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Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening

Grow a better vegetable garden, whether you"re a seasoned gardener or have never grown a thing in your life. Karin helps home gardeners learn to grow their own food using evidence-based techniques and research. She talks all about specific plants, pests, diseases, soil and plant health, mulch, garden planning, and more. It"s not just the "how" but also the "why" that makes us better. The goal? For everyone to know how to grow their own food no matter what sized space they have or their experience

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00:29:55

Managing Heat Stress in Garden Plants - Ep. 207

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/07/16

It’s the middle of July and it’s the time of year when heat stress in plants can be a significant challenge for gardeners. If you’re gardening in the peak of summer or in a region with consistently high temperatures, heat stress can lead to wilting, reduced yields, poor fruit quality, and even cause plants to just up and die. But, we can do something about it. Lots of things, actually.Today on Just Grow Something we’re talking effective management of heat stress in our plants, including preventive

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00:15:07

Epsom Salts - Magic or Myth? - Ep. 206

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/07/09

If you are in any gardening group, whether an in-person club or online, you likely see countless home remedies for everything that ails our plants. Gardeners tout everything as a miracle cure for something in the garden, from putting tums in the soil to burying fish, making weed killer out of vinegar and salt (please don’t) to using dawn dish soap as an insecticide (again, please don’t).One that pops up over and over again is using Epsom salts, either sprinkled or added to the soil or used as a

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00:25:05

Steps for Planning the Fall Garden (and Why You...

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/07/02

Last week on the podcast we talked about your summer succession plantings, things you can plant in the summer and harvest in the summer on repeat. This week, it’s all about fall, baby. I know it may seem like the summer growing season just started, especially if you have very few frost-free days, but this really is the time to be planning for a fall harvest. In order to get a viable crop before your first frost date or first hard freeze or before your Persephone Period hits, the steps to get there

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00:29:44

Summer Succession Planting for a Greater Harvest -...

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/06/25

We are officially in summer in the northern hemisphere and, for many of us, she came in with a bang. It will hit 100 F here today with a heat index of 112 F and it feels like walking in front of a blast furnace stepping out into the sun.This may make you think the summer growing season is a one-and-done situation, especially if you live somewhere further south than me where the temperatures can be even more brutal on a regular basis. I’m here to tell you that’s not the case. In fact, even if you

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00:25:45

When Are Onions Ready to Harvest? - Ep. 203

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/06/18

I posted a video last week on TikTok and Reels about how to tell if your onions are ready to harvest and there was a lot of feedback. Onions are one of those crops that can take a long time to master and, even then, getting a good harvest can be hit or miss. Which is probably why that video got the response it did.Today on Just Grow Something we’ll go over how to tell if your onions are ready to harvest, when you should wait, and when you should pull them early based on the conditions of the plant

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00:14:49

Squash Vine Borers and Squash Bugs in Cucumber Plants...

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/06/14

Well, I dropped the ball! This is a follow up to Tuesdays episode about problems in cucumbers. I failed to mention two pests that plague many gardeners - squash vine borers and squash bugs.So, let's remedy this situation! Spend a quick 15 minutes with me while we talk about these pests and how to prevent them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/justgrowsomething/message

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00:33:52

Problems with Cucumbers - Ep. 201

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/06/11

The summer gardening season is just about in full swing here in the northern hemisphere and cucumbers are definitely a crowd favorite. Whether you’re growing the for slicing, snacking, or pickling, a properly managed cucumber vine can be very productive. But it seems like when things go wrong with cucumbers, they go really wrong. Whether it’s dying plants, funky looking fruit, diseases, or other issues with our favorite cucurbit, we do have preventions and solutions. Today on Just Grow Something

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Celebrating 200 Episodes: Ask Me Anything! - Ep. 200

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/06/04

Welcome to the 200th episode of the Just Grow Something podcast, my gardening friends! I launched this podcast back in February of 2021 as a way to pass on the gardening knowledge I had gained from my experiences on our own homestead and farm and what I had learned as I worked my way through my horticulture degree at Oregon State University. I’ve continued to learn along the way and pass on as much of that to you as I reasonably can in the 30 minutes or so a week we spend together here, as well as

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00:37:48

Trellising Techniques for Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Beans...

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/05/28

One of the most labor-intensive parts of growing some of our garden crops, like tomatoes, can be trellising them. Other plants naturally just climb whatever we place next to them without much intervention from us, but they do sometimes need some initial guidance. Cucumbers and peas are two good examples of this. Often times this depends on the type of trellis we’re using.The type of trellis we use boils down to personal preference, the amount of space we have, the materials available to us, and

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00:36:29

Cloning Plants for Succession and Expansion -Ep. 198

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/05/21

One of the strategies I use and encourage other gardeners to use for getting the most out of their gardens each year is succession planting. This is the process of planting a new crop of something after the first one has a little bit of growth on it so that we can harvest pretty continuously or planting a second crop after a first one has given its all.This might make you think that you need to be buying new transplants or starting new seedlings all over again to get these succession plantings in

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00:32:02

Problems with Peppers - Ep. 197

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/05/17

Growing peppers is one of the most asked about topics at the farm stand and the most played episodes of this podcast. Most of the time the frustration comes with either not getting bell peppers to grow large enough or other problems for peppers, in general, including sunscald, lack of ripening, and just generally poor plant growth and low production levels. And, of course, there are the problems with pests and diseases. Today on Just Grow Something, we’re tackling all that and more. If you’ve had

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00:35:24

Gardening in Shade and Solving Your Garden...

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/05/07

I hear from a lot of frustrated would-be gardeners at the farmer’s market stand who say they just don’t have enough sun in their yard to be able to grow anything. Of course, they can always go to maximum effort by growing in smaller containers and moving them around the yard as the season progresses to catch the light as the sun shifts, which is a lot of work, but it’s also very possible that many of these potential gardeners have more sun than they think. And this goes for my gardeners who are

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00:31:22

Preventing and Controlling Foliar Disease in the...

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/04/30

Foliar diseases in both vegetable and fruit plants can significantly impact our yield and the quality of that yield if left unmanaged. If you’ve ever had powdery mildew on your cucumbers or early blight in your tomatoes, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Even though the disease is affecting the leaves, the interruption of photosynthesis by the fungus affects the fruit development, and then the disease will jump from the leaves to the fruit and then we’ve got a real mess on our hands. And

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00:34:06

Growing Strawberries - Ep. 194

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/04/23

We talk a lot about growing vegetables on this show but, in truth, I am a huge fruit eater. I love fruit, either on it’s own or on a salad, in smoothies, in desserts, love it. Being someone who is a proponent of sustainable agriculture I also prefer to get my fruits locally if I can. That’s not to say I don’t always have bananas in this house and that I don’t love a good Mandarin orange, but if I can grow it myself, I feel much better. Fruit trees can be intimidating, and they can be temperamental

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00:24:52

Proper Soil Temperatures for Transplanting - Ep. 193

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/04/16

Using the last frost date in spring or our average air temperatures might be a good guideline to start with when figuring out when to plant the garden, but a better method for knowing when it’s actually time to sow those seeds or transplant those plants is the soil temperature. Even though the air temperatures may be warmer than usual, the soil knows the truth. If that soil is cold and wet, or might be that way in the next ten days, your tomatoes, or peppers, or whatever, are not going to be happy

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00:30:23

Amendments to Add in Spring for the Summer Garden -...

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/04/09

Back in November I talked to you about doing a soil test, using slow-release amendments in the garden to do their work gradually over the winter, and then doing another soil test in the spring to see how well it worked. Now’s the time in most areas to be doing that spring soil test before you start planting your spring or summer gardens.But, what do you do if that spring test shows the amendments you added in the fall just weren’t enough to fix the problem? This time around you’ll need something

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00:28:54

Your Biggest Pests in the Garden - Ep. 191

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/04/02

I had such a fantastic response to the March Question of the Month and we had such great conversations on Facebook and Instagram that I made this week’s entire episode all about! You came in clutch with problems and solutions and there was plenty of community discussion, which is what I love. Gardeners helping gardeners.We all have a lot of pests and some very clever ways to deal with them. And not all of them are insects. So, today on Just Grow Something we are talking all about your biggest pests

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00:23:52

Hardening Off Seedlings Before Transplant - Ep. 190

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/03/26

Hardening off is a process that helps plants adjust to the outdoor environment, preventing shock and ensuring they thrive once planted in the garden. Gradual exposure helps the plants acclimate to the conditions they will experience out in the garden or in their containers on your porch before you put them out there.Today on Just Grow Something we’ll go over the exact steps we need to take to harden off our plants prior to putting them out into the garden. This includes whether you’re growing them

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00:26:11

Straw Bale Gardening - Ep. 189

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/03/19

Years ago I had some straw bales I’d used initially as fall décor that ended up in my chicken coop. The bales were used partially as a wind break all winter and partially as a roost. Well, chickens do what chickens do when they roost and by the spring of the following year those straw bales were full of nitrogen-rich chicken poop and starting to fall apart. So, I moved the out of the coop, watered the down really well for about a week, and planted a bunch of plants into them.This was my first

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00:48:47

Donations and Dollar Stands with Meg Lea - Ep. 188

Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening ·

2024/03/12

Today's episode is a special interview with Meg Lea of the Fox and Hound Garden in Wisconsin. Meg harvested an unbelievable amount of food from her Zone 4b gardens last year and donated over two thirds of it.We chat about all things gardening, from planning to production, donations and dollar roadside stands, overambitious plantings and failing forward. It's a great conversation with a fellow gardener that you'll love to listen in to. By the end you'll have commiserated and maybe

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