Edible Garden Artistry with Potager Gardens + School Gardens that don't Fizzle

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Oklahoma garden designer Linda Vater loves to create elegant edible gardens. Her work is inspired by the tradition of the potager garden. We talk about:Potager gardensMaking ornamental and elegant edible gardensDesign elements such as enclosureHow to design your own potager-style gardenLinda's new book is The Elegant & Edible Garden.In the second part of the show we catch up with Sunday Harrison from Green Thumbs Growing Kids in Toronto. We're big fans of this non-profit that brings gardening to school kids and communities in downtown neighbourhoods. We find out more about their model, which solves a common challenge of school gardens: Summer.   We talk about: Why working with a cluster of schools helps with summer care Summer community involvementA project that gets kids growing trees from seed