint! Try different varieties, like apple mint and banana mint, that won't take over your garden space.
08.01.2021 A Bad Case Of Spots; How To Deal With Powdery Mildew And Other Icky Plant Diseases Heavy rains and cooler weather can cause certain plant and root diseases in your gardens and raised beds. Take stock of your plants now and learn methods to rid them of any plant and leaf diseases that could affect your ...
07.25.2021 Want Blooms In Late Summer? Plant These Three Flowering Shrubs Once lilacs, forsythia and rhododendrons start to fade, you might miss seeing colorful blooms in the late summer. There are a few flowering bushes that do show their colors this time of year and they do well in our climate.
07.18.2021 Keeping Larger Animals From Your Garden's Bounty Lessening the chance of rabbits, woodchucks and deer nibbling on your growing garden means more produce on the kitchen table for you.
07.04.2021 Maybe They're Just Thirsty! Tricks To Keep Chipmunks From Eating Your Strawberries Squirrels, chipmunks, moles and voles can wreak havoc in your flower and vegetable garden. These small animals can be controlled with a variety of organic methods, like spicy repellents and even squirt guns!
06.27.2021 Quash The Squash Bugs And Cucumber Beetles Right about now, the zucchini squash and cucumber plants that you planted in your gardens and raised beds this spring are really taking off. Lurking underneath the leaves, however, you may find some pests that could thwart your bountiful zuke ...
06.26.2021 Quash The Squash Bugs And Cucumber Beetles Right about now, the zucchini squash and cucumber plants are thriving in the warm temps and bright sun. However, lurking underneath the leaves, you may find some pests that could thwart your bountiful zuke and cuke harvest.
06.20.2021 The Fungus Didn't Get Them First; Invasive Caterpillars Defoliating Trees As the hot sun beats down and afternoon rain showers quench our gardens, up in the canopy of our hardwood trees, an invasive species is having a field day.
06.13.2021 Just Peachy! You Can Grow Your Own Peach Tree And Enjoy Local, Tree-Ripened Fruit Can you picture yourself reaching for a tree-ripened peach grown in your own yard? Follow a few guidelines, like finding the right peach tree variety and the right sight, and you'll be on your way to enjoying a local, tree-ripened ...
06.06.2021 Move Over, Hosta! Let These Perennials Shine In Your Shaded Garden Spots Many flower gardeners plan out their growing spaces and even then, they realize some areas are challenging. What to plant in the part of your garden space that gets barely any sun and is quite frankly, kind of soggy?
05.30.2021 Add The Floral Poetry Of The Lilac To Your Yard And Garden Revered in poems from Walt Whitman to T.S. Eliot, the lilac is a beautiful symbol of spring in New England. You can grow the traditional lavender-hued variety, which can grow quite large or branch out and try smaller varieties in ...
05.23.2021 Staked, Caged Or Trellised, Your Tomatoes Will Grow Tall And Strong All Summer! Tomato-planting time is here! In most parts of Vermont, especially the Champlain Valley and Connecticut River Valley, you can plant tomatoes in your gardens and raised beds as soon as this weekend. If you’re in the mountains, wait a bit ...
05.16.2021 Putting Down Roots; How To Prepare And Plant A New Tree In Your Yard When you decide to plant a tree, you most likely expect it to stay put for a long time. When considering conditions and factors other than sunlight, soil and water, sometimes trees don’t thrive where they’re planted.
05.09.2021 The Best Tomatoes To Grow In A Container For A Summer Full Of Fresh Produce If you want fresh tomatoes right on your porch, balcony or steps all summer long, consider containers! Container tomatoes are the perfect way to grow your own fresh produce, as long as you choose the right variety and the right ...
05.02.2021 When Foraging For Wild Edibles, Always Identify Before You Try If you forage for wild leeks, ramps and other wild edibles growing right now, it is imperative that you heed caution and know proper wild edible identification.
04.25.2021 Build A Garden With Layers Of Newspaper, Lawn Clippings And Compost Welcome to raised-bed-building season! With a few materials you most likely have on hand and no tilling, you can create a no-dig garden bed or convert an existing bed to no-dig. And you can build it so weeds, mice and ...
04.18.2021 How To Thin Those Self-Sowing Flowers And Veggies With warm weather settling in, you may step out to your garden or gaze at your raised bed and notice many seeds are germinating! Flowers such as calendula, verbena and poppies, and veggies like arugula, lettuce and mustard, may have ...
04.11.2021 Plant Flowering Bulbs That Deer And Rabbits Won't Consider A Salad Bar It seems you wait all winter for some colorful flowers to bloom and then the deer and rabbits eat them all first! When it comes to flowering bulbs, there are preventive measures to avoid this.First, step outside and note if ...
04.04.2021 Learn To Grow Sweetly-Scented Sweet Peas In Your Window Box Some flower varieties just seem to elicit a smile on your face just by looking at them. One such posie is the lovely sweet pea, with the flower bud's cheery appearance, beautiful hues and lovely scent!
03.28.2021 Pruning 101: Blueberry Bushes Many gardeners are growing blueberry bushes in their lawns and landscapes. These are great additions to your yard, because they are not only beautiful but also provide fresh fruit!
03.21.2021 Raise Your Gardening Game With Raised Beds Early spring is the perfect time to build some raised beds. First, though, there are some things to consider, like the size of the raised bed and the material you’ll use.
03.07.2021 Plan And Scheme Your Way To A Productive Garden Plot Though “planting schemes'' may sound like a devious plot hatched by your zucchini, it is actually just planning how you want your garden to look in terms of what gets planted where. And now is a good time to start ...
02.28.2021 Seed-Starting 101: How To Avoid Leggy Seedlings And Other Common Problems The sun (when it appears) seems a bit warmer on your skin and you've got dreamy garden-plotting thoughts in your head. Right now, though, patience is your best friend when it comes to seed-starting!
02.21.2021 Manage Plant Pests And Weeds By Using 'Companion Planting' Methods You may have heard the mantra that, "carrots love tomatoes," when it comes to garden placement. In this episode, we'll learn about plant partners and the scientific data that backs up how the placement of certain plants can keep pests ...
02.14.2021 The Key To Long-Lasting Cut Flowers Is Right Next To The Milk And Eggs Happy Valentine's Day! To preserve cut flowers that you may have received for the holiday, we’ll run through the basics of cut flower care including some tried-and-true home remedies.
02.07.2021 Take A Winter Treasure Hunt With Seed Catalogs For Unique Veggies For The Spring While planning for your garden, going through seed catalogs can be like a wintertime treasure hunt, especially, if you are seeking out new and unusual varieties of veggies, flowers and herbs!
01.31.2021 Grow A Culinary Herb Garden Indoors This Winter Get a taste of greenery by learning to grow easy culinary herbs indoors right now. Learning the right lighting, watering, temperature and harvesting are key to growing indoor herbs!
01.24.2021 Step Away From That Trowel And Try 'No-Dig' Gardening This Spring A single teaspoon of soil has more microbes in it than there are people on the planet, and they are a crucial part in creating a healthy soil structure. This spring, folks who garden can embrace a new mantra: stop ...
01.17.2021 Houseplant RX, Part Two Aphids, mealybugs and spider mites, oh my! In this episode, we'll learn how to identify and tackle household pests, plus how to avoid them in the first place. We'll also find out more about common houseplant critters like white flies, ...
01.10.2021 Houseplant RX, Part One You've joined the houseplant bandwagon! Now that your greenery has been growing indoors for awhile, you're beginning to notice problems, like spindly growth, brown leaf tips, poor flowering and wilting. In this first of two episodes on indoor plant care, ...
01.03.2021 Want Colorful Leaves Indoors This Winter? Try A Plant With Spathes Growing houseplants with dark green leaves is a fun winter pastime and you have so many to choose from! If you want to add some more colorful houseplants into a room in your home that gets low to medium light ...
12.30.2020 Five Things To Do With Your Live Christmas Tree, After The Holidays If you celebrate holidays and decorate for them with a live tree, this year, here are five (plus one extra one that involves camelids) environmentally-friendly ways to dispose of it!
12.20.2020 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Your Favorite Gardener If you've been dragging your feet and you still haven't gotten your favorite gardener a gift, fear not, as Charlie Nardozzi has great ideas - from hand tools to totes to even special gloves and seed-starting supplies.
12.13.2020 Craft Your Own Holiday Wreath From Found Natural Materials Many homes place an evergreen wreath on their door or wall for the season. Traditional holiday wreaths are often decorated with bows, berries and cones. This year has been unlike any other so perhaps it is the perfect time to ...
12.06.2020 Holiday Flowers: Keep Your Home Beautiful, Pets And Kids Safe Those pretty red poinsettias adorning your holiday table actually grow as shrubs in their native Central America. These posies have become the symbol of the holidays in many countries all over the world. In this episode, we’ll learn about poinsettia ...
11.29.2020 Choose A Tree For Its Bark, 'Stick Season' Is Here! With 'stick season' upon us, we won’t be seeing green leaves on trees for another six months. Why not plant some trees and shrubs in your lawn and landscape that boast beautiful-looking bark?
11.22.2020 To Cut Back Or Not? Depends On The Hydrangea! Should you cut back your hydrangeas? If you want to protect them for winter, now is a great time to not only cut them back and dead-head the flowers, but also do some other winter care prep methods. You just ...
11.15.2020 'It's Mid-November And My Holiday Cactus Isn't Blooming!': Learn How To Encourage Yours Now that we're all nestled in our homes staying warm, we might have noticed a few things about our houseplants. For instance, why isn't the cactus blooming? That all comes down to the cactus variety you have. Some are budding ...
11.08.2020 Digging Up And Curing Flower Bulbs For Winter With the sudden freeze that happened recently, it's time to dig up and protect precious sub-tropical bulbs such as canna lilies, dahlias and gladiolus.
11.01.2020 Pumpkin Planters Perk Up Porches And Holiday Tables Reuse the pumpkins on your porch step by turning them into planters for small succulents!
10.25.2020 20 Feet Tall With Orange Fruits: Plant A Persimmon Tree! The tropical-looking persimmon is hardy in Vermont, has avocado-like leaves and tasty orange fruits that are ready to harvest ... now!
10.18.2020 5 Uses For Dead Leaves (Some Make Your Lawn Healthier!) Leaves are falling, so it's time to do something (or nothing!) with them.
10.11.2020 Do The 'Chop 'N Drop!': Learn The Newest Ways To Prep Your Garden In Tune With Nature Folks with perennial flower gardens might already have a go-to method for readying their beds for fall and winter, but there are new ways to clean up your plot that are more in tune with nature.
10.04.2020 Anemones: Delicate In Appearance, But Hardy And Easy To Maintain With daisy-like flowers growing on thin, leggy stems, Japanese anemones are also known by the poetic moniker, "wind flower." This perennial not only looks beautiful in your landscape, it's also hardy and easy to maintain.

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All Things Gardening Podcast episodes:

Seed-Save This Year's Zinnias For Planting Next Spring

Johnny Appleseed's Contribution To The American Landscape

Moving In; Bringing Your Outdoor Plants Inside For The Fall And Winter

Beyond The Thump; How To Tell When Your Squash, Pumpkins And Watermelons Are Ready To Harvest

A Perennial Climbing Vine You Can Bring Indoors This Winter

Dial Up The Drama In Your Late Summer Gardening With These Brightly Colored High-Wattage Blooms

'Encroachmint:' When Your Mint Plant Takes Over Your Garden (And Some Varieties That Won't!)

A Bad Case Of Spots; How To Deal With Powdery Mildew And Other Icky Plant Diseases

Want Blooms In Late Summer? Plant These Three Flowering Shrubs

Keeping Larger Animals From Your Garden's Bounty

Maybe They're Just Thirsty! Tricks To Keep Chipmunks From Eating Your Strawberries

Quash The Squash Bugs And Cucumber Beetles

Quash The Squash Bugs And Cucumber Beetles

The Fungus Didn't Get Them First; Invasive Caterpillars Defoliating Trees

Just Peachy! You Can Grow Your Own Peach Tree And Enjoy Local, Tree-Ripened Fruit

Move Over, Hosta! Let These Perennials Shine In Your Shaded Garden Spots

Add The Floral Poetry Of The Lilac To Your Yard And Garden

Staked, Caged Or Trellised, Your Tomatoes Will Grow Tall And Strong All Summer!

Putting Down Roots; How To Prepare And Plant A New Tree In Your Yard

The Best Tomatoes To Grow In A Container For A Summer Full Of Fresh Produce

When Foraging For Wild Edibles, Always Identify Before You Try

Build A Garden With Layers Of Newspaper, Lawn Clippings And Compost

How To Thin Those Self-Sowing Flowers And Veggies

Plant Flowering Bulbs That Deer And Rabbits Won't Consider A Salad Bar

Learn To Grow Sweetly-Scented Sweet Peas In Your Window Box

Pruning 101: Blueberry Bushes

Raise Your Gardening Game With Raised Beds

Plan And Scheme Your Way To A Productive Garden Plot

Seed-Starting 101: How To Avoid Leggy Seedlings And Other Common Problems

Manage Plant Pests And Weeds By Using 'Companion Planting' Methods

The Key To Long-Lasting Cut Flowers Is Right Next To The Milk And Eggs

Take A Winter Treasure Hunt With Seed Catalogs For Unique Veggies For The Spring

Grow A Culinary Herb Garden Indoors This Winter

Step Away From That Trowel And Try 'No-Dig' Gardening This Spring

Houseplant RX, Part Two

Houseplant RX, Part One

Want Colorful Leaves Indoors This Winter? Try A Plant With Spathes

Five Things To Do With Your Live Christmas Tree, After The Holidays

Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Your Favorite Gardener

Craft Your Own Holiday Wreath From Found Natural Materials

Holiday Flowers: Keep Your Home Beautiful, Pets And Kids Safe

Choose A Tree For Its Bark, 'Stick Season' Is Here!

To Cut Back Or Not? Depends On The Hydrangea!

'It's Mid-November And My Holiday Cactus Isn't Blooming!': Learn How To Encourage Yours

Digging Up And Curing Flower Bulbs For Winter

Pumpkin Planters Perk Up Porches And Holiday Tables

20 Feet Tall With Orange Fruits: Plant A Persimmon Tree!

5 Uses For Dead Leaves (Some Make Your Lawn Healthier!)

Do The 'Chop 'N Drop!': Learn The Newest Ways To Prep Your Garden In Tune With Nature

Anemones: Delicate In Appearance, But Hardy And Easy To Maintain

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