The Horticulturati

Here's the 6/10 recording of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. This week, we covered transplant shock, twining vs. clinging vines, and poison ivy.

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Colleen did the show solo on June 3 because Leah skipped town! She got a lot of great questions. Topics include crabgrass, live oak suckers, and sneaky squirrels scheming on stonefruits.

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Here's the May 20 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our live call-in show on Newsradio KLBJ. We talk about how to deal with mosquitoes, making room for poisonous plants in the garden, staking plants in pots, and the radical difference of gardening in Texas vs. California.

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More garden questions answered! Here's the April 13 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our live call-in show on Newsradio KLBJ.

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Here's a double dose of Horticulture Hangover, our live call-in show on Newsradio KLBJ, recorded April 29 and May 6. Due to various travel plans and life events, we each did our first solo episodes of the radio show. So many technical surprises and goofs! Tune in live and call or text your questions next week at 8-9 am CST on KLBJ's website, or on the airwaves: 99.7 AM and 590 FM.

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On this episode, we're tackling Phosphorus – an element, crucial to life on earth, which exists in both abundance and scarcity. We cover how humans got hooked on P fertilizers, the political and environmental impacts of mining and pollution, and what might be done about it.

Mentioned in this episode:

City of Austin Algae Mitigation;Toledo Junction Coalition Interview; Points North Podcast; US EPA explanation of phosphorus processing waste product storage; Florida Public Radio story about Florida mine disasters; Atlas Obscura podcast: "The Belt and Berm" Part 1 and Part 2; Atlas Obscura text: Moroccan Western Sahara Wall; Soil is Sexy

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Here's the 4/22 broadcast recording of Horticulture Hangover, our NEW live show on Newsradio KLBJ.

Saturday's chat included a rundown of our busy weekend of garden events, plus listener questions about compost tea, grass alternatives for deep shade, poisonous plants, tender tropical bulbs, and more. Tune in live and call or text your questions next week at 8-9 am CST on KLBJ's website, or on the airwaves: 99.7 AM and 590 FM.

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Here's the recording of this week's Horticulture Hangover, our new radio broadcast on KLBJ.

This week's coversation includes: plant swap tips, dividing muhly grasses, protecting young trees from deer damage, transplanting milkweeds, and more. Tune in live next week at 8-9 am CST online here, or on the airwaves: 99.7 AM and 590 FM!

Check out these events next weekend!

April 22: Central Texas Plant People's Spring Plant Swap 1-4 pm at Tillery Street Plant Co (801 Tillery, Austin)

April 23: Leah is hosting a workshop with the Central Texas Mycological Society: Sheet Mulching With Mycelium (Mushrooms!): Build Resilient Planting Beds 2-4 pm at Ruiz Branch Library (1600 Grove Blvd, Austin)

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We're doing a call-in gardening show the radio! It's called "Horticulture Hangover" and it airs on Saturdays from 8-9 am CST on KLBJ 590AM/99.7 FM. You can also stream it live here. We'll still bring you deep dives into topics on the Horticulturati podcast, but now you get a bonus show in this feed. Horticulture Hangover is a live Q&A format program where we take listener questions. Here are our first two episodes, recorded April 1 and April 8.

On this episode, we're gettin' down and dirty with sheet mulch. Sheet mulching is a no-till, no-dig gardening practice of removing unwanted vegetation and building fertile soil by layering organic matter and letting it compost in place. While the layers suppress weeds by blocking sunlight, subterranean soil biology goes to work to break down the layers into new soil. The beauty of this simple practice is that you can do it at any time of year with materials you have on hand (like cardboard, shredded paper, and leaves) or can source for free from local sources (arborist wood chips, coffee grounds, and spent mushroom substrate).

We discuss the reasons for sheet mulching, when and how to do it, and what to use. Then we dive into the corrugated controversy around cardboard and ponder the role of science in gardening.

Mentioned in this episode:

"Pocket Prairies with John Hart Asher" (Horticulturati podcast episode, 2022);

JHA pocket prairies ep of Horticulturati; Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway (2001); "Fungal Vision with Daniel Reyes" (Hothouse podcast episode, 2018); Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets (2005); Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis (2006); "Mulches: The Good, The Bad, and the Really, Really Ugly" by Dr. Linda Chalker Scott (presentation to the Clackamas County Master Gardeners, 2019); "The Cardboard Controversy" by Chalker-Scott (Garden Professors blog, 2015); "Permaculture - More Concerns" by Chalker-Scott (Garden Professors blog, 2010).

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