Epic Gardening: Daily Growing Tips And Advice

There are dozens of different hops cultivars, but which ones are best for home growing?  Connect With Beau Bromley: Beau Bromley is the Hops Technician at Sierra Nevada Brewery up in Chico, CA. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ever had a delicious IPA? Most of what gives it that distinctive flavor can be grown at home. Today Beau Bromley of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company comes on to talk growing hops. Connect With Beau Bromley Beau Bromley is the Hops Technician at Sierra Nevada Brewery up in Chico, CA. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you’re going to choose an organic pesticide, you must understand the consequences of what you’ll be applying or spraying. Even though they’re organic, that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily good no matter what. Connect With Susan Mulvihill: Susan Mulvihill is a Master Gardener from Spokane, WA and the author of the upcoming book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook Susan’s Blog Susan’s YouTube Channel Susan’s InstagramSusan’s Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagra

IPM sounds fancy, but it’s really not. It’s a way of combining multiple strategies for reducing pest issues in a common sense, practical way. Connect With Susan Mulvihill: Susan Mulvihill is a Master Gardener from Spokane, WA and the author of the upcoming book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook Susan’s Blog Susan’s YouTube Channel Susan’s InstagramSusan’s Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choic

Instead of identifying pests, identify the damage that pest is doing on your plants to figure out what’s munching away at your garden. Connect With Susan Mulvihill: Susan Mulvihill is a Master Gardener from Spokane, WA and the author of the upcoming book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook Susan’s Blog Susan’s YouTube Channel Susan’s InstagramSusan’s Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Vis

Beneficials do SO much good for the garden, but only if they’re present. Learn how to encourage more to make a home in your space. Connect With Susan Mulvihill: Susan Mulvihill is a Master Gardener from Spokane, WA and the author of the upcoming book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook Susan’s Blog Susan’s YouTube Channel Susan’s InstagramSusan’s Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p

Besides the common recommendations, what else can you do from a cultural practice perspective to reduce pest pressure in your garden? Connect With Susan Mulvihill: Susan Mulvihill is a Master Gardener from Spokane, WA and the author of the upcoming book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook Susan’s Blog Susan’s YouTube Channel Susan’s InstagramSusan’s Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visi

A fantastic step-by-step process to identifying bugs in your garden. Connect With Susan Mulvihill: Susan Mulvihill is a Master Gardener from Spokane, WA and the author of the upcoming book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook Susan’s Blog Susan’s YouTube Channel Susan’s InstagramSusan’s Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why we must focus on organic or even beyond-organic pest control in our gardens, with Susan Mulvihill. Connect With Susan Mulvihill: Susan Mulvihill is a Master Gardener from Spokane, WA and the author of the upcoming book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook Susan’s Blog Susan’s YouTube Channel Susan’s InstagramSusan’s Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Niki and I riff on some of the plants we’re focusing on in our 2021 garden. Connect With Niki Jabbour: Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Groundbreaking Food Gardens Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix Growing Under Cover Savvy Gardening Niki’s Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gard

Lazy gardening is smart gardening. Niki Jabbour shares her winter sowing method for easy, early seed starting. Connect With Niki Jabbour: Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Groundbreaking Food Gardens Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix Growing Under Cover Savvy Gardening Niki’s Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book

If you have more space, larger-scale covers like greenhouses, geodesic domes, and polytunnels all make a lot of sense, especially in colder climates. Connect With Niki Jabbour: Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Groundbreaking Food Gardens Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix Growing Under Cover Savvy Gardening Niki’s Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to

Niki is famous for her use of cold frames to extend her harvest by months in Nova Scotia, Canada, and she shares the basic methods to building your own and what to plant in them today. Connect With Niki Jabbour: Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Groundbreaking Food Gardens Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix Growing Under Cover Savvy Gardening Niki’s Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look

I get a lot of questions about mammalian pests - rabbits, squirrels, and deer. I don’t battle them much in my garden, but Niki Jabbour does, and she shares her favorite covers that prevent them in today’s episode. Connect With Niki Jabbour: Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Groundbreaking Food Gardens Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix Growing Under Cover Savvy Gardening Niki’s Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple hei

Beyond pest prevention, growing under cover allows you to grow more produce that’s overall much healthier. Niki Jabbour shows you how in today’s show. Connect With Niki Jabbour: Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Groundbreaking Food Gardens Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix Growing Under Cover Savvy Gardening Niki’s Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here t

One of the best and most versatile techniques in the garden, growing under covers offer a whole host of benefits for the beginner and experienced gardener alike. Niki Jabbour is back on the show today for the third time! Connect With Niki Jabbour: Niki Jabbour is an award-winning author 3 best-selling books like The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Veggie Garden Remix. She has a popular radio show called The Weekend Gardener and is extremely active in the online gardening world as well. She’s best known for her 20+ raised bed gardens that she grows in throughout the entire year in the cold climate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener Groundbreaking Food Gardens Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix Growing Under Cover Savvy Gardening Niki’s Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multi

They’re the same thing...aren’t they? Lisa talks about when to repot, when to up-pot, and when to simply do nothing when evaluating your houseplant’s growth. Connect with Lisa Steinkopf: Lisa Steinkopf is a blogger, freelance writer, and houseplant enthusiast, and the author of Houseplant Party: Fun projects & Growing Tips for Epic Indoor Plants. She loves taking care of her own plants, and teaching others to take care of theirs at The Houseplant Guru. The Houseplant Guru Houseplant Party: Fun Projects & Growing Tips for Epic Indoor Plants Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamenta

The best way to celebrate Houseplant Appreciation Week is...to make more! Lisa talks about some of her favorite methods, including a personal favorite of mine, air layering. Connect with Lisa Steinkopf: Lisa Steinkopf is a blogger, freelance writer, and houseplant enthusiast, and the author of Houseplant Party: Fun projects & Growing Tips for Epic Indoor Plants. She loves taking care of her own plants, and teaching others to take care of theirs at The Houseplant Guru. The Houseplant Guru Houseplant Party: Fun Projects & Growing Tips for Epic Indoor Plants Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-

It’s easy to think that all houseplants are unlikely to flower when indoors, but it’s far from the truth. There are a ton of incredible options that will flower, even with minimal light. Connect with Lisa Steinkopf: Lisa Steinkopf is a blogger, freelance writer, and houseplant enthusiast, and the author of Houseplant Party: Fun projects & Growing Tips for Epic Indoor Plants. She loves taking care of her own plants, and teaching others to take care of theirs at The Houseplant Guru. The Houseplant Guru Houseplant Party: Fun Projects & Growing Tips for Epic Indoor Plants Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and o

We call it potting soil, but there’s no true ‘soil’ in it at all! Today Lisa shares how she mixes her own soil, what she uses, and some other choice potting mix tips. Connect with Lisa Steinkopf: Lisa Steinkopf is a blogger, freelance writer, and houseplant enthusiast, and the author of Houseplant Party: Fun projects & Growing Tips for Epic Indoor Plants. She loves taking care of her own plants, and teaching others to take care of theirs at The Houseplant Guru. The Houseplant Guru Houseplant Party: Fun Projects & Growing Tips for Epic Indoor Plants Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid f