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We've got a lot of ground to cover this week... ha ha ha
All kidding aside, there's a lot of benefits to utilizing ground cover in your garden! Together, lets explore mulch, fabric, rock, and straw. We'll talk about how you can use it, how much to buy, and how to maintain it. Plus, Colin has a great garden hack for soaker hoses in your garden to actually conserve water!
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Are you a moving into a new home and not sure how to approach the garden? One of the helpful gardeners just bought a home and is not sure how to approach their new garden! Learn how to tackle lawn, existing structures/plants, and where to begin. Visit the shownotes for links from today's episode, and other fun extras!*************************CONNECT WITH US
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If you build it, nature will come. No matter what type of garden you have, whether it's in an established neighbourhood or newly built in the suburbs, you can enjoy nature from your very own backyard. Learn how to attract birds, including hummingbirds, to your garden!
Myrna is a biologist, author and nature photographer living on the south shore of Sylvan Lake, Alberta. She was born in Rymbey, Alberta and developed a love of nature at a young age.
Myrna is the editor of the Red Deer River Naturalist, writes a magazine column for The Gardener and writes a monthly nature photo essay in the Red Deer Advocate (Red Deer Advocate). She is also the resident naturalist for Mother Nature's Bird Seed.
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Rounding out our Seed Starting Mini Series is a look into growing flowers from seed! In many ways, this will be a total 180 degree shift from growing veggies and fruit. Flowers aren’t targeted as much by bugs and disease, they benefit from deadheading, and they’re grown more for aesthetic purposes rather than consumption.
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This week, we're crouching down to explore all those fruits and veggies that grow close to the ground. These ground dwellers include Broccoli, squash, kohlrabi, and even strawberries! Learn more about how use the entire squash plant in cooking, a hack to protect pumpkins from pests, and we have a surprise melon taste test!
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TIMECODES
08:20 Seed Varieties
24:20 Importance of Spacing
26:46 Start inside?
32:37 Soil and Amendments
36:22 Fertilizer
37:40 Cold Hardy?
38:53 Equipment Requirements
41:32 Bugs, Disease, Predators
43:02 Harvest Options
45:00 Surprise Melon Taste Test!
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This week, we're exploring fresh leafy greens and flavourful herbs. Learn more about flexibility of growing lettuce and why you should livehead your herbs when they go to flower. Visit the shownotes for links from today's episode, and other fun extras!TIMECODES01:55 Herb or 'erb?
05:34 Seed Varieties
11:34 Leafy Greens & Herbs - General Care
13:35 Growing Mint
14:18 Companion Planting and Themed Planters
17:00 Starting from Seed
18:40 Spacing requirements
21:30 Succession planting
22:20 Why we "live-head" Herbs
27:30 Soil Preferences
29:00 Propagation
32:03 Bugs, Diseases, Predators
35:00 Harvesting Tips & Drying Herbs
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This week, we 'rooting' around the subject of root vegetables! How do we start them from seed, maintain them, and harvest them!
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TIMECODES
00:00 Introduction
04:00 Sweet like a Beet
05:08 Seed Varieties
11:00 Growing Veggie Flowers
13:44 Companion Planting
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What will your garden grow in 2024? This week, the gardeners explore how to cultivate the juiciest tomatoes, the spicy kick of peppers, the sweet crunch of corn, and the wholesome goodness of peas and beans.
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TIMECODES00:00 Introduction
03:50 Seed Varieties
06:30 Seed Starting Methods
07:00 Companion Planting - The Three Sisters
11:11 Environment Requirements
13:11 Start Inside or Outside?
15:17 Vessel Options
18:04 Soil Amending - Options, Soil Activator, Inoculant
20:30 The Last Frost
22:19 Structures and Equipment Check List
25:45 Garden Care Instructions
31:00 Diseases: Prevention, Treatment, Blossom End Rot
40:00 Bugs: Prevention and Treatment
45:25 Predators: Birds, Deer, etc
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What's the one thing we're seeing in every basket and cart at the greenhouse this week? SEEDS! We are buzzing with excitement! Before you settle on your seed haul, listen to this weeks episode outlining what you should be thinking about this time of year.
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TIMECODES00:00 Introduction
04:00 Look back - what changed in your life?
06:30 Calgary Horticultural Society
09:18 What you should grow and how much
13:55 Prepare for bugs and disease now?
19:52 Consider the vessel and consider starting seeds in that
23:58 Is crop rotation feasible?
26:03 Hypothetical Question of the Week
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This week, we celebrated Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day which got us thinking about all the ways flowers help up mark life’s big moments. Colours and varieties play into floral symbology, and we're even going to find out which flower represents Colin's soul!
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TIMECODES00:00 Introduction
01:53 Colour Language
15:41 Floral Language
26:45 Hypothetical Question of the Week
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The gardeners unearth some interesting, and perhaps shocking, garden laws that you should be aware of as we head into the 2024 growing season.
Garden Crime Radio Play
In the world of botanical crime, every leaf tells a story and every petal hides a clue. Detectives Bloom and Basil uncover the culprit behind the destruction of a prized rose garden ahead of the famous Flower Power Festival.A few members of the Golden Acre team lent their voices to this special show. Huge shoutout to Brian, Diane, Dan, and Sydney. Of course, you may have recognized the voices of Brandi and Colin, hosts of the Helpful Gardeners podcast.
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TIMECODES00:00 Garden Crime Radio Play
03:55 Trees & Shrubs & the Neighbours
14:45 Lemonade Stands?!
16:01 Cutting Grass Curfew
17:17 Clothesline Drama
18:19 Park out front
20:15 Backyard Chickens
21:45 Calgary Bylaws - Price is Right
32:00 Hypothetical Question of the Week
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Welcome back to the garden! This week, the gardeners explore sprouts and microgreens to figure out why they're so good for us, how to grow them, and even what they taste like! Plus, find out what microgreen the gardeners identify with the most in the Hypothetical Question of the week.
Information and Samples provided by:
Prairie Sun Microgreens | Connor Thiessen
Olds College Certified Horticultural Technician (2016), Freedom Farmers Certified Microgreens Entrepreneur 2023. He started my farm in May 2023. Previous experience working at in fresh produce at planet organic and at an organic farm while in college. He offers weekly or monthly subscription packages with home delivery throughout Calgary, plus free delivery on orders over $25.
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https://prairiesunmicrogreens.ca/Facebook / Instagram
Call/text : 1-587-870-2464.
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TIMECODES00:00 Introduction
01:30 What are the benefits of microgreens?
03:18 What are Sprouts? How do you grow them?
18:37 How do you grow microgreens?
23:36 Farmer Feature: Connor Thiessen of Prairie Sun Microgreens
24:34 Microgreen Samples and Review
35:24 Hypothetical Question of the Week
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Welcome back to the garden! Have you ever wondered where the term "green thumb" came from? Why do we "Touch wood"? We'll review 10 common phrases in the gardening world and see if they are truly rooted in gardening and if they're still relevant now! Plus, we'll "weed out negativity" with a dive into our most positive plant!
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TIMECODES00:00 Introduction
01:12 Green Thumb
04:08 Knock on Wood?!
05:20 Don't use this phrase anymore
06:20 Making Mountains
08:24 Shrinking Violet
11:29 Is it "Butt' or "Bud"?
14:17 Salad Days
16:36 Financial Assistance
19:29 Beating Bushes
21:14 Cherry Picker!
23:10 Guilding Lilies
29:58 Hypothetical Question of the Week
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The term 'polar vortex' may have been living rent free in your brain the last couple of weeks. As temperatures plunged across the country, we saw people doing boiling water to throw into the air, people eating frozen noodles, and toilet paper sculptures. In this episode, we explore how this extreme weather event impacts our gardens and houseplants? We'll also uncover a hidden tropical paradise in Calgary, and talk about domesticating bugs.
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TIMECODES00:00 Introduction
02:12 What is a 'Polar Vortex'?
04:32 Impacts on perennials
06:57 Impacts on trees & shrubs
9:39 Spring indicators
12:15 Impacts on birds
14:00 Impacts on bugs
15:40 Impacts on soil quality
17:52 Houseplants - getting them home
22:27 Houseplants - home care
30:19 Hypothetical Question of the Week
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Do you have the travel itch heading into 2024? If you're a plant nerd like us, and need some inspiration, then explore our 8 planty destinations. Then, we'll drop some handy plant care tips so you can rest easy knowing your plants will be there when you return.
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TIMECODES00:00 Introduction
02:07 Treehouses?!
04:26 Ecotourism
05:15 Tall, Tall Trees
06:57 Asian Influence
08:48 Flower Carpets & Waffles
12:04 Boujee Floral Inspo
14:48 Bloomin' Breathtaking
17:53 Purple Paradise
20:37 Plant Care While You're Away
23:51 Timers
26:55 Plant Playbook
26:55 Beware Floods
28:39 Fertilizing
28:52 Inspect for Pests
29:22 Outro
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What do you intend to do in 2024? Let's rethink the 'resolution' and just taking this time to reflect, chill out, and set some intentions for our gardens and plant education. In today's episode, Colin and Brandi each bring their 5 garden goals to the table, and perhaps some fun ones that will cause you to think outside the box a little bit.
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TIMECODES00:00 Introduction
03:13 Tone it down
04:00 Road Trip!
05:01
08:47 Grassy Quest
11:35 Switching the Fert
14:20 Down in the Weeds
16:16 Amending the Amendment
18:24 Part of the Club
23:38 A garden is never finished... or is it?
25:59 Mow away
27:20 BONUS Intention
31:37 Hypothetical Question of the Week
33:54 Extro
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we're wrapping up 2023 with a look back at all our favourite moments, guests, and fun we had talking plants and gardening!
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TIMECODES
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Prepping Your Garden for Spring
02:13 Behind the Poppy
03:36 Fertilizer: How to buy it, use it and store it
05:51 Houseplant Maintenance
08:35 Enjoying Your Garden and Avoiding Burnout
10:18 Planting Amaryllis and Bringing Fictional Plants to Life
12:23 Fall Clean Up | Autumn Mini Series
13:55 The Halloween Special
15:38 Canadian Symbols
17:13 Seed Starting: Is it for you?
19:05 Guest Speaker: Shelley Vance
Spring Episode (Featured) Autumn Episode21:22 Guest Speaker: Jean-Mathieu Daoust
Spring Episode (Featured) Autumn Episode22:33 Guest Speaker: Elise Watson
World Pollinator Week23:52 Guest Speaker: Erin Neal
Gardening for your Health & Community25:05 Bloopers
26:37 Extro
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December is full of celebration and reflection. Whatever you're celebrating, we welcome you to our planty chat about all things fun this holiday season. Colin and Brandi dive into Global festivities, holiday treats, and a special story created by ChatGPT!
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Global Holiday Traditions | 01:50
Holiday Treats | 19:00
Holiday Story | 26:30*************************
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If you're looking to show the gardener in your life some appreciation this festive season, then dive into our 2023 gift guide complete with fun and functional ideas to suit them in the garden, indoors, and out in nature next year.
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10 Gardening Guides | 02:55
5 Totally 'Extra' Gifts | 23:15*************************
Hypothetical Question of the Week | 25:30
What would be an over the top gift for Colin?
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To celebrate #NationalPoinsettiaDay, we're unwrapping this iconic houseplant and its Christmas roots. Learn how to care for them, and ways to celebrate this special relationship in North America.
'The Flower of the Holy Night' Christmas Legend | 03:20
Poinsettia Anatomy | 05:00
Poinsettia Varieties | 07:41
Poinsettia Care - Wrap, Light, Water, Fertilizer, etc | 12:05
Celebrate #NationalPoinsettiaDay | 22:54
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Hypothetical Question of the Week | 26:45
"What are your thoughts on using poinsettias as a year-round decorative plant rather than just during the holiday season? Do you believe they can bring a unique and vibrant touch to indoor spaces throughout the entire year, or do you think their association with holidays makes them best suited for seasonal use?
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