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Episode 73: Fall Wrap-Up 2017

December 15, 2017 hilary dahl
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Today we’re recapping our favorite crop varieties of 2017, along with our lessons learned and best garden tips. This is our last episode before we take a short winter break. During the break, we'll be working on getting our late-winter and early spring episodes lined up and ready for you, so don't worry, there will be lots of great content coming your way in the new year!


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SHOW NOTES:

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Our favorite crop varieties of 2017

  • Lessons learned and best garden tips

Important Take-aways:

  • Our favorite flower varieties of 2017 include:

    • Quartet stock: a branching variety that will continue producing throughout the season.

    • Zinderella Peach zinnias: where every blossom is unique with double blossoms, semi-double blossoms, and a wide range of colors.

    • Benary’s Giant zinnias: they flowers are tall and prolific and make great cut flowers.

    • Our favorite crop varieties of 2017 include:

    • Shishito peppers: they don't pack a lot of heat but each plant produces a tons of fruit. They are a perfect appetizer pan fried with sea salt.

    • Nelson carrots: these carrots are a consistent size and full of flavor. Interestingly, Nelson seeds are declining in popularity in Europe, where the seeds are bred, so there may be limited availability going forward.

    • Small Wonder spaghetti squash: this variety of winter squash is not only tasty, but it’s easy to grow because there is plenty of time for it to mature on the vine.

    • Little Finger eggplant: we were harvesting full tote bags from some gardens during the peak season this year.

  • Our lessons learned and best garden tips from this year include:

    • Growing more Mexican sour gherkins - kids especially can’t get enough of this great variety!

    • The keys to successfully growing beets is overseeding and feeding with an organic fertilizer

    • Use a calendar to remind yourself to succession sow every 2-3 weeks during your garden season - life moves fast and this way you won’t forget.

    • Speaking of life moving fast, it’s okay to simplify in the garden too. You might consider consolidating your crop list and planting even more storage crops like carrots, onions, potatoes and garlic.

Nelson carrots and Shisito peppers:

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Zinderella Peach and Benary's Giant Zinnias (far right):

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Sour Gherkins on cucumber cage and on a trellis:

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Katz and Quartet stock:

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A huge thanks to our friends at Elevate Chiropractic and Rehab for helping to sponsor this episode! To receive a complimentary PDF of exercises you can do in the gardening off-season to help make sure your body is ready to go when spring rolls around, email getwell@elevatechiropracticrehab.com or submit a request through their website www.elevatechiropracticrehab.com


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Hilary Dahl
Hilary Dahl

Hilary Dahl is a co-owner of Seattle Urban Farm Company and host of the Encyclopedia Botanica podcast. Since 2010 Hilary Dahl has been helping beginning and experienced growers create beautiful and productive gardens. She has the unique experience of working in on a wide range of projects, from small backyard garden plots to multi-acre vegetable farms. She also works in her own garden every day after work. Hilary is also the creator of our podcast, the Encyclopedia Botanica, which she started as a way to share effective and efficient garden management techniques, and as a way to spread her love of growing food and flowers!

Colin McCrate
Colin McCrate

Colin McCrate has been growing food organically for over 25 years. He worked on a variety of small farms in the Midwest before moving to the west coast in 2003 to teach garden-based environmental education. He founded the Seattle Urban Farm Company in 2007 with the goal of applying years of horticultural and agricultural expertise to help aspiring growers get projects off the ground or more accurately; in the ground.

Since starting Seattle Urban Farm Co in 2007, he has helped guide hundreds of urban farmers through the design, construction and management of their own edible landscape. Colin is the author of three books; Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard(Mountaineers Books, 2012) and Grow More Food (Storey Publishing, 2022); and is a garden writer for the Seattle Times.

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