The Daily Gardener is a weekday show.
It will air every day Monday - Friday
(I’m taking weekends off for rest, family, fun, & gardening!)
The show will debut April 1, 2019. The tagline for the show is thoughts & brevities to inspire growth.
Shows are between 5 - 10 minutes in length.
The format for the show begins with a brief monologue followed by brevities.
The Brevities segment is made up of 5 main topic areas.
1. Commemoration: Here, I dig up fascinating people, places, and events in horticulture and share them with you. This is the “On This Day” #OTD portion of the show helping you feel more grounded and versed o n the most enchanting stories from the history of gardening.
2. Unearthing Written Work: This is made up of poems, quotes, journal entries, and other inspiring works pertaining to gardening
3. Book Recommendations: These are the literary treasures that will help you build a garden library, strengthen your gardening know-how and inspire you.
4. Garden Chores: A Daily Garden To-Do; improve your garden one actionable tip at a time
5. Something Sweet: This segment is dedicated to “reviving the little botanic spark” in your heart - to paraphrase botanist Alexander Garden; to add more joy to the pursuit of gardening.
The show sign-off is: "For a happy, healthy life: garden every day"
There are a few easter eggs in the show for Still Growing listeners. I still start the show with - "Hi there, everyone" and I end the show by saying the show is "produced in lovely, Maple Grove, Minnesota”.
The music for the show is called “The Daily Gardener Theme Song” originally dubbed “Bach’s Garden". I wrote it on Garageband. It will be available as a ringtone for your smartphone through the show’s Patreon page.
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Historical Events
1814 Birth of Charles MacKay, Scottish poet,
writer, and songwriter.
In The
Collected Songs of Charles Mackay, Charles wrote a
song about the Meadow Sweet:
Rose! We love thee for thy splendor,
Lily! For thy queenly grace!
Violet! For thy lowly merit,
Peeping from thy shady place!
But mine airy, woodland fairy,
Scattering odors at thy feet,
No one knows thy modest beauty,
No one loves thee, Meadow-Sweet!
1851 Birth of Alice Morse Earle (books
by this author), American historian and author.
Alice wrote two garden books: Old Time
Gardens (1901) and Sun Dials and Roses of
Yesterday (1902).
Alice wrote,
Farm children have little love for nature and are surprisingly
ignorant about wildflowers save a few varieties. The child who is
garden bred has a happier start in life, a greater love and
knowledge of nature.
On the peony, Alice wrote:
[She] always looks like a well-dressed, well-shod, well-gloved
girl of birth, breeding, and of equal good taste and good health; a
girl who can swim, and skate, and ride, and play golf.
1902 Birth of Thomas “Tommy” Dolliver
Church (books
by this author), California landscape architect.
Tommy pioneered the modern California Style design style. In 1955,
Tommy wrote,
When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful
than you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have
cost only a little more than you had planned.
Unlike people, gardens never strive for perpetual youth—they
want to look old from the day they were born. Their greatest glory
comes with maturity.
1904 Birth of Cecil Day-Lewis (books
by this author), Irish-born British poet. He used the
pen name Nicholas Black for his mystery stories.
Cecil was the Poet Laureate for four years before his death in
1972. He was also the father of actor Sir Daniel
Day-Lewis.
In Cecil's Overtures to Death and Other
Poems (1938),
In June we picked the clover,
And sea-shells in July:
There was no silence at the door,
No word from the sky.
A hand came out of August
And flicked his life away:
We had not time to bargain, mope,
Moralize, or pray.
Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation
The Food Forest Handbook by Darrell Frey and Michelle
Czolba
This book came out in 2017, and the subtitle is Design and
Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden.
Before I even get started with my review, I have to say that this
book gets high praise on Amazon; it's a five-star book.
The authors are passionate about growing food year-round - without
fossil fuels - and increasing biodiversity on the land and wild
market gardening.
In the introduction to their book, Darryl and Michelle point out
that the food forest is one of the oldest ways to garden.
It's the edges of the forest that were the most fruitful places
for both hunting and gathering. And today, food forests are making
a comeback.
Now you might be asking yourself, what is a food forest?
Well, a food forest is simply a food-producing garden that's built
around trees and perennials. I've been a passionate fan of orchards
and mini orchards for the past couple of years. I'm installing one
up at my cabin, planting even more trees this spring.
Darryl and Michelle point out that,
A well-managed food forest is an integrated system and it
includes all kinds of plants, fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicinal
plants, and plantings that promote beneficial insects and balanced
nutrients.
And in case you're starting to feel a little overwhelmed. Don't be.
Because these food forests can be simple and include only a few
species, or they can contain a myriad of plants.
The bottom line here is that Darryl and Michelle will help you feel
confident and inspired to create your own food forest, whether on a
small or grand scale in your backyard, front yard, patio, or
allotment.
This book is 256 pages of planning, designing, and managing your
very own food forest.
You can get a copy of The Food Forest Handbook by Darrell
Frey and Michelle Czolba and support the show using the Amazon link
in today's show notes for around $20.
Botanic Spark
1920 Birth of Edwin George Morgan (books
by this author), Scottish poet and translator
associated with the Scottish Renaissance.
He is remembered as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th
century. In 1999, Edwin became the first Glasgow Poet
Laureate.
In 1968, Edwin wrote,
Yes, it is too cold in Scotland for flower people; in any
case
who would be handed a thistle?
Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener
And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every
day.