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

Steven Biggs: Horticulturist and edible landscaping expert.

Want to grow your own food but need creative ideas so you can get the most from your space and your growing zone? Our passion is the edible garden. We help people grow food on balconies, in backyards, and beyond—whether it’s edible landscaping, a vegetable garden, container gardens, or a home orchard. There are many ways to approach edible landscaping. Find out how to harvest enough fruit, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers. Get top tips for exotic crops. And learn how to garden in a way that

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30:09

Edible Flowers: Flowers You Can Eat (and how to use...

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2024/02/22

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Wondering which flowers you can eat? There’s a wide variety of edible flowers that are easy to grow.You might already have some and just aren’t using them.Edible flowers often come from well-known vegetable, herb, and fruit crops. But there are many that come from ornamental plants too. Even some shrubs and trees.Find

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48:57

Vegetables to Grow: Choose What’s Best for Your...

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2024/02/15

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Wondering which vegetables to grow? Or how to pick suitable varieties for your vegetable garden? If you put some thought into your choices, you can avoid harvest-time disappointments.In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about crops they find worthwhile, along with some favourite varieties. The choices for Donna’s cold

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29:50

How to Grow Tomatoes from Seed: When and How (+ Top...

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2024/02/08

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Growing tomatoes from seed? Get the right combination of timing, soil, light, and containers, and you can grow great tomato seedlings at home.There’s more than one way to raise tomato plants from seed. And that means you can do it in a way that fits your growing space.AND make sure to pick a variety you’ll love—because

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31:57

Winter harvest: Which vegetables to grow in winter...

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2024/02/01

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Do you shut down your garden for the winter? Wondering what vegetables to plant in the winter? If you’re in a northern climate, to grow vegetables in winter you need to give them heat and light…and that usually means high-input greenhouse growing.But there’s another way to approach winter vegetable gardening. And it’s

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43:09

Not Sure When to Start Seeds Indoors? Here’s how to...

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2024/01/25

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Wondering when to plant your seeds indoors? Started too early and grown in pots too long before moving to the garden, your seedlings might run out of gas. They stall. But started too late, your seedlings might be midgets when it’s time to plant them in the garden.The right time to start seeds indoors—and have plants that

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24:48

Prevent Leggy Seedlings and Grow Transplants Like an...

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2024/01/18

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Got seedlings that look like stilt-walkers? Are your seedlings leggy? Leggy seedlings don’t have as much chance of success once you transplant them into the garden…if they even make it that far.The best way to solve the problem of spindly seedlings is to prevent them from getting that way in the first place.Set up your

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37:07

Seed Smarts: Lingo and Tips for Seed Shopping (Is...

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2024/01/11

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Seed catalogues are arriving already! Find out what you need to know to make good seed-shopping choices. In this episode, Steven and Donna share seed-shopping tips and talk about common seed-related terms.Not sure if untreated seed is organic? Wondering what "heirloom" really means? Tune in to find out about seed

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35:28

Damson Plums: This Forgotten Fruit Combines Dry,...

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2024/01/04

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Damson plums: Sometimes they're simply called damsons. Their rich flavour makes them a culinary gem. Even though they're not difficult to grow, the fruit is rarely available commercially.Find out how to grow damsons.Sarah Conrad Gothie, Author of Damsons: An Ancient Fruit in the Modern Kitchen joins us to talk about the

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33:53

SPRING Finale: How to Grow a Climate-Change Veggie...

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2023/06/15

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- We head to the UK to chat with homesteader Kim Stoddart about how to grow a resilient vegetable garden. We talk about:Top tips for growing vegetables when conditions are not predictableChoosing crops for a climate-change vegetable gardenPerennial vegetablesTips for veggie gardening in hot summersKim is an award-winning

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31:08

Harvest Rainwater for Your Garden and Landscape

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2023/06/08

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Brad Lancaster is a permaculture and regenerative design consultant and educator. His specialty is sustainable landscapes. We chat with Brad about using the landscape to harvest rainwater. And about using the landscape as a living air conditioner. Brad also talks about a very inspiring project that he helped spearhead, a

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39:22

Need Space? Harvest More from the Same Plot with...

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2023/06/01

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Vertical vegetable gardening squeezes more plants into a limited space by making use of space above the ground.In today’s episode, Steve digs into vertical gardening.We talk about:Top crops for vertical gardeningThe benefits of vertical gardeningSupport structures in a vertical gardenMaterials to make your own trellises

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33:54

Small-Plot Intensive Vegetable Production (SPIN...

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2023/05/25

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Wally Satzewich joins us from Saskatchewan to tell us about Small-Plot Intensive Farming (SPIN Farming.) Having studied psychology and ran a taxi franchise, Wally became interested in market gardening. So he bought a farm. But a conventional market garden wasn’t the right fit for him. That’s because a big operation

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25:05

How to Feed Soil and Plants with Worm Compost...

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2023/05/18

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Andrew Huxsel joins us from St Placide, Quebec to tell us about worm composting. Also known as vermicomposting. Andrew runs Vermicbec, a company that sells worms and worm compost.We talk about:How vermicomposting worksUsing vermicompost (a.k.a. worm castings or worm wompost)Large scale vs. home-scale vermicompostingTop

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27:25

Edible Garden Question and Answer (and what to do...

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2023/05/11

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- It’s planting season here..and the gardening questions are pouring in. Here’s the Q + A from our latest live show. We talk about:Favourite tomato varietiesSupport for tomato plantsMulchAsparagusMicrogreensLemonsArtichokeSquirrelsWhat to do about bolting lettuce***-->Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang

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26:32

7-Year-Old Certified Farmer Talks About Crops, Kids,...

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2023/05/04

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- We head to Georgia to chat with 7-year-old Kendall Rae Johnson and her mom, Ursula. Kendall is the youngest certified farmer in the state of Georgia. At her aGROWKulture Farm she grows her favourite crops and teaches other kids about gardening. Kendall has been on Good Morning America, The Ellen Show, and Sesame Street

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37:17

Equipment for Healthy Soil, Less Toil, Minimal Till...

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2023/04/27

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- We chat with Zach Loeks, an educator and grower who specializes in edible ecosystem design. He talks about the two-wheel tractor, a versatile piece of equipment that he says can be used by backyard gardeners, homesteaders, edible landscapers, and in community gardens.(If you’re about to skip this episode because you

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35:52

This Orchard Doesn't Look Like an Orchard (and it's...

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2023/04/20

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Permaculture OrchardWe chat with orchardist Stefan Sobkowiak who replaced an organic apple orchard with a permaculture orchard at Miracle Farms. We talk about:Why he prefers a permculture planting to a monoculture organic apple orchardHow can an orchard be a permaculture?The system of “trios” he uses as a basic design

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31:12

Kitchen Scrap Gardening: From Avacado to Ginger to...

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2023/04/06

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Grow What's in Your Kitchen!In this episode, we head to Vermont and get great ideas for what we can grow right now, in early spring, using what’s in the kitchen. We talk about kitchen-scrap gardening with Em Shipman, Executive Director at KidsGardening.Em also tells us about Kids Garden Month, with lots of fun activities

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34:54

Figuring Out How to Bring Back a Lost Giant...the...

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2023/03/30

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- In this episode, we dig into some history, a sad story – and hope.All this from a tree that was known as the redwood of the east. A towering tree prized for its wood. A tree pivotal to the forest ecosystem.And by the 1950s, it was thought to be extinct in Ontario.But it wasn’t extinct. And it’s not extinct now.We head to

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31:03

Afraid of Late Spring Frost? Low-Tech Mini-Tunnels...

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2023/03/23

Figs. Lemons. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Veg. Vertical Gardening. New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Niki Jabbour on how to Make and Use Mini TunnelsLess frost damage. Fewer bugs. Better growing conditions. Mini tunnels have lots of advantages, and they're easy to make and use. For this episode, we head to Nova Scotia to chat with vegetable gardening expert Niki Jabbour about how to make and use mini tunnels.She’s the

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