Tips And Tricks To Grow Your Garden In A Changing Climate. March 10, 2023, Part 2

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Tips And Tricks To Grow Your Garden In A Changing Climate For many of us, spring is right around the corner—or already here—which means it’s time to start thinking about what is going into your garden this year. But largely thanks to climate change, our seasons are getting wonkier every year. Gardens are feeling the heat as climate change affects the timing of the seasons, temperature extremes, the amount of rainfall, the intensity of droughts, and more. So it’s more important than ever to plant a garden that can be more resilient to these changes. In this live show, Ira talks with a panel of guests about planting a climate-resilient garden, and how to set your plants up for success. He’s joined by Laura Erickson, a birder and author of “100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Turn Your Home Garden Into a Healthy Bird Habitat,” Dr. Lucy Bradley, a horticulturist and extension specialist at North Carolina State University, and Dr. Tiffany Carter, research soil scientist at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.

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0:00.0	This is Science Friday. I'm Irafledo. To say that this has been a strange winter would be stating, overstating the obvious, like 60 degree temperatures in the northeast when it should be in the 30s.
0:14.8	It's a warming climate trend. The winters aren't as cold in some places colder than other spring comes earlier,
0:22.9	and the plants, they don't know what to do. They poke up their new shoots up through the soil
0:27.2	weeks earlier than expected, then a sudden freeze comes by and kills the buds. I was going
0:34.0	through seed catalogs looking to plant a garden that's more resilient to these changes.
0:40.0	And that's what we're going to talk about this hour.
0:42.5	Plants, soil, gardening to attract and feed the wildlife like the birds and the bees and the other pollinators.
0:49.8	And the good news is that we're taking your gardening questions too.
0:53.9	What do you want to know about
0:55.3	planting a climate resilient garden? Give us a ring. You make the call, but only if you make the call.
1:01.7	Our number 844-724-8255-844-Sai Talk, or of course you can tweet us at SciFri. And maybe you have some hints or tips that you'd like to share.
1:13.4	844-724-8255.
1:16.8	And we have a bunch of guests who are going to help us out here.
1:19.6	Let me introduce them.
1:20.9	Laura Erickson, a birder and author based in Duluth, Minnesota.
1:25.0	Her most recent book, 100 Pl to feed the birds. Turn your
1:29.5	home garden into a healthy bird habitat. Also, Dr. Tiffany Carter, research soil scientist at the USDA,
1:37.6	based in Lincoln, Nebraska. If you've listened to the show, you know how much I am interested in the
1:42.1	soil. And Dr. Lucy Bradley, a horticulturist,
1:45.6	an extension specialist in North Carolina State University in Raleigh. And I'm sure Dr. Bradley
1:50.9	answers all kinds of questions about people's soil and their gardens and what's wrong, what's
1:55.6	going right. And she'll answer yours if you phone us. All of you, welcome to Science Friday.
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