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Garden Variety

Whether you're a master gardener, just getting started or somewhere in between - there's always something new to learn in your garden and landscape. On each episode we'll talk with horticulturists, foresters and other experts. We'll learn about vegetable gardens, lawns, native plants, trees and more. Garden Variety is the podcast for all the things you'd like to grow or grow better. Garden Variety is a horticulture podcast from Iowa Public Radio and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.

Throwing shade and catching rays

11 mins; March 01, 2024

BONUS: Philadelphia Flower Show

9 mins; February 19, 2024

The key to a successful garden - variety!

13 mins; February 16, 2024

Flowers for that special some bud-y

12 mins; February 02, 2024

Water hydroponics good for anyway?

12 mins; January 19, 2024

Extra, extra! Seed all about it!

13 mins; January 05, 2024

BONUS: Behind the Scenes with the Hort Gang

13 mins; December 22, 2023

Tree-mendous advice for your holiday plants

13 mins; December 15, 2023

Holidays are betta with a poinsettia

11 mins; December 08, 2023

Bird is the word and less is more

13 mins; December 01, 2023

Let's get to the root of the issue

13 mins; November 10, 2023

Do weekend garden tasks before clocks fall back

13 mins; November 03, 2023

Don't believe the web of lies about spiders

12 mins; October 20, 2023

BONUS: Getting ready for fall

5 mins; October 16, 2023

A very prairie episode

12 mins; October 13, 2023

Color me glad

12 mins; October 06, 2023

Mum is the word, and we're telling everyone

12 mins; September 29, 2023

Honeyberry, I'm home!

0 secs; September 22, 2023

The shrub can't even handle me right now

0 secs; September 15, 2023

We're keen for greens this fall

0 secs; September 08, 2023

Social Wasps do their own sting

0 secs; September 01, 2023

BONUS: Fireflies in Iowa

0 secs; August 30, 2023

Mower lawn care advice

13 mins; August 25, 2023

BONUS: Everything melon

0 secs; August 23, 2023

A bunch of grape advice

0 secs; August 18, 2023

BONUS: Our favorite garden Q&A

0 secs; August 16, 2023

Is the grass greener? Choosing new plants

0 secs; August 11, 2023

Singing Scissor Grinder Cicada all summer long

0 secs; August 04, 2023

Who turnip-ed the heat?

0 secs; July 28, 2023

Sweet re-leaf

13 mins; July 21, 2023

Can I offer you a cucurbit of advice?

0 secs; July 14, 2023

Beetlemania

12 mins; July 07, 2023

Don't forget the trees!

0 secs; June 30, 2023

Keep your tomato plants feelin vine

0 secs; June 23, 2023

Puns and roses

0 secs; June 16, 2023

Have you tried turning it melon and off again?

12 mins; June 09, 2023

International flavors, grown at home

0 secs; June 02, 2023

Fern up the volume

13 mins; May 26, 2023

What's your damage?

0 secs; May 19, 2023

Check out our tick talk

13 mins; May 12, 2023

And they lived appley ever after

12 mins; May 05, 2023

BONUS: the morel of the story

17 mins; May 02, 2023

Tree advice you can be-leaf in

12 mins; April 28, 2023

Not just tu-lip service

12 mins; April 21, 2023

Building a healthy garden from the ground up

0 secs; April 14, 2023

Keeping that lawn green

0 secs; April 07, 2023

Don't let this shrub you the wrong way

0 secs; March 31, 2023

Mow grass, mow problems

0 secs; March 24, 2023

Fruit tree advice that's pear-fect for spring

0 secs; March 17, 2023

Late winter advice that's cool as a cucumber

0 secs; March 10, 2023

You wood not make it without this tree and shrub advice

13 mins; March 03, 2023

The window to prune is closing soon

0 secs; February 17, 2023

I like you a vio-lot

12 mins; February 03, 2023

And this zone is just right

12 mins; January 20, 2023

Getting the bugs worked out

13 mins; January 06, 2023

Celery-brate the holidays with the 2022 gardening gift guide

0 secs; December 16, 2022

Impeckable advice for supporting bird populations

13 mins; December 02, 2022

Branch out this winter with our forestry expert

13 mins; November 18, 2022

How to get holiday blooms on your cactus

0 secs; November 14, 2022

Insect puns bug me

13 mins; November 04, 2022

Clean, gourd fun

12 mins; October 28, 2022

Find the greener ornamental grass

0 secs; October 14, 2022

It's leaf peeping season in Iowa

0 secs; October 07, 2022

It's leaf-peeping season in Iowa

0 secs; October 07, 2022

Turf's up

0 secs; September 30, 2022

Daffodils for spring? Groundbreaking

10 mins; September 23, 2022

Core knowledge for great apples

0 secs; September 16, 2022

Not just good, grape

0 secs; September 09, 2022

Bees are reveling in fall pollen

0 secs; September 02, 2022

Fall in love with late season perennials

12 mins; August 26, 2022

Pining after healthy conifers

0 secs; August 19, 2022

Strong to the finish, overwintering spinach

12 mins; August 12, 2022

Making your lawn seed-sational

12 mins; August 05, 2022

Answering berry important questions

12 mins; July 29, 2022

How can we help monarch butterflies?

12 mins; July 22, 2022

Insert corny pun here

11 mins; July 15, 2022

What to do when all h*ll oaks loose

12 mins; July 08, 2022

Happy little trees

0 secs; July 01, 2022

Happy little trees

0 secs; July 01, 2022

Stalk talk: caring for broccoli and cauliflower

0 secs; June 24, 2022

Ch-ch-changes: talking about growth and how landscapes evolve

0 secs; June 17, 2022

Find the best groundcovers for your yard

0 secs; June 10, 2022

Bonus episode: gardening and native plants

0 secs; June 07, 2022

Ants in your plants

0 secs; June 03, 2022

Late bloomers: it’s not too late to plant sweet potatoes

12 mins; May 27, 2022

Peony for your thoughts

0 secs; May 20, 2022

How to care for apple trees

12 mins; May 13, 2022

Hunting morels with a real fun guy

0 secs; May 12, 2022

You say tomato

12 mins; May 06, 2022

Introducing: Garden Variety

0 secs; May 03, 2022

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