Kitchen Scrap Gardening: From Avacado to Ginger to Citrus
Are you thinking of growing a potted olive tree? Or maybe you already have one…but you’re still waiting for olives. Olive trees are tough as nails. They can take more cold than many people realize. And they’re really beautiful, too. Put these all together, and you have a great potted plant for a cold-climate garden.
In my new book, Grow Olives Where You Think You Can't, I tell you everything you need to know to successfully grow an olive tree in a pot!
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In my new book, Grow Olives Where You Think You Can't, I tell you everything you need to know to successfully grow an olive tree in a pot!
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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.
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.
Em also tells us about Kids Garden Month, with lots of fun activities and prizes for kids.
We talk about:
We talk about:
- Growing small seeds from the kitchen (e.g. citrus)
- Growing large seeds (e.g. mango, avacado)
- Growing roots and tubers and rhizomes (e.g. ginger, sweet potato)
- Things for kids to do in the garden in early spring
- Kids Garden Month
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- Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang who stay on top of home food-growing ideas with our weekly e-mail. We’re making the world a better place one garden at a time!
