The Garden Culture Podcast with Bailey Van Tassel Bailey Van Tassel
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The Garden Culture Podcast is more than just a how-to garden podcast, this is a place where we let the garden inspire our lives, as well as get to know incredible people who infuse their own lives with the magic of nature and gardening. Follow along as we talk about what to do in the garden each month and interview interesting people who weave gardening into their lives. Our host, Bailey Van Tassel, is a home gardener and the founder of a national gardening club. Her goal is to get more people gardening, especially in suburbia and small spaces, as she has. Bailey's mission is to make gardening an American pastime and a part of our innate culture. Her hope is to have more families raise their kids with a reverence for nature and an instinct for growing their own food and flowers.
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Secrets To Jumbo Vegetables & An Organic Family Fertilizer Company
Spoiler alert: at the end of this episode are the secrets you've been waiting to hear for how to have the most envious vegetable garden. Bailey Van Tassel interviews Ann Malloy, one of the owners of Neptune's Harvest, an organic fertilizer company. It was founded by Ann's grandfather, who left school at 14 to help provide for his family. Their story is incredible and along the way we learn about how beautifully they've built a truly organic fertilizer company from fish by-products that fuel the most productive gardens through nutrient-building.
Ann invites us into her world by explaining how the fish fertilizer is made, how they run the business now, and how they've developed the products that work so magically, without compromising their organic and pure promise. Ann shares about giant pumpkins, combatting powdery mildew, roses, products that organically kill grubs and so much more.
Ann's favorite books: Illusions by Richard Bach and The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson
For more information on Neptune's Harvest, go to www.neptunesharvest.com or ask your local nursery.
For more information on Bailey, go to www.baileyvantassel.com
Huge thank you to our amazing sponsor Pinetree Garden Seeds. For info on Pinetree Garden Seeds go to superseeds.com and use code GARDENCULTURE24 for 20% off. -
Minisode: Growing Tomatoes
In this mini episode, Bailey Van Tassel shares her tips for growing organic tomatoes. She covers the basics of cultivating them, as well as personal advice, common pitfalls, and favorite tomato varieties.
Favorite tomatoes:
Rapunzel, Snow White, Sungold, and Rosso Sicilian
For more information on Bailey, go to www.baileyvantassel.com
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Wool Pellets in Your Vegetable Garden
This week we unpack the secret behind my favorite garden amendment as of late - wool pellets. They are SUCH a triple threat - holding moisture, repelling slugs, and slow-releasing nitrogen. We talk to Megan, the founder of Kestrel Ridge Pellet Co., who started her business as a way to make use of the incredibly wasteful wool industry. The wool by-products that come from either unsellable or undesirable wool make for fantastic fertilizer. When pelleted, it's easy for the home gardener to use. Megan walks us through how she got started in this business, and why wool does in fact make such a great amendment.
To get more info on Kestrel Ridge Pellet Co. and to order wool pellets, go HERE.
Code BAILEY10 for a discount.
For more info on Bailey Van Tassel, go to www.baileyvantassel.com or follow along on instagram HERE.
Huge thank you to our amazing sponsor Pinetree Garden Seeds. For info on Pinetree Garden Seeds go to superseeds.com and use code GARDENCULTURE24 for 20% off. -
Planning Your Vegetable Garden & Companion Planting Debunked
Mapping out where all of your vegetables go in the kitchen garden can be overwhelming. Have no fear - I have a system for you! It's my own Poker Planting method that helps you prioritize and plan based on what you want to grow the most, and then fit things in from there. I do follow some companion planting basics, which I talk about. But mostly we debunk how important companion planting is and instead talk about biodiversity.
We did a live recording of using the poker planting method and it's available for anyone inside The Kitchen Garden Society. Membership is re-opened! For a limited time. Go to www.thekitchengardensociety.com
For the book, Carrots Love Tomatoes, go HERE.
For more info on Bailey, go to www.baileyvantassel.com or follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel
Thank you so much to our sponsor Pinetree Garden Seeds. Visit superseeds.com for more information and use the code GARDENCULTURE24 for 20% off. -
How to Start A Flower Farm with Kylie of Gray Girl Farms
Kylie Gray Ailers joins us today and goes deep into her journey of starting a flower farm. Kylie owns and operates Gray Girl Farms which sells Dahlia flowers and tubers, as well as peonies now. Kylie walks us through the surprising agronomy side of growing tubers (it's like growing potatoes!), as well as the details on getting started with purchasing wholesale tubers, operating costs, getting soil samples, the works. Kylie shares about her "do less and get good" philosophy as well as how she avoids staking her dahlias, against the internet's recommendation. Kylie is motivated by teaching her children to have a strong work ethic as well as leaving them a flower legacy and her story is proof of that, as well as encouraging for anyone looking to jump into flower farming.
For more info on Kylie, www.graygirlfarms.com or follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/graygirlfarms
Kylie's Book Recommendations:
Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden
For more info on Bailey www.baileyvantassel.com or follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel
Get free downloads and hardiness-zone-specific planting charts at stan.store/baileyvantassel
For more information on Pinetree Garden Seeds, visit superseeds.com with the code GARDENCULTURE24 for 20% off -
1,000 Hours Outside with Ginny Yurich
Ginny Yurich is the Founder of 1,000 Hours Outside, a bestselling author, a mother of five, and an advocate for reclaiming childhood and reconnecting families. Today she educates us on why she started the 1,000 Hours Outside movement and what it's done for her and her kids. She is also hilarious and this episode is full of laughs and wisdom. Ginny walks us through how she overcame the dislike of motherhood and caught her breath, the physiology of nature, and how to build a foundation of adventure plus so much more on why she chose this path that she did and how you can too, no matter where you live.
Ginny's Favorite Books:
Homestead Tsunami and The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs by Joel Salatin
Balanced and Barefoot by Angela Hanscom
Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots by Sharon Lovejoy
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
For more info: www.1000hoursoutside.com
Top App to download HERE
www.instagram.com/1000hoursoutside
For more info on Bailey Van Tassel go HERE.
Bailey on Instagram: www.instagram.com/baileyvantassel
Customer Reviews
Such good content
Love this podcast so much! She shares great insight and info on all things garden and more. I started following Bailey on instagram and naturally became obsessed with her garden and all the content she offers through that! I was so excited when I saw she had a podcast too!
Blah
Average at best. This is the generic white toast version of a gardening podcast. Boring, generic topics. No meat or substance.
Not only is she shelf absorbed, but her fake valley girl voice is nails on a chalkboard
Beekeeping
The beekeeping episode was so great and answered so many questions I have had. I like that Bailey has different people on than I have heard on other podcasts! She is such a refreshing voice in the gardening world