#235: Growing Your Own Salad Indoors with Author Peter Burke




Vegetable Gardening show

Summary: <br> This Week on Vegetable Gardening<br> <br> In this week's episode Mike chats with gardening expert Peter Burke.  Peter shares with you some of his tips on how you can grow your very own salad indoors, all year round.  Along with authoring two books, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1603586156/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=indocquent-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1603586156&amp;linkId=c29887bf53f51af20ab7a2f55183e22d">Year Round Indoor Salad Gardening</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475097840/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=indocquent-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1475097840&amp;linkId=f26dda740a3f069f2dc75a987d35efa0">Indoor Gardening</a>, Peter is a certified instructor on the topic where hundreds of people turn out for his lectures.  Along with teaching you how to grow indoors, he'll share his list of the best choices of veggies to grow and why.  Peter will tell you all about the common plant disease late blight, what it is, how to get ahead of it and of course how to make sure your plants get cured from it.<br> <br> <br> From there Peter will share with us his expertise on square foot gardening, the various techniques to implement to ensure success and whey planting a garden in a grid is much more productive than traditional rows.  He'll even share with you a great list of green manures that you can grow in your garden, and how to get those green manures to work best for you.<br> <br> <br> This and so much more on this week's episode of Vegetable Gardening!<br> <br> <br> In this episode, here's what we'll cover<br> <br> SEGMENT IUsing green manure in your garden<br> <br> Tackling late blight with fungicide<br> <br> <br> SEGMENT IIGrowing Your Own Salad indoors<br> <br> Learn the 5 basic plants to grow for your indoor salad<br> <br> Growing sprouts<br> <br> <br> SEGMENT IIISquare foot gardening techniques<br> <br> Why planting in a grid is more efficient than rows<br> <br> <br> Items Mentioned in this Podcast<br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1603586156/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=indocquent-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1603586156&amp;linkId=c29887bf53f51af20ab7a2f55183e22d">Year Round Indoor Salad Gardening</a><br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475097840/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=indocquent-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1475097840&amp;linkId=f26dda740a3f069f2dc75a987d35efa0">Indoor Gardening</a><br> <br> <a href="http://www.thedailygardener.com/">The Daily Gardener</a><br> <br> <br> About this week's guest, Peter Burke<br> <br> An avid gardener himself author Peter Burke has been teaching garden classes since 2006 when he started presenting workshops on Indoor Gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Extending the Garden Season, Food Dehydrator and others. He also started thedailygardener.com website to supply organic seeds for Indoor Gardening. In 2010 he became a Certified Sqaure Fooot Gardening Teacher. Peter lives and gardens in Calais, Vermont with his family.<br> <br> <br> The new book Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening, published by the sustainability leader Chelsea Green Publisher, is an expanded version of the first book. <br> <br> <br> <br> About the Host<br> <br> Mike Podlesny is the author of the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0557074266/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0557074266&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=indocquent-20&amp;linkId=QWXL4RPHEB5H7O6F">Vegetable Gardening for the Average Person: A Guide to Vegetable Gardening for the Rest of Us</a> as well as the creator of the <a href="http://www.averagepersongardening.com/seedsclub">Seeds of the Month Club</a> where members receive non gmo, heirloom variety seeds every month.  Be sure to listen to Mike each week on the <a href="http://www.average"></a>