All Episodes
Displaying 21 - 40 of 271 in total
Prairie Plot & Lots of Tomatoes: A Manitoba Gardener’s Top Varieties and Growing Tips
Today we continue our cross-Canada tour, chatting with food gardeners, and sharing crop and variety ideas to help you as you plan your 2026 garden. We head to Manitoba...
Lawns into Lunch: Growing in Front Yards with City Street Farms (and top crops!)
We continue our cross-Canada tour, chatting with inspiring gardeners to hear about favourite varieties and top crops. Today we head to Regina, Saskatchewan, to chat wi...
A Journal, a Garden, and a Mother’s Love
Today we’re joined by Helen Battersby, who talks about a gardening book that began as a coping tool. Helen tells us about Margaret Bennet-Alder, who turned to gardenin...
Can’t Choose What to Grow? Favourite Veg Varieties with Niki Jabbour
We continue our cross-Canada tour, chatting with inspiring gardeners to find out favourite varieties and top crops. Today we chat with Niki Jabbour, a CBC radio gard...
Lavender got Smoked by Cold? Plant Choices for the Prairies with Dave Hanson
We continue our cross-Canada tour of inspiring gardeners to find out favourite varieties and top crops. Today we chat with Dave Hanson, co-host of The Grow Guide podca...
A Tomato that Sets Fruit When its Cold? Vegetable Varieties for a Cool Climate, with Linda Gilkeson
Leafy greens always seem to bolt too quickly? Can’t figure out why your broccoli isn’t forming heads? Choosing vegetable varieties suited to your climate helps avoid t...
Long, Skinny Garden? Hear How We Tweak This Space
Not sure what to do with a long, skinny, straight-edged garden beside a driveway, patio, or building? In this episode, we take a long, slender ornamental garden and r...
Want to Switch Out Your Annuals? Try These Herbs Instead
Do you have a garden where you use traditional annuals, but you want to switch it up for something edible? Herbs are one option. In this episode, we look at a space th...
Hear How We Tweak a Public Space to Keep the Aesthetic but Add Edibles
Wondering about adding edible plants to an existing gardening without spoiling the aesthetic? With the right plant choice, along with an understanding of how the spac...
From Geranium Glut to Playful Herb Planter Box! A Container Garden Makeover
Thinking of veggies for your container garden? Or planter boxes with herbs? In this episode, we look at a patio surrounded by planter boxes that are filled with red g...
Bare Ground, Hard Clay, and not Much Sun: Hear How to Transform this Space
Got a spot you’d like to use to grow food but not sure where to start? In this episode, we tackle a bare space with hard clay, in zone 3. Let’s not forget the deer an...
Too Cold for Tender Fruit? Hear What this Prairie Grower Does
Think your climate is too cold to grow tender fruit? Find out how this grower harvests peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, and more…despite winter temperatures that c...
Not Enough Space? Fit in More Crops With These Ideas
Do you have more seeds and plants than you can fit into your garden? It’s a common problem for the enthusiastic food gardener! In this episode, Donna and Steven talk a...
Tips for Growing Great Tomatoes
Want to grow great tomatoes? With the right transplanting and care, your tomatoes will be off to a great start. In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about: Transp...
It’s the May 24…Wondering What Veg to Plant?
Wondering when to plant vegetables? Not sure what to plant first? You don’t need to plant everything at once. In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about when to plan...
How to Harden Off Seedlings: Simple Steps So Your Seedlings Survive Transplanting
Your vegetable seedlings can look great indoors. Then fall like dominoes in the garden. If they’re not hardened off. But if you harden off seedlings, they stand a much...
Saskatoon Berries: Tough as Nails (as this Zone 2 Grower Explains)
Wondering about fruit to grow in a cold climate? Today we head to Alberta, to find out how to grow saskatoon bushes. Arden Delidais grows in Zone 2—and doesn’t get any...
Skip the Transplants? How to Direct Sow Seeds
Have you tried direct sowing but didn’t get good results? Wondering how to direct sow seeds? Direct sowing—a.k.a. direct seeding or direct planting—is when we sow seed...
Vegetables in Pots: How to Ace Your Container Garden
Want to harvest more veg from the same amount of space? You can get lots more from a small space by growing in containers. (If you get it right…but that’s not difficul...
Figs not Winter Hardy? Here are Creative Ways to Grow Figs in Cold Climates
Don’t miss out on fresh figs just because you’re gardening in a cold climate. There are many cold-climate fig growers who defy zone boundaries with creative overwinter...