Gardening for Hot People

Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: baby trees, not so baby trees, pine whorls, winter walks, mycelium networks, marcescence, snags, animal snow burrows and tracks, fat bears, how migration is natural, megafauna, being nice to pigeons, and swear a lot but manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious. As the founder of We of Earth, Mikayla Bishop, is a huge...

Welcome BACK to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: how to leave the leaves without pissing off your neighbor, whether you can still plant in Autumn and Winter, fall cleanup but not like that, how much Cheryl hates lawns, wtf is a deadhedge, how Katie's seedlings are doing and swear a lot but manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious. Stuff we mentioned: Milkweed...

Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: the difference between a gardener and a landscaper, plant butts, hating leaf blowers, the uselessness of weed-blocker, upsetting the landscaping industry, how not to kill your tree with mulch, and swear a lot but manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious. Guest Bio: Molly Janicki grew up surrounded by the forests of V...

Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: leaving the leaves STILL, bumble bee queens, more garden bed making, bunny damage and how to prevent it, types of habitats in your yard, plant identification, pollinator frogs, how tired we are, the difference between an annual and perennial, and manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious. 

Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: Lepidoptera, milkweed, late season nectar, why butterfly bushes are Skittles, why butterflies flit around, the pollinator wars, mummichogs, The Monarch Gardener’s superhero origin story, planning out your native seed plantings, and manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious.  Katie Banks Hone (AKA The Monarch Gardener)...

Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: bees, invertabrates, The Xerces Sociey, agriculture, millions of acres of American forests in danger, ways to save the bees, pesticides, avicide (gasp?!), Apple TV show Silo, The Beepocalypse, practical answers, honey bees, Bombus, how bees see flowers, why you should and shouldn't have a honey bee hive, and manage to keep things lig...

Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: winter sowing, burlapping shrubs, hating on Japanese maples, pickle brine, invasive plants, Broad City, The Black Forager, snowbanks, lasagna gardening, online plant ordering, colonizers, invasive plant task forces, learning to love poison ivy, respecting our ecosystems, and manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious. ...

Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: who we are, what we're about, native plants, cultivars, hostas, how annoying Lily of the Valley is, garden woes, the climate changing, Rachel Carson, respecting our ecosystems, and manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious.