
About this episode
On this week's Good Growing podcast, we welcome horticulture educator Emily Swihart to share the new and strange seed we have ordered for our vegetable gardens for the 2023 growing season. Plus, Chris has a monumental task of narrowing down his list of shade trees to only one for his front yard. We tease talking about sunflowers and ornamentals for the yard, but we don't get to them this week. So look for that episode next week.
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0:20 Hey Ken
1:20 Welcome Emily - lamenting on the warm winter weather (mud)
2:11 Ken taps his silver maple for maple syrup
3:27 What are we growing this year?
4:30 Ken - Shiso
6:40 Emily - Porcelain Doll Pumpkin
8:51 Chris - German Butterball Potato
11:21 Ken - Cardoon
12:39 Emily - Heirloom Tomato Collection (Brandywine, Striped German, Cherokee purple, Amish paste) plus a hybrid slicer tomato (Mountain Merit)
16:16 Chris - Sikkim Cucumber
18:40 Ken - Parsnip, and lots of different lettuce types - red iceberg, Blackhawk, Red Sails, Continuity, Devil's Tongue, Deer Tongue, Drunken Woman Frizzy
20:48 Emily - Chamomile and celery (Kelvin)
23:39 Chris - Poblano peppers (Trident and Capitan) and Chris' rant about green peppers
26:03 Ken - Corn (Hooker's Sweet, Painted Mountain, Painted Hill, Silverqueen - for the corn smut)
29:39 Emily - Artisan tomatoes (Blush, Gold Nugget, Indigo Cherry Drops)
31:27 Chris' shade tree decision to replace an ash tree (Black gum, Kentucky Coffeetree, hackberry, or tulip poplar?)
40:12 Thank yous and so long!
Stay tuned for our show where we select flowering and ornamental plants for 2023.
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