Rooting for You | Beginner Edible Gardening

Rooting for You | Beginner Edible Gardening

By alyce alexandra & tessLeisureHome & Garden
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Rooting for You | Beginner Edible Gardening episodes

  • BONUS - Rooting for You guest - a conversation with The Hungry Gardener
    S4E9 This week we welcome as a guest to Rooting for You, Fabian Capomolla, also known as The Hungry Gardener.  Fabian was part of the team that co-founded the Little Veggie Patch Co in Melbourne but since 2014 has been working on his own projects. He now runs The Hungry Gardener website, is a garden consultant, has his own podcast and has just written his fourth book 'Growing Food the Italian Way'.  
    https://www.thehungrygardener.com.au/  
    @the_hungry_gardener
    43 min
  • SUMMER - our season wrap-up - Summer edible garden wins, fails and lessons learned
    S4E8 Tess and Alyce debrief on the Summer season. Their successes, fails and things they’ve learned along the way. From Alyce’s blueberries to realisations about sunshine, the huge difference between Tess’ tomatoes last year and her monster plant this year and creating shade when you need it! Stay tuned for a fabulous suggestion from Alyce as to what to cook with excess zucchinis.
    23 min
  • ANYTIME - NPK A beginner's guide to NPK fertilisers when growing veggies
    S4E7 No idea what we’re talking about? Well this this is the episode for you!!
    NPK is gardening shorthand for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. These are three super important ingredients for helping your plants flourish and if they don’t get all three, they might be in big trouble! In this ep, we’ll tell you what each one of these chemicals does and help you decipher nursery-fertilizers - an introduction to this kinda sciency topic!
    Now remember, fertilizers are not a substitute for good, life-filled, enriched soil but sometimes you just need a little extra help.
    If anyone has an easy way to help us remember NPK and what each one does, let us know!!
    26 min
  • SUMMER - corn - everything you need to know about growing corn
    S4E4 Tess and Alyce chat about corn. We’ve had quite a few requests for corn, so here it is! This episode covers two varieties of corn, sweet and grinding. Where to buy your seeds, where and when to grow your crop. Corn has a pretty fancy pollination technique, so planting this crop in the right formation is key. The biggest take away from Alyce, corn loves heat! So if you’re in the cooler parts of Australia, now’s the time!
    24 min
  • SUMMER - carrots - a beginners guide to growing carrots
    S4E3 Tess and Alyce chat about growing carrots. Did you know the original carrots were all purple, not the common orange we know today? Carrots are a great option if you're looking for something to plant in a less sunny spot in Summer.  In this episode, Alyce gives us all the tips and tricks to planting, caring for and harvesting carrots.
    30 min
  • SUMMER - bush and climbing beans - a beginner's guide to growing beans

    S4E2 - Tess and Alyce chat about growing beans and an introduction into the two main varieties of bean plants - bush beans and climbing (or pole) beans. Don't know the difference? Listen along to find out more but here's the great news: the bush bean is perfect for anyone that has a little extra space this Summer. 

    We've focussed on the fresh-eating beans in this episode, perhaps we need another one focusing on dried beans! But the planting and maintenance is the same for both fresh and dried beans, it's simply the harvest stage that differs. 

    A little note for the newbies - broad beans or fava beans are a totally different kettle of fish for gardeners, and are grown throughout winter! So please don't use our tips in this episode for growing broad beans. We'll do another episode on them when the time is right (autumn!). 

    ** EDITOR'S NOTE: Alyce called beans a fruiting crop, they're actually a legume, lucky this makes zero difference to how they're grown! 


    35 min
  • SUMMER - intro to Summer - all the things that will be keeping us busy in the garden this season

    S4E1 Tess and Alyce chat about all the activities that will be keeping us busy this season, from the fun stuff like crops we can still plant and everyone's favourite, harvesting! To the less fun activities like weeding, fertiliser and protecting our crops from the pesky possums and birds. PLUS Tess and Alyce do a re-cap on Spring, how they went and their successes and failures.  

    34 min
  • ANYIME - watering systems - from basic sprinklers to more advanced drippers

    S3E13 It’s coming into summer which means, for many of us, hot and dry weather is on the way! Maybe you’ve got plans to go away, or you’re just living your busy life, either way you might be thinking about watering systems for your garden! In this week’s episode, Tess and Alyce chat about all about watering systems. From the basic sprinkler options to the more sophisticated dripper systems PLUS a bunch of great tips around tap splitters and timers.

    36 min

About Rooting for You | Beginner Edible Gardening

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A seasonal gardening podcast for non-experts. Hosted by Tess (who knows nothing) and Alyce (who knows some things), each episode Tess and Alyce will pick a topic to discuss and finish up looking at the effort-reward ratio of the topic by asking, is the juice worth the squeeze?