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Testing Compost for Contamination at Home + Bermudagrass Beatdown

Release Date: 03/20/2025

What the Pros Wear in the Garden + Celery from Seed to Harvest

Growers Daily

Welcome to episode 122 of Growers Daily! We cover: What the pros wear in the garden and get a celery breakdown from seed to harvest. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: sweet potato video: The crocs I wear: Xtratuf boots: Grundens: Trimming Celery study : Good Basic Celery Guide from MSU: MUSIC from this episode: Fire Trails by Staffan Carlen via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: ...

When You Don’t Have a Mountain of Compost + Asparagus In the Market Garden?

Growers Daily

Welcome to episode 121 of Growers Daily! We cover: Asparagus in the market garden (and why we don’t see that crop a whole lot), navigating the last frost date, and what to do when you don’t have access to epic amounts of good compost for mulching We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Intercropping asparagus study with olives: Dan Brisebois Asapragus Breakdown: Alley cropping asparagus: Cover Crop Playlist: MUSIC from this episode: Lovely Ghost by Binkley via ...

Heating a Greenhouse with Your Soil + What Farmers Need to Know about Retirement

Growers Daily

Welcome to episode 120 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we’re gonna talk about farming and retiring, Climate Batteries, and updates from here on the farm. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Forest Garden Greenhouse: ThreeFold Farm’s Climate Battery Videos: Threefold’s awesome climate battery breakdown page: A Solid Farmer Retirement Workbook: Gen X retirement woes: MUSIC from this episode: via Support our work (👊)...

Creative Ways to Start a Compost Business + How AI Could Change Small Farming

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Welcome to episode 119 of Growers Daily! We cover: AI in the gardens, and Unique composting locations, operations, all of it. And it’s feedback Friday, We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Scrooge McDuck breakdown: Our friend Jack’s AI soil management Site: Times article on Are You Smarter than AI March 5th compost episode: MUSIC from this episode: Let's Work TogetherBy , via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on...

Maximizing Vermicompost + White Shade Cloth Worth it?

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Welcome to episode 118 of Growers Daily! We cover: the fascinating world of shade cloth colors, maximizing vermicompost and what to do about those overwintered carrots. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Worm Farmers Handbook: Shade cloth in horticulture: Adverse effects of shade on lettuce: Shade trials out of the university of delaware. Summer Lettuce Video: benefits of inoculating tree roots: Kalamatta olive study: Biosttmulant effects of vermicompost extract ...

Encouraging Cucumber Beetle Predators + Windbreaks + Interplanting SAFELY

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Welcome to episode 117 of Growers Daily! We cover: the types of interplanting, increasing predators for cucumber beetles (among other dweebish pests), and windbreaks. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Managing Cucumber Beetles in Organic Farming Systems paper: Study on spiders and tree diverstiy: Silvohorticulture book: MUSIC from this episode: “I’m So Confused” By feat. via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on Arpil...

The Culinary Herbs Episode + Gardening Where Once Was a Pool?

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Welcome to episode 116 of Growers Daily! We cover: cilantro, basil, dill, and parsley —(ie the main culinary herbs) and garden life after pools (that one will make sense soon). 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: MUSIC from this episode: "Spring Is You" By via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on Arpil 11th: code NOTILL Mention Growers Daily Tilth Soil : Info @ Tilth Soil dot Com MY BOOK!...

Improve Your Soil This Spring + Spring Cover Crops

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Episode Description Welcome to episode 115 of Growers Daily! We cover: how to improve your soil this spring, what the responsibility of farmers is to their local communities, and cover crops for the early part of the season 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: Feb 21st episode about rising food costs: Compost and decreasing soil pathogens: Compost improve soil structurre: How to start gardenin video: Interplanting Video: Mulch video: ...

Why You Shouldn’t Interplant With Onions + BUT ALSO Polycultures are Still Important

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Welcome to episode 114 of Growers Daily! We cover: why we love polycultures, interplanting with garlic, and it’s feedback friday. 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: GO CATS (that's it. That's the link) MUSIC from this episode: Sway TogetherBy Danish National Anthem by National Anthem Worx Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: code NOTILL Mention Growers Daily Tilth Soil : Info @ Tilth Soil dot Com ...

Testing Compost for Contamination at Home + Bermudagrass Beatdown

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Welcome to episode 113 of Growers Daily! We cover: how to use a backyard garden to prepare for a farm business, Bermuda grass in a hot climate, and testing compost for contamination ‼️ DONATE‼️ https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Bracket challenge (live Sunday): Links for today: OK State U bermudagrass trials: Roundtable on Scaling up the Homestead: Additional video on Homestead to farm: Bioassay Breakdown: MUSIC from this episode: Belle Époque By feat. ...

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Welcome to episode 113 of Growers Daily!

We cover: how to use a backyard garden to prepare for a farm business, Bermuda grass in a hot climate, and testing compost for contamination

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Bracket challenge (live Sunday): https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/pools/kbxw63b2gezdombthezda===?pool-join-key=m4l5sc8uf8ffxr5cjs2m76zvz56m2962&invited-by=ivxhi4tzhiytsnrtgqydgmby&via-medium=copy&ttag=FF25_lk_cbssports_cbb_bpm_copySetupInvite&sender-role=mzaonqamgfe2r7

Links for today:

OK State U bermudagrass trials: https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/bermudagrass-suppression-methods-for-oklahoma-home-gardens.html

Roundtable on Scaling up the Homestead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjC6Sg5nGjg&t=1719s

Additional video on Homestead to farm: https://youtu.be/Lh1MOOpxjAU

Bioassay Breakdown: https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/conducting-a-bioassay-for-herbicide-residues

MUSIC from this episode:

Belle Époque By The Devil's Sway feat. Roof