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Today's episode recorded just before Summer 2024 ended, is a part two of sorts to our recent episode, The Forgotten Season. This episode has Lisa teaching us about building and using garden row covers. Which let's us to continue growing cool weather veggies all winter long. Doesn't some fresh veggies sound great in the dead of the winter? Here's how you can do it!

Direct link to her blog on this subject:
https://www.midwestgardengal.com/growing-under-the-covers-usda-zones-5-and-6/

If you'd like Lisa to appear at your club or convention, check out this link: https://www.midwestgardengal.com/services/teach/

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ENCORE EPISODE: Bringing back one you may have missed in the archives... listen into VINE TIME! Gourds, Pumpkins or Squash?

Mike has a mystery fruit growing in NW Ohio, bringing up the question about Cucurbita (Latin for gourd)  or herbaceous vines in the gourd family. Then, the alternative use of pumpkin seeds... got to listen in for that ONE ALONE!

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Today, along with the Midwest Garden Gal... we walk through the simple step by step process of growing garlic in the Midwest. 

The good news is that this prcess is spread out over a nine month period and five of those months you don't have much to do at all... if ANYTHING! 

Join us and bring a pencil & paper.

We once again welcome in our West of the Midwest podcast contributor, Lisa Hinzman Howard, also known as The Midwest Garden Gal.

 https://www.midwestgardengal.com/growing-glorious-garlic/

Visit Lisa here: 
https://www.midwestgardengal.com/

Need a copy of her book? 
https://www.midwestgardengal.com/book/

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ALERT EPISODE:

Today's episode stared with a conversation with a garden center customer. And took off from there... 

Mike & I have brought on board a returning guest, Amy Stone, of The Ohio State Extension Office to discuss the invasive Tree of Heaven. And the tag along friend, the Spotted Lantern Fly. We chat about how hard it is to remove a Tree of Heaven from your property, to the attraction it offers the Spotted Lantern Fly. Which actually does NOT FLY... it's jumper! The one thing I've learned is we have to stop importing things into the good ole US of A! 

Listen in because I guarantee you'll learn something today!

Plus check out the new guide Amy helped author!
https://bygl.osu.edu/index.php/node/2330

Links mentioned in today's show:

https://extension.psu.edu/tree-of-heaven

https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/f-65

https://u.osu.edu/spottedlanternfly/

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The Midwest Garden Gal joins us once again to discuss The Forgotte  n Season. The late planting season time to sow some more cool weather veggies right now in mid August! Take a listen and take advantage of the warm soil and soon to be cool morning dew. PLUS, get some cucumber scoop form the Iowa expert herself!

Here's the Grow guide:
https://www.midwestgardengal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MGG_Zone5_GrowGuide.pdf

Here's that Blog:
https://www.midwestgardengal.com/blog/

Visit Lisa here: 
https://www.midwestgardengal.com/

Need a copy of her book?  
https://www.midwestgardengal.com/book/

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The guys welcome in, returning guest from Season One... Melisa Sherman-Weckerlin! Melisa is the grower at Black Diamond Garden Centers, our business and sponsor, where she also oversees plant buying. Melisa and Scott have been discussing natives though-out the work days this year and it was time to bring her back to educate us with some plant types that work well in our backyards... mainly because they've been here for hundreds of years. Please join us and bring a pencil & paper!

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Mike & Scott touch on a number of mid-summer gardening issues. From using a "Phone A Friend" Lifeline to basic tomato end rot to save your next harvest.

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YMGP went on "on the road" today... we visited the Lucas Soil and Water Conservation District offices to discuss what they do and to find out about an event they are in charge of. So, if you are close by, plan on making a day trip to Holland, Ohio for the Lucas County Farm Connection, on July 20th, 2024.

https://www.lucasswcd.org/lcfc24.html

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Just a quick update on some news for YMGP as Feedspot RSS Reader has listed our show in their top 15 gardening podcasts for 2024! The best Nursery podcasts from thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by relevancy, authority, social media followers & freshness. Listen in for all the details, plus a few more tidbits.

https://podcasts.feedspot.com/nursery_podcasts/

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Today we welcome back The Midwest Garden Gal for a pollinators discussion. But more so, since June is perennial month and pollinators week falls within the month of June, we decided to combine the subjects into one fun conversation.
Lisa, The MGG, is based in Iowa and its nice to get that western midwest side of the gardening world news. Check out all things MGG style by visiting her website!

Pollinator Week 2024 will take place June 17-23, 2024

https://www.midwestgardengal.com/

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