Growing Greener

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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.

  1. 2 DAGE SIDEN

    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.

  2. 4. MAR.

    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.

  3. 25. FEB.

    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.

  4. 18. FEB.

    A Tree's Perspective on Pruning

    Is your pruning aimed only at gratifying your aesthetics and needs?  Chris Roddick also views pruning from the plants' perspective, promoting techniques that enhance their growth patterns and ecological function as well.

    29 min.

  5. 11. FEB.

    O Canada ¬– A Garden Activist Enriches and Beautifies Lawns with Local Prairie Flora

    Travel with Growing Greener to Winnipeg, Manitoba to learn how Ash Burkowski is collecting seed from local prairie remnants to raise indigenous grasses and wildflowers that can be integrated into lawns, restoring populations of native flora while relieving homeowners of the need for fertilization and irrigation and reducing the need for mowing.

    29 min.

  6. 4. FEB.

    Creating Crops that Thrive in Your Garden

    A replay of a February 2024 conversation in which Joseph Lofthouse, author of "Landrace Gardening" details how anyone can create genetically diverse vegetable and fruit crops that flourish in the local climate and soil with minimal inputs in just three years.

    29 min.

  7. 28. JAN.

    Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center combines energy generation with agriculture for a double harvest

    Byron Kominek knew the family farm needed a more profitable crop than hay to survive.  By installing  photovoltaic panels and growing crops underneath, he now supplies electricity to 300 neighboring houses while also producing food and hosting educational programs at what is now a popular learning center.

    29 min.

  8. 21. JAN.

    The Missing Piece of Your Ecological Garden

    Liz Koziol of the University of Kansas shares hew work with mycorrhizal fungi and native plants, and how a properly designed fungal inoculant can make your ecological garden more biodiverse, quicker to establish itself and more resistant to weeds.

    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.

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  • Skaber
    Tom Christopher
  • Aktive år
    2019 - 2026
  • Episoder
    345
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    ©2019 Thomas Christopher
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    Growing Greener

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