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Hosted by: Carmen Devito & Alice Marcus Krieg

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Garden designers, Carmen Devito & Alice Marcus Krieg of Groundworks Inc, will delve into our human relationship with plants: as food, medicine, fodder and as a source of beauty and inspiration. We’ll bring the “culture” to horticulture and discuss such topics as: botany how to, cultivation, horticultural history, garden design trends and all things generally budding.

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Recent Episodes

We Dig Plants - Episode 32 - Unusual Veggies

We Dig Plants - Episode 31 - Marty Markowitz

We Dig Plants - Episode 30 - Roof Garden Primer

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Episodes:
We Dig Plants - Episode 32 - Unusual Veggies
First Aired - 08/29/2010 03:30PM

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?,

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We Dig Plants - Episode 31 - Marty Markowitz
First Aired - 08/22/2010 03:30PM

This week on a very special We Dig Plants Alice and Carmen sit down with Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz. The gang discussed designing, maintaining, and adding green spaces in Brooklyn; the over 300 community gardens in Brooklyn; roof gardens; waterfront parks; and of course the newly renovated Coney Island! Tune in for a look at how Brooklyn has blazed trails for community green spaces in the past, present, and future. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of grass-fed beef from the California coast.

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We Dig Plants: Mary Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President (15:09)

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We Dig Plants, Heritage Radio Network, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Krieg, Hearst Ranch, land use of Brooklyn, future of green spaces in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz, Elizabeth Ernish, Brooklyn use to be one of the biggest market garden producing areas in the country, we are starting to regain our connecting to our agricultural history, Eagle Street Farm, Roberta's, Brooklyn Grange, urban farming, Brooklyn is leading the way, Brooklyn farms, what initiatives can the administration support to continue the trends, Governors Island used to be closely connected to Brooklyn, 1898 Brooklyn became consolidated, Harvest Festival in Red Hook, Brooklyn has over 300 community gardens, they need to be protected and supported, battle between development and parks and gardens, Brooklyn has some open space left, there needs to be an imaginative reuse of space, roof gardens, incentives for urban farmers, waterfront parks, Brooklyn Bridge Park, there will always be residents that aren't able to receive higher education, we need a mixed economy, new agricultural greening industries, Pennsylvania Ave landfill, converted to park land, ran by the National Park Service,

Community Gardens and Green Spaces in Brooklyn (11:24)

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extension of Marine Park, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, one of the most beautiful green spaces in America, Spring Creek Park, cricket field, Brooklyn College Campus, one of the most beautiful urban campuses in America, Greenwood Cemetery, development in North Brooklyn, what about the very southern tip of Brooklyn, Coney Island, that community district has over 400 acres of open space, Steeple Chase Plaza, Kaiser Park, renovation of the boardwalk, Coney Island is the playground of America, there used to be hotels down there, reuse of space, you will always need a unique entertainment and amusement space that Coney Island represents, private amusement parks cost a fortune, Brooklyn sets the tone for cutting edge design ideas and people, the Brooklyn brand is well known across the year, Brooklyn Nets, Neighborhood Beautification Fund, the street scape in Brooklyn has been changed, community gardening brings people together, The Greenest Block in Brooklyn, Of Cabbages and Kings Country, Brooklyn is being remade daily, we can learn from studying its history, open public spaces, pedestrian car free zones, the basis of our prosperity is agriculture,

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