Upside Down Tulips - A Garden Podcast

Life is a garden and Kathryn and Christy dig it!  We dig into National Celery Month.  We dig into Spring Clean Up. We dig into updates on our no-dig gardens.  Ironically, we detest actual digging… Also: find out what is peeking up in our gardens, what Kathryn does with a bucket of sand and what tragedy is coming for Christy’s vegetable garden.

Learn what the experts say are the best practices for Spring Clean Up and what real gardeners do, like us! When is the best time?  What plants are best to start with?  How to protect beneficial bugs and pollinators? When to put down mulch? When to prune woody plants, shrubs and roses? What about your lawn? Then we go into all the additional garden chores that are good to do this time of year:  Dividing perennials, cleaning containers, raised bed mending, and tool sharpening. And join in on our gentle debate on dandelions. (To pull or not to pull?  That is the question!)

We also have new & fun Pod Plays about the most powerful vegetable lobby in the world and the most clever vegetable detective in the precinct.  We open up the Mailbag and pull out a letter about reincarnating Chia Pet Heads. Can you dig it? We hope so!

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Lindsey is back this week and we do a deep dive on one of our favorite herbs to kill: Rosemary! Learn how to plant, grow and trouble shoot this useful and culinary favorite herb.  Find out what happened to the Rosemarys' toughing it out in our yards and what Lindsey is going to name her little Rosemary sprout.

And we’ve got new pod plays!  Ask Agnes - the helpful gardening show that takes the agony out of gardening - makes a return visit to chat all about winter sowing and winter sewing. 

Mailbag gives us a fun letter about Hydroponic Gardening. Plus Christy shares a wonderful Gardening Inspiration for anytime, but especially now!

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Denver’s favorite character actor and successful zucchini gardener, Lindsey, joins as guest host and we dive into gardening without soil – Hydroponics!

Did you know you can grow almost any plant in water?  That you can get a kit and grow greens and herbs on your counter? And that Lindsey talks with her hands a lot?  Get inspired by all the benefits of hydroponic gardening and learn all of Lindsey’s tips and tricks on hydroponic kits: 

• What kind of water, how much to sow, what about nutrients.
• What plants are working the best. (Hint: Not potatoes.)
• How does the lighting system works and what to do about cats.
• Plus, she shares with us about cleaning the machine, preventing algae.

Then, Christy shares how to make your own hydroponic system if you are prepping for the zombie apocalypse. Plus tips on geraniums and winter sowing!

Need a laugh? Don’t worry, we got some fun, too. When Edith’s rosemary plant died, it sprouted the podcast-within-a-podcast phenomenon called Who Killed Rosemary and we have a brand-new episode and a brand-new suspect! For all our True Crime/Gardener fans! 

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Episode 100!  We are back with new episodes, new pod plays and the wonderful, wise and wacky EDITH joins us!  Spinach is on her mind, plus she educates us all on how to vaccinate bees.

Then to the heart of the matter:  We reveal our 2022 Favorite Garden Mistakes. Why couldn’t we grow one of the easiest vegetables? Edith planted peppers in the wrong place – find out where and learn from her mistake.  Plus: Marigold issues!  Bad timing! And Strange WTF’s?!

Now let’s inspired!  We are gonna throw some shade and combat climate change. Tomatoes?  Of course! Christy started a half-baked no-dig garden with big plans. We make a pledge to be more diligent, with and without soaker hoses.  Do we dare try watermelon?

Do you love seed catalogs as much as we do?  Then you will love our new pod plays - hand crafted just for the gardener & the wannbe gardener.

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Since January 29 is National Curmudgeons Day,  we thought we would share one of our favorite pod plays and honor all the cranky and fussy people in our lives.

We enjoy curmudgeons so much, one of our Garden Party categories is named for them.  (For just $2 a month, you can be an Upside Down Tulips Curmudgeon.  Just click HERE)

Good laughs and celebrating the garden are what we are all about at Upside Down Tulips.  We will be back next week with a brand new episode filled with our fun garden tips and tricks and bad jokes.

xoxo

Christy & Friends

P.S: Thanks to the wonderful Edith!

National Curmudgeon Day is a thing?

Live in Denver? Come see the play we worked on! Runs until May 14, 2022

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We have put down our hoes and, like our garden, are settling down for long winter’s nap.

BUT! Before we are carried off to a deep hibernation filled with dreams of next year’s garden, we wanted to spread some holiday cheer and share with you our favorite holiday pod plays just for the gardener, the wanna-be gardener and anyone who considers well-aged manure a thoughtful gift.  

• An inspiring “Night Before Christmas”
• The kookiest “Gift of the Magi”
• A funny solution to all your holiday cooking
• A Gardener's Christmas Carol
• The perfect rom-com movie
• 12 Days of craziness
• A New Year’s parade of wine!

Happy Holidays and see you in 2023!

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Find Your Persephone Period

This week we chat about what’s alive, what’s dying, what dead and what plants cheer us up for the holidays.

• Learn all about Poinsettias and how to pronounce it.
• How to get a Christmas Cactus to bloom.
• What holiday plant is hard to kill?
• Why you need an Amaryllis this season.
• How to grow Rosemary indoors this winter.
• Don’t have room for a Christmas Tree? Try a Norfolk Pine.

Plus learn about root rot, why you should never place basil in your fridge, what is a zone, what does Persephone Period mean for gardeners. Oh – and a new Phoebe Pod Play!

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Learn How to Winter Sow!

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Find Your Persephone Period

Let’s set the bar low and root for each other! Leslie is back as guest host - and with the help of the knowledgeable and fun Brittany Pimentel from Denver Urban Gardens - we plan Leslie’s 2023 container garden.  Leslie’s mind is blown over patio tomatoes, pinching basil, burying mint, worm poo and what the heck is "soilless soil". Maybe we will blow your mind, too?

Since it is the week of Thanksgiving and we got our first snow, we stuffed the episode with some fun pod plays for the gardener and fans of cranberry sauce. 

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Worm Away Your Garbage With Cathy's Composters!

Meet Leslie and her black thumb of death. Her enthusiasm for plants, passion to learn and fun stories make her a great guest host. Find out why she grew up afraid of gardening and what happened to her miniature rose. Meanwhile, Christy’s managed to harvest a second zucchini and looks forward to the world’s smallest celery crop.

The Main Event: We dig into all the plants we have killed before and why yellow leaves can be the result of so many things out of balance.  Plus, learn the #1 way to successfully move your plants, how to overwinter geraniums and how to keep pets out of your plants. Kinda. Mail bag brings all the unique ways to make ketchup besides using tomatoes: even watermelon!

Did you the voice behind Phoebe’s Phenominails is Leslie? So, of course we bring back one of our favorite pod plays. Then our friend Jim shares a beautiful Ode to Morning Glory. Some fun, some info, some bad jokes – all for you, dear gardeners!

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Karen and Christy are in costume and ready to celebrate Halloween and the end of the garden season!  We have curated a special episode just for the gardener.  We warn you about deadly plants that can kill, tempt you with recipes for spooky season, share scary stories and treat you with a pumpkin bucket full of full of fun, original pod plays that we only play during Halloween. Yup, we have all the fan favorites: Ichabod Grain, Stranger Garden Things, Silence of the Lamb’s Ear and The Killing Frost.  And we have a BRAND NEW Pod Play about The Squirrel’s nightmare on Halloween night. Warning:  There are depictions of violence against pumpkins. Enjoy dear Gardeners!

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