Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Garden Planning and Seed Shopping Horticulturist and vegetable-garden expert Donna Balzer talks about garden planning and shares her tips for seed shopping. We talk about: Favourite early spring greens crops Making a ve...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Daniel Speck from Henry of Pelham winery talks about growing grapes, wine, and different types of wine grapes. We talk about: What makes Niagara an excellent grape-growing region Grape vine care Vinifera grapes, labrusc...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Mark Wolbers, president of the Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers Association , talks about growing fruit north of 60. We talk about: The range of fruit that grows in Alaska The growing conditions in different parts of Alaska...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Dave Hanson from Sage Garden Greenhouses in Winnipeg, Manitoba tells us about growing herbs indoors. Dave has joined us here on the show before to talk about exotic edibles.  Along with Sage Garden Greenhouses , he co-h...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Taking Math to the Garden It started with a math lesson. A very boring math lesson. Educator Sonya Harris was trying to get a concept to stick. And the thing that got it to stick was the garden. A non-gardener, she saw...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Discover the Next Great Apple Susan Poizner, founder of Ben Nobleman Community Orchard in Toronto, talks about the upcoming apple-tasting fundraiser event for the orchard. Poizner is a college instructor, author of Grow...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We chat with giant vegetable grower Norman Kyle from Ennismore, Ontario. Kyle will have a number of his giant vegetables on display at the 2022 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, November 4-13. We talk about: Hi...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We chat with artist, filmmaker, and gardener Arlin McFarlane in Whitehorse, Yukon about gardening in cold climates. McFarlane produced the gardening show The Curious Gardener , about Yukon farmers and gardeners. We talk...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Steven explains why lemons are his top citrus choice for cold climates. He talks about: How cold lemon trees can get How cold the fruit can get Fruiting and flowering Using lemon leaves in the kitchen How big potted lem...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Grow Your Own Spices In the first part of the show, we chat with Tasha Greer about how to grow your own spices. She’s the author of the book Grow Your Own Spices .  We chat about: The difference between a herb and a spi...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We chat with Adina Oosterwijk, the Community Greening Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia. We talk about: Home food gardens that are productive and aesthetically pleasing A tomato festival The Royal...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We chat with author and market gardener Dani Baker about forest gardening. Baker has created a forest garden on her USDA Zone 4 farm. She shares her tips for making a forest garden, whether it’s an acre or just a few sq...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- 2022 Tomato Roundup Steven and Emma take a look at the 2022 tomato crop. We chat about: What’s new in the tomato patch Growing methods Top varieties Tomato seed saving Favourite tomato recipes  A much-expanded edition o...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Toronto Garlic Festival In the first part of the show, we chat with Peter McClusky about garlic. He’s the founder of the Toronto Garlic Festival , now in its 12th year.  We chat about: The hardneck garlic grown in Ontar...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We chat with Pittsburgh author and horticulturist Denise Schreiber about edible flowers. Schreiber is the author of the book Eat Your Roses . We talk about: Common edible flowers Lesser-known edible flowers Top tips for...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- We chat with Darryl Nelson and his teenage son, Aden, about light and gardening under lights. Darryl and Aden tell us how they taught children about light at a children’s event at a local museum. (Spoiler alert: it invo...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Land Conservation We chat with Jack Spruill, whose farm is is on the shore of North Carolina’s Albemarle Sound, the largest freshwater sound in the world. Spruill plans to donate the farm to an organization that will ma...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Time Outdoors…and Trout You probably never expected to hear about polar bears on The Food Garden Life Show. Today’s show is a bit of a departure from our usual focus on plants. We continue with our focus on food, the ou...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Summer in the Garden In the first part of the show, we chat with landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing, hosts of the Down the Garden Path radio show and podcast . We talk about: Seasonal gardening tips Wh...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Katie Elzer-Peters tells us about kitchen gardening. That is, gardening in the kitchen -- with leftover greens, seeds, and roots. We talk about growing: sweet potato carrots lettuce celery beets green onions leeks turme...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Container Gardening Pittsburgh gardener Seth Finn talks about his container garden and the container garden on the roof of his daughter’s restaurant. The restaurant rooftop garden furnished the restaurant with fresh fig...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- A Rose Garden Re-Imagined In this episode we speak with Alex Henderson about the rejuvenated rose garden at Royal Botanical Gardens .  Henderson, Curator of Living Collections, explains that the original rose garden, pl...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Summer Vegetable Garden In the first part of the show, we chat with vegetable gardening expert Niki Jabbour. She shares tips about: Summer vegetable garden succession crops Growing vegetables in pots Supporting tomato p...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- Straw-Bale Gardening In this episode we speak with Joel Karsten about straw-bale gardening. He is the author of Straw Bale Gardens Complete . We chat about:  Straw bale gardens as a way to grow in very wet conditions Ma...

A much-expanded edition of Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t is coming this summer. For sneak peeks and updates, and to be the first to know when it’s available, click here . --- In this episode we visit Misilla dela Llana in Washington State to talk about growing food year-round. She is the host of the YouTube channel Learn to Grow , where she shares her passion for growing food. In this episod...