Minnesota Gardening Podcast
We bring together Upper Midwest gardening enthusiasts who are transitioning to a more sustainable lifestyle to explore eco-friendly landscape and gardening practices, so that we can reduce our chemical use, water use, and create a thriving ecosystem.
Episodes
66 episodes
Regenerative Gardening with Stephanie Rose
In this episode of Minnesota Gardening Podcast, host Brad Tabke speaks with Stephanie Rose, author of 'Regenerative Garden.' They discuss Stephanie's journey into gardening as a form of self-healing, the principles of regenerative gardening, an...
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Fruit Trees with U of M's Madeline Wimmer
Madeline Wimmer is a guru of Upper Midwest fruit tree in the UMN Hort Department specializing in grapes and apples.Lucky to have Madeline with us to talk care for midwest fruit trees.Show notes, links, and transcript for members a...
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Lawns to Meadows with Owen Wormser
Owen Wormser is the author of a wonderful book called Lawns Into Meadows a "how-to book on growing your own wildflowers and native grasses is also about sustainability, reg...
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Seed Starting Supplies and Planning
Show notes available to members at MinnesotaGardening.com.Minnesota Gardening's 202...
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Renewed Minnesota Gardening
Unveiling the renewed Minnesota Gardening focused on sustainability and helping Upper Midwest homeowners switch to more environmentally-friendly landscape and lawn care practices.Right now, you can get an annual membership for only $127...
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Using Winter Design to Reduce Salt Use
Connie Fortin and Kyra Oliver join me for a BONUS episode of Minnesota Gardening Podcast to talk all about Winter Design and efforts to reduce salt use and water pollution.Connie Fortin has been working for 20 years with winter maintena...
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Native Pollinators with Heather Holm
Heather Holm is an amazing author on native pollinators and has an incredible Instagram Page sharing her love of native pollinators, bees, and wasps.In this episode, we talk about the need for protecting native pollinators, competition ...
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Succession Planting with Meg Cowden of Seed to Fork
Meg Cowden is the author of Plant, Grow, Harvest, Repeat - an incredible resource for all gardeners. We are replaying this episode with Med all about succession planting from our Spring 2022 season. Right now is a gr...
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Urban Foraging with Tim Clemens of Ironwood Foraging
Tim Clemens of Ironwood Foraging joins me for this week's episode of Minnesota Gardening Podcast. Tim was awesome to talk with about foraging in an urban setting .Tim and I talk about the ethics of foraging, what people need to know get...
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STILL with Mary Jo Hoffman
Purchase STILL: The Art of Noticing on Bookshop.orgI can't even begin to tell...
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Lazy Lawn Care
You spend hours on your lawn killing weeds, fertilizing, and spending tons of cash. Do you want an easier way that is safe for your kids, saves you money, AND helps the environment?Embrace Minnes...
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Winter interest in our landscapes
Winter is an unfortunately forgotten season in our cold-climate landscapes. Today, Cathy Rees is guiding us on how to best take advantage of winter in our newest episode of Minnesota Gardening Podcast.Cathy takes us on a deep dive throug...
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Dormancy Distress: Warm weather causes plants to grow out of season
We have had an incredibly unseasonable December with temps many degrees above normal across the state.In some places, this has caused plants to break dormancy and start growing. In this episode I teach all about how plants enter and exi...
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Grow native perennials with Winter Sowing
Our family has a tradition of winter sowing every year between Christmas and New Years. It is a wonderful - CHEAP - way to grow native perennials that are ready to plant in early summer.Michelle Mero Riedel, a master gardener and teach o...
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Minnesota's Wacky Weather with Climatologist Dr. Mark Seeley
50 degrees on Christmas Eve?! This December 2023 has been more than twelve degrees above normal in parts of Minnesota with more heat to come. I am BEYOND honored to have Climatologist Dr. Mark Seeley join us for today's episode discussing this ...
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New Hardiness Zones with Mary Schier
Earlier this month, the USDA released new hardiness maps that made many changes in Minnesota. Author and podcaster Mary Schier shares what we need to know about those changes and how to deal with them.Learn more at
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#ThisWeekend: Apply for Lawns to Legumes Funding
Apply this weekend to Minnesota's Lawns to Legumes program and get up to $400 in reimbursable grants to plant Native Plants at your home and community.Learn more at
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Keystone Plants with Professor Doug Tallamy
Professor Tallamy was extremely generous with his time. In Part Two (recently re-discovered after I thought I'd lost the recording), Doug Tallamy discusses his new book, Nature of Oaks, and takes us through a year in one of Mother Nature's most...
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#ThisWeekend: Tree Wrap
This is a great weekend to get your tree wrap on fruit trees, ornamental trees, and young shade trees. This protects trees from bunnies and sun scald.Minnesota Gardening Club members can watch the new how-to video for everything tree wr...
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Second Nature with Professor Doug Tallamy
I am beyond honored to re-air this episode with Doug Tallamy as a guest this week on the Minnesota Gardening Podcast. He is a world-renowned entomologist teaching how we can save nature. This episode is full of action items and steps people can...
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#ThisWeekend: Remove your invasive plants
This is a continuation of my rant (?) episode on Tuesday about invasive plants. Minnesota Gardening Club members should work to remove invasive plants in their landscape this weekend. Even if you love them.
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