Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda: Garden Edition
Season 6, Episode 20, April 3, 2024
This week we expounded on flowers we wish we’d never planted. Then, we discussed our biggest wins and losses in our vegetable gardens. We found a great new inspirational book and so much more. Consider this our shoulda, woulda, coulda podcast episode.
In our garden updates, we both worked like Trojans in the garden getting ready for Easter and spring. Carol also has a new blog post about her apples, continuing a long and fun tradition. I posted about the time-honored practice of shovel-pruning on Instagram. I thought it was fun and helpful.
For our playing favorites section, I highlighted my double-flowering Japanese kerria and the white daffodils. Both are truly pleasing me right now. Carol loves her Lady Jane tulips shown above.
In the flower segment, we listed a few flowers that we wish we hadn’t planted, or that others hadn’t planted before us. I’m looking at you Asian honeysuckle. I will not take responsibility for that one. Here is Nature Conservancy’s Plant This, Not That for Oklahoma, and Plant This, Not That from Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, both of which are quite good.
In our vegetable section, we shared our successes and failures. The good, the bad, and the ugly remember?
On our bookshelf this week is Seedtime and Harvest: How Gardens Grow Roots, Connections, Wholeness, and Hope, by Christie Purifoy (Amazon Link.) We love her trifecta of essays.
Carol found our dirt. It came from an Instagram post, and she then found more information in Extend Flower Life in Vases, from the Oklahoma State Extension. She also found The Offline Club on Instagram to be charming.
My rabbit hole was all about red algae, a real problem for many Alpha-Gal sufferers including me. Carol’s was about Booklegging and her Lost Garden Lady for the week is Frances Edge McIlvaine.
Oh, and the book that my daughter is reading is The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt (Amazon link.)
Here’s the stuff at the end…
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