Your Midwest Garden Podcast
A casual conversation about gardening in the Midwest with Toledo's Garden Guy, Mike O'Rourke and Rookie Gardener, Scott Sandstrom. Mike interviews various guests, from experts to local DIY gardeners in a relaxed conversation. While Scott keeps the subjects down to the weekend warrior level. We hope you enjoy each podcast episode, as even the most basic topics can reveal a surprise tip or hint you may not know about! Your Midwest Garden is sponsored by Black Diamond Nursery & Lawn Service. Serving the Toledo, Ohio area since 1953!
Episodes
YMGP has found a new product that we think you are going to love! It's just recently been released and we are all on the ground floor. But don't be fooled the by packaging, it's not a gardener's lotion, but as colorful as the bottle is, it's a plant fertilizer!
So simple to use, not only will the beginner like the mild 7-7-7 no burn formula, but the experienced gardener will like the quick 4 pu...
This episode is a follow up to our "Advantages of Rainwater" show in season four. Scott is installing a rain barrel system from Jesse's company at the garden center. This episode talks about siting the system and a bunch of tips from Jesse. So listen in, there's a lot of information here.
AND LISTEN IN FOR A PROMO CODE TO GET A DISCOUNT ON YOUR BLUE BARREL RAINWATER CATCHMENT SYSTEM PURCHASE!!!
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Em Shipman, Executive Director of Kidsgardening.org joins us to discuss kids learning through gardening. We discuss tips to get kids interested by playing in the dirt, experimenting with seed plantings and even just bringing toys into the garden bed. Developing an interest as to where food comes from by activities in and around the garden. Join us for a casual conversation, especially educators and childcare facilitie...
In our first spring 2025 episode, with all the early seeds planted and doing the basement germination thing, Mike & Scott review what they learned over the winter gardening break. I'm sure you remember those essays in school when returning to class in the fall, What I Did On Summer Break... here's the gardener's version!
Some you may know what we learned, hopefully a few ideas you don't. And if ...
And as promised, PRE-SEASON Episode number two, our fav flowering seeds to plant. Don't forget these can be annuals and or perennials you decide to sow. Take a listen as we discuss a few of our favs...
Anybody ever do a large perennial raised bed? Thinking about doing one extra large one at the garden center as a display. Maybe even just a section of the display yard...??? Hmmm...
And we are back! Well... it's a couple of PRE-SEASON Episodes to get the wires humming again. Besides, we are chatting about seed packets, as it's that time of year when you all buy seeds, prep them and back time their planting schedules. Take a listen as we discuss a few of our favs...
Black Diamond Garden CentersWelcome Black Diamond Nursery & Lawn Service. We been a local business in Toledo for ove...
Today we wrap up season number FIVE! This final show of the season is a mixed bag of tidbits and wishes that you had a great gardening season. We know it was tough in the Midwest with another drought, Spotted Lantern Fly, Aphids and of course the sun and HEAT of the summer. Check out our final thoughts of this past gardening season.
Here's the link for your rain barrel system!
https://www.bluebarrelsystems.com
Today's episode recorded just before Summer 2024 ended, is a part two of sorts to our recent episode, The Forgotten Season. This episode has Lisa teaching us about building and using garden row covers. Which let's us to continue growing cool weather veggies all winter long. Doesn't some fresh veggies sound great in the dead of the winter? Here's how you can do it!
Direct link to her blog o...
ENCORE EPISODE: Bringing back one you may have missed in the archives... listen into VINE TIME! Gourds, Pumpkins or Squash?
Mike has a mystery fruit growing in NW Ohio, bringing up the question about Cucurbita (Latin for gourd) or herbaceous vines in the gourd family. Then, the alternative use of pumpkin seeds... got to listen in for that ONE ALONE!
Welcome Black Diamond Nurser...
Today, along with the Midwest Garden Gal... we walk through the simple step by step process of growing garlic in the Midwest.
The good news is that this prcess is spread out over a nine month period and five of those months you don't have much to do at all... if ANYTHING!
Join us and bring a pencil & paper.
We once again welcome in our West of the Midwest podcast contributor, Lisa Hinzman Howard, also known as...
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ALERT EPISODE:
Today's episode stared with a conversation with a garden center customer. And took off from there...
Mike & I have brought on board a returning guest, Amy Stone, of The Ohio State Extension Office to discuss the invasive Tree of Heaven. And the tag along friend, the Spotted Lantern Fly. We chat about how hard it is to remove a Tree of Heaven from your property, to the attraction it offers ...
The Midwest Garden Gal joins us once again to discuss The Forgotte n Season. The late planting season time to sow some more cool weather veggies right now in mid August! Take a listen and take advantage of the warm soil and soon to be cool morning dew. PLUS, get some cucumber scoop form the Iowa expert herself!
Here's the Grow guide:
https://www.midwestgardengal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MGG_Z...
The guys welcome in, returning guest from Season One... Melisa Sherman-Weckerlin! Melisa is the grower at Black Diamond Garden Centers, our business and sponsor, where she also oversees plant buying. Melisa and Scott have been discussing natives though-out the work days this year and it was time to bring her back to educate us with some plant types that work well in our backyards... mainly because they've been he...
Mike & Scott touch on a number of mid-summer gardening issues. From using a "Phone A Friend" Lifeline to basic tomato end rot to save your next harvest.
Black Diamond Garden CentersWelcome Black Diamond Nursery & Lawn Service. We been a local business in Toledo for over 70 years!
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra c...
YMGP went on "on the road" today... we visited the Lucas Soil and Water Conservation District offices to discuss what they do and to find out about an event they are in charge of. So, if you are close by, plan on making a day trip to Holland, Ohio for the Lucas County Farm Connection, on July 20th, 2024.
https://www.lucasswcd.org/lcfc24.html
Welcome Black Dia...
Just a quick update on some news for YMGP as Feedspot RSS Reader has listed our show in their top 15 gardening podcasts for 2024! The best Nursery podcasts from thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by relevancy, authority, social media followers & freshness. Listen in for all the details, plus a few more tidbits.
https://podcast.feedspot.com/nursery_podcasts/
Today we welcome back The Midwest Garden Gal for a pollinators discussion. But more so, since June is perennial month and pollinators week falls within the month of June, we decided to combine the subjects into one fun conversation.
Lisa, The MGG, is based in Iowa and its nice to get that western midwest side of the gardening world news. Check out all things MGG style by visiting her website!
Pollinator W...
It seems like a perennial, the Asiatic lilies are on the come back... popularity wise. These easy to care for "true" lilies have great size and colorful blooms. So stop reading this and hit PLAY on your favorite podcast player app and get the scoop on these sun loving, tropical looking lilies!
Black Diamond Garden CentersWelcome Black Diamond Nursery & Lawn Service. We been a local business in Toledo ...
Welcome Black Diamond Nursery & Lawn Service. We been a local business in Toledo f...
The FOUR C's for this show are not what all the ladies are thinking... today's diamonds are not carats (but carrots is a better guess). Nope, today's C's are Cosmos, Coleus, Cleome and Cabbage (?).
A few sun loving plants we think need 15 seconds more fame than they are getting. So let Mike & Scott help introduce these plants to you, along with our guest from The Minnesota Extension Office....
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