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The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt

The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt

著者： 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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  • Perpetual Spring and Autumn Topics

    Perpetual Spring and Autumn Topics
    2026/10/21
    Send us Fan MailFor more info, check out our Substack newsletter.To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. Question of the Week:How do you grow figs in the Midwest, Carol? Old Blog post: My Midwest Figs and How I Grow Them.From a listener: a question for Dee and Carol. Is there any way to kill Canadian thistle without wiping out all my landscaping? My landscaper says pre-emergent chemicals won’t work on it.Thank you for your help. Linda GranatHe’s right, pre-emergents don’t work well. Carol has used carbolic acid spray (Captain Jack’s Deadweed Brew) on hers and it knocks it back, but she still just pulls them when she sees them. Plus that is nasty stuff the kills any plant in touches so be careful!Insect of the Week:Insects that like to come inside when it gets colder: lady bugs, squash bugs, spiders, etc. What do you do about them? (Carol kills them.)“There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” AnonymousFlowers:Let’s revisit the concept of Perpetual Spring as Dee plans more of her gardens.Something blooming in every season.Popularized by: Elizabeth Lawrence, Canon Henry Ellacombe, Sir Francis BaconThe basic idea is to always have something in bloom.Keep a list of what’s blooming and when.Note when you don’t have much bloomSeek out flowers that will bloom during those timesPlant those flowersFavorite winter flowers:Snowdrops (not for Dee, however)Christmas rose - Helleborus nigerReticulated irisesJapanese anemonesFall-blooming crocuses, and really early spring-flowering crocusesEarly blooming witch-hazels - often blooming in February for Carol“All plants are edible. Some only once.” — Gothic / Dark Botanical SayingVegetables:Spooky Vegetable Decor and Snacks“A pumpkin in pies we all of us prize; And surely no pumpkin a boy would affright. But a jack-lantern light is a terrible sight. And scares all the children that walk out at night. ~L. Frank Baum, Father Goose, His Book, 1899 On the Bookshelf:The Cozy Commonplace Book by Miranda Mills (Amazon, Bookshop)“When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling; When wild, ugly faces we carved on its skin, Glaring out through the dark, with a candle within...” — John Greenleaf Whittier (”The Pumpkin”)Dirt:Cutting up butternut squash. Be careful! If we looked hard enough, we could probably find statistics about how many people go to the ER after injuring themselves trying to cut a butternut squash open.“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.” — George MeredithRabbit Holes:Dee:Carol: Latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing is Sister Rose Agnes Greenwell.Our Diaries, Ourselves: How Diarists Chronicle Their Lives and Document the World by Betsy Rubiner (Amazon, Bookshop)Purdue’s expedition to find Amelia Earhart’s plane! I won’t tell the ending, you can look online for the info.A Garden to Visit:Continuing with our cemetery theme: The Secret Life of a Cemetery by Benoît Gallot (Author), Daniel Casanave (Illustrator), Arielle Aaronson (Translator) (Amazon, Bookshop)Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.On YouTube.
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    45 分
  • Fall is for Refreshed Containers, Pumpkins and More

    Fall is for Refreshed Containers, Pumpkins and More
    2026/10/14

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    Dee and Carol talk about plants for fall containers, pumpkin care, a new book on houseplants, and more.

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    Insect of the Week:

    We decided to feature milkweed bugs, and other insects you’ll find on your milkweed especially this time of year. Find out more from the Univ. of Illinois extension.

    Flowers:

    What would we put in a fall container? We have quite the list, or rather Dee does. I offered. few plants she forgot. Do you have a special fall combo for your containers? Tell us about it in the comments!

    Vegetables:

    We talked about how to care for pumpkins on the porch so they won’t rot out before Halloween. What do you do to keep your pumpkins from rotting out too early or becoming a critter’s dinner?

    Also, check out the new world record for a giant pumpkin, on Instagram

    On the Bookshelf:

    More Than Just a Plant: How to Care for Your Plants as They Care For You by Krystal Duran, Creator of PlantswithKrystal (Amazon, Bookshop). The author is on Instagram with 1.1 million followers! Thank you to Quarto for review copies.

    Dirt:

    Uranium glassware for watering? On Instagram

    Rabbit Holes:

    Dee is watching Widow’s Bay on Apple TV,

    Carol has been reading books including some that take place after World War II, including Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson and The Dancing Bear by Frances Faviell (1954).

    A Garden to Visit:

    Visit an arboretum that people are dying to get into… cemeteries! Many of them are listed as arboretums because of their beautiful trees, including Cave Hill in Louisville, Spring Grove in Cincinnati, Crown Hill in Indianapolis, etc. Is there a cemetery arboretum around you?

    Thank You!

    As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.

    And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment.

    Hit the like button to let us know you were here!

    Support the show

    On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
    On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
    On YouTube.
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    46 分
  • Dig Now to Be Delighted in the Spring

    Dig Now to Be Delighted in the Spring
    2026/10/07

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    Carol and Dee talk about what you can plant in the fall, winter squash (again) and a commonplace book.

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    To watch us on YouTube, click here.

    Flowers:

    What can you plant in the fall?

    Vegetables:

    We got another opinion on Winter Squash from Autumn Prairie Pumpkins, LLC

    On the Bookshelf:

    The Country Commonplace Book by Miranda Mills (Bookshop, Amazon) and The Cozy Commonplace Book (Bookshop, Amazon).

    Dirt:

    Have you ever heard of Birth Month Herbs. W

    Rabbit Holes:

    An Instagram post with one of the best readings of Wendell Berry’s poem The Peace of Wild Things

    Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Violet Stevenson. .

    A Garden to Visit:

    Scott Arboretum,

    Thank You!

    As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.

    And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment.

    Support the show

    On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
    On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
    On YouTube.
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    39 分
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