While we tend to focus on the positives of plants, not all plants work well in all gardens or for all gardens. Whether they are too aggressive, require too much time and maintenance, or we just don’t like them, there are a variety of reasons we may not want to grow certain plants. On this week’s Good Growing Podcast, we discuss some of the plants we’ve grown in our gardens that we wouldn’t plant again and some that we would think twice about planting. It’s not all bad, though; we also discuss some plants we will always plant in our gardens.

Skip to what you want to know:
00:35 – Welcome, Ken and Emily! How are the gardens doing?
03:55 – Why we chose these plants
05:00 – Never again plants
05:15 – Early sunflower
09:25 – Malva sylvestris 'Zebrina'
10:45 – Pink celery
12:50 – Cauliflower
16:20 – Maple trees
23:53 – Daylilies (ditch lilies)
28:25 – Mountain mint
30:50 – Common milkweed
32:40 – Think twice before planting again
30:50 – River oats
35:05 – Arborvitae
37:55 – Vegetable garden
41:20 – Passionflower
43:05 – Sweet corn
43:20 – Roses
45:40 – Stock and snapdragons
48:15 – Lamb’s-ear
49:42 – Peanuts
51:15 – Lemon seeds
54:12 – Whorled milkweed
56:40 – Must plant every year plants
57:10 – Sunflower, snapdragons, cover crops
58:40 – Kale, trees
59:35 – Something new, garlic, tomatoes, gladiolus
1:03:12 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!


Norway Maple Woes: Why it’s on my Do Not Plant list: [ Ссылка ]


Pictures:
Ditch lily: Erik Schiff, iNaturalist, Public Domain
River oats: Michael Burdsall, iNaturalist, Public Domain
Early sunflower: SterlingHerron, commons.wikimedia.org, CC0
Mountain mint: Jasper Shide, iNaturalist, Public Domain
Whorled milkweed: John Kees, iNaturalist, Public Domain
Passionflower, lamb’s-ear: Ken Johnson, University of Illinois Extension

Contact us!
Chris Enroth: cenroth@illinois.edu
Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
Emily Swihart: eswihart@illinois.edu


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