Growing Greener

Tom Christopher
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Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.

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    Maine's Wild Seed Project Offers Education and an Example of Nationwide Significance

    In this week's Growing Greener Heather McCargo, founder of the Wild Seed Project, describes its programs to encourage gardeners to grow native plants from wild-collected seeds to preserve genetic diversity in the garden and beyond, and how McCargo has embraced the evolution of her personal garden from meadow to biodiverse woodland.

    29 min

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    Chemical Warfare from Invasive Plants

    One of the ways that invasive plants displace indigenous floras is "allelopathy."  In a conversation first broadcast in February 2024, Dr. Susan Kalisz of the University of Tennessee Knoxville describes how many introduced plants actually poison the soil so that indigenous species cannot germinate or flourish in their former homes.

    29 min

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    Using Genetics to Avoid Spraying in the Vegetable Garden

    Selecting disease-resistant cultivars is an essential tool for avoiding the use of pesticides in the vegetable garden.  Plant pathologist Nicole Gauthier of the University of Kentucky explains how to identify cultivars appropriate to your region and your garden, and why "tolerance" may serve you as well as "resistance."

    29 min

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    Make Your Lawn a Low-Maintenance Contributor to Biodiversity and Landscape Beauty

    As Dan Jaffe Wilder Wilder says "you can grow a lawn which is a whole bunch of green stuff.  Or you can grow a lawn that is a whole bunch of low-growing green stuff with some yellow, some blue, some white, some pink and some red mixed in. Which do you choose? "  Join the conversation with this native plant expert and learn how you can make your lawn not only colorful but also easier to maintain and supportive of the local wildlife and native flora.

    29 min

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    A Gardener's Introduction to Fungi and Their Essential Support for Plants

    Estimates of fungi diversity range into the millions of species, yet the vast majority remain unknown.  What is clear, says mycologist Gabriela D'Elia, is that your garden plants depend on the services provided to them by the indigenous fungi.

    29 min

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    A Brazilian Genius of the last Century Created Invaluable Lessons for Today's Ecological Gardeners

    James Lord speaks of his mentor and inspiration Roberto Burle Marx, the painter, sculptor, musician, and botanist who found in Brazil's native plants the basis for a new style of landscape architecture and a language to celebrate the distinctive beauty of his homeland.

    29 min

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    A British Horticultural Ecologist Challenges the U.S. Consensus

    Citing European studies, British horticultural ecologist James Hitchmough, a leader of the ecological gardening movement in his country, rejects the intrinsic superiority of native plants over exotic garden imports for supporting insect diversity in the garden.

    29 min

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    Balancing your account in the soil seed bank

    A square foot of topsoil typically hosts thousands of dormant seeds deposited by previous floras.  Nathan Lambstrom of Lambstrom Garden Ecology discusses his research into how this "soil seed bank" can enhance or derail ecological restoration, and how to manage your "account" to benefit your garden.

    29 min
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Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.

Informations

  • Créateur
    Tom Christopher
  • Années d’activité
    2019 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    350
  • Classement
    Tout public
  • Copyright
    ©2019 Thomas Christopher
  • Site Web de l’émission
    Growing Greener

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