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Upside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastThe Good, The Bad & The Bugly: A Fall Garden RoundupYou asked for it and its back! Two brand new Who Killed Rosemary pod plays. Find out where Misty Contour is at with the mysterious death of Edith's Rosemary.
In the garden, we are slowly sliding from fall to winter and now is the time for reflection on:
The Good
The Bad
And…
The Ugly! Including a very ugly letter for the mailbag
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2025-12-0148 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast124. Garden Plot Twists & the Science of SurpriseIt's summer and the garden surprises & experiments keep coming—and we love (most of) them! Edith finds a black grasshopper and a mysterious scarlet beetle. Christy's cauliflower turns purple and she finds her reading glasses... in the compost pile.
We share what’s blooming in our gardens, how our zucchinis are doing, and updates on tomatoes, cabbage (Christy's pride and joy!), basil, arugula, tarragon, and more. Edith’s rosemary lives. Christy’s… not so much.
We’re also replanting for fall harvest—peas, beets, and maybe revenge. Plus:
• Edith’s leeks are now perennials
• Christy has...
2025-08-0551 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast123. Breaking New Ground: Everything Fun & New for Your Spring GardenSpring has officially sprung, and the garden is bursting with life! Flowers are blooming, veggies are growing, and—surprise!—some plants are totally taking over. Edith’s garden is overrun with greens, Christy’s garden is a dandelion jungle, and yes… some plants didn’t make it.
(insert moment of silence here)
Ah well! Onward we go.
This week, we dig into:
🌿 What’s New in the Garden?
Lessons learned:
Don’t plant orach (you’ll see why!)
Tomatoes remain a mystery
Ground cherries = delightful
Reminder: See...
2025-04-1757 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast122. Can You Dig It? 8 Reasons Why Gardens MatterEdith’s potatoes may have gone to the dark side, but we are forging ahead with the small and enjoyable garden tasks of winter and dreaming of our 2025 garden. So, let us inspire your next garden with all the many benefits and joys of gardening!
We have gathered our top reasons why we garden: From health to wealth. From making friends to murdering carrots. From learning to lunging. And filled with little tips and tricks and laughs along the way.
It’s seed catalog season so, we have stuffed this episode with THREE funny pod plays about our favorite reason to go to the...
2025-01-1554 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast121. Autumn Garden 2024 - What Grew, What Died & What ChewedFallelujah! A pretty darn good year in the garden. No hail, no frost, no covering – yet.
Edith grew ground cherries. Christy grew zinnias. We both grew a lot of tomatoes. Edith might have killed her peach tree. Christy mysteriously killed her cabbage. We both killed our rosemary. Aphids chewed, Japanese beetle chewed, mildew took up residence.
So, it all resulted in a lot of learning, we hope you can learn, too!
Why you should keep your compost a little drunk.
Why it’s never too late to plant. Or too early.
What seeds need to be fresh as...
2024-10-2454 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast120. Summer Garden Potpourri: We're Hot and Killin' It!Our gardens are doing great! So far. If you don’t count the heat, the Japanese beetles… and the murders!
Life is growing fast and furious in our gardens and we are applying water like we are applying for a job. Edith loves her loveage. Christy is at peace with her peace rose. Edith is plum crazy about her plum tree. Christy is thinks Edith’s peach tree harvest is going to be… peachy keen. :)
Our summer gardens are a potpourri of marvels, questions and fun tips.
To shell or not to shell peas?
Is it possibl...
2024-07-1758 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast119. To All The Plants We've Killed This SpringSpring is back! We are back! Edith is back! Our sore backs are back! And we have lots to share!
Find out what is growing in our gardens and what we have killed this Spring
What is the safest non-organic vegetables to buy in the grocery store? Edith has all the deets and beets.
We spill the beans on our favorite mistakes from last year: Which plant only produced one solitary veggie? And which plant produced WAY too much?
Discover what new plants we are growing this year and why one new seed packet will make bath time lot...
2024-04-0249 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastBONUS: The Little Seed PotIt's almost Spring! And don't worry, Upside Down Tulips will be back soon with an all new episode that celebrates our favorite mistakes of last year and our dreams for this year's garden. PLUS: Christy and Edith are gathering their best tips and tricks for your Spring Garden.
Until then, here is a little something for all you gardeners out there: A little Pod Play about the adventures of the LIttle Seed Pot. Enjoy!
Thanks so much to the Garden Party - we couldn't do Upside Down Tulips without you! Support UDT by joining our Garden P...
2024-03-1604 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast118. Good News for You and Good Night To Our 2023 GardensThe garden is wrapping up for the year, pumpkins have been turned to jack o’ lanterns, green tomatoes are in the attic and onions are a’ walkin. So, let’s celebrate all the garden good news stories of the year! Christy and Lindsey share good news about:
Updates on Lahaina Banyan Tree
The benefits of urban gardening
The discovery of a holly tree in Brazil
A gardener who has created over 300 community gardens
A pear tree that refuses to die,
A whole new spin on rooftop gardening
How mushrooms can protect trees
And what renewable resource is working great...
2023-11-0841 min
Upside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast117.- What’s Up Witches? It’s Thyme for Witchy Herbs - An Upside Down HalloweenIt’s the most wonderful time of the year! Kathryn and Christy get in costume to celebrate Halloween and the end of the garden season!
We dig into our herb book and get witchy with it! We share natural witchy herbal remedies from our gardens commonly used to offer some relief as we head into flu and cold season. Learn how to make all kinds of soothing tea from basil to echinacea to oregano to thyme! Why is garlic so prized in the healing world? And why we putting stuffed turkeys in our bathtub?
Pod Plays? Yup, we have stuffed this Ha...
2023-10-2553 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast116. Who Says You Can’t Fool Mother Nature? We Show You How!Asters and marigolds are blooming, finches are enjoying sunflowers - and the harvest is finally coming in. We welcome Fall! And we scheme how to squeeze in a few extra weeks before Mother Nature decides to fully blanket us in snow. So, Kathryn and Christy have curated some of our favorite tips and tricks to fool Mother Nature. And not just in the Fall, but in ALL four seasons.
How watering helps when Jack Frost is a’comin?
The ins and outs of covering: What materials? When? Why uncover? How to anchor?
What are the best plants to snatch...
2023-10-1143 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast115. Oh My Gourd! We are Pumped to Share All We Know About PumpkinsHello pumpkin season! Who has the guts to go there? Karen and Christy do! We pumpkin spice things up with an episode all about pumpkins: how to plant ‘em, how to take care of ‘em, how to use ‘em, how to cook ‘em, how to make your jack o’ lantern last longer… And how to get engaged?!
Karen is harvesting tomatoes and cooking them with a pig jaw. Christy is enjoying her fall flowers and can’t find her cucumbers. Karen can’t grow green beans and Christy can’t grow roma.
Johnny Hardscribble returns to share his love of su...
2023-09-2752 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast114. From Acorn Squash to Zucchini: Garden Fresh Recipes to Use up the HarvestHungry? Great! Karen joins us and we have a bunch of recipes perfect for the gardener!
Ratatouille: A wonderful harvest stew to serve with some crusty bread.
Eggplant Parmesan: Karen’s Italian accent makes this recipe sound so mouthwatering!
Roasted Tomato Soup: Find out what Christy’s secret ingredient is!
Acorn Squash Gnocchi: You won’t believe how easy this recipe is.
Gazpacho: A very special recipe from one of our favorite restaurants.
Tomatillo Salsa: The coolest plant makes the most delicious salsa verde!
Sauerkraut: All you need is cabbage, salt and squeezing. You know you want to try it y...
2023-09-1447 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastWHO KILLED ROSEMARY: The Complete Collection. So FarIt's everybody's favorite true crime garden podcaster, Misty Contour, and her quest to find out who killed Edith's rosemary plant.
For the first time ever, our excellent, yet enigmatic engineer has pulled together ALL the episodes of Who Killed Rosemary and assembled them for your listening enjoyment. Including some great great garden tips!
Journey back with us to the beginnings of the death of Rosemary and the ever growing list of suspects: The Squirrel? The Yard Nazi? The Hair Stylist? Or what about June O’Hallorin, Master Gardener?
Enjoy the talents of some of the...
2023-08-3029 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast113. Get More Bang From Your Buck With Plants With More Than One UseOur gardens are looking great for June. Except it is August?! Ah well. Christy and Edith are eating lettuce. Lettuce is bolting. We prevent bolting with a lawn chair. We are harvesting garlic. We are trying new ways to peel garlic. Edith is planting onions. Christy forgot she planted onions. Plus, we celebrate what is reblooming and ponder where are all the Japanese beetles?
Then we jump in a fun topic: Veggies and flowers with more than one use.
Find out the unique uses for other parts of garlic, chives and leeks.
What plants are we grow...
2023-08-0253 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast112. Hurts Like Hail. How to Recover from Hail Damage to Your GardenHail Yeah - Edith is here! She is making tea from Linden trees, compost from coffee and mulch from grass. Christy gets her delivery of bindweed mites and surprises some beetles enjoying Afternoon Delight.
Edith and Christy share our heart break and hope after a devestating hail storm. Find out what was stripped, shredded, pounded, vaporized, smashed and went splat. What got knocked out of the pod? Will we ever grow successful zucchini again? Will we get a ripe tomato before Labor Day?
What should you do if your garden gets damaged from hail? We wil...
2023-07-1948 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast111. All Hail Native Plants: Learn Why You Should Add Native Plants to Your GardenThis episode has all the feels:
INSPIRING: Learn all about native plants. What are they? Why are they good for your garden? How can you find some? Why does Lindsey only have one?
HORROR: Christy reveals what terrible thing happened in her garden this week. It’s bad, folks - like out of a scary movie. So, grab some popcorn and hold your veggies close.
LAUGHTER: Of course, we have some fun, too! And have prepared for you some brand new, hand-crafted pod plays that will make you smile. And bad jokes to make you...
2023-07-0546 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast110. Basil Bonanza! It’s Thyme for Basil Basic Tips & TricksWe are overly Pesto-mistic this episode! Lindsey returns with updates on her hydroponic garden. Does she dare pot up her rosemary that she germinated from seed? Christy finally got her veggie garden in. Can it survive the morning glory invasion?
Then we get into basil basics and IT'S EASY: We share with you all about how to plant it, grow it, harvest and eat it! Plus some fun trivia and witchy uses. Why you should curse and yell when you plant basil. How to keep your basil seeds from floating away. What is the number #1 you should never do...
2023-06-2148 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast109. Super Fantastic Tomato Talk 2023Let’s talk tomatoes 2023! First, find out what’s new in tomato news:
Why grape growers in Italy are switching to growing tomatoes.
What scientists have learned about the secret screams of tomatoes.
How to pick the best starter plants from the nursery
What companion plants are best to buddy up with tomatoes and which to plant far, far away.
Then learn what varieties Karen and Christy are growing each year. HINT: One is Better, one is Bigger and one is Super Fantastic. Karen shares a great recipe! And we have two tomato themed Pod Plays – hand crafted ju...
2023-06-0647 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast108. We Don’t Want No Grubs: How Gain the Advantage On Japanese BeetlesGreetings Bad-Ass Backyard Gardeners! The ever-witty and future pop-star Karen returns to UDT and we chat about what’s blooming our gardens, what’s died, and what is just being plain pokey. Plus, find out the unique way Karen aerates her lawn, how Christy made an unintended birdfeeder, and why bears are like cats.
Then, we take our grubby hands and dig into the beautiful bug everyone loves to hate. Founder of Phyllom Bio Products and ever-wise, John Libs, comes back to continue our ever-growing series on organic Japanese Beetles mitigation. Learn all about this garden enemy and wh...
2023-05-2452 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast107. Will Power! How to Tend to Your Shakespearean Garden w/ Flowers & HerbsWhat Ho! This week Leslie and Christy try to class up the joint with their take on a Shakespearian Garden. From Romeo and Juliet to Hamlet to A Midsummers Night’s Dream, we give you some beautiful verses from the Bard of Avon - and some tips and tricks on some of the flora and fauna from his plays. We cover familiar plants like roses, pansies, daisies, lavender, mint, parsley, bachelor buttons, and marigolds. And then we gift you with the knowledge of rue, crow flowers, woodbine, musk rose, oxlips, and eglantine.
Oh – and we have fun Shakesp...
2023-05-1050 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast106. Sow Awesome: How To Start Tender Annuals & Herbs in the SpringDo you want to learn an easy method of starting seeds outside and getting a jump start on flowers, herbs and veggies? Have you often wondered what is this thing we call “Winter Sowing” and think you might have missed the boat this year? Well, Leslie has the same questions and joins us for a fun demonstration on how to “Winter Sow” in the Spring. So, if you have an itch to start some tender annuals like zinnias, cosmos or marigolds. Or herbs like basil, dill and cilantro, join us!
Plus, we celebrate World Naked Gardening Day, mourn the...
2023-04-2644 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast105. Fifty (or so) Ways to Lose Your Garden w/ Edith & Leonardo DiCatrioIt’s National Garden Month and our gardens are busy! So Edith joins us and gives us an update on the miracles and mysteries in her garden. Christy tells the tale of the Great Sewer Incident and we both give lima beans the respect they deserve. As usual, Edith finds Christy inspiring and Christy finds Edith hilarious.
Also: Don’t know what to do with those pots of tulips you got at the grocery store? We got you. And a new pod play about cats digging in plants and a special appearance by Matt Damon, gardening in poo on M...
2023-04-1246 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast104. Perfectly Practical Tips about Peas and Other ”P” Words from the GardenSpring is here! And we celebrate our gardens springing back into life – bulbs, garlic, chives and budding lilacs. We continue to celebrate celery – Kathryn shares a great celery soup recipe. We even appreciate the weeds. Well, some of them anyway.
We return to our old friend, the Alphabet, and bring you a potpourri of garden words that start with the letter “P”.
When should you plant peas?
Should you dead head pansies?
Why do perennials sleep, leap and creep?
What native “P” flower is deer resistant and has over 300 varieties?
Why should you know the Ph scale of your s...
2023-03-2950 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast103. Time to Celerybrate! Practical Tips for Spring Garden Clean UpLife is a garden and Kathryn and Christy dig it! We dig into National Celery Month. We dig into Spring Clean Up. We dig into updates on our no-dig gardens. Ironically, we detest actual digging… Also: find out what is peeking up in our gardens, what Kathryn does with a bucket of sand and what tragedy is coming for Christy’s vegetable garden.
Learn what the experts say are the best practices for Spring Clean Up and what real gardeners do, like us! When is the best time? What plants are best to start with? How to protect be...
2023-03-1550 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast102. Rosemary - How to Plant, Grow and NOT Kill the Dew of the SeaLindsey is back this week and we do a deep dive on one of our favorite herbs to kill: Rosemary! Learn how to plant, grow and trouble shoot this useful and culinary favorite herb. Find out what happened to the Rosemarys' toughing it out in our yards and what Lindsey is going to name her little Rosemary sprout.
And we’ve got new pod plays! Ask Agnes - the helpful gardening show that takes the agony out of gardening - makes a return visit to chat all about winter sowing and winter sewing.
Mailbag gives us a...
2023-02-2845 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast101. Who Needs Soil? We Love Hydroponic Gardening!Denver’s favorite character actor and successful zucchini gardener, Lindsey, joins as guest host and we dive into gardening without soil – Hydroponics!
Did you know you can grow almost any plant in water? That you can get a kit and grow greens and herbs on your counter? And that Lindsey talks with her hands a lot? Get inspired by all the benefits of hydroponic gardening and learn all of Lindsey’s tips and tricks on hydroponic kits:
What kind of water, how much to sow, what about nutrients.
What plants are working the best. (Hint: Not potatoes...
2023-02-1548 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast100. Favorite Garden Mistakes from 2022 and Dreams of 2023 w/ Edith!Episode 100! We are back with new episodes, new pod plays and the wonderful, wise and wacky EDITH joins us! Spinach is on her mind, plus she educates us all on how to vaccinate bees.
Then to the heart of the matter: We reveal our 2022 Favorite Garden Mistakes. Why couldn’t we grow one of the easiest vegetables? Edith planted peppers in the wrong place – find out where and learn from her mistake. Plus: Marigold issues! Bad timing! And Strange WTF’s?!
Now let’s inspired! We are gonna throw some shade and combat climate change. Tomatoes? Of...
2023-02-0150 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastBONUS: Happy Curmudgeons Day!Since January 29 is National Curmudgeons Day, we thought we would share one of our favorite pod plays and honor all the cranky and fussy people in our lives.
We enjoy curmudgeons so much, one of our Garden Party categories is named for them. (For just $2 a month, you can be an Upside Down Tulips Curmudgeon. Just click HERE)
Good laughs and celebrating the garden are what we are all about at Upside Down Tulips. We will be back next week with a brand new episode filled with our fun garden tips and tricks and bad joke...
2023-01-2902 min
Upside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast99. Gardening Ghosts of Christmas PastWe have put down our hoes and, like our garden, are settling down for long winter’s nap.
BUT! Before we are carried off to a deep hibernation filled with dreams of next year’s garden, we wanted to spread some holiday cheer and share with you our favorite holiday pod plays just for the gardener, the wanna-be gardener and anyone who considers well-aged manure a thoughtful gift.
An inspiring “Night Before Christmas”
The kookiest “Gift of the Magi”
A funny solution to all your holiday cooking
A Gardener's Christmas Carol
The perfect rom-com movie
12 Days of craziness
A...
2022-12-2122 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast98. We Are on Point! How to Care for Poinsettias and Other Holiday PlantsThis week we chat about what’s alive, what’s dying, what dead and what plants cheer us up for the holidays.
Learn all about Poinsettias and how to pronounce it.
How to get a Christmas Cactus to bloom.
What holiday plant is hard to kill?
Why you need an Amaryllis this season.
How to grow Rosemary indoors this winter.
Don’t have room for a Christmas Tree? Try a Norfolk Pine.
Plus learn about root rot, why you should never place basil in your fridge, what is a zone, what does Persephone Period mean for gardeners. Oh – a...
2022-12-0749 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast97. Gardening for Dummies, Newbies, and Leslie and YOU! Let’s Plan a Small Container GardenLet’s set the bar low and root for each other! Leslie is back as guest host - and with the help of the knowledgeable and fun Brittany Pimentel from Denver Urban Gardens - we plan Leslie’s 2023 container garden. Leslie’s mind is blown over patio tomatoes, pinching basil, burying mint, worm poo and what the heck is "soilless soil". Maybe we will blow your mind, too?
Since it is the week of Thanksgiving and we got our first snow, we stuffed the episode with some fun pod plays for the gardener and fans of cranberry sauce. ...
2022-11-2350 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast96.To All The Plants We’ve Killed Before: How to Get a Greener ThumbMeet Leslie and her black thumb of death. Her enthusiasm for plants, passion to learn and fun stories make her a great guest host. Find out why she grew up afraid of gardening and what happened to her miniature rose. Meanwhile, Christy’s managed to harvest a second zucchini and looks forward to the world’s smallest celery crop.
The Main Event: We dig into all the plants we have killed before and why yellow leaves can be the result of so many things out of balance. Plus, learn the #1 way to successfully move your plants, how to ov...
2022-11-0952 min
Upside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast95. Deadly Plants to Give You Nightmares - An Upside Down HalloweenKaren and Christy are in costume and ready to celebrate Halloween and the end of the garden season! We have curated a special episode just for the gardener. We warn you about deadly plants that can kill, tempt you with recipes for spooky season, share scary stories and treat you with a pumpkin bucket full of full of fun, original pod plays that we only play during Halloween. Yup, we have all the fan favorites: Ichabod Grain, Stranger Garden Things, Silence of the Lamb’s Ear and The Killing Frost. And we have a BRAND NEW Pod Play about The S...
2022-10-2654 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast94. A Lot of Awesome Tips About Aphids and Other ”A” Words From the GardenKaren is back and together we are living the brand of celebrating garden mistakes. But, we are also enjoying the onslaught of tomatoes, squash and eggplant. What about our zucchini? (We have news!) And our pumpkins? (We have an update!) And the fish guts in our basement? (What the heck?!)
This episode is brought to you by the letter “A” – we bring a potpourri of garden tips and tricks that start with the first letter of the alphabet.
Aphids: Did you know they poop out sugar?
Annual Plants: Learn why you need them - even if you have...
2022-10-1250 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast93. Squirrel Away These Great Wormy Tips for the Best Garden!Meet Karen! A new guest host and voice behind the infamous Squirrel in our pod plays. Karen tells us all about her garden: full of beautiful tomatoes, rogue pumpkins, pokey peppers and zilch zucchini.
Cathy Nesbitt from Cathy’s Crawlers joins us to talk all about vermicomposting and how to get a worm composting system all set up. She answers all your questions: What kind of worms? How to feed your worms? What is the best location? When to harvest their amazing poo? What if you are afraid of worms? What does Bruno have to do about it and w...
2022-09-2853 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast92. Romaine Calm! We Share Simply Radishing Ideas on September PlantingKathryn is back and says “moist” a lot. Christy has Pumpkin Pride. And we both still hate squirrels. Find out what Christy found in her driveway. And what the heck a Treegator is and why you probably need one.
Did you know there is a lot you can still plant in September? We get all into it. From veggies like lettuce and radishes you can enjoy before your first frost -- to garlic and beets you can plant now and enjoy in the Spring. We don’t forget flowers! We tell you all about how to beautify your garden fo...
2022-09-1450 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast91. Can You Dig No-Dig Gardening? We’ll Share How Easy It Is!A busy & confusing time in the garden! Kathryn makes out with a tree and Christy is pickled. Tomatoes are coming in, but not strawberries or zucchinis. The sunflowers are drooping and the cabbage needs squeezing.
Then, we get into no-dig gardening: a growing method which feeds your soil, helps control weeds and saves your back in the process. We’ll share what easy supplies you need, when to start, where are the best spots and how big a plot you should have. Plus: Why lime can help get rid of grass? How do twigs help with clay soil...
2022-08-3152 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast90. Let’s Science the Poo out of Japanese Beetles!Meet Kathryn! Our first new guest host who has great info on how to change your lawn into a new garden space. Christy is back from vacation and her garden is still alive! But no one snuck zucchini on her front porch.
If you have Japanese beetles, you won’t want to miss our talk with John Libs, the CEO of grubGONE! and beetleGONE! Learn more about the science of the beetle we love to hate and how grubGONE! has worked in Christy’s garden this summer. And what you can do NOW to get the upper hand nex...
2022-08-1751 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast89. The Best of Edith: A Harvest of the Witty, the Silly & the ProfoundLet’s celebrate Edith’s best moments on Upside Down Tulips! We’ve got her stories about an Elvis-fearing squirrel and the Great Denver Beaver. Plus, the Grapefruit Caper and Bokashi Reveal. Do you remember how Edith cuts her hair or what her favorite spice is? Or why we had to bleep Edith on our Christmas episode?
As always, great garden tips like: how to grow bacon. And our favorite pod plays, mail bag and inspiration that lift up the witty, the silly and the profound: Edith Weiss.
Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get...
2022-08-0349 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast88. Hugs & Kisses, Tips & Tricks: Our Second Anniversary in the GardenIt’s our Second Anniversary and Edith’s last show! This one has all the feels. Find out what is going on in our garden during the dog’s days of summer. Then we share a bunch of garden tips and tricks we forgot to tell you over the last year. Including answers to such burning questions like:
How to tell if you have Verticillium wilt and what to do about it?
What should you never put in your refrigerator?
What the heck does a shoe organizer have to do with gardening?
Plus BRAND NEW pod plays of The Old...
2022-07-2051 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast87. Garden DIY! How to Make Your Own Soil, Sprays, Seed Pots & MoreThrifty gardeners, take note. This is all about doing it yourself. You can collect your own seeds, (but be very careful of one thing), make your own seed pots, fertilizer, compost, pesticides, soil test and potting soil. All organic, mostly made with stuff you have in your shed or pantry.
Plus a quick reprise of the ever popular Bokashi and the many maggots story. And why kids eating mud pies could be a very good thing.
Learn How to Winter Sow!
Don't Know Your Zone? Find it HERE
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2022-07-0650 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast86. Our Favorite Surprises (Wow!) and Frustrations (Ugh!) in the GardenIt’s June, and the garden is action packed. There are peas to be harvested, garlic scapes to collect, and it’s time to resow or replant seedlings that didn’t make it. Is it too late to winter sow? You might be surprised by the answer.
Speaking of surprises, see how our gardens both surprise us (Wow!) and frustrate us (Ugh!) We talk radishes, roses, iris, leeks, peaches and aloe vera. Take action now to battle weeds, bugs, powdery mildew, and unpredictable weather. We'll show you how. And take note: The Japanese beetles are coming!
Learn How...
2022-06-2248 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast85. Tomatoes 2022: What We are Growing and Super Sweet New TipsLet’s deep dive into tomatoes 2022! We've got breaking news on tomato health benefits, nutritional value of raw vs. cooked, the use of their pigment in making solar panels. Also - how to pick the best tomato plants from your local nursery, and what we are growing in our gardens this year. Plus:
Why is a Better Boy tomato better than a Big Boy tomato?
What is the difference between Sweet 100 and Supersweet 100?
What the heck is an Inditerminate tomato?
Are hybrids organic?
And of course, fun Pod Plays! This week we have tomato boxing at Madison Square G...
2022-06-0853 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast84. Oh My Gourd! All About Growing Squash and Stranger Garden ThingsYou can roast it, grill it, soup it, zoodle it, sweet or savory it - it’s the amazing, versatile squash. And we tell you how to plant it, water it, protect it, cure it, and store it all the winter long. From the sweetest to the largest to the oddest; grow squash and gets pounds and pounds of food and a hedge against inflation. Plus,
How to make an anti-fungal agent that protects against powdery mildew.
How to hynotize a chicken, should you have the need to.
Want to grow marigolds this summer? Thanks to a listener, we sh...
2022-05-2550 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast83.We’re Sexy and We Mow It. All About Lawns and Lawn AlternativesGardeners care about the planet, and if you are choosing between a lawn, an alternative, or a mix of the two - we have some very pertinent info on how to mow, how to water, how to fertilize, carbon removers, forever chemicals, ground covers and what kind of grasses are good for your zone.
And while you mull over these questions you can also:
Celebrate what is blooming in our gardens. (Yay!)
Find out what is dead in our gardens. (Ack!)
Enjoy to a beautiful letter sent in from a listener - “A Sonnet to Spring”. (Cause ga...
2022-05-1144 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastBONUS! Happy World Naked Gardening Day!With World Naked Gardening Day just around the corner on May 7, we thought we would share one of our favorite pod plays.
Good laughs and celebrating the garden are what we are all about at Upside Down Tulips. Most of the time we even have clothes on. We will be back next week with a brand new episode filled with our fun garden tips and tricks and bad jokes.
xoxo
Edith & Christy
World Naked Gardening Day is a thing?
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2022-05-0602 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast82. All We Seed is Love: Our Favorite Seed Company Stops By!Judy Seaborn, founder of Botanical Interests seed company, stops by to share her favorite gardening mistakes - and gives us so many great tips.
Which plants won’t benefit from starting early?
Which don’t like being transplanted?
How do you keep your seeds from clumping in one place in the garden?
What plant is a must in Judy's garden this year?
Plus: If you plant onions in a circle do you get onion rings? Dandelions - good for bees or not? (The controversy begins.) We talk mugwort and borage, two ‘witchy” herbs. And we celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday with p...
2022-04-2755 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast81. So Many Spring Tips! Plus: Why You Should Join a Community GardenTo celebrate National Gardending Day on April 14, we packed this episode with a wheelbarrow full of Spring tips and tricks!
Then, we give you something new! We interview an expert: Brittany Pimental, the Equity and Food Access Director at Denver Urban Gardens. We learned so much. Just about every city has a community garden program and they’re there to help you. We learn about viable seeds in ancient Egyptian tombs. Sustainability swaps? No, not a way to reignite the spark in a marriage. Find out what a food swamp is and if you’re in one.
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2022-04-1351 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast80. Mmmm! 15 Fragrant Plants That Will Make Your Garden Smell AmazingCan you smell the lilac? It’s all about common and not so common scents in the garden. Combat the malodorous smells of modern times - the exhaust, the garbage, your overly patchoulied co-worker - with the gentle scents that certain trees and plants will provide. Which ones are our favorites, which ones have medicinal properties, which plant can be sowed straight from a teabag. Listen as a letter from Doug gives instructions on building a chicken wire rabbit deterrent fence that just might work. And enjoy a new pod play parody on the TV show, Succession!
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2022-03-3047 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast79. Best Drama, Best Villain, Best Supporting Plant: Who Will Win Our Garden Awards?Using the Academy Awards as our inspiration, we give awards to the favorites, and also the disappointments, in our gardens. Along the way we share what made our successes shine and what might prevent future failures. Trees to vines to veggies to flowers- from best ensemble to the most dependable to the villains - Garden 2021 has been a heck of a year. Plus buggy hollyhocks, raging at the radish, and the little seedling that could.
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2022-03-2244 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast78. Easy Peasy: We Spill the Dirt on the Easiest Veggies and FlowersWe’re gardeners and sports lovers, so let’s say this episode is smashmouth gardening. Where else are you gonna get that? We tell you which are the easiest veggies and flowers to grow, and give you tips to ensure your success. Do you like beans, carrots, zucchini, lettuce, and peas? Do marigolds, zinnias, cosmos, sunflowers and morning glories please your eyes? Add some hardy perennials and you have a beautiful easy peasy garden.
Plus an all NEW Who Killed Rosemary: Misty Contour, intrepid podcaster trying to find out who killed Rosemary, visits a neighborhood where she is st...
2022-03-1649 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast77. Answer: Worm Composting. Question: What is Makes the Best Fertilizer?We'll Take Worm Composting for $1000, Ken. And Let's Make it A True Daily Double! We explore vermiculture, which ensures that you can grow the most nutritious vegetables, the most beautiful flowers because you can make the best fertilizer in your backyard, under the sink, on your balcony. Are we pulling your garden-overalled leg? No, we’re not. Vermiculture is raising worms for their precious poop, and we give you the inside scoop. Where to put them, what to feed them, how to keep them alive.
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2022-03-0950 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast76. It’s Time for Your Daily Garden Wordle: March! Seeds! Plant! Clean!What you can and what you shouldn’t do in your March garden. Direct sowing, soil conditioning, temperature watching, winter sowing, indoor seedling starting, perennial clean up - it all starts now. When, what, and why to prune off your trees. And take time for Your Morning Wordle - our new pod play in honor of you, the gardeners.
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2022-03-0236 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast75. Oh Kale Yeah! Lettuce Grow all the Leafy GreensWe took notes and name names. Of our favorite greens. Our goal is to have 9 months of fresh green salad stuff from the garden. Tips on growing endive, arugula, perpetual spinach, dwarf kale, corn salad, romaine and more. How to plant, harvest, care for, and fertilize. Along the way we get wayword and curdled noddles, grief stricken vegetables, and all root and no bulb enter the fray. Plus a brand new Old Woman Pod Play!
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2022-02-2341 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast74. How to Attact Flutters of Butterflies and Bees on Bikes for a Beautiful Garden“Butterflies are flying flowers and flowers are tethered butterflies”
Saving our bees and butterflies is also saving our food sources. We explain how you can help whether you have a garden or a balcony or somewhere to plant milkweed seeds for Monarch butterflies. And how to get those seeds for free. What colors and plants attract not just a butterfly but a kaleidoscope of butterflies. Not just a single bee but perhaps a bike of bees. Why you should never plant a butterfly bush, perversely counterintuitive though that sounds. Plus a podcast within a podcast: we’re getting...
2022-02-1645 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast73. Pot it Like It’s Hot: How to Propagate Your HouseplantsFind out which heirloom seed company will ship you seeds with no shipping fees, and hear what may be the worst joke in the world. Then learn how to make two or more houseplants out of your existing houseplants by rooting, stem cutting, or dividing. Discover what pantry staple can be used as a rooting hormone. And if you think a "rooting hormone" has anything to do with why you are loathe to leave the house, give us a listen.
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2022-02-0947 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastENCORE: We Have the Best Dirt on Soil. Get Digging!In this week's special encore episode, we share the difference between dirt, soil, top soil, potting soil, and seed starting soil. Who knew? We didn’t! But we do now. Also:
How many worms in a shovelfull of good soil?
How to use the principles of regenerative agriculture in your garden large or small.
How do worms procreate and why should you care?
Why does Plato the Greek philosopher think people are like dirt, and why you’ll agree with him.
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2022-02-0248 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast72. More Winter Sowing: How to Bring Seeds to Life in the Dead of WinterWinter Sowing 2! Good news! You don’t have to wait to garden. We answer your questions about how to sow seeds, outside in the winter. Does it matter where you live? When is the best time? Can you use compost? What is the best way to water? What kind of light? Should you ever take the tops off? What if it gets really cold? Along the way we have a hilarious headline correction from England, living bridges in India, and new ways to garden: free planting and leaving vegetable roots in the ground. Informative and funny, gardeners we’ve got your back...
2022-01-2548 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastENCORE: Take Out Your Jugs and Learn How to Winter SowIn this Encore Episode, Christy teaches us how to winter sow, and it’s about the coolest thing a gardener can do. Meet Johnny Hardscribble, a tough guy who needed a Hail Mary to save his spirits and found one in his garden. Meet the Gardeners of the Galaxy: The Fairy Godwater, the Bee Team, and the Mulch Master. We also answer the tough questions: can you put deer poop in your compost? What is a knot nematode? And if someone offers you bunny honey, don’t spread it on your bread. Edith has a compost experiment and says “at least...
2022-01-1946 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast71. Edith & Christy Plan Planting by the Seat of Their Pants: Our 2022 GardenThings to consider when planning your 2022 garden. How to lengthen the season in colder zones, new ways of watering, and inexpensive ways of providing shade. The new way Christy will plant her expensive herbs and the one herb Edith will never plant again. What you need to do in January to ensure getting the garden you want in July. Two treats for theater lovers: Hamlet and Ophelia in their frozen garden, and a mulch pile begging to be spread belts out Broadway tunes. “Ah, five, six, seven, EIGHT!”
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2022-01-1247 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastENCORE: From the Ground Up: The First 3 Things To DoYou want to plant a garden. Now what? In this Encore Episode, we explore Gardening 101: where to put your garden, how to determine what kind of soil you have, and how to amend it. But along the way we’re discussing Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania and Sir Walter Wally in Raleigh NC. We have tips on why thinning out boyfriends and carrots are important. We share soil tests you can do at home, with stuff from your pantry! Knot nematodes, spineless cactus, plumcots and cat skulls may not seem like they’re cogent in a gardening podcast; but you’ll see...
2022-01-0552 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast70. Our Favorite Mistakes 2021: Confession is Good for the Soul"I can use some socks.”
If that quote doesn’t signal an exciting episode, we don’t know what does. It's our annual Favorite Mistakes of the Year! We go through our many gardening mistakes of 2021, some of which ended in... plantslaughter! From too much sun to not nearly enough, from a hostile poppy takeover to accidentally killing houseplants - learn from us. And laugh with us!
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2021-12-2842 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast69. All the Jingle Ladies: An Upside Down ChristmasBlanket yourself with this delightful Christmas quilt of an episode. From the care of your Christmas tree, poinsettias, and amaryllis to a mailbag featuring two of the most heartwarming stories we’ve ever heard. Plus, the most unusual “12 Days of Christmas” you’ve ever heard, a way to frustrate scammers, and a stomach churning Gift of the Magi. And “The Ghosts of Gardens Past” to warm your eggnog. Happy Holidays!
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2021-12-2249 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastENCORE: How to Grow Herbs - Here Today, Tarragon TomorrowIn this Encore Episode, learn how to grow herbs! Have a container? A small patch of land somewhere? Plant herbs! There is nothing like fresh herbs that you have grown for your health, happiness, and recipe success. Let us help you with tips for sowing, growing, and harvesting your herbs. Plus intriguing truths:
What is the most popular spice? (Hint, it isn't Baby)
How the Romans used the herb savory. Why medieval monks were forbidden to grow it.
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2021-12-1548 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast68. Gardening in Poo and Other Strange & Bizarre GardensEdith and Christy search the globe and outer space, looking for unusual gardens. From above the Arctic Circle, to the indigenous forests of Africa - from the ketchup and fries plant, to where you can find gardens inside taxicabs, to a parody of “The Martian” - so much great information presented alongside funny letters to Santa and groan worthy puns. The elves Wunorse Opanslae and Shinny Upatree warn us about the one gift they never should have given Mrs. Claus. Believe it... Or not!
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2021-12-0842 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastENCORE: Tis the Gift to be Simple - Garden Gifts!
In this Encore Episode, you can end re-gifting with our suggestions of wonderful gifts you can make FROM the garden and FOR the gardener. From body butter to soup of the month to sage bundles to Herbs de Provence - in these times where so many of us are operating on a Bob Cratchit budget, make wonderful gifts for about a ha’penny.
We also suggest some simple gifts for that special gardener in your life. Or for yourself! Or for us! We think we may be headed toward The Bigger Time - cause we have merch! Get your...
2021-12-0146 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast67. It‘s an Upside Down Thanksgiving! So Eat, Drink and Cranberry with Us!Happy Thanksgiving! Like friends and family coming to our table, we have new letters from listeners as well as favorites from last year. They run the gamut from the missing mashed potatoes to Spudsgiving. Plus a new podplay about the Cranberry Wars. Oscar Wilde, the Buddha, and the Minneapolis Miracle are already seated. We’ve saved a place for you. We would be grateful if you joined us.
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2021-11-2444 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast66. Are You Ready for Some Garden Good News?We have gathered only good news, because things have been stressful and we needed it. News about how gardeners like you are helping with climate change, how architects are designing skyscrapers that are covered in gardens, how Maine has put itself in the forefront of the right to grow your own food and how a gardener in Atlanta created a sitting garden for her neighborhood. And more! Also, an unsolved garden mystery involving a huge zucchini and a bad assed gardener who takes his cue from Clint Eastwood’s persona provides laughs -- because laughter is its own good news...
2021-11-1742 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden PodcastENCORE: Good Garden Tools and Hacks That Don‘t BlowIn this Encore Episode, we talk about tools - not humans with appalling behavior but garden tools that help us out.
Christy’s cartoon thumb bears witness to the importance of tools. She has definitely paid the price for yanking the cosmos. Hori knives in holsters, hand weeders, hacks you find in your kitchen or garage. Tools that blow which might make you feel like you’re licking the sidewalk. Waste of money tools. Tools with cancer warnings that has Edith playing detective. Meet Janelle the strict parent of her seedlings and Rowena, the very nervous gardener who stun...
2021-11-0944 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast65. Things Get Better With Sage: How to Grow Herbs IndoorsIt's go thyme! This week is all about how to grow an indoor herb garden. But first, Edith encounters a persnickety security system demanding a “secret word”, Christy is starting a produce section in her attic, and we both had a fennel fail. What is the Persephone Period? We will tell you.
If you’re as determined as we are to grow fresh herbs indoors this winter, give us a listen. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme - not just an old Simon and Garfunkle song. It could be part of your kitchen herb garden. We share what materia...
2021-11-0350 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast64. The Legend of Creepy Colorado Gardens - Upside Down Halloween SpecialIt’s Halloween 2. We’ve got Tom Cruise, Ichabod Grain, and Canable Pectin. Wrap yourself in our Halloween quilt with the best stories from last year, new stories from our listeners, and two new podplays. We have tricks: how to eat an eyeball if you have to; and treats: The Silence of the Lamb’s Ear and a headless garden ghost. Revisit the haunted Fordney mansion which holds a true ghost story and find out what could happen if you garden after dark on Halloween. We’ve got tricks, treats and laughs. As Rosemary Clooney would say: “Come on-a my house, my h...
2021-10-2748 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast63. Do You Know What We Did Last Summer? We Spill the BeansWe share new things we tried last summer and how they worked out. Good, bad, and ugly things. Important things like which tomatoes to plant to get rid of a soil fungus, the easiest beautiful annual to care for, how to have fresh greens in your garden for 8 months, and what is and how to grow a successful moon garden. Do you know what a Maximillian sunflower is and why it’s great to have it in your garden? And for chuckles, pod plays about being the quarterback in a garden football game and a new interpretation of “boxing tomat...
2021-10-2046 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast62. Bring It In and Bring It On: How to Overwinter Your Favorite PlantsDo you want to have a headstart for your plants in next year’s garden? We have the details on bringing in geraniums, rosemary, and peppers. The harden off/soften on method, the pruning, misting, microclimating, and dormancy inducing techniques that help your plants survive the winter in your house. Plus how to grow plants from cuttings. As well as a question about broccolini, a story about beavers, a 172 lb. cabbage, and a 76 pound rutabaga. It’s a supersized episode! Both of us laugh, both of us cry, but one of us is just kidding.
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2021-10-1346 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast61. We Can Can and We Can Freeze. Won‘t You Join Us?We are not an “organic proprietary mixture”, although we get a little ticked off by something that claims it is. We go into all the dos & don'ts and pros & cons and easy tips for how to freeze and can your harvest for the winter. Plus more drama: what died all by itself on Edith's hügelkultur? Why does Christy's pumkin look like Walter Matheau? Why is Edith afraid of canning equipment? And what, in the garden, will give you more, the more you use? These kind of miracles, giving trees, and why birds might be pooping on cars. It’s all her...
2021-10-0648 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast60. Why a Toilet Paper Roll is Perfect for Your Garden & Other Repurpose IdeasA spanking new episode exploring upcycling for your garden: toilet paper rolls are not just for making chunky necklaces anymore. Second lives for soda bottles, boots, toilets, broken tools, bathtubs, tires and more. Learn to make your own pots for seedlings and then use a ‘seedling apartment building’ to shelter them. Whether it’s a recipe for drying cherry tomatoes with zero energy use, or a recipe for roasted tomato salsa, or the recipe that might have kept Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara together, this episode’s got it.
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2021-09-2942 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast59. We Have a Garlic Crush. Let‘s Learn How to Grow Better GarlicEverything you wanted to know about growing, curing, and storing garlic. The difference between hardneck and softneck garlic. What they have in common are fantastic health benefits. In Romania it is often considered as good as antibiotics! Plus eat the rainbow that’s not Skittles - a vegetable’s color is an indication of its health benefits. We explain. What we’re planting now - hoping it will overwinter and give us vegetables early in Spring 2022. And we pepper this barrage of information with two very funny Podplays that deal with a better way to awaken Sleeping Beauty.
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2021-09-2241 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast58. This Week We are Inappropriate, in the Raw and in the GardenEating raw fruits and veggies is not only great for your health, but for your energy bills, and the environment as well. Not enamored of eating a pile of plain raw veggies for dinner? We have suggestions: recipes for cold soups, sauces, salsas and smoothies. If a Colorado garden zone 5B can produce fresh greens allowing you to eat uncooked nutritious foods for about 7 months, so, most likely, can your zone. Better skin, great gut health, improve your immunity: eat it raw. Plus we solve the blossom end rot on grape tomatoes but lose the battle of the pumpkins to...
2021-09-1543 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast57. Will We See You in Your September Garden? We Hope So!The September garden: watch out for frosts and for insects making homes in your garden cantaloupes. A to-do list that includes the hows and whys of watering, planting, harvesting, fertilizing, and weeding. What to do with a tsunami of tomatoes. Taking care of your lawn, flowers, and trees. We are so full of good information we could burst like Christy’s forgotten pumpkin. We also have questionable information as Edith gives her theory of the evolution of the French language. Could it possibly be true? Fiacre! We don’t know.
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2021-09-0846 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast56. We Are Ripe for the Pickin‘ - So Let Us Help You Know When to HarvestWe want you to have a happy harvest so we let you know when your veggies are ripe. From beans to zucchini and most things in between, it’s about color, texture, smell, shriveled stems, green caps, tight heads, and leaves dying back. It might surprise you that in most cases, size doesn’t matter. Seed collector alert: what to start looking for before they blow away. Meet Buff Biffins the plant homicide detective who learns that sometimes you gotta be cruel to be kind in the garden. Saints, assassin bugs, and little cabbages no one planted make unexpected appe...
2021-09-0147 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast55. Linger in Your Garden Longer: How to Extend Your SeasonWe give a tip of the hat to our Curmudgeons and share a story about the power of unexpected kindness. What you can plant today and still harvest before winter and why you should plant trees now. How to extend the life of the vegetables you have past your first frost date, the Persephone period explained, and sheltering plants for the winter so they’re alive come Spring. What happened to bad smelling Gunther and why the Dormouse accuses Alice of being a poisoner and a perv. We know better - she’s just Alice in Gardenland.
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2021-08-2545 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast54. Why Do We Love to Hate Bindweed? It's Kinda ConvolutedThe ubiquitous bane of the gardener - Bindweed. There seem be at least 50 ways to fight your bindweed - pulling, snipping, solarizing, suffocating, boiling, blow torching (really), using strong chemicals that kill everything around it and sometimes leaving bindweed standing alone on the hill, victory flag in hand. Yes, gardeners, it’s war. We’re on your side discussing what could work and how long it could take. Note: Be patient. And presenting 3 short comedies to ease your (and our) frustration.
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2021-08-1846 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast53. The Best Ways to Save Water in Your Garden. Now Almond FreeWe’re talking ways to save water that is both nutritious and free. There’s more to watering than what comes from your hose. We’re talking rainwater, gray water, black water, cooking water. One of these things is not like the other, however. How to collect water, store it, apply it to your garden. How to help save your lawn and water bill in this heat. From sprinklers, soaker hoses, rain barrels, and water absorbing polymers to aeration and hydrozoning, we cover this topic as thoroughly as the papparazzi cover Simone Biles. Speaking of similies, Agnes the community college in...
2021-08-1149 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast52. What's the Matter With My Tomatoes? BLT Help is HereWe discuss the things that can happen to your tomatoes, the ‘risks’ as it were: blossom end rot, blossom drop, not setting fruit, not ripening, Septoria, early blight, late blight, middle aged blight (just kidding on that last one). We tell you how to fix what can be fixed and when to throw in the trowel and not beat yourself up about it. Cause it’s probably not your fault! Plus Antelope Twomey is back with a moving and funny poem called “Ode to the Gardener”. It’s all about you, our gentle listeners and gardeners.
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2021-08-0443 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast51. The Best Garden Tips Are From Your Good FriendsWe discuss what we (and hopefully you) learned from each other this past year. Like how to do your own soil test, and what is Soil Pep? (It has nothing to do with pompoms or short skirts). We discuss gardening by grid, taking suckers off of tomato plants, how to garden without disrupting the natural way of things, why Christy has changed her mind on a certain store bought fertilizer and what went horribly, nauseatingly wrong with Edith’s Bokashi experiment. Gardening is not for the squeamish. From spiders in meat tubes, to squirrel skulls to Cindy Brady in the g...
2021-07-2848 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast50. First Anniversary Special: Good Thymes in the GardenIt’s Episode 50! And our First Anniversary! (Which means we’ve been doing this for a year and we’re not so good at math.) Thank you to everyone who has listened over the last year! We truly love this community of gardeners, friends and stewards of the planet.
To celebrate, we share are a few of our favorite moments from the year:
From the silly - shredded tweet and Salvadore Dilly, to the profound - May Sarton’s quote about gardening, we’ve got you covered.
We fill in between the two, revisiting little bird buttholes, a deep confession from Christy, and...
2021-07-2140 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast49. Upside Down Grub Hub: How to Deal With Japanese BeetlesIt’s hot and dry July. The early season plants are reaching their endtimes, flowers need to be deadheaded and the Japanese beetles are back! To temper the horror of that, Edith wrote a poem! We then talk 50 ways to kill your Japanese beetles. You could sweep, bag, spray, trap, grind, or entice them with a lovely fruit cocktail. (Fruit cocktail? What is this, 1954?)
You could also try Neem Oiling or Milky Sporing them to their everlasting rest. Then, for a little dark humor, we brought back Darla and the Jersey gangster Tone Baritone. And, as if all th...
2021-07-1450 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast48. This is July & We Love Hanging With Our GnomiesThe start of July means summer is in full swing and our gardens are at the peak of the season. It is also a big month for garden maintenance. So we have gathered together over 20 tips on what you should be doing in your July garden - what not to plant, what you can plant, what to deadhead, how to get broccoli baby heads even if your original plant goes to seed. Plus: helpful info on pinching, watering, weeding, staking, dividing, mulching. So many "ings!"
Don’t know what a farrier is? Neither did we. Christy thought it m...
2021-07-0747 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast47. Victory is Vine! Why We Love Climbers and ScramblersWe’re thrice potting cucumbers and shaking seed heads, all while exploring the world of vines. So much more than just a conveyance for Tarzan, vines shelter, give beauty, grow food, attract pollinators and hide unsightly views. Not even to mention that’s how grapes grow and that’s what makes wine!
Which vine’s seeds cause paralysis, labored breathing and convulsions- and still has “sweet” in its name? (That may be taking forgiveness a step too far.)
Let us introduce you to the Lazy Housewife Pole Bean and the Asian Winged Bean. The first is not a Victori...
2021-06-3049 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast46. Announcing Top 10ish Garden Tips We Forgot to Tell You“Hope is being planted and I feel it growing.”
We’re quoting from a listener’s letter because we’re too hot to say anything worth quoting. BUT we did have the presence of mind to gather about 10ish garden tips we forgot to tell you in the past year. Like what is well drained soil? Can you plant in a ziplock bag? Do you need different fertilizers for different plants and what is elbow soap? Why you should pinch your mum now and what the appearance of dog vomit slime mold tells you. Free resources, plants that resist...
2021-06-2346 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast45. Here is the Poop on Fertilizing Your GardenThings are popping in the garden and we’re getting down with our hoes. Christy’s roses are opening, something absconded with her cauliflower plants, and her rosemary after surviving the grim winter, has a ceased to be. It’s like a vegetal soap opera! If you think NPK is an arm of the Russian Secret Service, you need this episode. If you want to know why Edith is reading War and Pees in her bathroom, you should listen.
We explain how and when to fertilize flowers, vegetables, roses, and houseplants- one size doesn’t fit all. What une...
2021-06-1646 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast44. June is Bustin' Out All Over in the GardenHere is your June "Get 'Er Done" List!
Someone once said if you have to tell people you’re hip and relevant, you’re probably not. We politely yet vigorously disagree. Cause we’ve got slamming plants and vibrating stamens. Exploding gardens and hoe jokes. Doing the ‘what is dead’ search. It sounds like an action filled sci fi adventure, but it’s just another week in the gardens of Christy and Edith. From succession planting to mulching, supporting and staking, and it’s last call for seedlings. What you can still direct sow and - bonus! -a recipe for homemade pesticide w...
2021-06-0945 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast43. Mostly Fresh Tomatoes: A Special Encore of Plump ThingsWell, slap some bacon on that Vitamin K, it's an encore! We discuss tomatoes from seeds to BLT’s. In the Middle Ages, Europeans thought of them as poisonous, the French thought they were an aphrodisiac and called them love apples. The Aztec called them “plump things with a navel”.
Plus: The difference between determinate, indeterminate, heirloom and hybrid tomatoes are discussed. All you need to know about planting, staking, and harvesting tomatoes. What to do about blossom end rot, blotches, wilt, rot, fungal diseases and pests. We unbox tomatoes that have been sitting in Christy’s attic for...
2021-06-0241 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast42. Garden Laughs 2: More of Just the FunnyPardon our garden clogs as we take time to work in our gardens and present our second episode of all garden comedy. Every gardener has a sense of humor. How else can we survive all the missteps and surprises?
Can bindweed make you laugh? We think so - revisit the Bindweed Singles Service and the worse come on lines you’ve ever heard - and we hope you will agree. Remember Agnes, the easily distracted creative writing teacher who also has a call in gardening show? We’ve got all the Agneses right here. Plus the Gardeners of th...
2021-05-2645 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast41. Roses: Good in a Bed and Up Against the Wall“No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall." This is the catalog description of a rose named for a former first lady. Her reaction to it is priceless.
We’ve got the info on how and where to plant, prune, fertilize, water and care for the Queens of the Garden: Roses. Save money and up your rose game with our easy homemade fertilizer suggestions. We tell you about a thousand year old climbing rose that survived a WW2 bombing that destroyed the cathedral on whose walls it grew. Plus: do those Japanese beetle bags that attr...
2021-05-1945 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast40. Perennial Discretion Advised: Rhubarb Murder & Other Strange TipsAnd just how supple do you think Sleeping Beauty was after she slept for a hundred years? It does have something to do with gardening, we swear.
We discuss the unique requirements to grow perennial vegetables: rhubarb, horseradish, artichoke, asparagus and leek. They come back year after year with minimum care. And not just for food: here’s a recipe to lighten your hair naturally with rhubarb. We also reveal the answer to why asparagus makes your pee smell funny and the artichoke’s secret: it is mainly a butter delivery service, let’s be honest.
Great ti...
2021-05-1244 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast39. How To Grow Irresistible Iris: We Don't Squirrel AroundThe Puckerbutt Pepper Company. Now that we have your attention, meet the subject of this episode, the superstar of perennials: the Iris. Used in perfumes, Bombay Saphire gin, and immortalized by artists: you gotta grow an iris. Really, so easy. We tell you, in detail, everything you need to know to keep this flower, grown by the Greeks and Egyptians, alive and thriving. With not a lot of effort. You don’t even have to mulch it! And you can ship it! Why painting them kept Van Gogh’s sanity (for a while anyway)and had O’Keefe keeping us wonderi...
2021-05-0549 minUpside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast38. How to Grow Herbs - Here Today, Tarragon TomorrowHave a container? A small patch of land somewhere? Plant herbs! There is nothing like fresh herbs that you have grown for your health, happiness, and recipe success. Let us help you with tips for sowing, growing, and harvesting your herbs. Plus intriguing truths:
What is the most popular spice? (Hint, it isn't Baby)
How the Romans used the herb savory. Why medieval monks were forbidden to grow it.
Meet an herb whose leaves tastes SO GOOD to 8o% of humans, is inedible to the other 20%, and then produces seeds that are a whole different spice!
And the name...
2021-04-2847 min
Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Self-Improvement, Improve Your MindsetThe Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith EgerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/412869to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
Author: Edith Eger
Narrator: Tovah Feldshuh
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Release date: September 15, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 23
Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 8
Genres: Improve Your Mindset
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. This practical and inspirational guide to healing from the bestselling author of The Choice shows us how to release your self-limiting beliefs and embrace your potential. The prison is in your mind. The key is in your pocket. In the end, it's not what happens...
2020-09-155h 19
Through the WardrobeEdith-"The clothes that I've been the most attached to have all come from friends or they've been swapped"Edith tells the tale of an early date at a clothes swap in the Swedish summer sun, just after finishing high school.
Music: Storybook by scottholmesmusic.com
Cover Art: @beth_barnett
2020-07-0510 min