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  • Mary, Mary... Quite contrary How does your garden grow? Well, now that I have a master gardener for a co-host, hopefully my garden, and YOURS! will thrive. Join me and Elizabeth Skindelien - Master Gardener to learn all about gardening. And please, if you have questions you’d like answered on the podcast, email them to lewis.mary.e@gmail.com or liz@greenrootsfarm.org
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  • Weeds - how to mitigate them OR encourage growth of the beneficial ones

    Weeds - how to mitigate them OR encourage growth of the beneficial ones
    2024/06/21
    In this episode we discuss weeds, both mitigation, and propagation. Some weeds are a problem, but some have beneficial properties You can find us on Facebook, and also join the Facebook group. If you have a gardening question, please email Mary at lewis.mary.e@gmail.com or Liz at liz@greenrootsfarm.org 00:00 Mary Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Well, that all depends, but that's not really what this podcast is about. We're here to help you grow your garden. Welcome to Mary and the Master Gardener. Today, Liz the Master Gardener is going to talk about how to keep weeds down or suppressed or gone, preferably. 00:24 Yes, as best as I can, as best as I can guide. Okay. Michelle Bellin asks, what's the best way to prevent weeds from taking over? Go ahead, Liz, tell me all the secrets. I don't know if there are any real secrets to weeds, but so here's a few methods that I use, and then there's methods that, right, 00:54 that are available to everyone. I don't use chemicals. I don't use herbicides. I don't use anything like that. I, I pull weeds. That's my method. But there's a lot of methods that you can use to get ahead of it, right? So so it's a big garden if you're doing vegetables, you know, using tilling sometimes can be 01:24 the best method at the beginning of the season. But if you're trying not to disrupt the ground too much, the number one would be mulching. So mulching using natural mulch, right? So straw, wood chips, shredded leaves, you can buy mulch at the store. It blocks sunlight, it prevents weeds from germinating and coming up. 01:53 you can also use weed barriers, right? So they make the landscape fabric that you can use. And it does a pretty good job, you know, of allowing air to come through, which plastic doesn't. So I don't recommend using plastic because it kills everything that's under it, right? It's gonna kill the worms. It's gonna kill all of this lovely ecosystem that you have going. So weed barrier is another 02:22 method and I've done that in my garden before. I go back and forth between that because it can be helpful especially if you're doing a lot on your own. But I think the number one is going to be mulching. Okay. Or staying ahead of it, right? Yes. I know it's the simplest and it's the most difficult. 02:48 because I always forget to lift with my legs and I always lift with my back and then the next morning I'm in pain and wondering what I did wrong. Yep, even though you know exactly what you did wrong, we all do it. It's so dumb, but we all do it. Right, yep, yep. Okay, so I have things to share on this too. In our newly built greenhouse, it's, I think it's 40 by... 03:16 18, 40 feet by 18 feet or 40 feet by 20 feet. We aren't necessarily gonna be growing anything in the actual dirt of the greenhouse. It's gonna be more seed starting and hanging pots and things like that. So my husband took the bags that our chicken feed comes in, cut them so they're flat, and he's laid those down in there to kill all the grasses and weeds that are still coming up because it was field. It was... 03:45 before the greenhouse was built where it is. And so we're not so concerned about screwing up the ecosystem in that soil because we don't intend to grow anything in that soil. And someone suggested to him that he use the feed bags because they're gonna cover the dirt, the sun won't be able to get to any seeds in the ground and nothing will grow anymore. So we're trying that for the greenhouse. I wouldn't try that for... 04:15 for a garden outside because it will ruin the soil. Right, yeah, that's true. So there's other methods too that are, I mean, go find some cardboard that you have laying around your house and you can put the box, unfold it, put it down, and that it allows oxygen to come through, it allows minimal sunlight, but it actually can be good bedding to create 04:45 different growth. That way you're not having to go and disrupt the soil in any way. You're just kind of creating a new layer, right? A new start. Right. The other thing that I wanted to mention is in Minnesota, I don't know if this grows everywhere, but I really noticed when we started our gardening 20 something years ago, there is a weed that grows in Minnesota called purslane. 05:13 It is a weed, but it's also really good for you. You can eat it. Yes, you can. And I've read up on it and it actually has more nutritional value than spinach does. Yes, it's very good. You can see the, the, you know, how the purslane leaves get kind of chunky. Like you can see the moisture in them and they do, they do really well. So that's kind of a natural ground cover, right? And there's. 05:44 ground covers that you can plant or plant spacing, right? Plant spacing and plant planning, right? So planting certain plants next to each other, companion planting, one might shade out the other so that one will grow on, I have chamomile all over and I have mint in a lot of the garden to kind of be that weed barrier, right? ...
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  • Permaculture - How you can use permaculture practices to improve your gardening

    Permaculture - How you can use permaculture practices to improve your gardening
    2024/06/21
    In this episode we discuss the rain Minnesota has been dealing with of late, and permaculture - what it is and why it's important. You can find us on Facebook, and also join the Facebook group. If you have a gardening question, please email Mary at lewis.mary.e@gmail.com or Liz at liz@greenrootsfarm.org 00:00 Mary, Mary, quite contrary. How does your garden grow? Well, that all depends. But that's not really what this podcast is about. We're here to help you grow your garden. Welcome to Mary and the Master Gardener. Good morning, Liz. How are you on this not raining morning? Well, I'm doing all right. Hoping to get outside a little bit. Yeah, my son was out shifting all the quote unquote 00:28 dry wood to the end of the woodshed toward the wood burning boiler thingy we have for our wood for our furnace this morning because it was just dry enough to get on it because we have wet wood that needs to get moved over there and he was like I'm going to go do it now before it starts raining again. Smart. So why don't we chat about rain and what it is doing to whatever we have planted. 00:57 and why rain is beneficial, but what happens when there's too much. 01:02 Yes. 01:06 So what happens? Yeah, what happens when there's too much? Well, depending on where your plants are located, right? So if they're in a lower lying area coming down off of a hill, you're going to get a lot more water. But depending on how you're able to kind of secure drainage in a way. 01:32 And then maybe doing a little bit of protection too for some plants. Um, like my garden, half of it is kind of underwater right now. So trying to get just some of it is just allowing it to try to rebound naturally. 01:53 But then also making sure that you can put things down on top of it to help with some absorption, but some of it is taking your hits. Yeah, and some of our plants are doing great. Our onions are doing great. I'm guessing that's because onions like water because they need to make that big fat bulb. Right, and there are a lot of water-loving 02:23 plants that will do very well in this, right? So we've got the humidity, we've got a lot of rain, and then we are getting some intense sun when it is not raining. So a lot of perennial flowers love this. All of mine are doing magnificent, but that also means some of the weeds are doing just as well. Yes, gotta love those weeds. 02:52 They don't care. They're gonna grow whether it rains or it suns or it pours or it snows sometimes even. So yeah. Weds are great. Okay, so I know that we have little tomato seedlings in. They've been in for, oh my goodness, at least three weeks and they are pretty much stalled out and they're starting to yellow. 03:19 Does this mean we're gonna lose our tomato plants this year? No, not completely. If they're getting just too much water, if they're just getting too much, but I would start by maybe putting some mulch or something around it. And you can even do some of those, you know, like a, like a clutch to kind of cover them and protect them from some of that direct, that direct rain coming onto it. 03:47 And it'll give it a little bit of protection then from some of the pooling water as well. But take some of the leaves off, if you can, the lowest. That'll help. That'll help it a bit. And then yeah, allowing it to try to get some protection in those places. But I don't think they're lost. I don't think they're lost. Tomatoes like it too. They like the heat. They like the humidity. 04:18 Okay, good. I had looked at the AccuWeather forecast, you know, the long range forecast a week and a half ago. AccuWeather said that a week and a half ago was when all this constant daily rain was going to stop and it was going to get hot and dry. And they lied. I also talked to a lady from the old farmer's almanac on my other podcast weeks ago. 04:45 And I asked her what the forecast was according to the old farmer's almanac for our area. And she said, hot and dry summer. Today or tomorrow. Tomorrow is the first day of summer. Um, I'm hoping that she's correct because this, this daily rain is, is not really great for anybody right now. Yeah. And hopefully there's enough time in between that, that it's able to absorb into the soil, but yeah, it's. 05:15 It is good for plants that are trying to transplant or grow right now, but if it's too much, it's going to drown them. Yeah. Our garden is a part of our business. It is mostly my husband's favorite thing on earth to do, to decompress from work. And so he's going to keep going at it all summer long. He's going to do everything he can to make it go. 05:45 But I'm not going to lie, I'm very happy that the garden is not our sole source of income because I suspect we would not be making a lot of money this year. 05:56 Yeah, I think part of this too is, is, you know, kind of what we talked about in the last episode was like that being able to adapt. So what is kind of coming and then learning, it's a learning curve, right? You're you're ...
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  • Mary and the Master Gardener

    Mary and the Master Gardener
    2024/06/20
    Learn about Liz, the Master Gardener. How she got into gardening and what inspired her to help other gardeners. You can find us on Facebook, and also join the Facebook group. If you have a gardening question, please email Mary at lewis.mary.e@gmail.com or Liz at liz@greenrootsfarm.org 00:00 Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Well, that all depends, but that's not really what this podcast is about. We're here to help you grow your garden. Welcome to Mary and the Master Gardener. Today is the inaugural episode of Mary and the Master Gardener and the Master Gardener is Liz. Good morning, Liz. Good morning, Mary. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thank you for wanting to do this with me. I'm so excited. 00:29 So you are a master gardener. How did that happen? How did you get into it? Well, I learned about it from my mother who herself was a master gardener. And I didn't have a green thumb when I was younger to save my life. But as I watched her, I was always very envious of what she could grow and how beautiful she made it. And she always did all of this incredible. 00:58 giant work for such a little woman. And I kind of, once I moved out to a farm, decided that I wanted to be able to do something like that as well. And there were plants here that I couldn't identify. And so I think the idea may have been a little selfish in my own understanding, but it was also to be able to become good at what I do now. 01:27 So the process is going through your, in Minnesota, going through your county, your U of M extension office, and every county has one. You can sign up online. They, at the time when I did it, which is almost 10 years ago, you could do an in-person course. They had some courses over the weekend up at the Arboretum. And then you also get a free. 01:56 membership to the Arboretum as a master gardener, but you do your training. You learn everything from basic seeding to how to manage grass to managing deer coming in. It's pretty extensive in a short amount of time. And then you get to group up with these wonderful people within your gardening programs through 02:26 County Extension Office. And I was definitely the youngest one there. And I learned so much, so much. I learned how to graft plants. I learned how to judge at different county fairs, which was interesting. 02:44 Okay, so it's everything. Mm-hmm. You're volunteering your time. The first year that you do it, they want you to put in 50 hours. And that's people calling the Extension office asking for help with some problems that they have. You can go out there and you can consult. And you could have community gardens and kind of volunteer in ways like that. 03:13 And that's kind of what I ended up doing through actually my therapy practice was doing a lot of a lot of gardening teaching to people who were incarcerated. 03:31 Okay, cool. So I don't know how to ask this question right. Is it mostly learning by reading or is there a lot of hands-on as well? Yeah, so I did the online portion and that's a lot of reading, a lot of studying. You get this lovely book and you have all the resources. It provides you with 04:01 I suppose a semester or two of coursework in a short amount of time. But the goal is really that you're able to help find a resource to solve any problem or to learn something that you need to learn. All righty. So you've been doing this for eight years or 10 years? About nine. Nine. Okay. So in those nine years. 04:30 have you actually gotten phone calls from people and they're asking about, I don't know, the freaking potato bugs that eat potato plants? I got that more through the volunteering piece. I think I got maybe one call because I mostly dealt with vegetables and things like that. 04:56 there were, I didn't have a lot of availability at the time. I had an infant and a full-time job and the farm. So, but yeah, I definitely put my hours in learning those things as I was teaching gardening to lots of, lots of people. Yeah. Okay. So like I said, I don't know what I'm trying to get at here. It's a question that's... 05:25 that's bubbling. I guess what I'm trying to find out is like how much time do you spend now over the course of a month helping out people because you are a master gardener? Oh, it's constant. Yeah. Even this, right? Like I'm bringing this and trying to educate others on different aspects of gardening and growing. 05:52 I feel, yeah, I help friends out all the time. I've got farmer's market setups, you know, as I think you do too. And it's kind of constant, just answering questions and. 06:07 planning gardens and things like that. So it's just part of your everyday life at this point. Oh, absolutely. It's part of my dreams too. It's constantly in the brain. Yeah, here too. Because we are just now, last weekend, not this past weekend like yesterday, but two weekends ago, my husband finally was able to get into the garden and get stuff planted 06:37 two weeks straight because of all the rain we've had....
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Mary, Mary... Quite contrary How does your garden grow? Well, now that I have a master gardener for a co-host, hopefully my garden, and YOURS! will thrive. Join me and Elizabeth Skindelien - Master Gardener to learn all about gardening. And please, if you have questions you’d like answered on the podcast, email them to lewis.mary.e@gmail.com or liz@greenrootsfarm.org
Copyright 2024 All rights reserved.
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