Podcasts Ideas, Tips & Guides

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In a brand new podcast series, starting in February 2025, with new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday, Alan Titchmarsh will answer your gardening questions. So whether you are battling a pest problem, want some garden design tips, planting advice or have some other horticultural conundrum, Alan is on-hand to help out.

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We hope everyone has a safe and happy Independence Day later this week!

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As the weather continues to warm up, strawberry harvest wraps up, tomatoes and peppers are coming on strong, and cucurbit harvest is beginning. Read more details below.

This week, check out the Transitioning Your Business to the Next Generation Workshop put on by Clemson’s Agribusiness Team on Thursday, 5/23.

Cucurbit downy mildew was found in the state this past week on cucumbers in Charleston. All commercial cucurbit growers need to be on the lookout and start preventative fungicide applications, if not already started.

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Join us for a new podcast series of summer conversations with the BBC Gardeners’ World team. Listen to gardening inspiration from some of the UK’s most loved and well-respected gardening experts. With advice for adding colour to your garden, working with nature, boosting your wellbeing, thrifty gardening, veg growing and allotment life. We’ll also take you on a royal tour, go behind the scenes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, share garden designer secrets, tips for growing better roses, plant-based recipes with Deliciously Ella and much more. Plus, take a sneak peak inside the gardens of celebrities including Griff Rhys Jones and Caroline Quentin. Enjoy friendly gardening chat and informative discussion, perfect for everyone who loves gardening. With new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts, and never miss an episode.

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Check out the latestepisode of the SC Grower Exchange Podcast below.

Check out Extension Vegetable Pathologist Tony Keinath’s latest article in Growing Produce: Choose Cover Crops that Suppress Pathogens in Your Vegetable Plantings. Also, check out the latestepisode of the SC Grower Exchange Podcast below. Don’t forget to look at our Resources.

I’Y FRIEND JOE LAMP’L (aka Joe Gardener) had watched my recent appearance at Swarthmore College’s Scott Arboretum, where I received their Scott Medal in March, and listened to my “acceptance speech,” if you could call it that. He invited me to join him on his latest podcast episode and reflect on my gardening life so far, as I had at Scott, and our conversation is on his website now.

Our Spring meeting season is starting to wind down, but keep an eye on the Upcoming Events tab periodically so you don’t miss anything. Coming up this week is the Upstate Vegetable Production Meeting in Spartanburg.

A PAIR OF NEW PODCASTS HAVE PILED UP in the queue, last week’s on taking a tough-love approach to the gone-by spring garden, and Monday’s on quite the opposite thought: going out to shop for more. You can make your way to the goodies over at my podcast archive page at Robin Hood Radio/WHDD, the nearby NPR affiliate where the show is created, and stream at will, or click the yellow “Subscribe in iTunes” button there instead if that’s your delivery vehicle of choice.

IF YOU HAVEN’T even started bringing in your houseplants or are in a warmer zone, the first part of the discussion talked about taking stock of what needs storing and evaluating and prepping potential overwintering spaces at your home.  I recapped that quickly yesterday in Part 2, then got on to specifics how to store dahlias, cannas, elephant ears and more. You can always subscribe to the free podcast on iTunes. (Select the September 12 and October 17 shows from among the weekly programs I do with Robin Hood Radio, the nation’s smallest NPR affiliate, in nearby Sharon, Connecticut.)Part 1 (September 12 edition Part 2 (October 17 edition) Other Pushing-the-Zone ExperimentsREMEMBER, it’s always an experiment–but it’s worth trying to carry over treasures from one year to the next rather than composting them now. From the archives and elsewhere, some plant-specific tactics to inspire your efforts:Japanese maples, top photo (or other marginally hardy shrubs and small trees) in pots How I grow Zone 8 Farfugium (Ligularia, above) a

Yes, I am kidding—sort of. But what I mean is this: Producing the segments each week keeps me ferreting out answers to questions I have, in journalistic style—reaching out to possible expert source for some answers. I learn so much, all of which I then get to share. Win-win. (Some of the year’s top topics are listed below.)The show, which begins its seventh year in March 2016, has been named a top-5 gardening podcast by “The Guardian” newspaper in the UK (alongsid

Sample the year’s top shows here–and don’t miss a future episode. Get the links to subscribe free to upcoming shows on Stitcher, iTunes or your favorite podcast player at the bottom of the page.claudia west on nature-based design1. Landscape architect Claudia West’s nature-based design wisdoms, including the saying that “plants are the mulch.” Read while you listen or just use the player below.ideas for fall and winter soup with ali stafford2. Cookbook author and food blogger Ali Stafford of Alexandra’s Kitchen shared fall and winter soup idea

That’s today’s topic: top tips I got from 2019’s most popular interviews—like whether to use black or clear plastic to smother weeds, or how to diagnose the presence of dreaded invasive Asian jumping worms. And on a brighter note: when exactly to cut those peonies to have the longest-lasting blooms in a vase, and how to get maximum performance out of our familiar annual flowers.Read along as you listen to the bonus show from the week of January 6, 2020 of my public-radio program and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).So: On to the tips!flo