Send us a textDee and Carol talk about winter plants for the garden, veggie cookbooks, chestnut trees, square foot gardening and more.For more info, check out our Substack newsletter.To watch us recording on YouTube, click here. (Even if you don’t regularly watch us on YouTube, we’d love it if yo...
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Dee and Carol talk about winter plants for the garden, veggie cookbooks, chestnut trees, square foot gardening and more.
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Question of the Week:
What about root washing before planting? Is there a benefit? Seems traumatic to the tree or shrub! Good to do, according to the Garden Professors and Garden Myths
Insect of the Week
Buffalo treehopper.
Flowers:
Christmas-y Plants for your Garden
Hellebores - The Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger
Red-twig dogwood (Cornus sericea) and Yellow-twig Dogwoods (Cornus sericea ‘Budd’s Yellow)
Any Hollies with Berries
Fancy Evergreens - The Conifer Society
Plants for the Winter Garden: Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to Add Interest in the Cold and Snow by Warren Leach (Amazon Link)
Vegetables:
Veggie Cookbooks including:
Six Seasons, A New Way With Vegetables, by Joshua McFadden (Amazon link)
and
Tender: A Cook and his Vegetable Patch, by Nigel Slater. (Amazon link)
On the Bookshelf:
Square Foot Gardening - Fourth Edition (Amazon link)
Dirt:
The American Chestnut: Finding full-grown trees is a holy grail for some and efforts to restore them
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