The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt Carol Michel, Dee Nash
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Are you ready to be converted to living a gardening life? Each week, join Carol Michel and Dee Nash, both passionate gardeners, authors, and long-time bloggers, as they chat over the garden fence about flowers, veggies, and all the best dirt on gardening. Carol and Dee have the audacity to call themselves gardenangelists, evangelists for gardening, and want everyone to dig in the dirt, sow a few seeds, and enjoy the simple pleasures and even a few pitfalls of a gardening life. If you are ready to live a gardening life or already live one this is one podcast you don’t want to miss.
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We Hope This Episode Brightens Your Spring
Dee and Carol talked about daffodils, new All-American Selections vegetables, a new book on gardening with bulbs and more.
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Flowers:
Daffodils!
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Van Engelen Bulbs
Dee's blog post about planting bulbs
Vegetables:
AAS Winners for 2024
Broccoli 'Purple Magic F1'
Broccoli 'Skytree F1'
Pepper 'Red Impact F1'
On the Bookshelf:
Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden by Jacqueline van der Kloet (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
'Firefly' Petunia
Rabbit Holes:
Quick Reference guides
Dorothy Childs Hogner
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
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Preparing, Planting, No Time for Pausing
Dee and Carol talk about the herb of the year, the vegetable of the year, a wonderful book about garden making, plus the latest on mulches. We both went down some interesting rabbit holes too!
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Flowers:
Yarrow, Herb of the Year
Veggies:
Year of the Squash, per National Garden Bureau
On the Bookshelf:
Garden Maker: Growing a Life of Beauty and Wonder with Flowers, by Christie Purifoy (Amazon)
Dirt:
Say "no" to cardboard for smothering weeds, the Garden Professors
Rabbit Holes:
Dee: Genexa OTC medications
Carol: Buckner Hollingsworth
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
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Happy Garden Chatter
Dee and Carol talk about growing pollinator-friendly plants from seeds, edimentals, a new book, and more.
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Flowers:
Pollinator-friendly plants from seed from Select Seeds
Veggies:
Grow some "edimentals", as described by Homes & Gardens.
On the Bookshelf:
The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer by Christina Chung of Fluent Garden (Amazon Link)
Her instagram page: Fluent.Garden
Dirt:
Monarch butterfly status from Monarch Watch
Baker Creek's purple tomato discontinues (currently on their FAQ page)
Rabbit Holes:
Eastern Red Cedars Wreak Havoc for Allergy Sufferers in Oklahoma!
C. Z. Guest and the swans of 5th avenue:
The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin (Amazon Link)
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal and a Swan Song for an Era by Lawrence Leamer (Amazon Link)
Carol's Substack article about C. Z. Guest
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube. -
Shoveling "Snowy" Toward Spring
Dee and Carol talk about growing fragrant flowers from seeds, growing onions and other alliums, a new book on organic vegetable gardening, and more.
For complete show notes and more links, check out our Substack newsletter!
Links:
Flowers:
John Scheepers' Kitchen Garden Seeds List of Fragrant Flowers from Seed.
Veggies:
'Creme Brulee', an All-America Selection of shallots
Article on how to grow leeks
On the Bookshelf:
The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food: A Crop-by-Crop Reference for 62 Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, and Herbs by Tanya Denckla Cobb. (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Article about control ticks on deer
Article about how lone star ticks find their prey
Rabbit Holes:
Carol: Mrs. Edward Harding
Dee: What We Sow by Jennifer Jewell (Amazon Link)
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube. -
Kale, Kale, Kale, The Early Sounds of Spring in Our Gardens
Dee and Carol talk about Verbenas, early spring leaf and root crops, a lovely book on hummingbirds, and more.
For more information and more links, check out our Substack newsletter.
Flowers:
'Bampton' seeds from Hayefield
Native Verbenas:
Verbena hastata (American Blue Vervain)
Verbena stricta (Hoary Vervain)
Verbena halei (Texas Vervain)
Veggies:
Old episode on winter vs. summer radishes
On the Bookshelf: The Hummingbirds’ Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings by Sy Montgomery
Dirt:
GMO Tomato available to home gardeners. Norfolk Healthy Products…
Book Authors Talk Gardening, sponsored by the National Garden Bureau on March 7th at 7pm - a free event! Registration Link.
Rabbit Holes:
Margaret Roach’s article/discussion with Don Tipping of siskiyou seeds.
Carol's Substack article about Kate L. Brewster.
Carol's blog post about her plant labeling advice.
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube. -
From Hostas to George Harrison, Gardening on Our Minds
Dee and Carol talk about the National Garden Bureau's Year of the Hosta, growing lettuce and peas, George Harrison's topiary garden, and more.
For complete show notes and additional info, check out our Substack newsletter.
Links:
Espoma products, also on Amazon
Flowers:
National Garden Bureau's Year of the Hosta
On the bookshelf: Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science by Catherine McNeur (Amazon)
Dirt:
George Harrison's Topiary Garden
Rabbit Holes:
Dorothy Giles, author of The Little Kitchen Garden
Capote and the Swans on FX
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful find!
Came across Dee on IG a few weeks ago and began the podcast and it is truly wonderful. Both women are a delight. I’ve learned so much and I’m going back to listen to all the old podcasts and it has made each day brighter.
Always Educational and entertaining
These ladies share their gardening experiences with fun banter that I always look forward to. The topics are varied and the gardenangelists are honest about the triumphs and challenges that come with gardening, so refreshing! These are the gardening friends we all wish we had!
Tea with good friends
Or maybe it’s the feeling of gabbing with your favorite neighbor over the fence as you work in your garden. You trade stories, seeds, pieces of your favorite scented Pelargonium, history, and friendship.
I usually catch up with the hosts on the weekend. They always freely share their knowledge and wisdom. I love tuning in!