Plantrama - plants, landscapes, & bringing nature indoors

It's pasta for dinner, and everything coming up roses in this episode of Plantrama. Ellen shares her nettle pasta recipe, and C.L. talks about a quick way to use any garden greens with linguine. We discuss the highs and lows of growing roses, and end by answering a listener's question about catkins.

:37 What's For Dinner: A go-to garden or foraged pasta.

6:55 Eat/Drink/Grow: Roses.

24:50 Love Letters and Questions: Diedre asked What is a catkin?

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In this episode Ellen and C.L. celebrate spring salads, discuss organic fertilizers and discuss the many ways to grow vining Clematis.

:28 What's for dinner: Spring Salads

6:24 Insider Information: Organic fertilizers

11:03 Eat/Drink/Grow: Clematis

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The Plantrama team gives those new to vegetable gardening some advice about raised beds...how deep, what to fill them with, and whether they need a weed barrier underneath. We talk about how to remember what you've planted, without sticking ugly labels next to every plant in your garden. In a new segment, we tell you about a couple of great things that we've discovered.

:45 Plant Noob: Raised bed Tips 10:46 Eat/Drink/Grow: Methods for remembering what you've planted 21:36 Check THIS Out!: C.L. raves about Fleurs de Villes and Ellen talks about Spice Jungle!

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Do you need a special fertilizer for Cannabis budding? Do you need special fertilizers for different types of plants? Do some fertilizers work better than others, and can you make your own out of food scraps? These questions answered and more in this episode.

:33 True or False: In order to get Cannabis to bud, you have to use special "bloom" fertilizers 3:22 Eat/Drink/Grow: Fertilizer Facts and Fantasies 20:06 Love Letters and Questions: Shelley wrote: "Is it true that the roots of plants only go out to the dripline?

The Plantrama team gets their fingers sticky with strawberry juices today as we talk about foraging for wild berries, and how to grow strawberries in your garden. Hear about the types of plants, protecting berries from critters, using this plant as groundcover, and more. We end with some thoughts about soil temperatures.

Here is a great chart from the Cooperative Extension-Sacramento County, showing how long seeds take to germinate in different soil temperatures.

:38 What's For Dinner: Strawberries

3:45 Eat/Drink/Grow: Strawberries

19:25 Insider Information: The importance of soil temperatures

Spring Greens, Plants for Arbors, and Forced Bulbs

In the last episode for March Ellen and C.L. answer the last batch of questions collected at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle. Many of these focus on plants for arbors and pergolas.

:28 What's for dinner: Spring Greens 3:37 Insider Information: Can a night blooming Cereus grow indoors in AK? 5:27 Eat/Drink/Grow: Plants for arbors, pergolas and trellises 18:16 Love Letters and Questions: From Rachel about a forced hyacinth bulb

Ellen and C.L. address more questions from the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle. We discuss the herb that gets no respect, Parsley, plus keeping outdoor furniture dry, escaping the insect invasion in your outdoor living areas, and how we started a podcast...and how you might start a garden business too!

:40 What's for dinner: Parsley

4:19 Insider Information: Garden furniture in rainy climates

10:57 Eat/Drink/Grow: Keeping mosquitoes out of the garden

16:05 Plant Empowerment – How Plantrama came to be

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Hear about how to garden if you move frequently, creating consistent gardens in sun and shade, colors that work together, and growing strawberries in a greenhouse. That and keeping the neighbor's dogs from killing plants when they urinate on them.

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1:06 Plant Noob: The neighbor's dogs kill my plants on the sidewalk!

4:42 Eat/Drink/Grow: Designing Gardens – questions from the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival

17:09 Insider information: purple hyacinth beans...edible or poison?

17:57 Love Letters and Questions Growing strawberries in greenhouses

Questions from the 2022 Seattle flower show continue, with blue, mophead hydrangea blooming and pruning in our main segment. Ellen and C.L. also talk about pH for vegetable gardens and peonies that stop blooming.

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:45 The Plant Noob: How important is soil pH for vegetables 6:56 Eat/Drink/Grow: Hydrangea Happiness 18:17 Love Letters and Questions: 30 year old peony stopped blooming.

C.L. and Ellen answer questions that were submitted at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle. They discuss pruning raspberries, great plants with white flowers, and how to get rid of fungus gnats.

1:31 What's For Dinner: Raspberries!

10:14 Eat/Drink/Grow: Gardens with White Flowers.

21:56 Insider Information: Fungus Gnats

With thanks to our sponsors at the NWFGS: Storey Publishing.

Gardener's Supply Company, and Botanical Interest Seeds.