Dee and Carol talk about stalwart flowers, recap their tomato season, talk about going outside, milkweed and monarchs, and more on this week's episode.
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Some of the flowers we mentioned:
Aster 'Bluebird' (American Meadows has it)
Atomic glass (American Meadows also has it)
Phlox 'Bright Eyes' (an American Meadows has it too)
Some of the tomato varieties we mentioned:
Purple Zebra, an All-America Selections winner for 2022, and in our gardens too.
Black Cherry
Sun Dipper
Missouri Love Apple
Brad’s Atomic Grape
Pink Berkley Tie Dye
Sunrise Bumblebee.
A book, Epic Tomatoes: How To Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time by Craig LeHoullier (Amazon Link)
On the Bookshelf: Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella (Amazon Link)
1,000 Hours Outdoors project website
Cal Newport's blog post: Whitman in the Knapsack...
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Monarch websites: Monarch Watch, Journey North,
A book: Bees in Your Backyard by Olivia Messinger Carril and Joseph S. Wilson (Amazon Link))
Carol's Rabbit hole: What Do We Know About Crop Circles by Ben Hubbard. (Amazon Link) and Circular Evidence: A Detailed Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops Phenomenon by Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews
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