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Season 2
Tulips: The Bubble That Bloomed
Loose Lips Sink Tulips
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Make way for tulips! In this episode, Jonathan bravely downs a comically overstuffed cup of foraged weeds and spills the tea on a secret teenage adventures through milkweed
Trail Mix: Seedy BDSM
Get Seedy with our Trail Mix Series
The first in our Trail Mix series! It all starts and ends with seeds. We discuss which new seeds we’re trying this season and defend Jonathan’s AI garden organizing system. Jeannette tries purple dead nettle from the backyard and Jonathan talks about which seeds need to get cold, broken, and swallowed to germinate.
Trail Mix: Pegging Peanuts
Peanut sex gets wild in this episode! First, we try a new segment to find our sun-moon-rising Plant Placements and Jeannette tries more yard debris with Nipplewort! Will her nipples ever recover? Jonathan finds Montreal's peanut connection and Jeannette dives into the history of peanuts as a crop in the US.
Trail Mix: Cacao, the Currency of Sex
From pod to bar to strip club
After complaining about kids these days, Jonathan and Jeannette dive into the history of the cacao plant and how that became the chocolate we consume nonstop today. We answer questions like "How many cacao pods did it cost to hire a sex worker in the Aztec empire?" and "Is white chocolate actually chocolate?"
Trail Mix: The Flexisexual Apricot
We continue digging into our bag of trail mix...
We continue digging into our bag of trail mix and explore the world of the flexisexual apricot. But first Jonathan and Jeannette update us on their gardens and share their stone fruit “zodiac” placements. We go over the cyanide wellness craze apricots were at the pit of in the 70s and find a surprising US Marine apricot superstition.
Trail Mix: Hazelnut's Botanical Blue-Balling
Plant sluts lose the plot
Jeannette visits Jonathan in Montreal and they get their fill on leafy greens in their winter coats. Jeannette commits the ultimate faux pas while not understanding what that means since she doesn't speak French. Another round of F*ck, Marry, Kill (nut edition)! We get into hazelnuts and the plant's ultimate reproductive power play, while discovering their
Video Episode: Botanical Taste Test
We Tried "Botanical" Snacks So You Don't Have To
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/JqhkIucMroQ
Jeannette has finally made it to Montreal! To celebrate the reunion, we took the cameras out to the greenhouse for a very special, very chaotic mini-episode.
We hit up the Boutique at the world-famous Montreal Botanical Garden and brought back a
Full Moon, Full Bed: Planting by Lunar Phases
Anyone still planting by lunar phases?
Is planting by the moon backed by science, or just a superstition that appeals to the chronically online green witch? Jonathan and Jeannette also dive deep into biodynamic farming and discover what signs our favorite plants are. But first we give you an update on our thriving (sarcasm) gardens and Jonathan tries hosta shoots! Will they make his pee smell?
Plants, Pain and Prozac: Gardening with Chronic Problems
Time to trauma dump!
In this episode Jonathan and Jeannette talk about gardening with chronic pain, stress and depression. After the trauma dump it gets optimistic with some tips on how to make it less painful and we go over studies that suggest it may even be helping our terrible moods.
Bonus Cutting: My ADHD Garden
The benefits and drawbacks of gardening with ADHD
In this bonus episode, we continue our conversation from Plants, Pain, and Prozac and get into gardening with ADHD. We look at how the ADHD brain functions and why this can be a help and hinderance once we get outdoors.
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