{"podcast":{"title":"Flower Power Garden Hour","slug":"flower-power-garden-hour-330822","podcast_index_feed_id":330822,"rss_url":"https://flowerpowergardenhour.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.marlenesimon.net","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/9/5/5/5955518afcbf7b1f/marlene_logo_Podcast.png","author":"Joe Santos","episode_count":238,"summary":"Musings with people in the world of gardening, botany, horticulture and nature. Marlene takes her years of gardening experience, success and failures and turns it into an unpretentious, humorous listen. From organic vegetable gardening, houseplants, bee keeping, flowers, and everything in between -- this podcast covers it.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/flower-power-garden-hour-330822"},"episode":{"title":"FPGH 227:  February To Do List","slug":"fpgh-227-february-to-do-list","published_at":"2026-02-08T17:39:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/flower-power-garden-hour-330822/fpgh-227-february-to-do-list","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/flower-power-garden-hour-330822","url":"https://flowerpowergardenhour.libsyn.com/fpgh-227-february-to-do-list","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/flowerpowergardenhour/FPGH_227_Feb_To_Do_Final.mp3?dest-id=660881","summary":"Believe it or not, spring is around the corner. It has been very dry in NorCal so far – sometimes we get Spring rain, so still TBD. LOTS of prep to do for the upcoming season. It is time to plant: Broccoli Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Collards, swiss chard Kale Leeks Loose leaf lettuce Peas Potatoes….late in the month Chores include: Sow tomatoes inside Start flowers (sunflowers, strawflower, zinnias, etc) Direct sow sweet peas Plant bare-root (roses, fruit trees, asparagus, strawberries, rhubarb, berries) Spray fruit trees Fertilize Compost Clean up, cut back Prune roses, fruit trees Help support feral cat rescue/spay-neuter/finding good homes by contributing at Flower Power Garden Hour Patreon. To ask questions for future shows, submit them at: Facebook Instagram email Marlene at marlenetheplantlady@gmail.com Find Marlene over on YouTube , Instagram and Facebook","meta_description":"Believe it or not, spring is around the corner. It has been very dry in NorCal so far – sometimes we get Spring rain, so still TBD. LOTS of prep to do for…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3849,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/flower-power-garden-hour-330822/episodes/fpgh-227-february-to-do-list/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/flower-power-garden-hour-330822/fpgh-227-february-to-do-list.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}