Podcast: Good Gardens with Chris McLaughlin
Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Chris McLaughlin. We chat about her newest book, The Good Garden, & how to create a garden that is good for both us & the planet.
Podcast: The Ecological Gardener with Matt Rees-Warren
Our guest this week is Matt Rees-Warren, author of The Ecological Gardener: How to Create Beauty & Biodiversity from the Soil Up. He chats with Christy from his home in England about how we can reduce plastic, conserve resources, and create ecosystems in our gardens.
David and his kids play in their wild yard.
Podcast: Wild Yards with David Newsom
This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we explore native habitats and landscapes with David Newsom of Wild Yards Project. David is an amateur native plant enthusiast but you'd never know it when you see his garden.
Tiny eggs on the undersides of milkweed leaves
Milkweed and Monarchs
Perhaps the most important part of any vegetable garden is the habitat surrounding the garden itself. Having a place where good bugs can thrive can be the difference between a successful garden, or one full of pests. Milkweed plays an important role in keeping one species happy: the Monarch butterfly. Monarchs are amazing for a number of reasons. First, they only lay their eggs on milkweed plants, because that is the single food of their young larvae. Second, most monarchs…