{"podcast":{"title":"Growing Together: A Gardening Podcast","slug":"growing-together-a-gardening-podcast-6052555","podcast_index_feed_id":6052555,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/461421/rss","website_url":"http://sites.libsyn.com/461421/site","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/d/3/a/fd3a190e2e1f534ce55e3c100dce7605/GrowingTogether_GardenPodcast-1400-LIBSYN-20240708-41buj0jhu1.jpg","author":"Forum Communications Co.","episode_count":172,"summary":"In this podcast, lifelong gardener Don Kinzler joins host John Lamb for a weekly dig into the fruitful topic of gardening in the upper Midwest (North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, eastern Montana and southern Manitoba). Don Kinzler is a horticulturist with North Dakota State University Extension for Cass County. He has been a trusted resource for gardeners in the region for decades. Lamb is an arts and entertainment reporter for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and a novice gardener, ready to learn. Questions for Don? Email him at donald.kinzler@ndsu.edu.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T18:17:11.921676+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-together-a-gardening-podcast-6052555"},"episode":{"title":"Will marigolds protect your plants? The answers to this and more gardening myths","slug":"will-marigolds-protect-your-plants-the-answers-to-this-and-more-gardening-myths","published_at":"2026-05-15T17:21:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-together-a-gardening-podcast-6052555/will-marigolds-protect-your-plants-the-answers-to-this-and-more-gardening-myths","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-together-a-gardening-podcast-6052555","url":"https://0ee13004-72d4-4403-bb75-4982513822d8.libsyn.com/will-marigolds-protect-your-plants-the-answers-to-this-and-more-gardening-myths","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/0ee13004-72d4-4403-bb75-4982513822d8/E165_final_mix.mp3?dest-id=3892593","summary":"Will marigolds protect your plants from pests? Can you tell whether a pepper is male or female? Does insecticide made from chewing tobacco work? In this episode, Don and John are joined by Esther McGinnis, an associate professor of plant science at North Dakota State University, to help set the record straight on some gardening myths that may have come across your social media feed.","meta_description":"Will marigolds protect your plants from pests? Can you tell whether a pepper is male or female? Does insecticide made from chewing tobacco work? In this e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3872,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/growing-together-a-gardening-podcast-6052555/episodes/will-marigolds-protect-your-plants-the-answers-to-this-and-more-gardening-myths/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-together-a-gardening-podcast-6052555/will-marigolds-protect-your-plants-the-answers-to-this-and-more-gardening-myths.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}