Tending Your Winter Garden

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

You may think that winter is a time when a garden lies fallow, earth upturned and waiting for spring. But there is a lot to do in a winter garden, particularly in our California climate. There is fertilizing, pruning, and even nurturing seedlings for spring. At this moment, when the days are shorter and the world feels darker, tending a garden can settle our mind and also remind us about the promise of regeneration. We’ll talk about the wonders of the winter garden, and hear from you: what’s happening in your garden right now? Guests: Tess Taylor, poet and gardener, Taylor edited the poetry anthology, "Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands that Tend Them" Flora Grubb, co-owner, Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and Grubb & Nadler Nurseries Maya Blow, founder and owner, Soul Flower Farm based in El Sobrante Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for KQWED Podcasts comes from Landmark College, holding their annual Summer Institute for educators from June 24 through 26th.
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0:30.1	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:46.6	Spring makes everyone a good gardener.
0:49.4	Sunshine and the water from the winter combined to make everything just grow.
0:53.7	It's a beautiful thing to look out at your garden or the little box on your window or your
0:57.6	community garden plot and see it just thriving.
1:00.6	But, but it's winter, I think, that sets the true gardeners apart from the pretenders.
1:07.6	And I say this as a pretender.
1:09.3	So today we talk with experts on what you should be doing with your garden right now, here in the Bay Area, during the solsticee time.
1:17.2	We'll learn together.
1:18.3	I'll be here taking notes.
1:19.6	That's all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. How nice has the rain felt. I'm not over it yet. This fall's rain has refreshed the area, given life to the hills
1:45.9	and all the little seeds that have been hiding. And now winter is officially here as of yesterday.
1:51.4	The last leaves have fallen from my apple tree, which I count as the true start of the dark season.
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