Upside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast

Oh oh.  Three members of the Brady tomato family reside in Christy’s garbage can. What did they do?  If maggots reside in your compost: what should you do?  What does young Audrey Hepburn in WW2 have in common with Scarlett O’Hara during the Civil War? How do the ladies of Upside Down Tulips find themselves dealing with questions no one ever wanted answered? From bulbs to bulblets, they do answer your questions of how and when to plant, and how to care for, your fall bulbs. Plus the Old Woman has made a big mistake: will it destroy her marriage with Jack Spratt and send her back to living in the shoe? 

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Are you ready to decompose?  No, it’s not Beethoven rolling over and undoing the 5th Symphony, nor is it falling apart during this pandemic; but making you feel like a Superhero by composting. You can help fight climate change from your yard or kitchen counter. Compost adds nutrients to your soil, thereby adding nutrients to everything you grow.  Enrich your soil and your life!  Do it like nature does!  We answer your important questions:   Why to compost,  who can compost,  how to do it, when to do it, what to put in it.  Play along with us on UDT Jeopardy. Yes, we're helpful,  amusing, and kind of interactive.

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From the garden to the freezer, the attic, the canning jar - we share how to preserve your harvest, which can supply you with your garden grown food for the winter.  Just like great great grandma used to do.  No wonder our ancestors lived long and prospered!  So much information about freezing, canning, pickling, and drying your harvest.  Edith has fears about botulism and hot jam happenings that Christy puts to rest.

In the garden update, we discuss the things we did (and that you can do) when an early frost threatens your harvest.  And Edith finds something that has grown surprisingly large under the sheet. Be amazed as Edith and Christy simply cannot come up with the word “husks” - no more proof is needed that the show isn’t scripted.  And of course, fun commercials and mailbag!

Find your local food pantry at: https://ampleharvest.org

Protect Your Garden From An Early Freeze

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An episode that is international in nature.

We go from a seed depository 700 miles past the Arctic Circle to a bus in the Alaskan wilderness where a young man ate the poisonous seeds of the wild potato to the packet of split peas in your grocery store. We get a letter from Ladenburg Germany and also from Commerce City Colorado! 

The Old Lady who lives in a shoe marries Jack Spratt and uses Upside Down Tulips to help her grow a garden.  You know you’ve grown too many spaghetti squash when you contemplate using them as speed bumps.

Seed trivia: the oldest seed, the largest seed, the most seeds from one plant. The Zombie Apocalypse makes an appearance along with useful information about collecting and storing your own seeds. 

And, just when you thought it couldn’t get better, the gardener as the Quarterback of his yard takes it to the house!  Football, gardening, shoe living - it must be Upside Down Tulips.

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The ladies, six months in to hanging out at home, get philosophical, and in Christy’s case, musical as she sings our theme song. Christy comes over to Edith’s yard with an upside down broom and a can of Panko. It has something to do with Japanese Beetles but - maybe she’s losing it just a little?

Fall transplanting talk - why you should, when to, how to, all without murdering your plants. Shakespeare drops in twice with gardening woes. Edith pulls out another cauliflower plant that is “all hat no cattle.” “All buckle no belt.”

Edith muses about being 14 again and finding different ways to ruin her life - she has new ideas. From Christy comes out with the pithy “Until it’s dead, it’s not.” And “Too many freaks not enough circus.”  At which point we silently wonder if we are the freaks and the world is the circus.

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It's not too late to grow something!  The how’s and why’s of fall planting take center stage - radish, lettuce, spinach, kale and beets - and what to do to get one more harvest of vegetables before the first frost.  Do you know the importance of thinning?  (Your plants, not your pandemic bod.)  

Plus, Christy and Edith discuss dog vomit slime mold, (appealing to the pre adolescent boy demographic perhaps?) cucumber suckers, (not what you think) and making bags of soup greens. Find out why Gertrude “A Rose is A Rose” Stein is dissatisfied with gardening. Christy finds an antidote to stress with Red Bird In Tree.  

And of course, some fun commercials and letters from the mail bag!

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We discuss tomatoes from seeds to BLT’s. In the Middle Ages, Europeans thought of them as poisonous, the French thought they were an aphrodisiac and called them love apples. Kind of explains all those wars they had.  The difference between determinate, indeterminate, heirloom and hybrid tomatoes are discussed. All you need to know about planting, staking, and harvesting tomatoes. What to do about blossom end rot, blotches, wilt, rot, fungal diseases and Japanese beetles in your garden. We unbox tomatoes that have been sitting in Christy’s attic for almost a year.  As exciting as the Masked Singer, only tomatoes don’t sing.

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