How does your garden grow — and how can it grow to be more resilient in extremes brought on by climate change?  

We’re joined by Sally Morgan, organic gardener and co-author of “The Climate Change Garden,” recently published from Cool Springs Press. Morgan shares practical tips for how gardeners can set up their gardens to adapt to the torrential rains, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other extremes that are a product of climate change.

She – and host Esty Dinur, a master gardener herself – take listener calls, including advice on how to get hanging planters to flower, how to deal with a zealous herb like mint, and a mindful reminder to appreciate even the “weeds” in our garden, like lambsquarters and prickly lettuce, that are also edible plants.

Sally Morgan is a botanist with a lifelong interest in gardening. She writes frequently on her blog livingononeacreorless.co.uk on topics that affect gardeners,  like climate change, healthy soils, biodiversity, and sustainability. She is editor of Organic Gardening magazine, teaches classes and workshops, and grows an organic, one-acre plot and walled garden at Empire Fire in Somerset, England.

She’s the author of several books, including  The Healthy Vegetable Garden and Living on One Acre or Less. Her most recent book, co-authored with Kim Stoddart, is The Climate Change Garden: Down to Earth Advice for Growing a Resilient Garden (Cool Springs Press). You can follow her on Twitter @Sally_Morgan.

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