The Grow Guide

Award winning author and gardening educator Steven Biggs is our guest this week, here to help make the transition smoother for any plants that are coming inside for winter. Dave also takes on a listener question about growing peppers indoors and shares a "spritzy" plant of the week!

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Dave and Maggie are trilled to welcome award-winning author Niki Jabbour back to the show. Niki shares a ton of practical and insightful tips on how to keep your summer garden flourishing, navigating slugs, zucchini issues, powdery mildew hacks, tomato tantrums and more during our recent chat. Niki also becomes our first guest ever to join in on our "favourite thing of the week"!

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Maggie and Dave are back and they've missed you, Grow Guiders! It's been a few weeks since the last episode and Maggie and Dave have been spending the last few weeks enjoying their own gardens and managing COVID safely. But today we're back to chat about protecting our gardens from the extreme heat of summer that tends to hit gardeners hard at this time of year. Maggie and Dave cover how-to plant, maintain and harvest in hot weather, common plant diseases caused by heat, some great mulch options to help you water less often and heat-loving plants that you can still add to the garden now!

Maggie's Fav Thing: Gardman Reusable Grow Bags

Dave's Fav Thing: Kangaroo Paw Plant

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This week's episode covers a variety of grow topics! Dave and Maggie and back together (remotely!) and start off by catching-up on what's new in their gardening lives. Dave shares about the changes he's had to make at the garden centre due to COVID and sheds some light on how this pandemic has changed the seed industry. Maggie shares how she's been taking advantage of this down time and getting seeds in the garden earlier than ever before. The co-hosts answer TWO listener questions on utilizing wood chips from a diseased tree for garden mulch, and avoiding growing mold and algae on indoor seedlings. Then, Toronto-based grower, Luay from Urban Farm & Kitchen joins the pod to talk rain gutter gardening, raised beds and poly tunnels.

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Dave's Fav Thing: Yacon

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This week Maggie takes on the pod alone! She shares the behind the scenes of what's been going on in her gardening life over these last few weeks. A great listener question on blossom end rot brings up a discussion around using eggshells as a soil amendment and Maggie shares a few other options for organic fertilizers to feed your tomatoes with. This week's theme is all about online learning. Hear from Kris Antonius from DIY Homesteader Festival as she shares about their newest product — Rooted in Community Online Gatherings.

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Gardening Blogs We Mention in this Episode:

• Homestead & Chill
• SavvyGardening
• Modern Farmer
• Farmer's Almanac Garden Planner

Maggie's Fav Thing: Growing Seasame Seeds

Kris' Fav Thing: The Week by Week Vegetable Gardener's Handbook

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Hello Grow Guiders, this episode is coming to you right in time for Spring weather! Dave and Maggie are connecting remotely this week from their homes to practice social distancing. They catch up on what's going on in their gardening lives and Dave shares about the impact COVID has had on the greenhouse. To help support small businesses, The Grow Guide is offering all listeners 15% off your online seed purchase at sagegarden.ca. Tune in to catch the promo code! This episode covers off three great listener questions on growing basil, onions and asparagus. Then the topic this week walks through every step to consider when planning this season's edible garden.

Other great, past episodes we mention:

• Raised Bed Revolution with Tara Nolan
• Square Foot Gardening with Mick Manfield
• Succession Planting
• Top Ten Tips for Rookie Veggie Growers

Maggie's Fav Thing: Garden Huckleberry

Dave's Fav Thing: Achoca Cucumber

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Our good friend and savvy seed starter Kelly Leask from Prairie Originals Nursery joins us on the pod to talk about the more nuanced requirements for starting winter hardy plants from seed. But of course first we have some fun catching up to do, favourite things to share and a squirmer of a question all about worms!

Hello Grow Guiders! We've missed you and wanted to say hello with this surprise episode. Season 3 isn't here just yet, but stay tuned for more surprise content over the next few months! Today we catch up on some fun upcoming events we're hosting, like the FREE "potpourri" workshops at Tokyo Smoke (at stores across Canada!) and the Saturday morning Gardening Club workshops at Sage Garden Greenhouses (also free!). Maggie & Dave share 5 fun plant/gardening projects you can start right now even in the middle of winter!

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Happy Holidays, Grow Guiders! Tis' the season for festivities and for Maggie and Dave to go on their annual podcasting break for the next few weeks. But stay tuned for updates! Check social, Patreon and the Facebook community group for updates. This week, we throw back to a few top moments from 2019. See you all in 2020.

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Organic seeds are the topic of today's episode — one of both Maggie and Dave's favourite things to chat about! Paul Feenan, a Sales Representative with High Mowing Organic Seeds, joins the pod to share about the history of the Vermont-based company and some of his favourite varieties available for 2020. Before the interview, Maggie shares another book club recommendation and Dave shares about an all-natural, Manitoba-made product.

Maggie's Favourite Thing: High Impact Low Care Garden Plants

Dave's Favourite Thing: Sap N' Salvy Healing Balm

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Shop the Seed Varieties Paul Recommends:

• Roma II Bean
• Napoli Carrot
• Easy Salad Greens
• Kalibos Cabbage
• Burgandy Lettuce
• Red Mist Lettuce
• Autumn Frost Butternut Squash
• Galahad Tomato
• Rutgers Basil
• Strawberry Fields Globe Amaranth
• Tangerine Gem Marigold

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