Just Grow Something | Evidence-Based Home Gardening
How to Know When Winter Squash is Ready to Harvest (and How to Store Them) - Ep. 315
In this episode, we're breaking down exactly how to read maturity on butternut, acorn, spaghetti, delicata, and storage pumpkins. Then we'll cover what to do with a squash patch when frost is bearing ...
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
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
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 ...