The Healthy Garden

Do you know the Steps to Growing Healthy Soil? What is True Organic vs. Faux Organic? How is the Toxic Baby Food Scandal linked to Soil? 

Are you harvesting rainwater? What other countries are doing it? Do you know the 4 myths about collecting rainwater? See how you can harvest rainwater today.

Do you care more about your plants than your soil? What type of fertilizer have they been using on the east coast for hundreds of years? Have you used any biological inoculants in your garden? 

What is the best thing that you can do in your garden this fall to promote a healthy spring garden? Do you know what a microbial inoculant is and what they do in your garden? Where can you get the best seeds for a great cover crop? 

What were some of the different types of fun that people had throughout history? When did gardening become a fun leisure activity? What can you do to put FUN back into your gardening?

Who was Rudolf Steiner? What do shorter days and longer nights mean for your garden? Do you know what to do for your fruit trees this fall? 

What is the threshing of a harvest? During what period did villagers start the gardening protocol called "Scaring the Birds"? Do you know what gardeners and farmers call the first frost under 28 degrees? 

What are the 6 best things you can plant in your garden to boost your immune system? Do you know what natural remedies they used successfully in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic? 

How do plants get fed in the rain forest? What are the top 3 reasons you should be using Compost Tea in your true organic garden? How often should you use Compost Tea in your garden? Why Compost Tea?

What do you feed your plants? What does the history of fertilizer tell us about today's best methods? What microbial diversity is helping to feed our food? 

What does William Shakespeare have to do with your tomatoes? Are nightshades really deadly?  What are Alkaloids and Glycoalkaloids and how do they affect your garden? 

Why isn't there any good top soil to buy at nurseries and soil yards? Do you know the 12 steps to raised bed gardening? 

Where did raised bed gardening come from? Why don't we ever use "Top Soil" in our raised bed mixes? What's the most important thing to any raised bed garden?

Are you ready for the Dog Days of summer? What does that even mean? How will you take care of the most important part of your garden? How much warmer can soil temps be than the air temps? 

The recession of 2020 is going to be twice as bad as the Great Recession. Are you ready? Do you have a long-term plan for how you're going to feed your family when the food shortages really hit? Who is going to feed you Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Minneapolis, Portland, Austin, Chicago, Sacramento, Atlanta, New York, Louisville, Cleveland, Detroit, Washington DC, Charleston, Denver?

Do you know what Faux Organic is? Have you been duped by the snake oil manufacturers who peddle Faux Organic? We need to change the way we consume. Are you a part of the problem or part of the solution?

Is your irrigation killing your plants? What is more important than your plants? How do you water your food gardens correctly? What's the best way to water an organic garden?

What are the 11 steps to practical pest management? Are you ready to win the war in your garden this spring and summer? Find out if Randy ever got "that dirty rat" that took his prize strawberry.

What is the Orwellian Garden? Is it possible our food system is shutting down? How far are we from all becoming Winston Smith? 

Is your garden dead or alive? What are the usual suspects that kill a garden? What happens after we kill our garden? 

What happens if the modern food chain breaks down? Why is the Old Victory Garden not enough anymore? What do you need to know about growing a NEW Victory Garden? How could it save you and your family during the global pandemic? All this and way more...

Why are we growing food, and if we're growing food, why aren't we growing healthy food? Food that's true organic, Non-GMO, and without the herbicides that come from conventional Ag and green waste. This and more as always!

Randy's back! Thank God! How are you handling the pandemic? Do you have a plan if the food shortages become real? What crop in the Andes helped save Europe? All this and more as usual.

Norma fills in for Randy Ritchie on this informative podcast! Do you want to start composting at home? Are you confused about how to make good compost? What are the steps to create good, finished, aerobic compost at home? 

What is the connection between healthy soil and a healthy gut? Do plants and humans need the same minerals? How do you create healthy living soil? 

What have garden clubs and horticultural societies done for the world? Why do garden clubs and horticultural societies need our help? How can you benefit from joining one or many? 

How many gardens were growing their own food during World War II? How do you begin to visualize your ultimate garden? Do you know how to change the channel from conventional or faux organic to true organic? 

Who were the four people that started Organic Farming? What was the book that focused on soil productivity over a period of 4,000 years? What does Intentional Gardening mean to you? 

Do you trust organic labeling? Are the animal by-products in your gardening products organic? What are the red flags to look for when you're shopping for food or garden products? 

Do you ever wonder what is the difference between all those bags of potting soil at the nursery? Do you know where the compost comes from that's in your favorite potting soil? What are true organic ingredients to look for in a healthy potting soil? 

Can you list the top 10 things you should never use in a true organic garden? What's in your soil? Are you putting toxins in your garden from conventional Ag waste? All this and more in this episode.

What are you grateful for? Who made you want to be a gardener? Who were the people in your life who taught you how to garden? Do you know the secrets to gratitude? Meet the 8 people that inspired Randy Ritchie on his garden path. 

Do you know where the first Nursery in America was started? Did you know that independent garden centers and nurseries are closing all around the country? Are your gardening values being taken away from you? What are the steps you can take to make sure that the companies and products that you value stick around? That and more in this episode of The Healthy Garden podcast.

How do you weed your organic garden? What did our ancestors used to do? Do you know what the glyphosate patent was registered as? Unlock the mystery of weeding and more in this episode. 

Do you have clay soil? When were the first tools used to deal with clay soil created? What are the 3 steps you need to take to fix your clay soil? This and more details in this episode.

What do you never put into an organic garden? What did the Colonials do in their fall gardens? Why is soil temperature important and how do you find out what yours is? What are the steps to take in your fall garden? This and more in this episode!

What should you never use on your houseplants? What are the three basic organic protocols for taking care of houseplants? What microscopic worms get rid of houseplant pests? This and more right here!

Who was known as the greatest English Gardener? What single element in the garden changed gardens forever? Who are the new stewards of the Earth? 

What do you feed your houseplants? Do your houseplants have a salt ring around them? When was the last time you transplanted them? Where do your houseplants come from? All and more coming up in this episode! 

Welcome to our very first episode of The Healthy Garden Podcast, sponsored by Malibu Compost. Are GMOs ok? Are they something I should be concerned about? Why is everyone talking about them? What's the deal with food safety and GMOs? Do you know what the connection is between GMOs and Glyphosate? These are relevant questions and more that we will be discussing in today's podcast. 

Our last installment of the Organic Gardening Series! Randy Ritchie Rants about life, soil, and faux organics. This is one you don't want to miss! Stay tuned for next week's brand new topic that you aren't going to hear on any other garden podcast. 

Are you using Compost Tea in your garden? If not, why not? What's so great about Compost Tea extractions? Why is a Compost Tea preferred over a 15-15-15 fertilizer? What is a true organic protocol for fungal diseases? When can you drink Compost Tea? This and much much more!

Are you using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in your garden? Are you spraying BT in your garden? Do you know what impacts BT has? Have you ever released ladybugs and they flew away? Do you know what beneficial nematodes to drench your soil with? Does your potting soil have herbicide residue in it? All this and more!

What is the key to Organic Protocols? How do you recharge your soil? How do you keep toxins out of your garden? Why don't we recommend Bone Meal, Blood Meal and Feather Meal? Download this episode and find out.

What is the most important part of any organic gardeners garden? Where do the worms come from? Why are worms in some gardens and not in others? What makes compost smell like Earth?  We answer these questions and more in this Part 2 of our Organic Gardening series.

Are you growing organic food? How do you know? What makes organic, organic? Do you have healthy soil? What makes a healthy garden? Who controls the organic labeling? Have you ever heard about organic protocols? All this and more on Part 1 of our Organic Gardening series. 

#2 The Soil Medium Episode: Where did potting soil come from? Who invented it? Do we even need it today? How does it impact our environment? What's the difference between a planting mix and a potting soil? These and more questions on Soil will be answered in this podcast episode.