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First Aired - 01/30/2011 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants, Carmen & Alice are joined by Sharon Lovejoy, author of "Trowel and Error: Over 700 Tips, Remedies and Shortcuts for the Gardener". Together they discuss why gardening and horticulture can be so magical and why it's not as difficult as you think to start your own garden! Tune in for tips on how to turn a small space into a fertile wonderland, and learn why it's so important to give your kids the bug of raising buds. This episode was sponsored by Tabard Inn. For more information visit www.tabardinn.com
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Sharon Lovejoy (16:05)
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Cambria, We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, Heritage Radio Network, Sharon Lovejoy, all gardeners are superstars!, poison hemlock, looks like it has blood dots on its stem, children are our next hope, she had a garden and herb shop, Hearst Castle, Angela Lansbury, you can transfer a sense of wonder to children by teaching them how to grow things, kids feel like parents to plants, garden projects, toothpicks in an avocado, The After Dinner Gardening Book, Comfort Sound, literary lodging, the Earth is magical, every bit of it will grow something, Willow Water recipe,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/17/2011 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants we're taken head first into a big sack of rice-related readings as Carmen and Alice break down the most delicious of all tall grasses. Learn how rice got here, how we first grew it abroad and at home, and what varieties grow well where. Rice to meet you!
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Rice from 6,000 BC to 1700 AD (11:10)
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Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, Groundworks Inc, Rice, Rice was brought to the states in 1685 by a ship, the ship was damaged by storm and exchanged rice seeds for repairs at port, by the 18th century rice became a major export croup in South Carolina due to slavery, what else is going to grow in the swamp?, tobacco and indigo, wind fan, grinding, winnowing, mortars, rice is like wheat or millet, rice grows wild in South East Asia, people first farmed rice in Thailand around 6,000 BC, Rice was spread around quite a bit by Alexander the Great, by 800 AD people in East Africa were growing rice, Chinese farmers first invented the rice paddy, paddies save water and help kill weeds, Louisiana and Mississippi are very tied to rice, rice was a major crop for colonists by 1700; especially Carolina Gold Rice, rice moved westward to cheaper land, mechanization lowered rice harvesting costs, Chinese immigrants' influx brought more rice to the states, .,Harvesting Methods (14:42)
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Carmen grew up eating Carolina rice, where does rice grow best for today's market?, the plant itself can grow up to 15 feet in deep water, rice is very obviously a grass, 90% of the rice grown in the US is consumed in the US, some Asian countries continue to produce rice by hand, mules and oxen cannot be used in traditional means of growing rice as they would sink into the soft soil, human hands were therefore needed, regulating water through the fields, planting by hand means dropping a seed into a hole made in soil with a toe then tamped down with foot, Carolina Gold was usually flooded 3 times, the sprout flow the stretch flow (for insects) and the harvest flow (to support the stalks), growing rice by hand is back breaking work, Middleton Place is a plantation in Charleston, winnowing, Native American or Wild Rice, Native American's harvesting methods were often sacred, harvesting by canoe, rice as commodity,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/29/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants join Carmen and Alice as they speak to Scott Apell, horticultural taxonomist, about some of the stranger and more exotic vegetables available this summer. Learn about snow peas with extra serrated wings, why eggplants are never guys, and the best way to make gooseberry pie! This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.
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Scott Apell: Off the Horticultural Beaten Path (15:54)
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White Oak Pastures, we've had our fill of common vegetables, uncommon vegetables, its hot in Vieques, Scott Appell, The Green Man, Scott is a horticultural taxonomist, Scott is an author as well, The Horticultural Society of New York, Scott is up to his elbows in gooseberries, Gooseberries are from Sri Lanka, Gooseberries do well in drought and purple with a few edible seeds in them, Gooseberry pie, Okinawa Spinach, a daisy cousin, puslane, purslane is high in iron and potassium, purslane with fresh tomatoes and red onion, Asian winged beans, a snow pea with four edges, the edges are serrated, they're a legume, everything is available from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, www.Heirloomseeds.com, is it easy to grow an Asian winged pea?, this is not a spring pea however, you need a trellis to grow it, how many days of growing until harvest?, just like a regular pea the young leaves and pea shoots make a great vegetable, Mexican Sour Gerkin, it looks like a watermelon, they are great in salads raw or as pickles, cook them like you would tomatoes or eggplants,More Uncommon Vegetables (14:12)
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The Ramones - When I Eat Vegetables I Think of You, people need to try new vegetables, for a couple of bucks for a pack of seeds why not?, for years people didn't eat things in the nightshade family, now we've accepted members of the nightshade family, eggplants are part of a really toxic group, nightshades are gorgeous looking, multi-colored eggplants and tomatoes look great in a flower bed, Eggplant is from India, Naranjilla, means little orange, Naranjilla is from the Andes and looks like an eggplant on steroids, the fruit is like a small bright yellow cherry tomato with a green interior, you can make sorbets or juices out of them, its easily five feet tall, Cassabanana, the fruit is incredibly fragrant, the fruit has bright orange flesh and is very juicy and delicious, its a big plant and needs support as it can grow up to 50 feet tall, the fruit ripening in time may be an issue, fruit vs vegetable is really a culinary thing, botanically something with seeds is a fruit, you often hear on cooking shows how the male egg plant is more bitter than the female eggplant, that's a ridiculous statement like calling a pregnant woman male, if it has seeds its the swollen female ovary of a plant, Scott has the life!, could you grow the Naranilla in Colorado?,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
