Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening

Grow a better vegetable garden, whether you're a seasoned gardener or have never grown a thing in your life. Karin helps home gardeners learn to grow their own food using evidence-based techniques and research. She talks all about specific plants, pests, diseases, soil and plant health, mulch, garden planning, and more. It's not just the "how" but also the "why" that makes us better. The goal? For everyone to know how to grow their own food no matter what sized space they have or their experience level. Tune in each week to plan, learn, and grow with your friend in the garden, Karin Velez.
Who's Eating My Garden? Identifying and Deterring Common Backyard Wildlife - Ep. 314

Who's Eating My Garden? Identifying and Deterring Common Backyard Wildlife - Ep. 314

In this episode, we're working through the full lineup of backyard garden critters, starting with the animals most home gardeners deal with every season: squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, deer, and racco...

Organic, Conventional, or Homegrown: What the Research Really Shows About Nutrition - Ep. 313

Organic, Conventional, or Homegrown: What the Research Really Shows About Nutrition - Ep. 313

In this episode, I dig through the peer-reviewed research on three separate questions: whether organic farming produces more nutritious food, whether soil health itself changes the nutrient content of...

Why I Trust University Extension - Ep. 312

Why I Trust University Extension - Ep. 312

If you've listened to this show for any length of time, you've heard me point to University Extension again and again as my go-to source. But I've never actually explained why. In this episode, we're ...

The Science We Got Wrong: How Plant Research Rewrote the Rules for Gardening - Ep. 311

The Science We Got Wrong: How Plant Research Rewrote the Rules for Gardening - Ep. 311

In this episode, we walk through four real case studies of plant science changing its mind and what all of this means for the choices you make in your own garden each season, now and into the future.