{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Good Growing","title":"Ep. 127 A year in review of our 2022 vegetable gardens | #GoodGrowing","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2286,"description":"On this week's Good Growing podcast, we look back at 2022 to review what went well in our vegetable gardens, and also some lessons learned from the struggles of growing food in Illinois. From annoying critters to the beauty provided by some of our edible crops we cover it all. \n\nWatch on YouTube https://youtu.be/cmDVlZ00ecU\n\nSkip to what you want to know:\n\n0:37 Hey Ken!\n1:21 Our year in review of the 2022 garden\n2:02 Types of poblanos Chris tried in 2022\n2:43 Raccoons had different ideas about the poblanos and how we handled them\n4:09 Ken's artichoke adventures - delicious and pretty\n6:53 Chris' Caracas Carrots - still in the ground for winter harvest and works well in heavier soils\n9:02 Ken grows lovely dryland rice...and then the birds showed up\n10:39 Tomato talk (and Chris continues to vent about the raccoons)\n14:10 Sweet corn struggles and a fertilizer experiment (not an official experiment or recommendation)\n19:20 Homegrown celery, not your normal grocery store celery\n21:37 Drunken Woman Frizzy head lettuce - goes to show good names sell seed\n23:12 Growing a monster Jarrahdale pumpkin vine, with only one pumpkin. Plus dealing with squash bugs and squash vine borer. (and pretty pictures of squash vine borer)\n27:23 Ken's cotton - attractive, unusual, and susceptible to lawn herbicides\n31:56 Maypop (Passion flower) - a native fruit with wonderful flowers and attractive to carpenter bees. Beware it does spread!\n33:49 Carpenter bees pollinating Maypop flower\n34:22 Thank yous!\n35:35 Coming up next week and goodbye!\n\n\nJeff Gillman's article on using urine as fertilizer https://gardenprofessors.com/want-an-organic-source-of-nitrogen-that-isnt-shipped-from-halfway-across-the-world-urine-luck/\nA fun (and informative) video from Jeff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR2Qu_RZmT8\n\nContact us! \nChris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu\nKen Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu \n\nCheck out the Good Growing Blog: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowing\nSubscribe to the weekly Good Growing...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/R8M4jy-2EktViSJpDBxEJL2IulcAlRJg8ktxlDJM3UA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNDE1LzE2ODk3/OTA0NTktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}