Plants Always Win

Ep. 50 Midsummer Cleanup: Rescue Your Neglected Garden

Reclaim your neglected garden! Sean and Erin share eleven steps to overcome the overwhelm and start your own midsummer garden cleanup, even when you’re short on time and

Ep. 49 Community Urban Permaculture with Patrick Tohill

When a city dweller with no gardening experience gets pulled into leadership for a communal permaculture project, he starts using all his spare time to grow food and grow

Plants Are for Everyone with Jesse Thorn

Sean talks with Jesse Thorn about how gardening in LA compares to gardening in Ontario; about produce exchange and community food distribution organizations; and about ac

Ep. 47 Are You Starting Your Spring Garden Right?

Spring is tiptoeing in and we want to set you up for the smoothest garden year ever. This week we’re recording live on location in Erin’s garden and examining what tasks

Ep. 46 Ontario One Call

Are you breaking the law every time you plant a shrub? This week we welcome Ian Simpson, VP of Communications and Corporate Affairs at Ontario One Call. That’s the publi

Ep. 45 Hydrangea Happiness with C.L. Fornari

For some of us, happiness is a hydrangea in full, glorious bloom. And if you’re not yet well acquainted with these flowering shrubs, who better to learn from than The Ga

Ep. 44 Internet Plant Science with Dr. Vikram Baliga

The internet is a minefield of questionable plant hacks, rage bait, and—sigh—banana water. Good thing The Plant Prof is here to shed some science on the matter. Vikram B

Ep. 43 Rosemary vs. Lavender

In this versus episode, we bring you two of the nicest-smelling and slowest-growing plants in the garden. Sean gets us started with rosemary, which is known to science as

Ep. 42 Landscape Design Fails

As the 2026 growing season waves tantalizingly on the far horizon, we’d like to help you prepare for a disaster-free garden. To do that, we’re sharing a few key landscape

Ep. 41 Thoughtful Foraging with Gabrielle Cerberville

If you’re looking to build a relationship with the land that feeds you, you can start by embracing the wisdom of the Internet’s Mushroom Auntie. Gabrielle Cerberville, a

Ep. 40 Nut Trees and Connection with Elspeth Hay

Feeding humanity doesn’t need to come at the Earth’s expense. Elspeth Hay is here to talk nut trees, ecosystems, and humans as keystone species.  In 2019, Elspeth was a

Ep. 39 Plant Evolution: Kid Q&A

Kids ask the best nature questions! For this episode, a class of elementary-school students prepared a list of questions about plants for Sean and Erin to answer. The be

Ep. 38 Little Shop of Horrors

This episode is what happens when two people’s loves for venus flytraps, spooky season, and movie musicals collide.  Yes, we’re doing nerdy Halloween horticulture by ana

Ep. 37 Sunflower vs. Sunchoke

It’s the versus episode they said couldn’t be done.

Ep. 36 Community Gardens with Jessica Letteer

This episode is for anyone who has ever daydreamed about starting a community garden and for anyone who needs the boost of a good-news gardening story.  

Ep. 35 Bat Ecology with Dr. Dana Green Part 2

Dr. Dana Green, a.k.a. "The Eyepatch Biologist" is back for part two! This free-flying conversation just couldn't be contained to a single hour.We plunge straight in this

Ep. 34 Bat Ecology with Dr. Dana Green, Part 1

Dr. Dana Green is a bat expert who is known online as The Eyepatch Biologist. As a science communicator, a pun connoisseur, and a woman who knows a good joke when it's st

Ep. 33 Establishing Apples, Eradicating Horsetail & Fertilizing Flowers

Our gardens are winding down for the season, but our audience is putting on a growth spurt! This crop of new listeners has seeded our Q&A inbox with a flush of questions,

Ep. 32 Home Composting with Delaina Arnold

Do you make compost at home? Do you delight in the experience? If your answer to either of those questions is no, this week’s guest is here to help.Delaina Arnold is the

Ep. 31: Joyful Gardening with Chris Paul Rainbows

“I am very enthusiastic about [gardening]. I don't know if I'm that great at it. I'm not very knowledgeable. I can't really answer any of your garden questions, but I lov