The Growing Season

Let's get rocked!

Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland, the stewards of The Growing Season, discuss one of their favourite topics.  Rock Gardens.

The trio chat about installing rock gardens on properties and Matt waxes nostalgic about learning the ways of "the force" from Yoda, his father.  Tales of 3 point rock elevations and spotters abound.

Tanya and Joe of Beaver Valley Stone join Matt and Jack to chat about their booming business, supplying natural stone to many parts of Ontario.

The group chat about the history of Beaver Valley, the tales that go down in their history and what 2020 looks like for the stone purveyors.

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The Growing Season's most popular show gets a sequel!

Medicinal plants Part 1 has gone down in the history of The Growing Season as the most popular show the McFarlands have ever recorded. 

During Part 1 the crew lamented that they only got to a small portion of the information. 

You asked and the clan has delivered. 

Poppies, Ginkgo, St. Johns Wort, Digitalis and many others are touched on - all highlighting their medicinal benefits on Medicinal Plants pt. 2.

Looking to introduce some medicinals into your landscape?  The Growing Season can help with that.

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So you wanna plant a tree?

Good call!  Matt, Jack and Lynne McFarland get down to the nitty gritty when it comes to choosing the right tree for any property.

One of the most costly and rewarding horticultural purchases you can make, trees not only add shade, colour and curb appeal to your home, they also reduce the scale of your house and give you leaf at a different elevation.

The McFarlands detail their favourite trees to plant for clients and they tell stories about the lowlights of their tree planting adventures. 

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And now for the ones that just keep coming back!

After last week's show about annual flowers, The Growing Season crew dive into the subject of perennials - herbaceous organisms that come back season after season.

You're gonna want to use the visual accompaniment for this episode.  The names of plant materials are coming at you hot and heavy and its a lot to take in.  Link below.

What perennials to plant where, some recommendations and many stories about planting these suckers are all touched on in this episode. 

Lets get designing those gardens, shall we?

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Its almost THAT time of the year.  ALMOST!

Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland steer The Growing Season ship into the waters of annual plants. 

With many of us excited to begin painting with horticultural colour, Matt issues a caution to those thinking of planting too early. 

What annuals should you plant where?  How do you establish a colour scheme and what are the secrets to bright vibrant annual colour?  The Growing Season touches on all of these topics.

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We've been asked about veggies time and time again and we wanted to have the perfect guest to complement the subject.   

Julia Dimakos, our veggie Jedi joins us.

Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland tee up getting a raised veggie ready for planting and Julia joins the crew to fill in the blanks.

The trio laugh along to stories of Julia's beginnings then she guides the guys through many a-ha moments that have helped her to uncover the secrets below the soil.

She's wonderful and we're honoured to have her on the show.

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And now we're getting to the good stuff!

The Growing Season crew chat about plant selection and the choices that many of their clients have made throughout the years that have turned out to be wonderful surprises and some that have been less so.

Matt talks about Landscaping in 2020 becoming lazy and how he seeks to remedy that situation. 

"Having a wheelbarrow and pickup truck doesn't make you a landscaper..."

From planting trees that are far and away too large for the property or planting way out of hardiness zone the TGS crew get heated!

Gordana Collingdon, perennial mistress and Growing Season listener, join the guys on the Land Line to discuss her wonderful garden. 

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Tiny Steps...

What are things that you can plant besides the norm to produce food during these uncertain times?

Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland discuss the tiny steps that we can all take, horticulturally, to avoid standing in lines at the grocery store and leaning on our farmers.

Berry bushes, fruit trees, espaliers and more are all topics that The Growing Season trio chat about. 

Its fun, its light, its The Growing Season.

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WHY DON'T THOSE TREES HAVE PANTS ON!?

Jack and Matt McFarland of The Growing Season discuss the practice of installing and working with bare root plant materials.  Why did they switch over to container grown?  When did it happen and how did it revolutionize the industry?

Matt gushes about Connon Nurseries and their expanse of horticulture wonder. 

Jason and Derek of Unilock Georgetown welcome The McFarlands into the nerve centre of Unilock to chat about the industry and how homeowners and Unilock are working together to protect the interests of each other.

Its a wonderful "behind the curtain" chat that takes place on location. 

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The first cut is the deepest.

The McFarlands of The Growing Season get into the precision cuts of spring pruning.

The history of pruning and why it started in the first place is touched on and Jack, Lynne and Matt dive into the nitty gritty of the snippy snippy.

How should you prune a rose? What about perennials and flowering shrubs?  We have all that info for ya, delivered in the typical Growing Season style. 

Ryan Amberg of FELCO Swiss made horticultural clippers joins The Growing Season to chat about the history of the company and why they are the leader in the field.

Jack and Matt gush about FELCO.

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