100 episodes
Upside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast Christy & Edith
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5.0 • 38 Ratings
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Hi! We are Christy and Edith, backyard gardeners from Colorado. Lately, we have noticed more and more people picking our brains for tips and trouble-shooting about gardening. We think it’s kinda funny, because we’re not experts. We just learned a lot about gardening from the mistakes we made along the way.
Every week we’ll share our most epic garden failures and our biggest garden lessons. Most gardens are the result of trial and error. To reduce your chance of failure, join us! And learn why you should plant your tulips butt side down. Awarded Best New Podcast of Colorado!
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119. To All The Plants We've Killed This Spring
Spring is back! We are back! Edith is back! Our sore backs are back! And we have lots to share!
Find out what is growing in our gardens and what we have killed this Spring
What is the safest non-organic vegetables to buy in the grocery store? Edith has all the deets and beets.
We spill the beans on our favorite mistakes from last year: Which plant only produced one solitary veggie? And which plant produced WAY too much?
Discover what new plants we are growing this year and why one new seed packet will make bath time lots of fun.
Learn a bunch of our favorite and easy Spring garden tips.
Enjoy TWO NEW POD PLAYS
Plus: Letters from the Mail Bag (Ring! Ring!), a beautiful inspiration, and a shout out to “moist”. A “humorfull” and informative episode for sure!
Thanks so much to the Garden Party - we couldn't do Upside Down Tulips without you! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards!
How is your garden doing? - click here to write to us!
Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merch!
Visit our website for pix, good info and Upside Down Dictionary
Learn How to Winter Sow!
Don't Know Your Zone? Find it HERE
Find Your Last and First Frost Date -
BONUS: The Little Seed Pot
It's almost Spring! And don't worry, Upside Down Tulips will be back soon with an all new episode that celebrates our favorite mistakes of last year and our dreams for this year's garden. PLUS: Christy and Edith are gathering their best tips and tricks for your Spring Garden.
Until then, here is a little something for all you gardeners out there: A little Pod Play about the adventures of the LIttle Seed Pot. Enjoy!
Thanks so much to the Garden Party - we couldn't do Upside Down Tulips without you! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards!
How is your garden doing? - click here to write to us!
Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merch!
Visit our website for pix, good info and Upside Down Dictionary
Learn How to Winter Sow!
Don't Know Your Zone? Find it HERE -
BONUS: Gardening Ghosts of Christmas Past
We have put down our hoes and, like our garden, are settling down for long winter’s nap.
BUT! Before we are carried off to a deep hibernation filled with dreams of next year’s garden, we wanted to spread some holiday cheer and share with you our favorite holiday pod plays just for the gardener, the wanna-be gardener and anyone who considers well-aged manure a thoughtful gift.
An inspiring “Night Before Christmas”
The kookiest “Gift of the Magi”
A funny solution to all your holiday cooking
A Gardener's Christmas Carol
The perfect rom-com movie
12 Days of craziness
A New Year’s parade of wine!
Happy Holidays and see you in 2024!
Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards!
Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merch!
Visit our website for pix, good info and Upside Down Dictionary
Click here to write to us!
Learn How to Winter Sow!
Don't Know Your Zone? Find it HERE
Find Your Persephone Period -
118. Good News for You and Good Night To Our 2023 Gardens
The garden is wrapping up for the year, pumpkins have been turned to jack o’ lanterns, green tomatoes are in the attic and onions are a’ walkin. So, let’s celebrate all the garden good news stories of the year! Christy and Lindsey share good news about:
Updates on Lahaina Banyan Tree
The benefits of urban gardening
The discovery of a holly tree in Brazil
A gardener who has created over 300 community gardens
A pear tree that refuses to die,
A whole new spin on rooftop gardening
How mushrooms can protect trees
And what renewable resource is working great in Ireland
Plus we have pod plays that take you to the depths of the underworld and the heights of leaf piles! Thanks to you all for joining us in our 2023 gardens!
Find Your Persephone Period
Want to see Lindsey in a play? Coal Country at Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company
Thanks so much to the Garden Party - we couldn't do Upside Down Tulips without you! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards!
How is your garden doing? - click here to write to us!
Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merch!
Visit our website for pix, good info and Upside Down Dictionary
Learn How to Winter Sow!
Don't Know Your Zone? Find it HERE -
117.- What’s Up Witches? It’s Thyme for Witchy Herbs - An Upside Down Halloween
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Kathryn and Christy get in costume to celebrate Halloween and the end of the garden season!
We dig into our herb book and get witchy with it! We share natural witchy herbal remedies from our gardens commonly used to offer some relief as we head into flu and cold season. Learn how to make all kinds of soothing tea from basil to echinacea to oregano to thyme! Why is garlic so prized in the healing world? And why we putting stuffed turkeys in our bathtub?
Pod Plays? Yup, we have stuffed this Halloween special with all the fan favorites that we only play during Halloween: The Killing Frost, Stranger Garden Things, Ichabod Grain and Silence of the Lamb’s Ear. The Squirrel is back destroying our pumpkins! And we have a BRAND NEW Halloween Pod Play just for the gardener.
A very special episode with shout outs to moist, mucus and intestinal worms. Just the way we like it. And we hope you do, too – Halloween is not the same if we can’t be witch you! (Insert cackle here!)
Want to know mor about BASIL? Click here!
Want to know more about GARLIC?:Click here!
Thanks so much to the Garden Party - we couldn't do Upside Down Tulips without you! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards!
How is your garden doing? - click here to write to us!
Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merch!
Visit our website for pix, good info and Upside Down Dictionary
Learn How to Winter Sow!
Don't Know Your Zone? Find it HERE -
116. Who Says You Can’t Fool Mother Nature? We Show You How!
Asters and marigolds are blooming, finches are enjoying sunflowers - and the harvest is finally coming in. We welcome Fall! And we scheme how to squeeze in a few extra weeks before Mother Nature decides to fully blanket us in snow. So, Kathryn and Christy have curated some of our favorite tips and tricks to fool Mother Nature. And not just in the Fall, but in ALL four seasons.
How watering helps when Jack Frost is a’comin?
The ins and outs of covering: What materials? When? Why uncover? How to anchor?
What are the best plants to snatch away from Mother Nature – and how?
How to fool Mother Nature in the winter with used milk jugs?
Build a wall of water in early spring to get a head start!
Don’t let Mother Nature hail on your parade in the summer.
Plus: A Squirrel Lawyer send Upside Down Tulips a cease and desist letter. Christy did it again and forgot about produce in the attic. Edith makes a surprise appearance. Mailbag (Ring, Ring!) delivers a letter and gives us hope and Alex Trebek schools us all. Lots of fun and info!
OnHilarious. Dynamic. Shocking. See Kathryn Gray, Michael Moore and Karen Slack in THE MINUTES directed by Christy Montour-Larson at Curious Theatre Company!
A Tapestry of Great Hits! See Leslie O'Carrol and Linsday Pierece in BEAUTIFUL, THE CAROL KING MUSICAL at the Arvada Center!
Thanks so much to the Garden Party - we couldn't do Upside Down Tulips without you! Support UDT by joining our Garden Party and get fun rewards!
How is your garden doing? - click here to write to us!
Get a UDT Coffee Mug or other cool Merch!
Visit our website for pix, good info and Upside Down Dictionary
Learn How to Winter Sow!
Don't Know Your Zone? Find it HERE
Customer Reviews
What a spectacular show
Whether or not you like gardening, this show is a delight. (Hopefully you’re at least gardening-curious.)
The production is first rate. The recording and editing are effortless. The theme song (and its occasional variations) has the perfect amount of eye-wink. And the planning and research is top-notch.
Wait, you want humor? No, no, sorry, there’s absolutely no humor here, as gardening is a sober pursuit, to be undertaken only with the gravest of dispositions. You shall not hear a single pun, and certainly no innuendo at the mention of zucchini.
And the pod-plays—featuring Denver’s finest actors—are just spot on.
This podcast has changed my life.
I discovered this podcast in summer 2021. I’d been working from home for over a year because of Covid, and was gardening because I had the time, and it was a very zen activity for me. But I knew so little! Christy and Edith provide “infotainment” in the best way. I’ve listened and re-listened to every episode, and used it as a guide for experimentation in the garden and further research.
Happy Curmudgeon
Don’t tell the Department of Labor, but $2 of my monthly pandemic unemployment is now going to the delightful makers of “Upside Down Tulips.” By teaching me how to grow my own food, they will be saving me much more than $2 a month, so the state can just think of it as an investment with many happy returns.
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