Homegrown: Your Backyard Garden Podcast

In this episode, we explore nine summer vegetables that thrive in hot weather. Learn essential tips and suggestions for growing these heat-loving vegetables in your backyard garden. Plus, discover the secrets to maximizing your harvest from your garden this summer. Let's dig in!


Transcript/Related Post:
9 Warm-Weather Vegetables for your Summer Garden
https://www.oakhillhomestead.com/2023/05/9-warm-weather-vegetables-to-grow.html


Related Links:
How to Transplant Tomato Plants
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Containers
Grow Your Own Sweet Potato Slips


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Discover the benefits of composting for your vegetable garden, and the advantages of composting at home. Composting your yard waste and kitchen garbage is the best way to improve your garden. Here are four reasons you should be composting, in honor of Learn About Composting Day.

RELATED POST: 4 Reasons You Should Be Composting
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The natural antidepressant in dirt is mycobacterium vaccae. 

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Nine out of 10 gardeners grow tomatoes, making it the most popular garden vegetable to grow. And there are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes to choose from. Let’s explore the differences - heirlooms vs hybrid varieties, determinate vs indeterminate growing habits, and the six different sizes and shapes of tomatoes.

Which one is best for you? It depends on what you want to do with your tomatoes - whether you want to add them to a salad, top a burger or sandwich, make sauce, or enjoy a snack fresh from the garden. Let’s dig in!


Click here for your free Tomato Tips cheatsheet (https://oakhillhomestead.myflodesk.com/i26cg0r2j2) so you can grow incredible tomatoes!


Transcript/Related post:
The 6 Kinds of Tomatoes - https://www.oakhillhomestead.com/2024/03/determinate-and-indeterminate-tomatoes.html

Hybrid vs Heirloom -  https://www.oakhillhomestead.com/2024/04/hybrid-vs-heirloom-tomatoes.html

Related Links:
How to start seeds
Trellis tomatoes
Grow a new tomato plant from a sucker
Why you should grow heirloom seeds 

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Discover seven easy-to-grow cool-season plants ideal for your backyard garden. From vibrant greens to flavorful root vegetables plus a delicious fruit, you'll learn about these easy-to-grow spring vegetables and why it's important that you know how to grow your own food.

Transcript/related post:
7 Easy Cool-Season Vegetables to Plant

• Grow Guides 
• Sweet and Sour Beet recipe
• Episode 3: How to Plant Garlic

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Learn how to grow potatoes in containers with this simple, beginner-friendly method — perfect for small spaces, raised beds, or anyone who wants a bigger harvest in less room. In this episode, I’ll walk you through the key things that make the difference between a disappointing crop and a bucket full of homegrown potatoes.

Potatoes are a wonderful way to stretch the grocery budget, and container growing makes them possible almost anywhere. Let’s dig in!

Transcript/related post:
How to Plant Potatoes in Containers

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What will you grow in your backyard vegetable garden? Choosing what to grow in a garden can be overwhelming with all the choices that are available. These tips will walk you through the steps of how to choose the vegetables and fruits to plant in your backyard garden.

You'll find suggested vegetable varieties for small gardens in Episodes #3 and #5.

Transcript/related post:
7 Tips to Choose What to Plant in a Vegetable Garden

Related Links:

• Dirty Dozen list
• Find your growing season information here
• How to Grow Vegetables and Herbs in a Shady Garden ebook
• Mary's Heirloom Seeds

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Every inch of soil counts in a backyard garden, and raised garden beds can be a game-changer, an efficient solution with many benefits. From soil improvement to better use of your garden space, learn about the advantages of raised garden beds, and about some of the disadvantages too. Let’s dig in!

Transcript/related post:
The Advantages of Raised Garden Beds

Get your free set of printable plans and materials list to build your own raised garden bed.

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Here are my 8 secrets to growing a successful salad garden in a small space, a flowerbed or in plant pots and containers. You can grow a healthy salad almost anywhere, even if you're short on garden space and have little gardening experience.

Transcript (and free guide to choosing plants for a salad garden):
Grow a Salad Garden in a Small Space

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How do you deal with a disappointing garden season? Have you tried gardening in the past but you were far from successful and you're not sure you want to try again?

Some years are like that. In fact, I have a confession to make, and I’m going to spill the beans in this episode. Let’s dig in!

Transcript/related post:
Recovering from a Bad Garden Year

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Do you want to grow vegetables and herbs but don't have room for a garden? Grow in containers instead! Learn how to choose the right containers and pots for your plants, and what plants work best in a container garden.

Transcript (and more info about growing vegetables in containers):
Growing Vegetables in Containers and Pots

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