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The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best DirtAuthor: 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 dont want to miss. Language: en-us Genres: Hobbies, Home & Garden, Leisure Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Coneflowers and Cooking Veggies
Episode 25
Tuesday, 14 July, 2026
Send us Fan MailDee and Carol talk about coneflowers, share some new veggie recipes Dee is trying, discuss a book on wildflowers and more.For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch on YouTube, click here.Question of the Week:How do I grow a wildflower meadow from seed? Mini Meadows, by Mike Lizotte. He explains it well.Insect of the WeekBlue Orchard Mason Bee. You can make nesting boxes for them or buy commercial onesFlowers:The Enterprise of Echinaceas, and why do we have so many varieties? We are speaking of Echinacea purpurea.Watch out for aster yellows, a disease that can infect coneflowers. More info from Missouri Botanical GardenVegetables:Let’s share some summer recipes!Authentic Shopska Salad RecipeCold Yogurt Cucumber Soup - TaratorPrincesses (Bulgarian Ground Meat Sandwiches) Recipe - Food.comDee’s Zucchini Squash Challenge on her blogOn the Bookshelf:A Naturalist’s Book of Wildflowers: Celebrating 85 Native Plants of North America by Laura C. Martin (2021) (Amazon)Dirt:Another dose of cuteness on Instagram, a farmer-gardener with his two young daughters, the two “supervisors”. Meet Jeremiah_Farmer .They also have pigs!Rabbit Holes:Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Katharine S. White. And Carol’s tips for getting your garden to produce more veggies. A Garden to Visit:Dallas Arboretum. One hot place when we visited!Thank you: As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.On YouTube.
