63 episodes
The Helpful Gardeners Golden Acre Home and Garden
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4.9 • 10 Ratings
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Welcome to the Helpful Gardeners, a weekly podcast diving into the home and garden topics you want to learn more about. We hope to inform, inspire, and bring the fun as two friends who work together and go wild over gardening. Colin is a certified horticulturist with decades of experience working in landscaping, gardening and houseplants in various climactic zones. Brandi is a beginner with a passion to ask questions.
Subscribe to catch new episodes every Sunday!
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Gardening with Grass W/ Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose of the The Prairie Gardener Go-to Series!
This week, we're visited by two of the coolest ladies gardening in Southern Alberta; Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose! They are the coauthors of the popular "Prairie Gardeners How To" series! In a digital world full of general information, their books provide specific knowledge for gardening in climates like Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Plus, everything they write about is based on their own experience including the photographs taken in their very own gardens!
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Ground Cover - How to Benefit from it in your Garden
We've got a lot of ground to cover this week... ha ha ha
All kidding aside, there's a lot of benefits to utilizing ground cover in your garden! Together, lets explore mulch, fabric, rock, and straw. We'll talk about how you can use it, how much to buy, and how to maintain it. Plus, Colin has a great garden hack for soaker hoses in your garden to actually conserve water!
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I Bought a Home... How do I Tackle a Garden?
Are you a moving into a new home and not sure how to approach the garden? One of the helpful gardeners just bought a home and is not sure how to approach their new garden! Learn how to tackle lawn, existing structures/plants, and where to begin.
Visit the shownotes for links from today's episode, and other fun extras!
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Thank you so much for supporting our podcast and for making the world a more planty place. Please subscribe, leave a rating or review and listen in for new gardening discussions every week!
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Enjoying Nature in your Own Backyard W/ Myrna Pearman
If you build it, nature will come. No matter what type of garden you have, whether it's in an established neighbourhood or newly built in the suburbs, you can enjoy nature from your very own backyard. Learn how to attract birds, including hummingbirds, to your garden!
Myrna is a biologist, author and nature photographer living on the south shore of Sylvan Lake, Alberta. She was born in Rymbey, Alberta and developed a love of nature at a young age.
Myrna is the editor of the Red Deer River Naturalist, writes a magazine column for The Gardener and writes a monthly nature photo essay in the Red Deer Advocate (Red Deer Advocate). She is also the resident naturalist for Mother Nature's Bird Seed.
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Gardening from Seed: Flower Power
Rounding out our Seed Starting Mini Series is a look into growing flowers from seed! In many ways, this will be a total 180 degree shift from growing veggies and fruit. Flowers aren’t targeted as much by bugs and disease, they benefit from deadheading, and they’re grown more for aesthetic purposes rather than consumption.
Visit the shownotes for links from today's episode, and other fun extras!
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CONNECT WITH US
Thank you so much for supporting our podcast and for making the world a more planty place. Please subscribe, leave a rating or review and listen in for new gardening discussions every week!
Subscribe to our show on Spotify, Apple, and Google
Leave an anonymous voicemail and be featured on the show!
Instagram / Facebook
Email us info@goldenacre.ca (SUBJECT: PODCAST)
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Gardening from Seed: Ground Dwellers - Squash, strawberries, and more.
This week, we're crouching down to explore all those fruits and veggies that grow close to the ground. These ground dwellers include Broccoli, squash, kohlrabi, and even strawberries! Learn more about how use the entire squash plant in cooking, a hack to protect pumpkins from pests, and we have a surprise melon taste test!
Visit the shownotes for links from today's episode, and other fun extras!
TIMECODES
08:20 Seed Varieties
24:20 Importance of Spacing
26:46 Start inside?
32:37 Soil and Amendments
36:22 Fertilizer
37:40 Cold Hardy?
38:53 Equipment Requirements
41:32 Bugs, Disease, Predators
43:02 Harvest Options
45:00 Surprise Melon Taste Test!
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CONNECT WITH US
Thank you so much for supporting our podcast and for making the world a more planty place. Please subscribe, leave a rating or review and listen in for new gardening discussions every week!
Subscribe to our show on Spotify, Apple, and Google
Instagram / Facebook
Email us info@goldenacre.ca (SUBJECT: PODCAST)
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Customer Reviews
Great podcast
Colin and Brandi are a great team. I am excited for this podcast and all the knowledge and fun they will bring!
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