PlantNebraska Podcast

In this episode Sarah and Hanna talk about what they wish they had known when they started gardening. They get into proper tools, soil types, and size and timing among other things. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail. Bloom Box: Growing Deeper: https://plantnebraska.org/podcast Follow us @NEBloomBox on Facebook and Instagram Follow us @growin...

Happy Halloween from Bloom Box! We're facing our fears on this spooky holiday and talking about stings. Listen in to hear 5 different people + Hanna and Sarah share their bee sting stories and experiences working closely with bees and wasps. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail. Bloom Box: Growing Deeper: https://plantnebraska.org/podcast Follo...

What do bees do in the fall? Courtney Brummel from the UNL Bee Lab talks us through fall in the life of both native bees and honey bees. Plus some tips on how to make your garden a friendly place to nest. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail. Bloom Box: Growing Deeper: https://plantnebraska.org/podcast Follow us @NEBloomBox on Facebook and Inst...

Fall beauty is more than just brightly colored trees and pumpkins (thank goodness because good tree color years only come around once in a while)! In the fall we appreciate a different, more muted, color palette as well as textures. In the fall the landscape draws us in and invites us to look closer; at the seed heads, at the insects, at the small flowers hiding in protected places. Show Notes Sen...

Fall planting just feels a little more relaxed and easy going with less pressure to plant and less pressure to water all summer. Today we're focusing on fall tree planting and dividing/moving plants in the next episode. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail. Bloom Box: Growing Deeper: https://plantnebraska.org/podcast Follow us @NEBloomBox on Fa...

Fall planting just feels a little more relaxed and easy going with less pressure to plant and less pressure to water all summer. Today we're focusing on fall planting of perennials and grasses, stay tuned for fall tree planting and dividing/moving plants in the next episode. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail. Bloom Box: Growing Deeper: https...

School may have started but it's still summer! We've weathered the July/August heat flash and are ready to get back outside. We're playing a little bit of catch-up and looking forward to fall. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail. Bloom Box: Growing Deeper: https://plantnebraska.org/podcast Follow us @NEBloomBox on Facebook and Instagram Learn...

One of the magical things about plants is their ability to bring people together. Whether its the beauty, the connection to nature or the source of food; gardens create common ground between people who may have little else in common. They help us see the world together- something desperately needed right now. These are just a few of the ways we've experienced the gardening pull. We would love to h...

Being a gardener means trying new things, embracing our failures, and experimenting again. Anyone who has gardened for more than a year has likely experienced some pretty epic successes and a few hard falls. We're going to talk about some of our most entertaining mistakes and some of the biggest lessons we learned. Bob Henrickson, NSA's Horticulture Program Director, joins us and shares stories fr...

Have weeds? Looks like you're a gardener! And you're not doing it wrong- there's no way to have a garden and not pull some weeds. But we can be intentional about how much work we do and which weeds we fight or accept. Also, we complain a little about the weeds we are struggling with and how our relationship to our neighbor's garden styles influences our yards. Show Notes Send us your questions at...

Gardening is it's own language, let's talk about some of the terms we often get asked to define when talking to new gardeners! This will almost certainly have a part two so share the gardening terms that confused you when you first started gardening or the ones that you're still unsure of years later. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail. Bloom...

It's National Pollinator Week! Obviously we love our pollinators here at Bloom Box so join us in talking about some of the most important insect pollinators and what we can do to help them. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail. Bloom Box: Growing Deeper: https://plantnebraska.org/podcast Follow us @NEBloomBox on Facebook and Instagram Learn mor...

Ann is a Research Technician for the Department of Agronomy & Horticulture at the University of Nebraska. She graduated this spring with her Masters of Applied Science and presented her research on the Bloom Box program! We learned more about how her degree and research worked and what she learned about Bloom Box. Her paper was titled "Affordances of a Pre-designed Pollinator Garden Program on...

We went a little long this week, there was just so much to talk about! Gardening in apartments comes with some unique challenges but plant lovers are creative and will always find a way to grow. Christina Hoyt from the Nebraska Forest Service shares some of her best tips and tricks as an apartment dwelling plant lover. We also talk about some of the more creative containers we have grown plants in...

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and mother figures in our lives who taught us to love the outdoors and inspired us to grow (pun intended ;-) Planting the seeds of love for plants and nature is one of the greatest honors and gifts of motherhood. We had fun talking to our moms and Karma, the unofficial gardening mom of NSA, and sharing memories. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwith...

It's Spring Affair Week! Spring Affair is the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum's largest fundraising event and the largest plant sale in the Midwest. Sarah and Hanna have some tips for shopping large plant sales and highlight some of the plants that will be available at Spring Affair. More information, dates & times of Spring Affair. Full Spring Affair plant availability and prices . Show Notes Se...

We love getting your questions and hearing about your gardens! Some of the topics these questions cover include: mulching, mulch vs compost, moving plants, pruning leadplant and finding a landscape designer. Show Notes Send us your questions at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail. Bloom Box: Growing Deeper: https://plantnebraska.org/podcast Follow us @NEBloomBox on Facebook and I...

Birds are so crucial to the health of our ecosystem and our gardens that it's good to take a moment to appreciate them and look for ways to encourage them to come back.

Climate is a huge deal in the garden; whether you are worried about the effects of climate change on your garden, started gardening in an effort to do your part, or are learning about how to choose plants that will grow in your climate. Many of our gardening choices are dependent on the climate and learning how to work with it's variability and the weather it produces. Tune in to hear from climate...

Don't grab that rake yet! It's still not quite time to start cleaning up the garden. We just want to help you get ready and maybe talking about it will let off some of that impatience we're all feeling about now.

We talk all about soil; what it is, what it isn’t, what lives in it, why it’s so important, and what we can do to improve and protect it.

This episode we're diving right into gardening topics with how to prepare a new garden bed or get ready to replant an old one. An insider tip: as gardeners we're always in a hurry to get outside so we often shorten well used phrases like "preparing a new bed" to "bed prep".

Get to know Sarah and Hanna- how they became gardeners, why they love working for NSA and what they are looking forward to about podcasting together. We'll also tell you more about what Bloom Box is, our plans for this podcast and how we plan to help you become the gardener you want to be.

Bloom Box: Growing Deeper is here to help you become the gardener you want to be. We'll talk about all things gardening, habitat and people- because gardening can only be truly sustainable when planned with people in mind. Meet your hosts Sarah and Hanna and hear what we have planned for you! Leave us a voicemail or send us an email at growingwithbloombox@gmail.com Bloom Box is a program of the Ne...