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Talking all things horticulture, ecology, and design.
Twitter:
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English
Contact:
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Email:
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Episodes
Ep. 193 Our Favorite Gardening Books for Winter Reading, Gifts, or Anytime of Year | #GoodGrowing
12/6/2024
This week on the Good Growing Podcast, Emily Swihart joins Ken and Chris to discuss our favorite gardening and landscaping books. We discuss reference books, fiction and nonfiction, and even children's books. Beyond our favorites, we also interviewed our fellow horticulture educators to get their recommendations. This is a long episode this week. Be sure to utilize the timestamps below to skip to what you want to see.
Watch us on YouTube https://youtu.be/RskDlYC8TRk
00:31 Hey Ken!
01:00 Welcome Emily!
01:35 What are our reading habits?
03:38 How do we choose books to read?
07:13 Reading older books.
10:39 Horticulture references
10:55 Diseases of Trees and Shrubs by Wayne Sinclair and Howard Lyon
11:02 Bark: A Field Guide to the Trees of the Northeast by Michael Wojtech
12:26 Herbaceous Perennial Plants by Allan Armitage
13:53 The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants by Peter D'Amato
14:54 Caterpillars of Eastern North America by David Wagner
15:57 The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy Winegard
16:37 Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart
18:13 Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide by Heather Holm
18:20 Pollinators of Native Plants by Heather Holm
22:25 How Plants Work by Linda Chalker-Scott
22:34 Botany for Gardeners by Brian Capon
24:26 The Informed Gardener by Linda Chalker-Scott
25:15 The History of the Garden in Fifty Tools by Bill Laws
28:22 Management of Invasive Plants and Pests for Illinois by Illinois Extension
28:41 Forest Trees of Illinois by Illinois Extension
29:27 Books by Doug Tallamy
29:43 Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy
30:03 The Nature of Oaks by Doug Tallamy
31:49 The Living Landscape by Doug Tallamy and Rick Darke
35:16 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
36:08 Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
36:58 The Sioux Chef by Sean Sherman
38:45 The Leaves on the Trees by Thom Wiley
40:51 Bug Hotel by Libby Walden
41:47 Colors of Insects by Laura Purdie Salas
42:14 Bugs A to Z by Caroline Lawton
42:39 As An Oak Tree Grows by G. Brian Karas
43:39 From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
45:05 The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
46:31 A Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield
49:40 Urban Forests: A natural history of trees and people in the American cityscape by Jill Jonnes
51:41 Hortus Curious by Michael Perry
52:29 Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History by Bill Laws
54:38 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
56:52 Vascular Flora of Illinois by Robert Mohlenbrock
57:13 Circe by Madeline Miller
57:48 Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein
58:49 Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
59:41 Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy
59:57 Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West
1:02:53 Plants of the Chicago Region by Floyd Swink and Gerould Wilhelm
1:03:36 A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
1:07:21 Illinois Wildflowers by Don Kurz
1:07:38 Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss
1:08:03 The Gardener's Guide to Prairie Plants by Hilary Cox and Neil Diboll
1:08:49 The Cut Flower Handbook by Lisa Mason Ziegler
1:10:17 The Propagation Handbook by Hilton Carter
1:11:24 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
1:12:58 The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
1:17:05 Closing thoughts
1:17:45 Thank yous, goodbyes, and coming up next week
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
Emily Swihart: eswihart@illinois.edu
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Duration:01:20:54
Gardenbite: Tips for selecting and transporting holiday plants| #GoodGrowing
11/29/2024
The holiday season is here, which means evergreens, poinsettias, amaryllis, and other holiday plants have arrived in stores. Plants are often at the center of our holiday decorations and traditions and are frequently given as gifts. Whether you’re buying them as gifts or for yourself, learn about what to look for when selecting your holiday plants and how to transport them to avoid cold weather damaging them so they can be enjoyed throughout the holiday season.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yUWWqRRAjEk
Skip to what you want to know:
00:35 – Tips on selecting holiday plants
00:44 – Poinsettias
02:20 – Christmas cactus
03:20 – Amaryllis
04:15 – Norfolk Island Pines
05:30 – Inspecting and transporting plants to avoid damage
07:50 – What to look for when selecting Christmas trees
09:19 – Wrap-up and goodbye!
Need information on caring for your holiday plants? Check out these Good Growing articles:
Poinsettias
Holiday cacti
Amaryllis
Norfolk Island Pines
Caring for Christmas trees
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
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Duration:00:10:07
Gardenbite: Voles in the landscape & mice in the house | #GoodGrowing
11/22/2024
This week, we have a Gardenbite excerpt from our webinar, in which we discussed wildlife damage in the home landscape. In this clip, Chris details two common rodents in Illinois that tend to pop up in the winter months around the outside and inside of our homes: the vole and the mouse. While the vole is an active pest outside during the winter, many Illinoisians also deal with mice in the home this time of year. Chris gives some tips and tricks for dealing with these two rodents and preventing their damage this winter.
Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/Si2Q9HpKpFI
Dealing with Winter Wildlife Damage - Good Growing Winter Webinar https://youtu.be/84aZvRWl9VA?si=FvcB7qDyZRzJLlcY
1:34 Voles
8:37 Mice
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
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Duration:00:15:02
Ep. 192 Season extension: Ways we can expand the growing season | #GoodGrowing
11/15/2024
When cold weather arrives, it brings the end of the vegetable gardening season for many of us. That doesn’t have to be the case though. On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we discuss how we can expand our growing season beyond what's normal by using season extension. Learn about what season extension is, why we would want to use it, the different techniques you can use, and more!
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B2REiv1lFYc
Skip to what you want to know:
00:31 – Welcome, Ken. What are our vegetable gardens looking like?
03:05 – What are our experiences with season extension?
04:25 – What is season extension?
06:20 – Effect of daylength on plant growth
10:25 – What kind of crops are we talking about when it comes to season extension?
13:26 – Cloches
16:27 – Temperature/heat management
17:55 – Floating row cover
22:00 – Low tunnels
24:05 – High tunnels and caterpillar tunnels
34:20 – Greenhouses (controlled environment)
37:20 – Cold frames
40:25 – Hot frame
41:46 – Starting seeds indoors
43:10 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table
How to Build a Low Tunnel Part 1 - Bending low tunnel frames
How to Build a Low Tunnel Part 2 - Installing greenhouse poly plastic
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
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Duration:00:44:42
Ep. 191 Late Season Garden Updates & Fall Horticultural Questions Answered | #GoodGrowing
11/8/2024
This week on the Good Growing podcast Ken and Chris marvel at all the stuff they are still harvesting in their gardens. A touch of frost hasn't seemed to stop the tomatoes and peppers. When will the gardening season end!? Plus we look at the NOAA predictions for the coming month and answer your horticultural questions on black cherry aphid, lawn grub explosions across northern Illinois, and more. Plus if you've ever dealt with peach leaf curl, right now is a great time to considered treating your peach tree. Check out the recommendations in this week's podcast.
Skip to what you want to know:
00:37 - Hey Ken! It's warm outside for being November.
01:44 - What are we still picking from the garden?
04:38 - What does NOAA predict for our upcoming weather patterns?
09:30 - Answering your gardening questions: Why does my rose have a stem covered in thorns? Moreso than normal!
15:28 - Why are lawn grubs so bad this year?
23:40 - What is causing my cherry tree leaves to curl in the spring? When I notice in the summer I can't find anything.
28:23 - Peach leaf curl shows up in late spring, but it can be treated right now in the fall!
European Chafer Grub Feeding on Warm-season and Cool-season Turfgrasses, Native Prairie Grasses, and Pennsylvania Sedge https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/18/3/article-p329.xml
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
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Duration:00:33:06
Gardenbite: Windbreaks - the history, function, and benefits of diminished wind speeds
11/1/2024
Windbreaks, also known as shelter belts, play a crucial role in protecting the land from powerful Midwestern winds. Traditionally used on rural lands, windbreaks are living barriers that intercept wind, thereby reducing velocity and impact. During this week’s Gardenbite, Horticulture Educator Emily Swihart looks back at the history of Roosevelt’s ‘tree army’ and planting efforts in response to the Dust Bowl provides best practices for maximizing results, and encourages communities to manage the urban forest to capture windbreak benefits.
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
Emily Swihart: eswihart@illinois.edu
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Duration:00:06:51
Ep. 190 Halloween spooktacular: Creepy crawlies | #GoodGrowing
10/25/2024
It’s time for another Good Growing Halloween Spooktacular! We’re all dressed up again this year to talk about some creepy crawlies that have had or are still having an impact on humans or have a lot of lore behind them, including black widow and brown recluse spiders, stinging caterpillars, oriental rat fleas, lice, and more!
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DGbFkgEs2ZE
Skip to what you want to know:
00:41 – Welcome, Ken. What are our costumes this year?
02:50 – Black widow spiders
11:30 – Brown recluse spider
15:50 – Identifying brown recluse spiders
18:30 – Venomous vs poisonous
19:20 – Stinging caterpillars
22:40 - Saddleback caterpillar
24:55 - Puss caterpillar
28:30 – Oriental rat flea and plague
35:47 – Lice
36:25 – Body lice
39:30 – Head lice
41:30 – Pubic lice
45:22 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
Southern black widow (University of Florida) - https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/spiders/black_widow_spider.htm
Brown recluse (Colorado State University) - https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/brown-recluse-spiders-in-colorado-recognition-and-spiders-of-similar-appearance-5-607/
CDC lice guidelines - https://www.cdc.gov/lice/caring-head/index.html
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
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Duration:00:47:36
Ep. 189 Getting garden tools ready for winter | #GoodGrowing
10/18/2024
Now that the garden season is starting to wind down, it’s a good time to start thinking about getting our tools ready for winter. This week on the Good Growing Podcast, we discuss some things we do to get our garden tools ready for winter, including cleaning, sharpening, winterizing, organizing, and more!
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/o5VuG7Au7ng
Skip to what you want to know:
00:40 – Welcome, Ken, and time to clean up the garages.
02:10 – Cleaning and sharpening shovels
11:35 – Sharpening cultivators/hoes
14:52 – Caring for wooden handles
18:05 – Motor oil to protect metal? Other ways to prevent rust and lubricate tools
21:10 – Caring for and sharpening pruners
32:10 – Getting lawnmowers ready for winter
42:50 – Organizing tool storage areas
45:35 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
Check out the Good Growing Blog: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowing
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Duration:00:47:40
Ep. 188 Fall Cleanup in the Yard and Garden | #GoodGrowing
10/11/2024
This week on the Good Growing podcast Ken and Chris discuss why we clean up our gardens in the fall. Cutting down perennials, raking leaves, and pulling out spent vegetable plants is a common job for the gardener in the fall. As the autumn days get shorter our time is precious outdoors. What needs to be done now and what can wait until next year?
Watch us on YouTube https://youtu.be/scU_YKv_gFE
Skip to what you want to know:
00:29 Hey Ken! It rained!
02:33 Fall clean up. Why do we do it?
04:38 How does cleaning the vegetable garden break disease cycles?
11:53 Adding amendments to the vegetable garden.
13:55 Using manure in the garden.
16:32 Shifting gears to our yard, should we be mowing shorter for our last mowing of the year?
18:21 What about fall leaves? Should we shred them or leave them on the lawn?
22:30 Do trees and shrubs need water as part of putting the landscape "to bed?"
25:06 Cleaning up our perennial plants in the fall. Deadheading aggressive seed producers.
26:59 Cutting back perennials can wait until spring, at least for the plant's sake. Your situation may be different though!
32:30 Brief tool talk. (preview of next week)
Fall garden clean up with pollinators and other wildlife in mind https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/good-growing/2021-10-22-fall-garden-clean-pollinators-and-other-wildlife-mind
When should I start cleaning up my garden?
https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/good-growing/2023-03-02-when-should-i-start-cleaning-my-garden
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
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Duration:00:36:53
Good Growing Grow Along final check-in for 2024 | #GoodGrowing
10/7/2024
It’s time for our last Grow Along check-in for 2024. Each year we at Good Growing decide to try growing some new (to us) vegetables. This year we invited you to grow along with us. This video is for those who signed up to receive seed for our Grow Along. In this video, we are trying the fruits of our labor. We share some of the different ways we have prepared the produce we grew as part of the Grow Along.
We want to hear back from you! You should have gotten an email with a survey link if you received Grow Along seed from us. How is your crop progressing? Have you been able to harvest anything? And more. Please use the survey link sent to you in the most recent email that included a link to this episode.
We are treating this as a quasi-trial of these crops. So, we are asking for some specific details on your growing conditions. If this year works out, we may make these "trials" more official.
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aC0JUpFpYsQ
Got questions? Contact us at
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Ken Johnson kjohnso@illinois.edu
Emily Swihart eswihart@illinois.edu
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Duration:00:24:25
Ep. 187 Fall garden to-do list | #GoodGrowing
10/4/2024
October has arrived, and while it may not feel like it at times, so has fall. This week on the Good Growing Podcast, we discuss some of the different things on our fall gardening to-do list, including caring for mums, moving houseplants indoors, planting garlic and woody plants, soil testing, and more!
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VbB2p-EyjDY
Skip to what you want to know:
00:35 – Welcome, Ken and preparing for fall invaders.
03:10 – Planting and caring for mums in the fall
08:05 – Moving houseplants indoors
13:50 – Planting garlic
21:20 – Testing soil and where to send it
25:00 – Planting trees and shrubs and protecting them from deer
29:10 – Lawn work and dry weather
35:20 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
How to grow and care for fall mums in your garden
How to grow garlic
Soil testing
Soil test labs
National Turfgrass Evaluation Program
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
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Duration:00:36:37
Gardenbite: Fall Flavors - Apple vs Pumpkin | #goodgrowing
9/27/2024
This week on the Good Growing Podcast, Chris compares the essential fall flavors of apple and pumpkin. If you had to choose, what side would you fall on? Team Apple? Or Team Pumpkin?
Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
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Mysterious Invasion [ Cinematic Trailer ]
Volodymyr Piddubnyk
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Duration:00:06:16
Gardenbite: Toothache plant: What is it and how to grow it | #GoodGrowing
9/20/2024
This week on the Good Growing Podcast, we’re trying something new: toothache plant. Learn more about this interesting plant, what happens when you eat it, and how you can grow it yourself!
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z7ywlxrKWTM
Skip to what you want to know:
00:40 – Introduction to toothache plant
05:50 – Eating toothache plant reactions
10:20 – How to grow toothache plant
13:13 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
Toothache plant picture: 葉子, Public Domain, iNaturalist
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Duration:00:16:09
Gardenbite: The Science Behind Fall Color | #GoodGrowing
9/12/2024
Have you ever wondered what causes the reds, yellows, oranges, and maroons of autumn? There are lots of different plant pigments beyond the green color of chloroplast. In this episode horticulture educator Chris Enroth peers inside the processes of a leaf in the fall and how we get those spectacular autumn leaf displays.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2puA2uMoXEg
Skip to what you want to know:
00:18 Fall color lore
00:33 What we thought was happening in leaves to produce fall color.
01:06 What triggers fall color to begin?
01:19 Senescence
01:32 Resorption
02:08 Abscission layer
02:34 What role does fall color play in leaf senescence?
03:44 Leaf pigments: carotenoids
05:18 Tannins
05:55 Anthocyanins
09:06 What autumn weather produces the best fall color?
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Duration:00:10:21
Ep. 186 Managing weeds in the fall | #GoodGrowing
9/6/2024
Have the weeds been popping up all over the place in your landscape? You’re in luck, fall is a great time to manage weeds. On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we discuss why fall is a good time to manage weeds, types of weeds, and different ways we can manage them. We also discuss some herbicide updates on Roundup and glyphosate as well as Dacthal.
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R8N_ANQkUTw
Skip to what you want to know:
00:30 – Welcome, Ken! Tomatoes and peppers everywhere.
02:15 – Managing weeds in the fall
02:50 – Why focus on weeds in the fall?
04:15 – Annual weeds
10:00 – Biennial weeds
11:40 – Perennial weeds
14:40 – Changes to Roundup
24:20 – EPA emergency stop order for use of Dacthal
27:40 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
Illinois Extension garlic mustard - https://extension.illinois.edu/invasives/invasive-garlic-mustard
When Roundup Isn’t Roundup: Clearing up the confusion between products (Purdue University) - https://www.purduelandscapereport.org/article/when-roundup-isnt-roundup-clearing-up-the-confusion-between-products/
EPA stop use (Dacthal) - https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-issues-emergency-order-stop-use-pesticide-dacthal-address-serious-health-risk-4
Illinois EPA Clean-Sweep Program - https://agr.illinois.gov/pesticides/pesticide-clean-sweep-program.html
Henbit picture: "Henbit Colony" (CC BY 2.0) by klm185
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Duration:00:30:44
Ep. 185 Growing Hazelnuts in Illinois | #GoodGrowing
8/30/2024
This week on the Good Growing podcast Ken and Chris talk about hazelnuts. Chris remembers hazelnut shrubs growing in the woods from his childhood, we compare European and American hazelnut species, talk about pests, what you might find if you go looking to buy hazelnut plants, and more!
Watch us on YouTube https://youtu.be/tWgbcfiYIKg
Skip to what you want to know:
00:32 Hey Ken! The messy consumption of chocolate hazelnut spread in our houses.
01:47 RIP Roger Cook
02:56 Correction from a previous episode on calcium in fertilizer
04:03 Our initial experiences with hazelnut
05:49 Hazelnut origins: Where do they come from? Are there multiple species?
06:57 Comparing American and European hazelnut
09:31 Flavor of American hazelnut vs. European hazelnut
11:00 Another common name for hazelnut is "filbert"
11:45 Eastern Filbert Blight and its impact on hazelnut production in the US
15:23 Where can American hazelnut be planted and grown?
19:53 Pests of hazelnut in Illinois
22:05 Walking through a year in the lifecycle of the hazelnut
26:50 Selecting your hazelnut plants. Seedlings, cultivars, hybrids, oh my!
32:36 Pollination is not so straightforward. There are some considerations when it comes to selection.
35:57 Thank yous!
Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative https://www.midwesthazelnuts.org/
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Duration:00:37:58
Ep. 184 Understanding the Power of Cover Crops: Tips for Home Gardeners
8/23/2024
This week on the Good Growing Podcast: Join Ken and Chris as they delve into the fascinating world of cover crops! More and more home gardeners are discovering the benefits of using cover crops to enhance their gardens. Are you curious about how cover crops can transform your garden or landscape? Tune in to this week’s episode to uncover Ken and Chris’s top tips and insights on incorporating cover crops into your gardening routine.
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Skip to what you want to know:
00:29 Hey Ken!
01:15 What is a cover crop and what would a home gardener use them to accomplish?
02:26 Why do people use cover crops: To help rebuild soil structure.
04:20 Why do people use cover crops: To break up soil compaction
04:40 Why do people use cover crops: Weed suppression
04:57 Why do people use cover crops: Fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil
05:22 Why do people use cover crops: Build up organic matter
05:38 What types of cover crops do we have to choose from?
08:07 Why do people use cover crops: It can look pretty
09:37 Why do people use cover crops: Attract pollinators or beneficial insects
10:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvJLHERYJI
10:45 Why do people use cover crops: Scavenge nutrients from the soil
13:36 Chris likes to use cover crops that winterkill.
15:37 Ken's preferred cover crop mix.
17:55 Why we terminate (kill) cover crops.
21:21 Ways to terminate (kill) your cover crop.
26:51 How soon can we plant into a recently terminated cover crop?
30:01 Drawbacks of cover crops
33:15 How do you choose what cover crop to use in your backyard?
34:57 Purdue Extension document - Cover Crops in the Home Garden https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/HO/HO-324-W.pdf
37:11 Cover crops and competition with nearby crops.
41:04 Can't we leave our dead vegetable crops in the ground and get the same results as a cover crop?
43:53 Why do people use cover crops: Allelopathic effects in the soil that can prevent weed seed germination.
44:22 Thank yous and coming up next week.
Duration:00:46:09
Ep. 183 Old-time garden remedies | #GoodGrowing
8/16/2024
There are a lot of garden remedies that have been used throughout the years, and some of them are still recommended today. Do they work? Should we still be using them? On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we discuss some of these old-time remedies like vinegar, pruning paint, dynamite, pesticide concoctions, and more.
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v64wU2PINS8
Skip to what you want to know:
00:45 – Welcome, Ken! Pest control in the past.
03:10 – Vinegar
06:22 – Pruning tars and paints
08:12 – Epsom salt
10:22 – Eggshells
16:05 – Dynamite!
27:55 – Old-timey pesticides
28:25 – Tobacco
30:45 - Forsyth’s Composition
33:00 – 1849 concoction for mildew on peaches
35:30 – Heavy metals
37:40 – Dish soap
38:40 – Oils
40:00 – Can water burn plants?
41:03 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
Gillman, Jeff. 2008. The Truth about Garden Remedies : What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Portland: Timber Press.
Abscisic acid triggers whole-plant and fruit-specific mechanisms to increase fruit calcium uptake and prevent blossom end rot development in tomato fruit
Landscape Architecture Magazine – Planting with Dynamite
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Duration:00:43:28
Ep. 182 What’s Bugging Our Gardens and Trees in 2024 | #GoodGrowing
8/9/2024
In this episode, we dive into the latest challenges facing gardeners and landscapers. From toppling trees to the potential for itchy mites dropping from the sky, Ken and Chris have a list of things that might be bugging your garden and landscape!
Watch us on YouTube https://youtu.be/r3od_YL19_s
Skip to what you want to know:
00:38 Hey Ken!
01:57 Chris found a pretty bug! A dog-day cicada.
03:47 Updates from Ken and Chris' yards.
07:06 What is this green bug eating my flowers?
10:53 Issues with a pin oak tree dropping limbs and leaking fluid from a hole in the trunk
17:50 The problem with aphids this summer. So many! Why?
21:02 Why did my ash tree fall over? It seemed healthy and we treated it for EAB every year."
26:48 What are these bumps on my magnolia tree? Magnolia scale is everywhere this year!
33:32 The rise of oak leaf gall mite? Makes people itchy.
38:05 Thank yous and coming up next week.
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Duration:00:39:36
Good Growing Grow Along second check-in
8/6/2024
It’s time for another Grow Along check-in. Each year we at Good Growing decide to try growing some new (to us) vegetables. This year we invited you to grow along with us. This video is for those who signed up to receive seed for our Grow Along. In this video, we check in and share how our Grow Along crops are progressing in our gardens, answer some of your questions, and share some of our plans for the produce we harvest.
We want to hear back from you! You should have gotten an email with a survey link if you received Grow Along seed from us. How is your crop progressing? Have you been able to harvest anything? And more. Please use the survey link sent to you in the most recent email that included a link to this episode.
We are treating this as a quasi-trial of these crops. So, we are asking for some specific details on your growing conditions. If this year works out, we may make these "trials" more official.
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k0Qj0zQRs-A
Grow and harvest okra: https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/raise-grow-harvest-eat-repeat/2020-08-11-growing-and-harvesting-okra
Selecting okra pods and how to reduce the
slime: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LjXEK855rqs
Freezer pickles: https://extension.illinois.edu/news-releases/freezing-garden-produce-best-results
Got questions? Contact us at
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Duration:00:37:46