WEBVTT - Summer Bonus Episode: Gardens Everywhere! 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:08.440 Hey there, I'm Mangasicul're a co host of Part Time Genius, 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:10.840 one of the founders of Mental philoss and this is 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.720 Humans Growing Stuff, a collaboration from My Heart Radio and 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.080 your friends at Miracle Grow. Our goal is to make 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.120 this the most human show about plants you'll ever listen to, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.560 and along the way, we'll share inspiring stories, tips and 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.880 tricks to nurture your plant addiction, and just enough science 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.639 to make you sound like an expert. We are on 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.520 summer break right now, but because Molly and I cannot 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.320 stop our plant addictions, we are bringing you some mini 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.360 episodes to brighten up your feed and grow your plant curiosity. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.000 Throughout the summer, we'll be dropping incredible stories from growers, 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.839 advice from experts, and we'll even have some fun conversations 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.519 around fascinating plant facts. So for this bonus episode, we 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.720 are sharing some of the most interesting and unusual places 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.720 people have grown vegetable gardens, proving no matter where you are, 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:06.880 you've got enough room for a garden, from tiny houses 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.960 to difficult soil. We love hearing about the clever ways 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:14.800 people have grown plants and seemingly ungrowable spaces, just personally 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.720 I feel like it gives me even more motivation and 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.200 no excuse for not keeping my plants alive and completely 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:27.200 ordinary circumstances. So today we are sharing four unexpected places 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:35.840 you can grow plants. Number one potholes. So we all 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.440 know no one likes a pothole. But in Toronto, residents 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.360 in the Summerhill area had been complaining about a giant 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.000 pothole to city officials for like months, and when the 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.840 complaints fell on deaf ears, they decided to take these 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.040 matters into their own hands by launching a highly unusual protest. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.200 All these fed up locals planted protest tomatoes inside the 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.640 road hazard to make a community garden of sorts, and 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.000 as the tomatoes grew and found their way onto social 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.919 media as things do, all these embarrassed city officials quickly 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.399 addressed the issue and fixed up the pothole. Now, as 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.080 for the tomato plants, they also got a happy ending 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.239 because they were transferred to a local community garden where 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:22.119 they're living out their lives above ground. Two make use 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:26.680 of an abandoned train tunnel. So in New South Wales, Australia, 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.200 Dr Noel Arnold has found a unique place to grow 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:34.840 exotic mushrooms, and he uses an abandoned railway tunnel. He 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.280 doesn't just produce a few mushrooms for home cooking, though. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.200 Dr Arnold actually manages to produce over one point five 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.320 tons of mushrooms every week, every week, and apparently the 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.520 tunnel's damp conditions create an unusually controlled environment for both 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.800 temperature and humidity. Because mushrooms don't need light for photosynthesis, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.560 they are also not bothered by this lack of sunshine, 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.960 So today Dr Arnold grows everything from shitaki and chestnut 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.240 mushrooms to fluorescent pink and blue oyster mushrooms at his 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.639 least sun exotic mushroom farm. The mushrooms are sold to 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.720 restaurants across the country, but if you want to sample 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.520 the wears in person, Dr Arnold gives tours of his 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:20.840 mushroom farm twice a year, three on a ball gown. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.519 In two thousand twelve, Stevie Famulari launched a line of 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.919 dresses known as Garden Parties, and her dresses use this 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.720 felt like fabric that holds seeds and retains moisture in 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.400 a unique way, such that the dresses actually grow flower 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.480 and reseed themselves. It's literally like wearing your garden around, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.240 and they are renewable. As she told Syracuse dot Com, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.920 one of the opera gowns she designed has already died 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.720 once and grown back. Instead of floral prints, each dress 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:54.040 has over five thousand living blossoms, including poppies, violets, and 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.360 baby sprouts. But the idea for the fashion line comes 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.520 from an unusual place. Famulari actually came up with the 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.840 idea when she first saw these landscape engineers studying geo 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.920 textile erosion. They were spring down the road and trying 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.160 to make seeds grow on a vertical surface without falling off. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.320 So after years of experimenting with that technology, she came 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.200 up with this fabric that creates its own ecosystem. Of course, 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.200 the dresses aren't just appealing to hobbyist gardeners. They've made 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.719 waves in the fashion world too, and as one stylist noted, 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.279 Familarity's opera gown is beautiful, but it's her stylish long 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.919 coat that could actually work as a replacement for for 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.960 in years to come. Plus, it supposedly smells like spring 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.280 for under the sea, the ocean is home to a 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.320 lot of vegetation like seaweed and kelp, But do you 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.960 ever think about basil growing there. Nemo's Garden off the 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.400 coast of Noi and northwestern Italy is using underwater pods 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.520 to grow vegetables and herbs in the ocean. So this 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.039 all started in two thousand twelve when Sergio Gamberini, who's 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.760 a scuba diving professional and trade chemical engineer, was hanging 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.760 out with some local farmers whose crops were suffering. It 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.400 was all disastrous because of the cold weather, and so 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.280 on a lark, he wondered if he could grow plants 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.159 underwater where they wouldn't be subject to the same weather 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.760 conditions or even things like pests. So after building this 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:22.240 little plastic biosphere and watching basil plants sprout underwater in 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.760 less than forty eight hours, Gambrini knew he was onto something. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.279 Today he has six greenhouses underwater where he maintains a 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:35.440 farm of over seven hundred plants, including strawberries, lettuce, tomato, zucchini, peas, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.680 mint time and even alo vera. And for me, I 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.920 just loved the idea that when I go blueberry picking 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.279 with my kids, it will be underwater from now on. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.320 That's it for today's bonus episode. Check back here again 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.280 for more bonus episodes this summer, and don't forget no 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.839 matter what season it is or where you're at in 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.520 your gardening journey, there's some incredible resources for you on 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.320 the Miracle Grow website. Humans Growing Stuff is a collaboration 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.000 from I Heart Radio and your friends at Miracle Grow. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.000 Our show was written and produced by Molly Sosha and 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:14.320 need Mongy Chat. This episode was edited and engineered by 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:15.040 Matt Stillo.