Episode 137: Listen here!

It’s our Spring FINALE! Maggie and Dave are buzzing in the studio today as they take a look back at the last few weeks of great guests and gardening content. In today’s intro, Maggie and Dave catch-up on their “behind schedule” gardens and the slow start to the season in Manitoba.

Dave also comes to the studio with a few exciting, surprise plants for Maggie, including:

Mermaid’s Tail Cabbage discussed in Episode 123 with Petra Mann from Fruition Seeds
Purple Toothache Plant
Salvia Sage

You can expect a few Grow Guide episodes throughout the summer and then the official kick-off to the Fall season will begin in September 2022. But if you need more Grow Guide in your life before then, we encourage you to listen back to some of our 100+ past episodes.

Maggie’s Fav Thing: The Fairy Gardens spotted on a recent weekend trip to Minneapolis, MN.

Dave’s Fav Thing: The large variety of birds visiting Sage Garden Greenhouses this Spring.

Listener Question of The Week: “Anyone plant their potatoes or any seeds yet? I’m afraid it’ll all rot because the soil is so saturated.” — Stefan Victor Nicoloff

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This week’s guest:

Kevin Espiritu, founder of Epic Gardening

About Kevin Espiritu:

Kevin created Epic Garden in 2013 with the mission of helping 10,000,000 people around the world learn how to grow plants. The digital brand now has 1.5 million YouTube subscribers and has become a resource to gardeners everywhere, covering a range of organic gardening topics. Kevin also hosts a daily gardening podcast, Epic Gardening Daily.

This episode covers:

A look at what Epic Gardening has been up to since Kevin was last on The Grow Guide in 2019
What it’s like gardening year round in California
Epic Gardening’s Northern content contributor, Chris Chung from @fluent.garden
Kevin’s DIY soil recipe for building new garden beds
Kevin’s suggestions for reusing single-use gardening products
Kevin’s greywater DIY solution for using laundry water in the garden
Kevin’s DIY ways for vertical gardening
Kevin’s must-have gardening gear

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