Vegetable Gardening

In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show In this episode of the Vegetable Gardening show, Mike chats with Jessica Walliser author of the book, “Container Gardening Complete”.  Jessica is going to fill us in on just how great container gardening can be if you think out side the “container.” She is going to share with us some ways you can repurpose items that you currently have around your house, as well as some advanced container gardening projects out there for you gardeners that like to be challenged. From there, she’ll share with us how to select the right plants for containers, container size and some issues with diseases and pests you might come across along the way. This and so much more on this episode of The V [...]

This Week on Vegetable Gardening In this week’s episode, Jenny Peterson, author of the book The Cancer Survivor’s Garden Companion: Cultivating Hope, Healing and Joy in the Ground Beneath Your Feet, will be stopping by to share her inspirational story of how gardening helped her through her battle with breast cancer.  She’ll fill you in on why it is so important to get outdoors for at least 10 minutes per day to clear your mind. From there, Jenny tells us all about the farm animals she has on her one acre property, how she handles it all, and why the work is not stressful but invigorating.  This and so much more on this week’s episode of Vegetable Gardening.   In This Episode Here’s What We’ll Cover Getting out in the garden to clear your mind Jenny’s Wellness Tip of the Day [...]

In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show In this episode of the Vegetable Gardening show, Mike chats with The Impatient Gardener’s Erin Schanen about how gardening is not as hard as or complicated as you or others might lead you to believe. Erin is going to tell us about her journey from growing in containers in an apartment to today where she gardens on nearly an acre of land growing everything from edibles to flowers and anything in between. She’ll break down for us why so many stop gardening before they even get started gardening and how to overcome that.  She’ll also tell us about how she started blogging her gardening adventures on her website The Impatient Gardener and how that has helped so many people break through and start gardening. This and so much more on th [...]

In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show In this episode of the Vegetable Gardening show, Mike chats with Cindy Meredith, the owner of The Herb Cottage, a nursery in Texas that focuses in on growing and selling herbs. A lot of times herbs are overlooked by many gardeners because they simply aren’t as fun or as exciting to grow as say heirloom variety vegetables. Cindy breaks that myth for us, and teaches us that herbs can be and are just as fun and productive as many vegetable varieties that you will grow in your garden. She will teach us how herbs are perfect to not only grow in your garden beds but in containers and also can be growin indoors.  Cindy will give us her top reasons why herbs should be a part of your gardening, the various herb varieties that you can grow, proper wa [...]

In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show In this episode of the Vegetable Gardening show, Mike chats with award winning author and health coach, Cheryl Meyer on the toxins that are in your body and how to get rid of them. Cheryl’s journey began a little over 5 years ago when she started experiencing chronic pain that her doctors could not diagnose or treat.  She took matters into her own hands and studied up on anything and everything that may be causing the discomfort she was experiencing.   What Cheryl found was that her body was high in harmful toxins.  Toxins that were derived from the products she was using and the food she was eating. Fast forward to today, Cheryl, a graduate of Cal Berkeley, is a certified health coach, teaching others how to reduce and remove the harmful t [...]

In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show, Mike chats with Green Wisdom Health founder Dr. Stephen Lewis.  Dr. Lewis uses the latest cutting edge research to analyze patient’s lab work to ensure a proper healthy nutrition plan to battle various medical issues that patients are currently facing or that the lab work shows could be an issue in the not too distant future. Dr. Lewis will tell us about the differences between what Americans are eating as opposed to other countries he has visited and why America has been labeled as “one of the sickest” countries on the planet. He’ll tell us what contributes to a wide range of medical issues, how eating lots of fresh home g [...]

In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening show, Mike chats with therapist Phil Deluca on how healthier eating can lead to better relationships. Phil is the creator of a new way of mending relationships through his trademark process called UnTalk, combined with couples eating healthy servings of fruits & vegetables. Organic gardening for over 20 years, Phil noticed that many couple that came in for therapy were not leading healthy lifestyles.  Loaded up on sugars, starches, soft drinks and snacks, Phil decided to combine his therapy sessions with teaching couples to eat healthier.  Doing so has lead to what he calls break throughs in relationships. Phil will share with us what UnTalk is, various means [...]

In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show In this episode of the Vegetable Gardening show, Mike takes us down the memory lane of 2017 and all of the great guest experts that came on the show to share their knowledge. No doubt 2017 was a great year for The Vegetable Gardening Show.  Along with the radio/podcast version of the show which was downloaded over 6 million times, The Vegetable Gardening Show grew on YouTube from 500 subscribers to nearly 1,500 and was downloaded over 100,000 times in over 17 countries.   Mike interviewed over 75 guest experts on the show to bring to you the best information on gardening, health, fitness, and so much more. Without you the audience and the guest experts,

In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show In this episode of the Vegetable Gardening show, Mike chats with Melissa Caughey, the author of the book, “How to Speak Chicken.”  Scientific studies out of Australia have found 24 distinct sounds that chickens make that can be interpreted to be chicken speak.  In other words, your chickens are trying to communicate with you. In her new book, “How to Speak Chicken”, award winning author, Melissa Caughey breaks down the science of these many sounds so that you too can hear what your chickens are trying to tell you. In this interview she is going to go through how she put her book together, what was her motivation behind writing it, and go through the various ways your chickens communicate with you. From there Melissa will [...]

In this episode of The Vegetable Gardening Show In this episode of the Vegetable Gardening show, Mike chats with Darren Sheriff about how to grow citrus at home.  Darren is an expert when it comes to growing citrus, with at one time he grew more than 100 citrus plants in his backyard garden, all in containers. Darren is going to tell us the basics of growing citrus in a home garden as well as growing citrus in containers, he’s going to tell us how to protect citrus plants from colder temperatures and a few ideas to keep the warmth around them. From there Darren, is going to tell us how to properly prune a citrus tree, the size of the container you need to grow citrus, and of course soil and fertilization of your citrus plants. This and so much more on this episode of