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with Julia Dimakos This month on Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing have been talking all about planning your garden, growing hydroponically, and growing anywhere you can squeeze in a plant! In this episode, returning guest Julia Dimakos discusses growing under lights and her new e-book How to Plan …Read more About “Growing Under Lights”

with Gardening Girl Julia Dimakos In this week’s episode of Down the Garden Path, Matt and Joanne welcome returning guest Gardening Girl Julia Dimakos to discuss autumn edibles and her gardening endeavors for 2021. Even though the days are getting shorter, Julia shares some of the wonderful edibles you can still plant for a late-season …Read more About “Autumn Edibles”

with Gardening Girl Julia Dimakos In this week’s episode of Down the Garden Path, Matt and Joanne welcome returning guest Gardening Girl Julia Dimakos to discuss digging deep with veggies. Julia started growing food after having children and fell in love with it!  She gardens organically and tries to keep things simple while growing new …Read more About “Digging Deep with Veggies”

In this week’s episode, we’re talking July in the Garden! We look at some of the ways to help you keep your garden cool and happy, and some of the fantastic plants we still have to look forward to. We’ve seen a wet, cool Spring 2019. Although all the rain has made our gardens lush …Read more About “July in the Garden”

  We are excited to welcome Veggie guru Niki Jabbour and her latest book Veggie Garden Remix to this episode of Down the Garden Path Podcast. One of the hottest and consistently growing topics and commodities in the gardening world is growing your own food. But knowing where to start can be a bit overwhelming. …Read more About “Niki Jabbour: Veggie Garden Remix”

‘Down the Garden Path’ Podcast Ellen Ecker Ogden is a kitchen garden designer and is the co-founder of The Cook’s Garden seed catalogue, and author of five books on cooking and garden design, including The Complete Kitchen Garden. Ellen joins us on this episode of Down the Garden Path to chat about Kitchen Garden Design …Read more About “The Complete Kitchen Garden : Ellen Ecker Ogden”

“DOWN THE GARDEN PATH” RADIO SHOW This week is all about vegetables. Matt and I discuss the key tips to maintaining a vegetable garden through out the hot summer months. From choosing the proper location, to matching the crop with the season, we cover it all. Remember, it’s never too late to start your own …Read more About “Maintaining Your Summer Vegetable Garden”

“DOWN THE GARDEN PATH” RADIO SHOW… Megan Cain the Creative Vegetable Gardener joins me to discuss the importance of planning your vegetable garden and extending your growing season but planting cold hardy crops. A lot of tips and trick in this show, so tune in now!

One of the benefits to a Landscape Design Plan is how it allows homeowners to break the work into stages over time.   In this case we started with a blank canvas of a very square fenced in yard in 2008. The home owners invested in a very large blue spruce and round square cut …Read more About “The Benefits To A Landscape Design Plan”