311-Gardening Science: How Your Garden Really Grows
The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Among gardeners, there is a lot of advice out there that sounds clever and wise, but when you begin to look into it, you learn there is no concrete evidence to back it up. My guest this week, Dr. Stuart Farrimond, has authored a book on gardening science to explain what the research says about what we do in the garden — both the things that work and the things that just aren’t effective.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner |
| 0:04.3 | show. |
| 0:05.3 | I know you love any topic on the Science of Gardening, so how about an entire podcast |
| 0:09.6 | with the author of a brand new book out of the UK by that exact title, The Science of |
| 0:15.0 | Gardening, by Dr. Stuart Faramond. |
| 0:18.0 | That's what's in store for today's show, and as we get ready to kick things off, here's |
| 0:21.9 | an important reminder from our friends at Territorial Seed Company. |
| 0:25.6 | You've heard me mention that Territorial Seed has lots of great transplants for your warm |
| 0:29.1 | season garden, but May 7th is the deadline to order your transplants for the season. |
| 0:34.1 | The plants will ship in the last half of May, and new for this year, they'll be in bigger |
| 0:38.2 | pot sizes. |
| 0:39.6 | That means more room for roots to grow and breathe, so the plants are stronger and sturdier |
| 0:43.5 | than ever before. |
| 0:45.0 | And always remember to get your transplants watered, and then set in an appropriate place |
| 0:49.1 | as soon as they arrive, and plant them as soon as you can after that. |
| 0:52.9 | Go to TerritorialSeed.com slash Joe for a 10% discount on transplants and all other territorial |
| 0:58.5 | seed items that's TerritorialSeed.com slash Joe for 10% off your order. |
| 1:04.3 | I wanted to start off this episode in a very unique way, by having today's guest Dr. |
| 1:09.8 | Faramond read a brief section from the introduction of his book. |
| 1:13.9 | When I read it, it really resonated with me, and his writing is so good, and I thought |
| 1:18.9 | that you might enjoy hearing part of that as well. |
| 1:22.0 | So to set the tone for today's episode, here's a bit of that introduction. |
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