Ep. 1-18: Summer Garden Journal 5 | Live from My Backyard + August is Brutal

It feels like summer should be winding down but in all reality, especially here in Texas, we’ve got until the end of September before thinks start looking to cool off at all. It’s in the high 90s or 100s here with a lot of humidity, which combined puts the afternoons into a situation where gardening isn’t that appealing.

I sat down in my backyard during my lunch break to record this episode and touched on an update on the aspects of the garden as well as described where I was looking as I talked to y’all. Stay tuned for the end for a touch of the sounds I hear when all is quiet—and all isn’t really quiet is it?


Music: Adam Selzer ‘True North’

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Ep. 1-17: Summer Garden Journal 4 | Cool Plants + Fall Garden Planning

July is almost over! The evenings are getting shorter and we’re heading for autumn. But summer still has a lot packed into it and I talked today about what’s going on in our Texas vegetable garden and flower garden. We got a little rain today, first decent amount in months!

Sit back and have a listen! Show notes are below.


Show Notes
+Pseuderanthemum alata: chocolate plants
+Ruellia caroliniensis: Carolina ruellia
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Salvia elegans: pineapple sage
+Formosa lily
+Solandra maxima: chalice vine
+Satoyama Homestead
+Paths of Desire by Dominique Browning
+Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katherine White

A few posts from my blog…
+Plans I Wish I Still Had: some photos of a chalice vine we grew in Florida are in this post.
+The Formosa Lilies Take Center Stage: a post from my garden earlier this month
+Red on Yellow: the first coral snake we found in our yard.
+Snakes: Friends not Foes
+Rehoming Monarch Caterpillars

Happy Gardening!

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Ep. 1-16: Summer Garden Journal 3 | It’s Hot + Good Garden Things

July is already here! We’re full-on into summer and as always in Texas, it’s hot! In this episode I talk about a variety of random gardening things starting from thanking my first reviewer on iTunes, a gardening bit I noticed on Orange Is The New Black, making and canning my first batch of blackberry jam, to talking about almost losing our honeybee hive. There’s lots of good stuff packed into this episode!

Show Notes:
+Starting From Scratch with Katie Swanberg: the episode in which we talk about sheet mulching.
+Becoming a Naturalist with Erin Gettler: episode in which Erin mentions Hope Jahren and Lab Girl. My May 2016 book report in which I talk about the book on my blog.
+Project Tree Collard
+Blackberry Jam recipe
+Hope Jahren on A Way To Garden podcast
+Oceanic Wilderness: my blog where I document most of my garden
+Sow True Seed
+Dragon Tongue Beans
+


Music: Adam Selzer ‘True North’

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Minisode 1: 3 Of My Favorite Gardening Books

My first mini episode! This one covers three of my favorite gardening books that were already on my bookshelf!

  1. Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
  2. The Heirloom Life Gardener by Jere and Emilee Gettle
  3. The Heirloom Tomato by Amy Goldman


Music: Adam Selzer “True North”

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Ep. 1-15: Summer Garden Journal 2 | Vegetable Garden Resilience

We’re finally into the swing of summer here in Texas. It’s hot, it’s humid…there’s not much deviation from here until late September. In this episode I cover finally getting the vegetable beds into a good state once again as well as thinking about switching focus to the flower beds for a few weeks. Enjoy!


Music: Adam Selzer “Front Porch”

Last year’s carrot harvest!

Tip of the Episode:
David Steen
Living Alongside Wildlife
@AlongsideWild on Twitter

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Ep. 1-14: Summer Garden Journal 1 | Floods + Staying Sane

For the summer I’m opting for Summer Garden Journals on the podcast. As we all know it can be quite difficult to stay on top of the garden when the growing season is in full swing and I think these summer garden journals will be a great way to chronicle what’s going on here in my garden in Texas while still providing some good gardening podcast content for everyone out there who is listening while they garden, dream about gardening, or you know, commute to work!

The flood links I talked about in the podcast are here:

+The Adventure I Wasn’t Planning On
+The Garden Before The Flood
+500 Year Flood
+Flood Video


Music: Adam Selzer “True North”

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Ep. 1-13: The Wonder of Beginning | Mandy Steward

It was the fall of 2010 and I was fresh off the Appalachian Trail with my husband and came across Mandy Steward via a mutual friend. I was itching to reinvigorate my creativity after many months of hiking and here was this artist whose words spoke to me. I’ve been a fan of her work ever since! Mandy is an artist and author based out of Oklahoma but she’s also a very fresh gardener! One of the goals of producing this podcast was to eventually showcase gardeners from all skill levels and it was incredibly fun to chat with her about all of the wonder that being a beginner in anything can bring! There was so much within our conversation that I connected to and it was a gentle reminder to myself that no matter how many years we’ve been gardening there’s always something new to learn every year!


Music: Adam Selzer ‘True North’

Show Notes

You can find Mandy here:
Messy Canvas
Mandy’s Instagram
Mandy’s Twitter

A few things we talked about….
+USDA Plant Zones
+Sunset Climate Zones
+Pink Evening Primrose
+Grape hyacinths
+Indian blanket
+Sweet Potato Vine
+Nasturtiums
+Ruth Page’s Gardening Journal
+Walden

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Ep. 1-12: Starting from Scratch | NorCalKatie

When I finally joined Twitter in mid-2011 it took me awhile to get the hang of it, finding people to chat with. What I eventually discovered was a rich gardening community that I connected with. Katie was one of those people that I found and over the years we’ve chatted about gardening and other random life topics via Twitter, email, and our blogs. When my gardening collaborative blog was in its hey-day, Katie showed off her garden on our 2013 Summer Garden Tour feature. Since then she’s moved a few more times and is now starting over garden-wise (and in other ways), once again, at a brand new place in Northern California.

Katie is very enthusiastic about gardening and I had a very fun conversation with her! When she told me she talked fast I thought, ‘nah’! But yes, she’s got a rapid fire pace that keeps you on your toes! Show notes are below!


Music: Adam Selzer ‘True North’

Show Notes:
Find Katie here:
+Twitter: @norcalkatie
+Her Blog: NorCalKatie.com

+California’s Central Valley
+Sunset Magazine
+Oakes Daylilies
+UC Davis/USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository
+Dave Wilson Nurseries
+Loquat tree
+Sheet mulching
+Straw bale gardening
+Permaculture
+#damselnotindistress

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Ep. 1-11: Landscaping Outside the Box | Leanne Tarleton

Howdy! In this episode I spoke with a local gardener here in Houston! I’ve been wanting to reach out to some local folks to get their take on gardening in coastal Texas where things can get hot and humid for months at a time. Leanne Tarleton gardens in The Woodlands township, a unique community that has worked to preserve some of the woodlands that the town absorbed but is also dictated by homeowners association type rules. Leanne has found a way to create a unique landscape that is both interesting visually but also works well for pollinators and wildlife. There is a way to garden ‘outside the box’ when given a set of rules to go by and Leanne is doing it well! We talked everything from starting her garden from what the landscapers had installed to the burgeoning Houston food scene!

You can find Leanne here: Digging The Woodlands to follow her beautiful feed!

Music: Adam Selzer ‘Front Porch’


Show Notes:
A few of the items mentioned…
The Woodlands Township
Live Oak trees
DD Blanchard magnolia
Mystic spires salvia
Cuban gold Duranta
Russian sage
Bottlebrush tree
Cherry laurel
Republic of Texas orange
Armadillos in the garden
Urban Harvest Farmers Market
Woodlands Farmers Market
The Barry Farm
Imperial Farmers Market: Sugarland
Law Ranch
Maggies Garden Tx
Grey Tabby Gardens
The Arbor Gate

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Ep. 1-10: Spring Garden Update | April 2016

It’s spring! I sat down with my husband Chris to do another garden round up. We last talked together was for Episode 3 where we did a similar round up for our plans heading into spring.

Our conversation started with bats (with a banshee cat in the background) and wrapped up on a discussion about the beehive. In between all of that we covered fruit trees, vegetable gardening, the flower garden, and Texas wildflowers!



Music: Adam Selzer ‘True North’

Show Notes:

+ Bat Conservation International
+ John’s Recipe from Lady Bug Natural’s.
+ Asclepias tuberosa and swamp milkweed
+ Giant Swallowtail Caterpillar on our citrus
+ Oregon Sugarpod II & Sugar Snap peas from Botanical Interests. The first is what Chris mentioned as having produced extremely well for us.

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