Are you ready to be converted to living a gardening life? Each week, join Carol Michel and Dee Nash, both passionate gardeners, authors, and long-time bloggers, as they chat over the garden fence about flowers, veggies, and all the best dirt on gardening. Carol and Dee have the audacity to call themselves gardenangelists, evangelists for gardening, and want everyone to dig in the dirt, sow a few seeds, and enjoy the simple pleasures and even a few pitfalls of a gardening life. If you are ready to live a gardening life or already live one this is one podcast you don’t want to miss.
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The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt is a leisure podcast hosted by Carol Michel, Dee Nash, with 396 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.
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Carol Michel, Dee Nash hosts The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt, a leisure show with 396 episodes published.
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Episode #30
Rain for Carol, Heat for Dee
Aug 18, 202641 minS8
Send us Fan Mail Carol and Dee talked about refreshing container plantings for fall, new veggies for the vegetable garden, a book of garden columns, and more. Check out our Substack newslette r for more info. To watch us on YouTube, click here: Insect of the Week Great Black Wasp … a solitary pollinator. Flowers: Is it worth refreshing annuals in late summer for fall? Vegetables: It’s not too soon to plan for 2027. All-America Selections Winners for 2026: Tomato BadaBing! F1 Kale Rubybor F1 Pole Bean ‘Majesty’ Butter Lamp F1 Winter Squash Basil Treviso - New Varieties sent to Carol from Burpee Akoya Small-Fruited Tomato Sweet 150 Small-Fruited Tomato Pick N Pop Orange Sweet Pepper Monteverde Late Flowering basil On the Bookshelf: Back to the Garden by Ursula Buchan (2009) ( Amazon for used copies) Dirt: The five plants every pollinator garden needs Rabbit Holes: Judi Dench’s Shakespeare: The Man Who Paid the Rent. Carol’s blog post for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day . A Garden to Visit: Holcomb Gardens at Butler University and the Indiana Native Plant Society (INPS) Thank you: As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here . Book links are also affiliate links. And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment. With a shared love of gardening… Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener , Dee: RedDirtRamblings , Our podcast: TheGardenangelists . On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club . On YouTube .
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about mandevillas, veggie cookbooks and more in this week's episode. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter . To watch us on YouTube, click here . Insect of the Week: Lily leaf beetle, prompted by a reader’s questions. Check Wisconsin Extension on how to identify and how to control. This site shows the range Flowers: Mandevillas and Bougainvillas Vegetables: More recipes from the garden. My New Roots: Inspired Plant-Based Recipes for Every Season: A Cookbook by Sarah Britton. ( Bookshop , Amazon ) Check out her website and her Instagram account Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden ( Bookshop , Amazon ) On the Bookshelf: My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner (1899) ( Bookshop, Amazon ) Dirt: Chatsworth Garden Design Revealed in the Drought Rabbit Holes: The Botanist’s Assistant by Peggy Townsend ( Bookshop , Amazon ) Lots of interesting deadly plants mentioned. Also Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster : Words that first appeared in print for the year you were born… A Garden to Visit: Beth Chatto’s Gravel Garden Thank you: As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here . Book links are also affiliate links. And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment. With a shared love of gardening… Carol and Dee Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener , Dee: RedDirtRamblings , Our podcast: TheGardenangelists . On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club . On YouTube .
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about decorative beans to grow for flowers, beans to dry, and other gardening topics. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch on YouTube, click here. Links! Verbena bonariensis 'Vanity’ from All-America Selections Insect of the Week June Beetles Info from Wisconsin Horticulture Extension Flowers: Hyacinth beans - Lablab purpureus Scarlet runner beans - Phaseolus coccineus Yardlong beans - Vigna unguiculata subsp. Sesquipedalis Corkscrew vine beans , Cochliasanthus caracalla Vegetables: Alternative beans to grow - black beans, kidney beans, northern beans - mostly for drying. General info from the Old Farmer’s Almanac . Seed sources for older varieties: Rancho Gordo , Seed Savers Exchange , and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange On the Bookshelf: Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste by Bill Best ( Amazon Link ) Dirt: Harkening back to last week’s episode on trees: Planting Trees at Waddesdon Manor Rabbit Holes: Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Danske Dandridge , The Garden at Rose Brake: Garden Writings of Danske Dandridge , Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls’ Mother by Rachel Tretheway (2026) Slightly Foxed podcast . A Garden to Visit: Visit an All-America Selection garden near you! Thank you: As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here . Book links are also affiliate links. And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment. With a shared love of gardening… Carol and Dee Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener , Dee: RedDirtRamblings , Our podcast: TheGardenangelists . On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club . On YouTube .
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about trees, including what to consider when buying a tree, pawpaws and walnut trees around the veggie garden, a tree essay book, and more. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter . To watch us on YouTube, click here . A couple of miscellaneous links: Carol’s ritual of the first tomato blog post from 2006 and Play-Doh Blooms ( Amazon ) Question of the Week: Why did a big limb that looked healthy suddenly fall out of my tree? More info from Davey Tree Company Insect of the Week: Mimosa Webworms - Info from Purdue - a tale of two kinds of treatment. Flowers: How to choose trees for your garden Vegetables: Pawpaw trees - Check them out at Stark Bros Walnut trees - Info from Garden Professors Blog On the Bookshelf: Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree: A celebration of our connection with trees by David George Haskell ( Amazon Link ). Haskell also wrote H ow Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries a nd The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature . Check him out on Instagram . Dirt: Judi Dench and her passion for trees. A clip/intro to her documentary My Passion for Trees Rabbit Holes: Dee: A new cookbook, The HIgh Protein Plate , by Rachael DeVaux, RD. Carol: Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann (2005), a new biography about Katharine S. White ( The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker , by Amy Reading), and a new Lost Lady of Garden Writing . A Garden to Visit: United States National Arboretum Thank You: As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here . Book links are also affiliate links. And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment. With a shared love of gardening… Dee and Carol Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener , Dee: RedDirtRamblings , Our podcast: TheGardenangelists . On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club . On YouTube .
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about coneflowers, share some new veggie recipes Dee is trying, discuss a book on wildflowers and more. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter . To watch on YouTube, click here. Question of the Week: How do I grow a wildflower meadow from seed? Mini Meadows , by Mike Lizotte. He explains it well. Insect of the Week Blue Orchard Mason Bee . You can make nesting boxes for them or buy commercial ones Flowers: The Enterprise of Echinaceas, and why do we have so many varieties? We are speaking of Echinacea purpurea. Watch out for aster yellows, a disease that can infect coneflowers. More info from Missouri Botanical Garden Vegetables: Let’s share some summer recipes! Authentic Shopska Salad Recipe Cold Yogurt Cucumber Soup - Tarator Princesses (Bulgarian Ground Meat Sandwiches) Recipe - Food.com Dee’s Zucchini Squash Challenge on her blog On the Bookshelf: A Naturalist’s Book of Wildflowers: Celebrating 85 Native Plants of North America by Laura C. Martin (2021) ( Amazon ) Dirt: Another dose of cuteness on Instagram, a farmer-gardener with his two young daughters, the two “supervisors”. Meet Jeremiah_Farmer .They also have pigs! Rabbit Holes: Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Katharine S. White . And Carol’s tips for getting your garden to produce more veggies . A Garden to Visit: Dallas Arboretum . One hot place when we visited! Thank you: As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here . Book links are also affiliate links. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener , Dee: RedDirtRamblings , Our podcast: TheGardenangelists . On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club . On YouTube .
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