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389 - Grow Large Garlic (by not skipping these 5 important steps)

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388 - Green Tomatoes: How to make the most of your tomato harvest before your first frost

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387 - 5 herbs for herbal remedies (that you probably have growing now) with Heidi Villegas of Healing Harvest Homestead

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386 - Planting Strawberries in the Fall for an Earlier and Bigger Harvest in the Summer

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385 - Why You Should Plant Perennials in the Fall (& how)

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384 - Don't Be Afraid to Change (a raw garden-life conversation)

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383 - Spring & Summer Garden: What I Learned

108

382 - Maximizing Your Fall Garden Success: Expert Tips from North to South

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381 - Fall Gardening in Different Climates with Peter (Ohio), Rebecca (Alabama), & Jill (Arkansas)

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380 - Preserving the Small Harvest: Freezing in Small Quantities with Crystal Schmidt, author of Freeze Fresh

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379 - Planting & Growing Fall Potatoes

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378 - Early Fall Garden Planning Checklist

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377 - Safe and Delicious Pressure Canning with Master Food Preserver Jennifer Gomes

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376 - 5 Shortcuts NOT to take when preserving your harvest

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FRIDAY BONUS - Interview with the ladies of Wifestyle Hustle Podcast

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375 - Watermelon: What Can Go Wrong?

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374 - Why Weeds are Taking Over (and what to do about it)

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373 - What to Plant After Cool Weather Crops Harvest

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372 - Top 10 Garden Pest Problems and How to Identify Them

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371 - Dealing with Pests in an Organic Garden (a reality check)

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370 - Flowers in the Vegetable Garden with Lisa Mason Ziegler

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369 - Square Foot Gardening with Bryan Traficante of Garden in Minutes

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368 - 11 Kitchen Herbs I Always Grow + 4 Medicinal Herbs

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367 - Growing Large Crops in a GreenStalk with Susie of GreenStalk Vertical Gardens

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366 - Grow Bag Gardening Do's & Don'ts

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365 - Growing Ingredients for Pizza and Salsa: What You Need to Know

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364 - Spring Seasonal Checklist

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363 - Epic Homesteading with Kevin Espiritu

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362 - My Four-Season Garden Plan

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361 - Best (and Worst) Crops for Beginners

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360 - Cool Season Crops Q&A with Sarah

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359 - When to Plant Cool Season Crops in the Garden

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358 - Growing Fruit Trees Organically with Tammy Janssen of Green Thumb Nursery

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357 - BIG Changes Coming to the 2024 Garden (What & Why)

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356 - How to Refresh Raised Bed Soil from Last Season

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355 - How to Fill a New Raised Garden Bed (Short or Tall)

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354: Put these 12 tasks on your garden calendar NOW to make your season less stressful all-year

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353 - 7 Favorite Companion Planting Combinations (+ why)

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352 - Planning a Year-Long Fresh Food Garden with a small space and minimal preserving

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351 - What to Plant First

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350 - Winter Garden Update & How I'll Plan Differently

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349 - Don't Start These 10 Seeds Indoors: Part 2 Warm Season Crops

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348 - How to Use the New Garden Zone Map with Gardener Scott

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347 - Don't Start These 10 Seeds Indoors: Part 1 Cool Season Crops

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346 - How to Grow Microgreens Indoors with Jonah Krochmalnek - Microgreens Farmer

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345 - Preventing Indoor Seed Starting Problems Before They Start

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344- Why I'm Not Using Soil Blocks for Seed Starting [much] Anymore

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343 - Indoor Seed Starting: What to expect from planting the seed to planting in the garden

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Welcome to the Beginner's Garden Podcast! Grow your own food garden with Jill McSheehy

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342 - Organization Hacks for Garden Supplies & Seeds

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341 - How to Grow in Straw Bales

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340 - How to Plant and Grow Blueberries Successfully

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339 - My Favorite Garden Tools of 2023

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338 - Oregano vs. Marjoram

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337 - Garden Wins in 2023

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336 - Adapting the Garden to Your Climate and Having Fun Doing It with Garden Coach and Educator Alicia Devore

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335 - Money-Saving Succession Planting Ideas for 3 Seasons

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334 - Planning a Winter Garden

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333 - What Didn't Go As Planned This Year

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332 - 3 Questions to Ask As You Evaluate Your Garden and Prepare for Next Season

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331 - Home Gardener's Guide to Soil Testing with Christina McInnis of SoilKit

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330 - Getting Back to Our Roots with Jill Winger, author of Old Fashioned On Purpose

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329 - Season Extension Methods: Covers, Hoops, & Hacks for Extending the Fall Garden into Winter

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328 - Garlic Challenges with Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening

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327 - Helen Atthowe - Fall Cover Crops for Different Soil Types

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326 - What to Plant NOW (When You Haven't Planned Your Fall Garden Yet)

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325 - The Case for Hybrids with Jill Ragan of Whispering Willow Farms and author of The Tiny but Mighty Farm

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324 - How to Plant Fall Crops in the Heat of Summer

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323 - How I Had the BEST Tomato Year Ever

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322 - Fall Gardening for Mental Health with Jen McDonald of Garden Girls

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321 - Small Scale Homesteading with Stephanie Thurow and Michelle Bruhn

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320 - Fall Gardening Q&A

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319 - Mid-Season Q&A

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318 - 3 Common Tomato Problems for the Beginning Gardener in the Summer

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317 - Victory Gardens Then and Now with Maggie Stuckey, author of The Container Victory Garden

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316 - New Irrigation Set-Up (4 types of drip systems, automation, & timer options)

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315 - Mid-Season Check-In: Observations & Lessons Learned

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314 - Plant Diseases, Critters, and Other Garden Problems with Susan Mulvihill, author of The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook

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313 - Pollination Problems: What to do when you see flowers but no fruit on squash, zucchini, and cucumbers

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312 - From Garden Work to Garden Enjoyment - Embracing the Seasons with Liz Zorab, author of The Seasoned Gardener

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311 - Container Companion Planting with Edible Crops with Pam Farley, author of The First Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening

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310 - Aphids: How to Control without Spraying

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309 - Planting by the Signs with Sarah L Hall, author of Sown in the Stars

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308 - Growing Kitchen Herbs: 5 Most Common Beginner Mistakes & How to Successfully Grow a Kitchen Herb Garden

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307 - 5 Medicinal Herbs to Plant Once and Grow and Use for Years

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306 - 3 Steps to Go from Plant Killer to Green Thumb with Nicole Burke of Gardenary

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305 - When to Plant and When to Wait

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304 - The Effects of Weather on Gardening with Meteorologist Ed Buckner

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303 - Green Beans: Beginner's Starter Guide

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302 - Vertical Trellis Orientation & How to Best Use Cattle Panel Trellises

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301 - Cucumbers: Beginner's Starter Guide

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300: Organic Amendments for Raised Beds and Containers with Shelby Devore of Farminence

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299 - Tomatoes: Beginner's Starter Guide

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298 - Greenhouse Gardening in the Spring

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297 - Potatoes: Beginner's Starter Guide

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296 - Seed Starting Q&A and Troubleshooting

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295 - Carrots: Beginner's Starter Guide

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294 - Year-Round Salad Greens

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293 - Lettuce: Beginner's Starter Guide

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292 - Best Tomatoes for Canning