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This podcast is devoted to all things gardening. National gardening television host, Joe Lamp'l, guides you through each episode with practical tips and information to help you become a better, smarter gardener, no matter where you are on your journey. This series has a strong emphasis on organic gardening and growing food, but covers a diverse range of topics from one of the country's most informed and leading gardening personalities today.

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340-My Favorite Gardening G...

11.23.2023

With holiday gift shopping season upon us, I am sharing my top gardening gear picks for the gardeners in your life — the tools, accessories and books that you may also want to pick up for yourself. In a nutshell, ...

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11.23.2023 340-My Favorite Gardening Gear and Gadgets Update With holiday gift shopping season upon us, I am sharing my top gardening gear picks for the gardeners in your life — the tools, accessories and books that you may also want to pick up for yourself. In a nutshell, ...
11.16.2023 339-Microbe Science for Gardeners, with Robert Pavlis If you have been practicing organic gardening for a while, you probably observe the mantra “feed the soil and let the soil feed the plants,” though to get even more precise, my returning guest this week, chemist and gardening author ...
11.09.2023 338-Ecological Landscape Design: Form and Function Ecological landscape design is the practice of making meadows and gardens that are both pleasing to the eye and functional parts of the ecosystem, providing resources and habitat for essential wildlife. To share the principles of ecological landscape design and ...
11.02.2023 337-Legends of the Leaf: The Secrets of Well-Known Houseplants, with Jane Perrone How much do you know about the houseplant sitting on your windowsill? My returning guest this week, garden writer and houseplants podcaster Jane Perrone, is here to reveal the little-known histories of plants that have shared homes with us for ...
10.26.2023 336-What We Sow: The Significance of Seeds, with Jennifer Jewell Seeds hold the keys to sustaining life on this planet, and they draw cultural connections between ancestors and their descendants. To discuss her latest book, What We Sow, and the significance of seeds ecologically, culturally and personally, joining me on ...
10.19.2023 335-Better Soil Health and Crop Yields Through Regenerative Agriculture, with Gabe Brown Regenerative agriculture is an alternative to conventional agriculture that focuses on improving soil health for better fertility and moisture retention. The benefit to farmers is increased crop yields at less cost, and the benefit to all of us is more ...
10.12.2023 334-A Market Farmer’s Journey to Success-Encore Presentation Once you’ve experienced the joy of raising fruits and vegetables to feed your family, it becomes much easier to imagine what it would be like to become a market farmer who grows enough to maintain a successful business. My guest ...
10.05.2023 333-Why Oaks Are Our Most Essential Native Trees, with Doug Tallamy-Encore Presentation Oaks are what are known as keystone plants due to the pivotal role they play in the food chain. Because so many species rely on oaks for their survival, my guest this week, entomologist Doug Tallamy, Ph.D., calls them “our ...
09.28.2023 332-Growing Cool Season Flowers, with Lisa Mason Ziegler-Encore Presentation Fall may be here, but the gardening season is far from over. Cool season flowers can be planted now or early next spring to give your garden a pop of color and aroma before most gardens are in bloom. In ...
09.21.2023 331-The Ecological Garden Blueprint: 10 Essential Steps That Matter Most As gardeners, there are many opportunities for us to become better stewards of the environment. On this week’s podcast, I share my ecological garden blueprint: 10 steps for you to take to partner with nature and support the ecosystem. Podcast ...
09.14.2023 330-Natural Garden Design Basics, with Benjamin Vogt Natural garden design is growing in popularity, and many more gardeners would like to get on board if only they had a better idea of how to get started. If you’re curious about starting a natural garden with native plants, ...
09.07.2023 329-Cultivating a Personal Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer Part of what makes gardening so magical is that every garden is unique. To share how gardeners can identify their personal garden style and achieve their garden goals, joining me this week is garden author, designer and teacher Rochelle Greayer ...
08.31.2023 328-Behind the Scenes with Joe and GardenFarm™ Manager Tobi Maintaining my five-acre GardenFarm™ and keeping up with documenting the garden’s progress through the growing season is far from a one-person job. This week, Tobi McDaniel, the GardenFarm manager, joins me on the podcast for the first time to offer ...
08.24.2023 327-The Nuances of Native and Non-Native Ladybugs and Other Insects Promoting native insects via gardening is a worthwhile endeavor that is growing in popularity, but just because native insects are good to have in the garden, that doesn’t also mean all non-native insects are bad to have around. My guest ...
08.17.2023 326-An Introduction to Modern Homesteading, with Jill Winger Modern homesteading has surged in popularity since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, which triggered in many people a desire to become more self-sufficient and closer to the land that sustains us. To discuss this phenomenon, the benefits of ...
08.10.2023 325-Grounded: Reclaiming Well-Being and Finding Self-Sufficiency Through Gardening Time spent outdoors in the fresh air tending to gardens has a rejuvenating effect, which gardener, author and video maker Liz Zorab of Byther Farm can attest to better than anyone. Liz joins me on the podcast this week to ...
08.03.2023 324-The Potential of Mushrooms to Overcome Environmental Challenges Mushrooms can do some pretty amazing things, and as research continues, we are gaining an even better understanding of the potential of fungi to help us overcome an array of environmental challenges. Mycologist Tradd Cotter joins me on the podcast ...
07.27.2023 323-What to Plant Now for the Fall Vegetable Garden-Encore Presentation A fall vegetable garden is a treasure too many gardeners miss out on. In fact, fall is my favorite growing season, a time when I can grow an array of cool-season vegetables with relief from the pest and disease pressure ...
07.20.2023 322-Back to the Roots Brings Organic Gardening to the Masses Even as more and more gardeners adopt the practices of organic, sustainable and regenerative horticulture, retailers still treat organic gardening products as a niche thing. My guests this week, Back to the Roots co-founders and co-CEOs Nikhil Arora and Alejandro ...
07.13.2023 321-Joe’s Summer Observations and Takeaways from the GardenFarm™ This week you may notice the podcast sounds a bit different than it normally does. That’s because instead of recording indoors, I recorded from my home garden, the GardenFarm™. You can follow me as I walk along and share my ...
07.06.2023 320-Nature’s Best Hope: Why Our Plant Choices Matter, with Doug Tallamy-Encore Presentation The plants that we choose to include in our landscapes can be life-sustaining, invaluable resources for our native wildlife or they can just be plants that just look pretty while contributing little to nothing to the ecosystem. My guest this ...
06.29.2023 319-Assessing Hydrangea Cold Tolerance This spring was not a great one for hydrangeas all around the United States, and according to my guest this week, Lorraine Ballato, the problem can be traced back to the wild weather that occurred over the winter. Lorraine shares ...
06.22.2023 318-The True Story Behind the Monsanto Roundup Trials, with Dr. Chadi Nabhan Though the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, is a probable carcinogen, it remains the most widely used herbicide in the United States. My guest this week, Dr. Chadi Nabhan is here ...
06.15.2023 317- Native Gardeners vs. the HOA, Part II Native gardening is quickly moving from niche to the mainstream, and unfortunately but perhaps expectedly, homeowners associations are the last to catch on. My guest this week, Melinda Soltys, shares what she experienced tussling with her neighborhood’s HOA over her ...
06.08.2023 316-Celebrate Pollinator Week with Pollinator Partnership Pollinator Week kicks off on June 19th, so I welcomed Kelly Bills, the executive director of Pollinator Partnership, to the podcast to talk about all the great work the organization does and how gardeners can get involved during Pollinator Week ...
06.01.2023 315-Succession Planting with Flowers Whether you want to grow a cut flower garden for your own enjoyment or to start a business, you will find Lisa Mason Ziegler’s advice on succession planting with flowers very useful. Lisa, a cut flower growing expert and author, ...
05.25.2023 314-Native Gardeners vs. the HOA: An Important Victory for Wildlife Living under the strictures of a homeowners association can be incredibly stifling for gardeners who want to work outside of the turf lawn and irrigation dynamic, but sometimes gardeners successfully stand up to their HOAs — and lawmakers in some ...
05.18.2023 313-Get to Know Cucumber-Melons, an Alternative to Bitter Cucumbers Cucumber-melons aren’t hybrids of cucumbers and melons but rather immature melons that are intended to be enjoyed just as you would eat a cucumber. To explain the origin of cucumber-melons and what sets them apart from standard cucumbers, my guest ...
05.11.2023 312-Native Plants of the Cherokee and How They Can Be Used Today, with Mark Warren The Cherokee discovered long ago that many native plants in the Southeastern United States hold remedies for a range of ailments, from burns and bug bites to migraines. My guest this week, naturalist, survivalist and author Mark Warren, has studied ...
05.04.2023 311-Gardening Science: How Your Garden Really Grows Among gardeners, there is a lot of advice out there that sounds clever and wise, but when you begin to look into it, you learn there is no concrete evidence to back it up. My guest this week, Dr. Stuart ...
04.27.2023 310-Managing Weed Overwhelm: A Practical Organic Approach for Real Results, with Margaret Roach-Encore Presentation Keeping up with weeding is one of the chief complaints that gardeners have, but it’s no reason to throw in the towel. My guest Margaret Roach, the New York Times garden writer and founder of A Way to Garden, shares ...
04.20.2023 309-Carex: A Problem-Solving Native Perennial for Any Home Landscape Carex is a grass alternative that is a problem-solving native perennial for any home landscape. But with so many Carex species and cultivars to choose from, it’s hard to know what the best fit will be for your garden. To ...
04.13.2023 308-Wildscape: The Sensory Wonders of Nature, with Nancy Lawson Out our back doors, animals and plants are doing amazing things and communicating and interacting via means we are only beginning to understand, as Nancy Lawson, the founder of The Humane Gardener, explains in her new book. Nancy returns to ...
04.06.2023 307-Breeding Dahlias for Home Gardeners-Encore Presentation Breeding dahlias can result in surprising, desirable and unique dahlia varieties, and it’s an activity any home gardener can do. To explain the basics of raising dahlias and her advanced techniques for hybridizing dahlias, joining me on the podcast is ...
03.30.2023 306-Plant Breeding for Home Gardeners-Encore Presentation Plant breeding may appear on the surface to be too complicated for the average home gardener to do, but anyone can breed hybrid and open-pollinated vegetables and flowers if they have the knowledge and patience for it and put in ...
03.23.2023 305-Compost Science for Gardeners, with Robert Pavlis Gardeners know compost is the best thing for their soil, but the science behind the benefits of compost is generally not well understood. To shed light on how composting works and why compost enriches soil, my guest this week is ...
03.16.2023 304-Overcoming Common Gardening Challenges-Encore Presentation It can be difficult to find the time and energy to garden as much as we’d like to — and some gardening challenges stop us from ever getting started. This week, I’m sharing my tips for overcoming frequently encountered gardening ...
03.09.2023 303-We Are the ARK: Acts of Restorative Kindness, with Mary Reynolds Those of us who control a patch of land can’t count on there being someplace else for wildlife to find a home. There are too few wild spaces left, so it’s up to each of us to steward our properties ...
03.02.2023 302-How to Grow Epic Potatoes-Encore Presentation If you want to grow epic potatoes, there is no one better to learn from than Jim Gerritsen, the founder of Wood Prairie Family Farm in Bridgewater, Maine. Jim has more than 45 years of experience growing potatoes organically, and ...
02.23.2023 301-Seed Starting Updates This Year vs. Last Year and More, with Craig LeHoullier I’ve already sown countless seeds this year, with still more to go, and many seedlings are taking off in the warm, bright environment of my new greenhouse. Greenhouse growing is a new experience for me, and I talked all about ...
02.16.2023 300-Assessing the Damage of the Polar Vortex, with Troy Marden Last year, just before Christmas, a polar vortex brought sudden sub-zero temperatures to many states in the South, wreaking havoc on gardens and landscapes that were not designed for that kind of cold. To discuss the damage that has been ...
02.09.2023 299-Vegetable Garden Problem Solving, with Susan Mulvihill Whether you are a newbie gardener or have years of experience, a vegetable garden will keep you on your toes. Pest and disease issues are inevitable, though they can be mitigated by being proactive, and steps can be taken to ...
02.02.2023 298-How Nematodes and Pheromones Will Be Used in the Future of Gardening Nematodes, also known as roundworms, are the most abundant animals on earth but are largely misunderstood. In gardening and agriculture, several nematode species are known for being pests, but it’s important to recognize that many other nematode species are beneficial, ...
01.26.2023 297-Seed Starting Essentials Seed starting season is one of my favorite times of the year. It allows me to start gardening indoors several weeks before my garden beds wake up for the year, and it holds the promise of the growing season to ...
01.19.2023 296-Making Plans and Setting Intentions for My 2023 Gardening Season These weeks just after the calendar turns from one year to the next are the perfect time to think about your goals for the coming gardening season. On this week’s podcast, I discuss plotting out plans for doubling down on ...
01.12.2023 295-Looking Back on 2022's Garden Lessons When a new year begins, I like to reflect on the year that was in my garden: the wins, the challenges, the memorable moments, the teachable moments and the lessons learned. Since we’re all in this together and learning from ...
01.05.2023 294-A Primer on Bonsai, with Bjorn Bjorholm Bonsai is the Japanese art of growing trees in pots and shaping them to appear like miniature versions of full-size trees. Mastering the art takes patience, practice and commitment, but for novices, getting started isn’t as difficult as it may ...
12.29.2022 293-Winter Sowing Native Seeds-Encore Presentation Winter sowing native seeds is an easy process that requires no special equipment, and the best part of propagating native plants from seeds is that it promotes genetic diversity for a more resilient ecosystem. To share her methods for simple ...
12.22.2022 292-Understanding Brix and How It Affects Plants and Pests Brix is a measure of sugar content, and when it comes to plants, the higher the Brix value, the healthier and more pest and disease resistant the crop. To give a rundown of the science and significance of Brix and ...
12.15.2022 291-Vermicomposting Success: What You Need to Know Before Starting a Worm Bin Many gardeners are curious about vermicomposting but are unsure about how to start. To explain what you need to know to make a simple worm bin, my returning guest this week is Rhonda Sherman, one of the foremost experts on ...

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