Podcasts about prairie nursery

Two regulars are back on Garden Talk. Consulting ecologist Neil Diboll of Prairie Nursery talks about getting everything ready for your native garden. Seed entrepreneur Jere Gettle is back with highlights from this year's Baker Seed catalogue.

Did you know that for many of our most commonly grown native wildflowers and grasses, 2/3 or more of the plant is underground in the form of roots? Or that you can reduce weeding requirements in your native plant garden by understanding the root systems of different plants that you are growing? Or that there is now a resource that can help you avoid mistaking a native plant in your garden as a weed and accidentally pulling it? Today, we are talking to Hilary Cox and Neil Diboll. They are the authors of the newly published book, The Gardener's Guide to Prairie Plants. Neil is also the president and consulting ecologist of Prairie Nursery, located in Wisconsin. The full transcript of this episode can be found at: https://www.backyardecology.net/growing-prairie-plants

Gardeners are busy now planting Dutch bulbs for a spring show, but there is an environmentally more beneficial alternative: native spring ephemerals.  Neil Diboll, founder and president of Prairie Nursery, shares how to use these early blooming natives to create truly perennial early spring color while also benefiting pollinators and other wildlife.

A pioneer in the native plant industry and recognized internationally as an expert in native plant ecology, Neil Diboll has dedicated his life to the propagation of native plants, promoting their benefits and furthering their use and in restoration projects. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Neil talks about the roots of the native plant movement, the importance of native plant species and their role in the food web, and how we all need to be respectful stewards of the land in order to secure a healthy future for all. More about Neil and Prairie Nursery: https://www.prairienursery.com/resources-guides/neil-diboll-consulting-ecologist/ Also available on your favorite podcast apps Website: https://noordenproductions.com/nature-revisited-podcast Nature Revisited is produced by Stefan van Norden and Charles Geoghegan. We welcome your comments, questions and suggestions - contact us at https://noordenproductions.com/contact

Chris and Don interview Dave Riddell from Ohio Prairie Nursery (OPN). Dave discusses the importance of planting and maintaining native grasses and forbes. He also shares the benefits of a healthy prairie for pollinators, birds & wildlife. He offers suggestions on how the average homeowner can help restore our prairies.

Neil Diboll, president of Prairie Nursery and pioneer of the prairie gardening movement, discusses the ecological strengths of our native meadow flowers and grasses

GoldenSeeds#12.NeilDiboll.Prairie (https://mikesgreengarden.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/goldenseeds12.neildiboll.prairie.pdf) The Golden Seeds aren’t perfect but it’s a start. I like to read them in PDF format better what about you? Neil Diboll, President of Prairie Nursery, Inc. On the Web: (http://www.prairienursery.com/) (http://www.facebook.com/prairienursery) 1-800-476-9453 (1-800-GRO-WILD) We would love to help you with anything and even help you find some seeds or plants that would grow! Gardens are  focused on needs desires of humans only life gardening for all farms plants animals critters bugs sustainable ecosystem on people’s properties native plants. The real importance of native plants is that they have co-evolved with other linked to one brought to another long periods f coevolution support very few of other invertebrates adaptation foundation of the food change limited value ecology what resource was important doug bringing nature home more valuable the other thing to get the chemicals out of the environment native plants are great because 1 you don’t have to fertilize and you don’t have all the maintenance associated with it and opposed to a lawn you don’t have all the petrol chemicals and gasoline building it or running  the equipment. steal plastic most important if I don’t see holes in the leaves of my plants. I’m a failure as a gardener encourage my plants to be eaten insects are eating them and insects are eating the birds so I have an ecosystem in my yard. I mean birds eating the insects. You are creating a food chain, creating a food web, in your garden. So we are no longer just gardening for human interests and human returns gardening for all forms of life sharing revolutionary concept for gardening. Tell us about your very first gardening experience? I started out  in first grade with my first garden. Our class was raising money for some endeavor by selling garden seeds for ten cents a packet, door to door to neighbors.  I decided that if I was going to sell people a product, I should at least try it myself.  The garden was a miserable failure due to terrible soil conditions, and I suspended my gardening efforts for ten years. I learned to garden organically at age 16 when I decided to try vegetable gardening again in the same backyard.  This time I double dug the future garden two spade lengths deep in the fall, and filled the hole with the leaves we raked up in our yard.  The hole consumed all the leaves without hardly denting the chasm.  I then collected leaves from the gutters on my block, and filled the hole with one foot of leaves, covered by an inch or two of clay, until I had a three foot tall “mass grave,” as my extremely skeptical parents referred to it. A giant mound in the backyard. By spring, it had settled down to about 18 inches in height, and I planted my garden.  It was a spectacular success, producing an abundance of vegetables and greens, and I was suddenly a genius gardener! Used that garden for years ~ even after I went to college my parents used it for years. I love that! It’s like you built your own deep beds right there. Like what people talk about today building deep beds no till style. Tell us about your amazing CV that talks about all these things. I went into business in 1982! Why did I go into business? Well, for a number of different reasons. I worked for the US. Forest Service  in Colorado and the University of Wi where I live now. But there was limited employment for 6 months. and I just wasn’t a public sector person, there was a lot of bureaucracy. Then when the recession of 1981-82 hit. When you can’t find a job, what do you do? You create your own I created a backyard garden retiring at age 68 old farmhouse outside of greenery ok if we use that land if we rent the... Support this podcast

This month on We Dig Plants, hosts Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito visit Zone 4 of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes the Wisconsin prairie. A pioneer in the native plant industry and recognized internationally as an expert in native plant community ecology, Neil Diboll has guided the growth of Prairie Nursery for 30 years. He has dedicated his life to the propagation of native plants and their promotion as uniquely beautiful, ecologically beneficial and sustainable solutions for landscapes and gardens. In 2013 Neil was the recipient of the Great American Gardeners Award from the American Horticultural Society. We Dig Plants is powered by Simplecast

OK, so maybe "No Mow" is a seedy fiction, but there ARE alternatives to conventional turf that can save water and work, turn down the Lawn Boy's carbon emissions - even support the lives of pollinators. All while keeping that sweet green place to play for our kids and dogs. Today's needs have evolved, somewhat, from the country's original No Mow situation:               Neil Diboll, president of Prairie Nursery in Westfield, Wisconsin, returns to Earthworms to elucidate the what-why-how of Lawn Alternatives. His No Mow Lawn Mix is proving popular in central Wisconsin's sandy, loamy soil. And his youth in University City, MO, gave Neil a healthy appreciation for our heat-loving Zoyzia grass. Of course he encourages transformation of areas in your turf into flowering prairie-like pollinator islands. Move over, John Deere - there are turf alternatives here!                              Could a local, creative plantsman develop a "No Mow" mix for our St. Louis area's hot summers and clay soils? Working with nature, the grass COULD be Greener! Music: Magic 9, performed live at KDHX by Infamous Stringdusters THANKS to Cody Pees, Earthworms engineer and discerning listener Related Earthworms Conversations: Growing a Joint Venture with Nature (February, 2017)

Wildflowers are moving into the city - and plants with "weed" in their names are welcome even in the 'burbs. Sure and steady as Oak trees, a Native Plant revolution is changing the ways we experience our yards, our parks, our school grounds and even our corporate campuses.                        Neil Diboll, President of Prairie Nursery in Westfield, Wisconsin, has grown this wild idea for 35 years. He was digging native plants when his business "couldn't give 'em away." Now he - and many humans like him - can't get enough of the kinds of plants that let our species garden in a Joint Venture with Nature.                                       Mitch Leachman cultivates this mania here in the KDHX listening area. As head of St. Louis Audubon, he leads volunteers from groups with names like Wild Ones and Master Naturalists in efforts to "Bring Conservation Home" - the wildly successful Audubon program that comes to your yard with guidance to garden ecologically.  Let this Earthworms conversation welcome you to the realm of Native Plants. Want to learn more? You're in luck! March brings workshops, talks and plant sales bursting like Milkweed pods with Native Plant knowledge, opportunity, and FUN! Neil Diboll will headline the 2017 Partners for Native Landscaping Workshop on March 3 & 4 - hosted this year at St. Louis Community College-Meramec, where native plant horticulture training is taking off like Prairie Blazing Stars.  Additional visiting Native Plant maven: pollinator plant author Heather Holm. Need a lift for your spirits? Start gardening for butterflies, birds and bees. Pick some flowers with "weed" in their names. Meet folks who've got the Native bug - and let yourself catch it too! Music: Agnes Polka, performed at KDHX by the Chia Band, 1999. THANKS to Andy Coco, Earthworms engineer, and to all the Partners for Native Landscaping organizations. Related Earthworms Conversations: Prairie Power: Native Plants, Soil Health, Biodiverse BEAUTY (March 30, 2016) Wes Jackson and The Land Institute: Growing Our Food Crops as Prairies? (September 15, 2015)