The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt

Carol Michel, Dee Nash

Are you ready to be converted to living a gardening life? Each week, join Carol Michel and Dee Nash, both passionate gardeners, authors, and long-time bloggers, as they chat over the garden fence about flowers, veggies, and all the best dirt on gardening. Carol and Dee have the audacity to call themselves gardenangelists, evangelists for gardening, and want everyone to dig in the dirt, sow a few seeds, and enjoy the simple pleasures and even a few pitfalls of a gardening life. If you are ready to live a gardening life or already live one this is one podcast you don’t want to miss.

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Off the Gardening Rails
Oct 23 2024
Off the Gardening Rails
Send us a textDee and Carol talked about shrubs with fall interest, two cookbooks for vegetables, a lead poisoning mystery solved, and a new book, Plants for the Winter Garden: Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to Add Interest in the Cold and Snow, by Warren LeachFor more information, check out our free newsletter.Links:Seed Savers ExchangeLink to register for National Garden Bureau's Book Authors Talk Gardening webinar on Nov. 14 A Midwest Gardener’s Cookbook, by Marian K. Towne, Illustrations by Ellen Walsh (Amazon Link)  The Ambitious Kitchen Cookbook: 125 Ridiculously, Good for You, Sometimes Indulgent and Absolutely Never Boring Recipes for Every Meal of the Day , by Monique Volz (Amazon link)On the Bookshelf: Plants for the Winter Garden: Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to Add Interest in the Cold and Snow, by Warren LeachDirt:Turmeric lead poisoning - quite the mystery - NPR article and Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in BangladeshOur Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):Botanical InterestsFarmers DefenseEtsyTerritorial SeedsTrue Leaf Market Eden BrosNature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  For more info on Carol  visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens. For more info on Dee, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.On YouTube.
Cat Got Your Garden?
Sep 25 2024
Cat Got Your Garden?
Send us a textDee and Carol talked about border plants, a new book on garden record-keeping, books by Anna Pavord and several other topics.For more information and if you are curious where this episode title came from, check out our weekly newsletter. Some Links:Dee's Instagram reel about organic potting soilCarol's blog post from 2010: The Wilderness CalledThe Tiny Farm Planner: Recordkeeping, Seasonal To-Dos, and Resources for Manging Your Small-Scale Home Farm, by Jill Ragan, (Amazon), Author of The Tiny but Mighty Farm (Amazon)On the Bookshelf: Anna PavordThe Tulip: The Story of a Flower That has Made Men Mad. (Amazon link) Good used copies. Bulb (Amazon link)The Curious Gardener (Amazon Link) Another month-by-month,  year in the garden book. The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants (Amazon Link)Dirt: Taxonimists are also changing bird names.Rabbit Holes:Not Just a Homemaker: The Extraordinary Life of Sheila MacGregor, by Paulette Brooks. Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):Botanical InterestsFarmers DefenseEtsyTerritorial SeedsTrue Leaf Market Eden BrosNature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  For more info on Carol  visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens. For more info on Dee, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.On YouTube.
Fun in the Garden, Always
Sep 11 2024
Fun in the Garden, Always
Send us a textThis week, we talked about spring-flowering trees to plant now, steps you can take to be ready for spring in the vegetable garden, a few favorite books by a favorite author and all kinds of other topics.For more information and more links, check out our weekly newsletter.Flowers:A special shout out for J.C. Raulston from Oklahoma, who ran the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. On the Bookshelf:    A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden, by Sydney Eddison (Amazon link)Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older, by Sydney Eddison. (Amazon link)A Passion for Daylilies: The Flowers and the People, by Sydney Eddison (Amazon link) This one is all about famous dayliliy hybridizers, and if you’re a daylily aficionado, you should buy it. Dirt: There are some new botanical Lego sets… like poinsettias!  And a Christmas wreath, and a chrysanthemum and plum blossoms. Rabbit holesVegan color pens:  Ohuhu Markers. Another Lost Lady of Garden Writing: Rosetta E. Clarkson. Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):Botanical InterestsFarmers DefenseEtsyTerritorial SeedsTrue Leaf Market Eden BrosNature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  For more info on Carol  visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens. For more info on Dee, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.On YouTube.