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Welcome to Empress of Dirt's Two Minutes in the Garden. In bite-sized informative updates—two minutes and some seconds each—we cover a wide range of topics from gardening basics to current research and assessing myths and folklore. Listen to all previous episodes below!
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Nov 28, 2020
Grafting is one of the fundamental techniques of plant propagation where you create a new plant by connecting pieces of different plants that have traits you know you want.
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Nov 24, 2020
Lots of year-in-review articles and surveys have started to appear -- and, by all accounts, it was a fantastic year for garden centers and for gardening.
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Nov 19, 2020
We know a lot about plastic in the ocean, but we're only beginning to understand its effect in soil. Are plastics safe for gardening and what can we do to make them safer?
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Nov 14, 2020
Can you really give your plants the water and nutrients they need through their leaves from sprays instead of through their roots from the soil?
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Nov 11, 2020
The cuticle is where your plants interact with the world. Among many roles, they largely control how effective plant sprays are.
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