Christy “Garden Nerd” Wilhelmi dropped by the Root Simple compound to talk to Kelly and I about everything from loquats to bees to climate change. You can find her blog posts, podcast, YouTube at Gardenerd.com. She is the author of two books, Gardening for Geeks: DIY Tests, Gadgets, and Techniques That Utilize Microbiology, Mathematics, and Ecology to Exponentially Maximize the Yield of Your Garden and 400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success: A Decade of Tricks, Tools, Recipes, and Resources from Gardenerd.com. During the podcast we discuss:
- Chip Drop
- Free Little Library
- Front yard fruit trees
- Bee rescues
- Michael Thiele
- Celeriac
- Loofa
- Jicama
- Styrian hulless pumpkins
- Piteba Nut and Seed Oil Expeller Oil press
- Sow True Seed
- In Defense of Okra
- Tomato varieties: stupice, yellow perfection, Azoychka , Tess’s Landrace, Tigerela, Yellow pear, black cherry, Jeune Femme
- Proper seed storage
- Squirrel Stopper
- Loquats
- Climate Emergency Mobilization
- Climate Emergency Mobilization Los Angeles
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400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success: A Decade of Tricks, Tools, Recipes, and Resources from Gardenerd.com. Gardeners are always on the lookout for the best advice to increase yields, reduce pests, and to achieve success in the garden. Organic vegetable gardening expert and founder of Gardenerd, Christy Wilhelmi, satisfies a gardener’s thirst for knowledge in her new book 400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success: A Decade of Tricks, Tools, Recipes, and Resources from Gardenerd.com.
Thanks for having me as a guest on your podcast. I really enjoyed talking with you both.
Thank you Christy. Sorry that I put an extra “N” in Gardenerd!
Now I know why celeriac doesn’t work well for me. I’m in southern Alberta, Canada and we have a short growing season (frost free late May to early September). We’re near the Rocky Mountains so we get pretty big swings in temperature on a daily basis – 80F days to 50F nights. If only winter worked to grow stuff. -30F is not uncommon and we can go weeks never being above freezing.
That was a fun, relaxed conversation.
By the way, there is only one “n” in gardenerd.com
Michael you need a paid position at Root Simple as editor. Thanks for catching that mistake!
as always a great podcast to listen to. many thanks!
also the first tomato variety referenced/noted is stupice or stew peach?
Thanks for catching my mistake. Christy is growing stupice tomatoes: https://www.rareseeds.com/stupice-tomato/.
Just catching up on podcasts after a vacation—this was a fun one to listen to! Thanks for the great episode!
Thank you for listening!