The Keep Growing Podcast

Winter is coming.  Its icy grasp has claimed the tender plants of summer.  Now is the time to get your garden ready for its long winter nap, put tools away, and yearn for warmer days. Find our show notes here. Discuss the episode on our subreddit. Music by Silent Partner ©2019 Bob's Market and Greenhouses, Inc.

Fall is here, but that doesn’t mean you need to abandon your landscape and retreat indoors until spring.  There’s a whole selection of beautiful fall annuals and vegetables that are frost tolerant.  There’s also a wide variety of plants that offer those quintessential fall colors.  Let’s do a chard shot and … keep growing! Find full show notes at bobsmarket.com/keepgrowing

Join us for the second half of Season 2 of the Keep Growing Podcast.

Join us this Fall as we continue season 2 and Keep Growing!

Compost is one of the essential skills that all gardeners should add to their tool belt. While composting is pretty easy, there are some things to consider that will give you an optimal result. Let’s go green with our browns and wet our plants!

Our guest in this episode describes it “as a site with more plants and/or land than one person can care for sanely. A gardener and garden gone wild, out of control.” With many families embracing the philosophy of modern homesteading and self-sufficiency, I think many people have farmdens, but just didn’t have a word for it.

Once relegated to your grandmother’s windowsill, succulents have seen a resurgence in popularity over the last few years as houseplants, in general, have seen a boost in popularity.

Straw bale gardening is one of the simplest and most intuitive gardening methods I've come across. In this episode we meet Joel Karsten, inventor of straw bale gardening.

Brie has fine-tuned her signature design technique of Foodscaping, a sustainable landscape practice that embraces beauty and bounty. Aiming to change the way landscapes are designed and managed, Brie encourages everyone to "think outside of the box." Learn how pairing edibles in a traditional ornamental landscape increases bio-diversity and adds purpose to everyday spaces.

In this episode I preview the upcoming season and take a look at current gardening trends. I also explore meadow gardens as I share my own attempt at building a pollinator paradise.

The smell of freshly tilled soil as much as the smell of freshly baked cookies brings to my mind a flood of memories.

Like Luke in the swamps of Dagobah, in this episode we get a crash course in prepping your garden.

In previous episodes we have talked about some of the key concepts for growing plants. Now it’s time to get your hands dirty. Growing plants is a huge hobby with tons of options. Where do you start?

When it comes to watering plants, there’s really only three options - too much, too little, or just right … but there’s the rub.  Just like with light and temperature requirements, all plants are different.  Some plants, like succulents, can get by with pretty dry soil and some aquatic plants literally live in water.  There’s a whole spectrum of water needs in between.

In this episode we’re going to take a look at probably one of the most important aspects of gardening. Previously, we discussed lighting and how your climate effect the types of plants you can grow in your landscape or garden. Now we’re getting into actually caring for your plants, and the biggest aspect of growing plants is feeding them. As with the previous topics, all plants are different, and...

Your local climate plays an important role in what plants you can grow. It might also effects whether a plant can be grown as a perennial or annual. In this episode, we explore what those terms mean and how it effects your garden.

Light is essential for all life on Earth.  Without the fusion energy of our Sun and photosynthesis, the Earth would be a lifeless rock.  When it comes to growing plants, choosing the right plants for your lighting conditions is one of the most important things to consider.

In this episode, we explore the basic science behind seeds. We’ll also hear from April Shelhon at Botanical Interests about how the seeds you find in packets at the store get there, and she’ll also share some tips on starting seeds at home.

Soil is one of the keys to growing great plants.  Sure they need water and light, but without soil most plants would die.  In the Bible man was made of the dust of the Earth.  We are composed 100% of material that came from a plant or something that ate a plant … and those plants came from soil.

Join me, John Morgan, every two weeks during the summer as I explore the basics of gardening.

Gardening is fun and rewarding, but it can be a challenge for beginners. We’re here to help you learn the basics, get creative, and keep growing!