104 Erin Schanen the Impatient Gardener

Root Simple Podcast

On the podcast this week we talk to garden blogger Erin Schanen, the Impatient Gardener. Erin lives in a small cottage in Southeastern Wisconsin. During the show we discuss some of Erin’s recent blog posts and other subjects including:

• Gardening mistakes.
• Dealing with creeping bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides) and other weeds.
• Remodeling a cottage.
• Erin’s day job as editor of Sailing Magazine. You can hear more about Erin’s sailing adventures on Garden Fork Radio episode 421.
• How to plant a tree.
• Killing plants.
• Winter and gardening with climate change.
• The folly of taking shortcuts with your soil.
• The importance of testing soil.
• Where to have soil tested.
• Deer!
• Messina’s Deer Stopper.
• Planting a memorial tree.
• Sweet peas.
• Grow lights.
• A lavender lined path.

Websites: The Impatient Gardener, Impatient Gardener on Facebook and Instagram, @impatientgarden on Twitter. Special thanks to Eric of Garden Fork for introducing me to Erin!

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