Beyond the Garden Basics Podcast
By Farmer Fred
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Episodes: 151
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2026 All America Selections Plant Winners
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Rain-Draining Strategies for Your Yard and Garden
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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2026 Garden Seed Price Sticker Shock Is Arriving
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Home Weather Station Setup Tips
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Trees vs Storms, Expanded
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Why There Should be a Chipper Shredder in your Garden
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Ants!
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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"How Am I Going to Feed My Family?"
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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2025 Plant of the Year - Calendulas
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Grow Better Soil (and Plants) with Worm Castings
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Garlic Planting Time is Here!
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Understanding a Soil Report
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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What Causes Odd-Looking Vegetables?
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Can Vitamin B1 Help New Garden Transplants?
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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The Disease Triangle
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Grow A Yardful of Phytonutrients
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Feed Your Soil, Cool Season Edition
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Who's Eating the Tomatoes?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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More Tips for a Successful Garden
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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This Newsletter is for the Birds
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Garden Tips from the Experts
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Drip Irrigation: How Long Do I Water?
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Aromatic Plants, and Roses Too!
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Grow a Gratitude Garden
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Prune Off Tomato Flowers?
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Growing Microgreens
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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What Exactly is a Grocery Store "Vine-Ripened" Tomato?
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May 30, 2025 |
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More Effective Raised Bed Drip Irrigation Techniques
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May 16, 2025 |
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Peppers Worth a Try
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May 02, 2025 |
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Indoor/Outdoor Ant Control Tips
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Backyard Chickens - How to Choose Them, How to Protect Them
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Valentine's Day Garden Gifts
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Persimmon Tips from the Pros
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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The Best Roses for America? One Master Rosarian's List.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Protecting Your Home with a Fire Resistant Landscape
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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2024 Tomato Winners (and losers)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Home Grown Tomatoes with Thanksgiving Dinner?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Who's Eating My Persimmons and Popcorn?
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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What Are The Best Tasting Avocados?
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Why is It That Fall is For Planting?
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Weed Killers Just Got More Confusing
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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The Catalina Cherry Tree. The Fruit is for the Birds.
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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What is a Crisis Nursery?
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Why You Want a Chipper/Shredder, and not a Rototiller.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Can You Grow Rhubarb in a Warm to Hot Climate? Yes!
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Dealing with Fruit Tree Varmints
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Fruit Tree Pruning Steps
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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The Soil Texture Triangle
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Why Are the Blackberries Turning White?
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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How to Grow Cilantro in the Summer in Hot Climates
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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In search of a Heat-Tolerant Leafy Green Vegetable
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Can Termites Live in Mulch?
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Helping Your Garden Cope with the Heat
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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A Tour of Debbie Flower's Garden
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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A Tour of Fred's Garden, with Debbie Flower
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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When Should You Fertilize Your Plants?
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May 31, 2024 |
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Composting Kitchen Scraps, Both Indoors and in the Garden. Is That a Good Idea?
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May 24, 2024 |
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Roly Polys, Sowbugs, Earwigs - Which One Is Guilty of Garden Destruction?
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May 17, 2024 |
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Thin Crowded Fruit Now, For a Lot of Good Reasons
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May 10, 2024 |
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Meet the Garden Beneficials, Pt. 2 (and Barn Owls!)
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May 03, 2024 |
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Meet the Garden Beneficials (and Bats, Too!)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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2024 Tomato Preview
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Small Trees for Small Yards. Medium-Sized Trees for Suburban Lots. Avoid a Tree Disaster in a Storm.
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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How to Stake a New Tree
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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The Benefits of Lingering in the Garden
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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How Was Your Tomato Crop This Year?
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Planting Wildflowers or Cover Crops: Wait for Rain? Or Do It Now?
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Potato Planting Tips
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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The "Fast Food" Garden: Microgreens & Baby Greens
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Fall Worm Bin Care and Feeding
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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What is Organic Gardening?
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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What's Stressing Your Dogwood Tree? It Could Be You.
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Tomatoes Not Ripening? Blame the Heat.
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Japanese Maples vs. the Heat of Summer
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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More Hot Weather Garden Tips
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Late Summer is the Time to Start the Fall Vegetable Garden
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Jalapenogate
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Drooping Leaves vs Heatwaves
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Is Your Fertilizer Radioactive?
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Six Common Tomato Problems
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Selecting and Caring For Garden Hand Tools
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Summer Cucumber Issues
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Where's the Zucchini?
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Growing Healthy Greens Year Round
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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11 Garden Tips for Success
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Thin Your Fruits and Vegs, Now!
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May 26, 2023 |
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The Best Roses For Cut Flowers
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May 19, 2023 |
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Flea and Tick Control Tips
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May 12, 2023 |
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Can Human Food Also Be Plant Food?
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May 05, 2023 |
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Happy Tomato Planting Day! But Which Varieties?
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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You Grew It. Now Eat It!
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Tomato Growing Tips For 2023
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Backyard Beekeeping Advice
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Jumping Worms: An Update, Again
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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If You Can’t Dig Down, Grow Up! Raised Bed & Container Planting Tips
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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How Honeybees Say, "Come and Get It!"
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Pepper Seeds Slow to Germinate? Some Speedy Tips.
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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The Scoop on Worm Poop
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Vegan Split Pea Soup
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Freeze Damaged Plants? Embrace the Ugly.
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Winter is Rose Pruning Time
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Drain That Rain!
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Bypass or Anvil Pruners? We Ask the Experts.
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Ant Control
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Poinsettia Pointers
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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All About Fruit Tree Chill Hours, and More
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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2023 All-America Plant Selections Winners
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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A Persimmon Primer.
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Garlic Growing Tips
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Roasted Tomatoes
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Trees vs Storms
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Can You Foliar Feed a Plant?
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Curried Pumpkin Soup Recipe
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Too Many Peppers? Try This Sweet Pepper Relish
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Reducing the Wildfire Threat to Your Home & Yard
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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How Safe are Organic Garden Chemicals?
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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How to Grow Citrus Indoors
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Fresh Corn Soup Recipe
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Grow A Yardful of Phytonutrients
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Cation Exchange Capacity for Gardeners
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Plant Hormones
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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All About Imidacloprid
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Kaboom! Sudden Tree Limb Failure
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Roses That Can Take the Heat
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Should Chicken Manure Fertilizer Be Considered "Organic"?
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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African Keyhole Gardens
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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What to Do With All Those Berries?
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Garden Shows for the Nose
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Why You Don't Want To Use Fertilizer or Rooting Hormones When Planting Trees and Shrubs
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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What's That Critter in My Compost & Worm Bins?
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Backyard Chicken Egg Care Tips
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Don't Let Drip Irrigation Become "Drip Irritation"
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Weed Killers: Read The Fine Print
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Crop Rotation and the Pizza Pie Garden
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Plants To Attract Beneficial Insects, Pt. 2
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May 20, 2022 |
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The Truth About Compost Tea
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May 06, 2022 |
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Why Do Pepper Flowers Fall Off?
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Top 10 Fragrant Roses (in the Podcast)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Different Mulches for Different Plants. Fruit Trees vs. Lawns
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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A Visit to the Luther Burbank Gardens
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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What's Your NQ*? (Nature Quotient)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Growing the Gumbo Garden
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Peppers to Try in 2022
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Should You Add Bagged Soil To Your Garden?
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Tips for Garden Tool Selection & Care
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Seed Starting Tips
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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The Best Roses for America? One Master Rosarian's List.
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Cold Tolerant Succulents. Plants for a School Garden. Pepper Seed Germination Tips.
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Tomato Varieties, Winners & Losers
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Is Gravel Gardening Right For You?
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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BEYOND BASICS: JUMPING WORMS
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Sep 19, 2021 |