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There's always something new to learn about gardens and gardening!

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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Sep 29, 2021

They're a popular source of blues, purples, pinks and other colours in the fall garden ... although, as far as botanists are concerned, most of them aren't actually asters.

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Sep 23, 2021

Keiki paste is used to propagate certain kinds of orchids -- but what's in it, does it really work, and can we use it on other plants?

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Sep 18, 2021

There are more species of rust fungi than any other plant pathogen. Once you have it, there's not much you can do about it, but you can make things more challenging for the rust.

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Sep 13, 2021

Willow water, honey and many others are touted as natural alternatives to rooting hormone. But do they work as well as rooting hormones -- or at all?

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Sep 9, 2021

Rooting hormones an easy way to improve the odds that our cuttings will take root -- and also to speed up the process a little bit.

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