428. 5 Lessons I Learned Building a Kitchen Garden For My Mom this Spring •

428. 5 Lessons I Learned Building a Kitchen Garden For My Mom this Spring •

The Hempstead Home Depot Garden Center Team

Lesson #1: Measure First. My original plans for my mom’s bed was to build it 8’x4’ using four two-by-sixes cut in half and eight full-size. Before the associate at Home Depot made the first cut, I wondered how I'd fit an 8-foot board in my mom’s car. So, we ended up taking a couple of 2’x 6’x 12’ boards and cutting them into two 6-foot chunks and four 3-foot chunks each. But even this was too big in the end for the space I had picked out. A 5’x 2’ bed would have been best for her particular spot. If it were my house, I’d move the flowers and bushes to make room for the bigger bed, not the other way around. However, my mom hadn’t tasted the homegrown veggies we were going to grow yet. She was still not entirely sold on the value of a deep bed or growing your own, as she thought the farmers' market was convenient enough. [caption id="attachment_140350" align="aligncenter" width="768"] In this photo you can see how my brother drilled a couple of boards for extra support to sit on top of.[/caption] #2: Level ~ level ~ level I ended up pulling this bed apart and putting it back together, not one, not two, not three, but four times before I could plant it, because I didn’t take the time to level the bed properly in the first place. #3: Obtaining soil I can’t tell you how many people I have talked to about the first step to building a garden starts way before you are ready to plant, but with saving scraps and building a compost bin to create your own healthy soil. Deciding where to locate your soil and planning for extra soil when needed is essential. Someone had told me I could get soil at the local dump, but when I headed over with my garbage can, shovel, and some pots,...

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407. GrowNow | Garden Designer, Author and Educator | Emily Murphy | Northern California

407. GrowNow | Garden Designer, Author and Educator | Emily Murphy | Northern California

Emily Murphy is a garden designer, writer, enthusiastic botanist, runner, cyclist, consultant, educator, and native of Northern CaliforniaGrow Now: How We Can Save Our Health, Communities, and Planet―One Garden at a TimeandGrow What You Love: 12 Food Plant Families To Change Your LifeFollow her on instagram @passthepistilhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CZSL_ZvBrXW/ Let’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate linksWanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]Growers & CoAsk Your questions herehttps://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4The Good Seed CompanyNow Let’s Get to the Root of Things! We’d love if you’d join Organic Gardener Podcast Facebook Community!Get Your Copy of the The Organic Oasis Guidebook!Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.Get a copy on today printed in the USA from AmazonThe Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate...

25 Feb 20221h 5min

406. Cultivating Crinum Flowers ~ The World's Biggest Bulb | Farmer Jenks | Columbia, SC

406. Cultivating Crinum Flowers ~ The World's Biggest Bulb | Farmer Jenks | Columbia, SC

Jenks Farmer's website Crinum: Unearthing the History and Cultivation of the The World’s Biggest BulbCheck out my review ofDeep-Rooted Wisdom: Skills and Stories from Generations of Gardeners Let’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate linksWanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]Growers & CoAsk Your questions herehttps://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4The Good Seed CompanyNow Let’s Get to the Root of Things! We’d love if you’d join Organic Gardener Podcast Facebook Community!Get Your Copy of the The Organic Oasis Guidebook!Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.Get a copy on today printed in the USA from Amazon<img...

21 Feb 20221h 7min

404. Haute Mommy Handbook blogger | Jen Kathrina-Anne | San Francisco, CA

404. Haute Mommy Handbook blogger | Jen Kathrina-Anne | San Francisco, CA

Jen's blog the Haute Mommy Handbook Motherhood Misadventures + Creative LivingNorah Doesn't Eat THAT! Let’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate linksWanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]Growers & CoAsk Your questions herehttps://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4The Good Seed CompanyNow Let’s Get to the Root of Things! We’d love if you’d join Organic Gardener Podcast Facebook Community!Get Your Copy of the The Organic Oasis Guidebook!Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.Get a copy on today printed in the USA from AmazonThe Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.comIf you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.and...

14 Feb 202231min

403. Growing Figs in Cold Climates | Lee Reich | Hudson Valley, NY

403. Growing Figs in Cold Climates | Lee Reich | Hudson Valley, NY

Growing Figs in Cold Climates: A Complete GuideLee's websiteListen to my first interview with Lee about building a Farmden and Weedless gardening here: https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/242-lee-reich/Let’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate linksWanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]Growers & CoAsk Your questions herehttps://youtu.be/2S9tbLIIhy4The Good Seed CompanyNow Let’s Get to the Root of Things! We’d love if you’d join Organic Gardener Podcast Facebook Community!Get Your Copy of the The Organic Oasis Guidebook!Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.Get a copy on today printed in the USA from AmazonThe Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.comIf you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so

10 Feb 20221h 11min

402. The Regenerative Garden | Garden Therapy | Stephanie Rose | BC, Canada

402. The Regenerative Garden | Garden Therapy | Stephanie Rose | BC, Canada

Stephanie Rose from Garden Therapy returns to talk with us today about her new book.On instagram @garden_therapyTHE REGENERATIVE GARDEN80 PRACTICAL PROJECTS FOR CREATING A SELF-SUSTAINING GARDEN ECOSYSTEMLet’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate linksWanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]Growers & CoAsk Your questions hereThe Good Seed CompanyNow Let’s Get to the Root of Things! We’d love if you’d join Organic Gardener Podcast Facebook Community!Get Your Copy of the The Organic Oasis Guidebook!Twelve Lessons designed to help you create an earth friendly landscape, some deep garden beds full of nutrient rich healthy food or perhaps even develop a natural market farm.Get a copy on today printed in the USA from AmazonThe Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.comIf you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on...

8 Feb 202247min

401.  Tomatoes, the gateway fruit ~ like eating sunshine | Sun Sugar Farms | Garden Buddies | Linda Fritz

401.  Tomatoes, the gateway fruit ~ like eating sunshine | Sun Sugar Farms | Garden Buddies | Linda Fritz

Linda Fritz from Sugar Sun Farms is here to tell us about her book Garden Buddies and her amazing Cresbi Collapsible Crates.https://www.instagram.com/p/CX4Cr1th6Nk/https://www.instagram.com/p/CX4CfYlBPvs/Some of the links Linda mentions:HPS Seeds for sourcing Sun Sugar tomatoes seeds.Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie KatzenNY Times article on farmworkers getting overtime.Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our WorldFavorite tip from our conversation: "And I have to say that the bigger you can let your tomatoes get the butter before you put them in the ground and then bury them halfway bury the plants halfway because then the bottom part of the plant will become roots. And the other thing that is that I've learned that's really good too, is to disturb the soil as least as less as possible is yeah, don't disturb the soil as much as you can."Farmer's Almanac for planting by the moonLet’s take a minute to thank our sponsors and affiliate linksWanna donate to the show! You can "buy me a cup of coffee" where your donation goes directly to support the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast to help pay for things like hosting the mp3 files or maintaining the website.[gallery ids="137595,137597,137596" type="rectangular"]Growers & CoAsk Your questions hereThe Good Seed CompanyNow Let’s Get to the Root of Things! <img src="https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/screen-shot-2016-04-11-at-1-59-46-pm.png?w=640" alt="Organic...

29 Jan 20221h 37min

406. Grow Your Own Medicine Intensive | Bonnie Rose Weaver | San Francisco, CA

406. Grow Your Own Medicine Intensive | Bonnie Rose Weaver | San Francisco, CA

Bonnie Rose Weaver is back live on the mic sharing her new virtual seminar and knowledge of medicinal herbalism. https://www.bonnieroseweaver.com/product-page/grow-your-own-medicine-intensive This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

28 Jan 202241min

Welcome to Season 4 of the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast

Welcome to Season 4 of the GREEN Organic Garden Podcast

Enter to win a black GREEN Organic Garden Podcast Farmer's Market Tote bag hand-painted by me or a copy of Jesse Frost's by filling out this survey. The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardening https://forms.gle/4BR7ADngGjQX31VPAThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

28 Jan 202218min

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