176-Always Learning: 10 Lessons the Garden Has Taught Us in 2020, with Meg Cowden
The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The most satisfying triumphs in the garden are built on experimentation and, yes, what many call failures, but what I always call learning opportunities. Perhaps no one I know pushes the boundaries of what's possible in the garden further than veteran gardener, Meg Cowden of the blog Seed to Fork, so I invited her on the podcast this week to find out what lessons she's learned from her garden in 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe |
| 0:23.1 | Gardner Show. |
| 0:24.1 | A few weeks ago, we featured an on-core episode with Meg Coulden, a great vegetable and |
| 0:29.7 | flower grower outside of Minneapolis, St. Paul's own 4a or 4b, but who really cares |
| 0:35.7 | when it gets that cold in the winter time? |
| 0:37.5 | I'm talking about like 25 degrees below zero. |
| 0:41.0 | Good grief. |
| 0:42.0 | And yet, leave it to Meg to defy the Gardening odds by pushing the limits on what she |
| 0:47.2 | grows, coming and going, not waving the white flag as it's getting really cold. |
| 0:52.7 | She squeezes all the juice out of the orange. |
| 0:55.7 | Let's just say that. |
| 0:56.8 | Her specialty is succession planting, and she does it as well, or better than anyone |
| 1:01.2 | I know. |
| 1:02.5 | And so if you heard that episode, it was 170, from six weeks ago, you know a lot more |
| 1:07.9 | about how all that works and how good Meg is at it. |
| 1:11.9 | But since I first recorded that live episode about two years ago, Meg hasn't missed a beat. |
| 1:17.6 | And in fact, she continues to hone her skills. |
| 1:20.5 | And that's one of the things I love about Meg, and gardening in general, really. |
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