The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt
Are you ready to be converted to living a gardening life? Each week, join Carol Michel and Dee Nash, both passionate gardeners, authors, and long-time bloggers, as they chat over the garden fence about flowers, veggies, and all the best dirt on gardening. Carol and Dee have the audacity to call themselves gardenangelists, evangelists for gardening, and want everyone to dig in the dirt, sow a few seeds, and enjoy the simple pleasures and even a few pitfalls of a gardening life. If you are ready to live a gardening life or already live one this is one podcast you don’t want to miss.
The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt
Without Good Soil, You Won't Have a Good Time in the Garden
This week, we dig into the letter "U" for topics for this episode.
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Flowers:
Under-utilized flowers
- Tradescantia pallida, purple heart, aka Mary’s tears.
- Barnardia japonica, Japanese jacinth.
- Begonia grandis, great for shade..
Our Choices Underplanting
- Daffodils
- Crocuses
- Snowdrops
- Summer snowflake
- Epimediums
- Hellebores
- Leadwort (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides)
- Caladiums
- Blackberry lilies
- Toad Lilies
Vegetables:
Unusual vegetables.
- Cucamelons
- Armenian cucumbers
- Celeriac
- Fall vegetables in general. Many people plant in the spring and then forget about fall planting
- And fall can be the best vegetable garden of the year especially in southern climates.
On the Bookshelf:
The Newfoundland Lunch Party: A Sisters of the Soil Novel with Recipes – Sonia Day (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Roblox Grow a Garden Online Game
Rabbit Holes:
Dee: Babylon Berlin. You can watch it with the MHZ Choice app
Carol: The latest lost lady of garden writing, Lena Mae McCauley and Honey Bee Mill Books.
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