The Grow Guide – Details, episodes & analysis

Subscribe to our Patreon to listen to our full-length August episode, featuring the complete interview with our guest, former provincial apiarist for the Province of Manitoba, Rheal Lafreniere https://www.patreon.com/thegrowguide. Plus find images and links to everything we've discussed on this episode here on our website https://www.thegrowguidepodcast.com/

Subscribe to our Patreon to listen to our full-length July episode, covering in great detail both practical and more big picture tasks you can complete in the garden mid-season to enhance your plants and your experience! Plus find images and links to everything we've discussed on this episode here on our website https://www.thegrowguidepodcast.com/

Spring is officially here and Dave and Maggie are thrilled to be back behind the Grow Guide mics. The show kicks off with some BIG news: Maggie is expecting a baby, due this April! Maggie shares some of the ways her spring arrival will change her 2023 gardening strategies, but there is no holding her back and she is fully embracing the beautiful season ahead. After getting good and caught up, Dave and Maggie spend the second part of the show comparing notes on their seed-starting process, answering a series of questions that bring to life the fundamentals of seed-starting, and then some!

Thank-you to this week's sponsor, Plant Vitamins. Use code GROWGUIDE for 10% off your purchase at plantvitamins.ca.  In this episode, Maggie and Dave welcome on Floriday-based carnivorous plant expert and author, Kenny Coogan to share all about this wonderful, unusual world of houseplants. Find full episode show notes and links to everything discussed on our website.

Thank-you to this week's sponsors, West Coast Seeds and Bonadea Gardens.  This week Maggie and Dave welcome on Mary Phillips from the NWF to share her passion about protecting our endangered pollinator species, like the monarch butterflies. There's so much you can do in next year's garden to help out pollinators. Find full episode show notes with links to everything discussed on our website.

Thank-you to this week's sponsor, West Coast Seeds. To enter this week's giveaway for your chance to win a $100 West Coast Seeds gift card, head over to our website and comment on the episode show notes. 

Thank-you to this week's sponsor, West Coast Seeds. Today we chat with a returning Canadian guest, Steven Biggs. Steven is a Toronto-based gardening educator, blogger and podcaster who chats with The Grow Guide about the various Mediterranean edibles he grows in his garden. Get inspired to add figs, lemons and olives to your Northern garden next season. Find the full episode show notes with links to everything discussed on our website.

Welcome back to another episode of The Grow Guide Podcast. We've reached the mid-way point in our Fall season and have another 5 episodes for you before our Winter break. This week's guest, Lea Coté is a Winnipeg local and the the compost program coordinator at Winnipeg's Green Action Centre.  She joins the pod to chat Winter composting, vermicompost, the bokashi method, counterop composters and more.

Thank-you to today's sponsors HealthiStraw and Sproutbox Garden. Maggie and Dave are back chatting all things garlic today with the one and only, Niki Jabbour. Niki shares her wisdom for garlic growing your own organic hardneck or softneck garlic in any sized garden space. Find links to everything discussed in our episode show notes on our website.

Thank-you to today's sponsor, HealthiStraw. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to our neighbouring Grow Guiders. Maggie & Dave catch-up on their Fall gardens before welcoming back for a second time the one and only, Joe Lamp'l. Learn about his hands-on tips for protecting your garden during the off season. Find links to everything discussed in our episode show notes on our website.