Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Happy Hour #179: Gardening, Part 2
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Welcome to stuff. I
- 0:07Speaker 1: never told you production to buy her radio.
- 0:18Speaker 2: And welcome to another happy hour. And if you are
- 0:21Speaker 2: enjoying things that you usually partake of in happy hour,
- 0:24Speaker 2: please do so responsibly. We are currently not being sponsored
- 0:28Speaker 2: by any of the things we're talking about, which is
- 0:30Speaker 2: a shame. Is a shame. Annie, are you sipping on things?
- 0:36Speaker 1: Well, just myle cold coffee.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Cold coffee, Yes, I'm drinking. You're also not favorite, uh
- 0:43Speaker 2: doctor pepper zero no cream soda? I love this, like,
- 0:49Speaker 2: this is my favorite. They've discontinued this. I'm in trouble.
- 0:52Speaker 3: That did happen to me back when I drank soda
- 0:54Speaker 3: They discontinued my favorite flavor and it was a real
- 0:57Speaker 3: it's a bumber, it was a blow.
- 0:59Speaker 2: I mean I no longer use soda stream much whole thing.
- 1:04Speaker 2: But like, my favorite flavor was the pineapple gone. They
- 1:09Speaker 2: ruined it. They ruined it, yeah, which I'm kind of
- 1:12Speaker 2: glad because I'm not a big fan of the company now,
- 1:14Speaker 2: but like still in general ruined it.
- 1:16Speaker 1: But all that.
- 1:17Speaker 2: Say, you know what hasn't been ruined any I want
- 1:20Speaker 2: to give an update about my garden. My teeny tiny garden,
- 1:24Speaker 2: which has been huge, Like the tomatoes are getting huge,
- 1:28Speaker 2: and I've gotten at least like I have to see
- 1:30Speaker 2: like six big tomatoes. I think beef tomatoes are coming
- 1:33Speaker 2: in and one's looking real pretty. I've got four jalapanios
- 1:37Speaker 2: coming in. I've got two I think they're called Liberty
- 1:39Speaker 2: bell uh Bell peppers, Liberty Bell peppers, and they're bright
- 1:44Speaker 2: orange and they're coming in. I got another green pepper, y'all.
- 1:49Speaker 2: I am very proud. I have yet to be able
- 1:51Speaker 2: to make an actual full dish of anything with my
- 1:57Speaker 2: garden fixings, but you know, it's all so come in.
- 2:00Speaker 2: That was just we've talked about it before, my giant
- 2:03Speaker 2: fig tree. So the giant victory. We were able to
- 2:06Speaker 2: my partner and I was able to get to it
- 2:08Speaker 2: in time and pick a chunk full of like figs,
- 2:12Speaker 2: and my partner and his sister who is here made
- 2:15Speaker 2: Fike jam. I'm in hated a great job. So last
- 2:18Speaker 2: night we did a whole Smorgsborg with that Fike jam
- 2:20Speaker 2: with goat cheese and like a Christini so good. But
- 2:26Speaker 2: the fact that it came from our backyard was very
- 2:30Speaker 2: like one of those moment was like being very proud,
- 2:32Speaker 2: as well as all the basil which I have propagated
- 2:36Speaker 2: several basils. I think I probably have at least ten
- 2:39Speaker 2: that I've planted, and most of them are a big
- 2:41Speaker 2: chunk of them are in our little garden that we have,
- 2:44Speaker 2: and it's become our decoy where the bugs are eating
- 2:47Speaker 2: it instead of the vegetables. So it's got this. We
- 2:51Speaker 2: made a good plan. But and there is also lemon balm,
- 2:54Speaker 2: which we got from our local arbor like garden Center
- 2:58Speaker 2: arborus and the woman who this out was fantastic, but
- 3:02Speaker 2: she sat with us for two hours be cause we're
- 3:04Speaker 2: talking about shruberry right now. Annie, I am so suburban
- 3:08Speaker 2: and old that I've been fascinated by trees, which I don't.
- 3:12Speaker 2: I killed things. We've talked about this. I killed ferns
- 3:16Speaker 2: and I've killed succulents. So like all of these things,
- 3:19Speaker 2: I've not been great. But the basil herbs I feel
- 3:23Speaker 2: like I'm doing much better with and we've gotten that.
- 3:26Speaker 2: But yeah, we got like lemon balm added to our garden.
- 3:29Speaker 2: Do I talk about this pineapple sage? Yeah, it tastes
- 3:34Speaker 2: like said pineapple is really really really cool. And I'm
- 3:38Speaker 2: on my way on getting a blueberry bush. I really
- 3:40Speaker 2: desperately want that nice, I know, But as I said,
- 3:45Speaker 2: we did have two tomatoes that we had to pull
- 3:47Speaker 2: off because they were being split and eaten up and
- 3:49Speaker 2: it wasn't edible. So I'm very sad about that. Our
- 3:53Speaker 2: first two attempts for the big tomatoes did not go well, Anie,
- 3:57Speaker 2: but the tiny ones are okay.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you'll you'll bounce back from this.
- 4:04Speaker 2: I'm gonna try. But also so I also tried am
- 4:08Speaker 2: trying to see if I can grow strawberries. So I
- 4:11Speaker 2: got the top of the strawberr because I know people
- 4:13Speaker 2: are like, it's not the top, but it's the seas
- 4:15Speaker 2: on the strawberry. But usually the way I cut it,
- 4:17Speaker 2: there's plenty of seeds. So I've planted it and I
- 4:19Speaker 2: say tiny little lees popping up in which my partner
- 4:23Speaker 2: painted because he was like, those are vines.
- 4:27Speaker 1: You ken't.
- 4:30Speaker 2: I didn't, really, I should have thought of that. I
- 4:32Speaker 2: knew this, but we're gonna have to transplant them so
- 4:35Speaker 2: it does grow, I might have strawberries.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be awesome, right.
- 4:42Speaker 2: I'm so I need more fruit in my life. I
- 4:45Speaker 2: love fruit, so to be able to grow, and we've
- 4:46Speaker 2: already talked about how expensive they are, so if I
- 4:48Speaker 2: can grow fruit again, we have too many animals though, yeah, yeah,
- 4:53Speaker 2: there's too many amals. But one of my joys have
- 4:56Speaker 2: been to take my propagated basils and being able to
- 4:59Speaker 2: play it and wash them grow. I feel very like
- 5:03Speaker 2: a proud basil mom.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Nice.
- 5:06Speaker 2: I sent you some as well. How are they doing?
- 5:09Speaker 3: They're doing well, They're doing well. I've got one planted
- 5:14Speaker 3: in dirt and I've got the one that's still in
- 5:17Speaker 3: water that's propagated and it's still going.
- 5:20Speaker 2: I had the roots coming.
- 5:22Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, lots of roots. I also, uh, growing scallions.
- 5:30Speaker 3: That's nice.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Oh you decided to grow scallions?
- 5:33Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, because the last time I did it it
- 5:36Speaker 3: just failed. So I was like, okay, well but I'm
- 5:39Speaker 3: trying again and so far it's working.
- 5:42Speaker 2: A yeah, I win to win.
- 5:45Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 5:45Speaker 2: I feel like in our happy hours when we talk
- 5:47Speaker 2: about the gardening and we talked about how they could
- 5:48Speaker 2: be healthy, there is something to it. I do go
- 5:51Speaker 2: and pet it on the top like it's got a
- 5:53Speaker 2: like I'm like patting ahead of a child, and talked
- 5:56Speaker 2: to it. We also got a really pretty plant that
- 5:59Speaker 2: I really liked from the same garden center which is
- 6:03Speaker 2: located near us, and I've named it Priscilla m And
- 6:07Speaker 2: my partner keeps calling it Petunia, which really irritates me.
- 6:14Speaker 2: And I'm gonna fight you quit saying that her name
- 6:17Speaker 2: is Priscilla. Look at her. Weally look at it, look
- 6:21Speaker 2: at her. But it's been interesting because I have been
- 6:24Speaker 2: trying to keep up with more. We are talking about
- 6:26Speaker 2: whether or not we can expand into a bigger gardens
- 6:29Speaker 2: and how to make it better. We haven't had any distubbers.
- 6:32Speaker 2: We had one interesting occurrence which I don't think I
- 6:36Speaker 2: talked about on here, but like, outside of that, not
- 6:39Speaker 2: nothing big, but it's just growing up. I'm kind of
- 6:42Speaker 2: scared that we're overwatering it because right now it's raining
- 6:46Speaker 2: intermittently and we don't know when it's coming. And then
- 6:48Speaker 2: but when it gets hot, it's so hot, so hot
- 6:52Speaker 2: that I feel like it's gonna die if we don't
- 6:54Speaker 2: give it some water.
- 6:55Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, yeah, Well, interestingly, I am having almost like
- 7:03Speaker 3: a panic helicopter parent thing happened where I keep checking
- 7:07Speaker 3: I'm still alive. But my mom gave me a succulent
- 7:10Speaker 3: because she had given me a plant previously that she
- 7:12Speaker 3: was like, this one's so easy, and it died immediately.
- 7:15Speaker 2: I thought that was a curse when they tell you that.
- 7:18Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
- 7:19Speaker 3: She was like, it will be fine. You don't even
- 7:22Speaker 3: have to water it. And I was like, well, clearly
- 7:24Speaker 3: something went wrong. But she also gave me a She
- 7:28Speaker 3: gave me a succulent after that because I was honest
- 7:30Speaker 3: with her, it's.
- 7:31Speaker 1: Not looking good and she.
- 7:33Speaker 3: Told me all I have to do is like spray
- 7:35Speaker 3: it once a week, and I'm like, I don't think
- 7:36Speaker 3: that's working out.
- 7:37Speaker 1: I think something.
- 7:40Speaker 3: It's pretty wilty, a little crunchy on the edges, you know, tell.
- 7:47Speaker 2: You I just no, yeah, I think when people set
- 7:49Speaker 2: us up, well they're like you can't kill this, even
- 7:52Speaker 2: you can't. And then I'm like, watch me, like I
- 7:54Speaker 2: feel a they've cursed us in those moments because I
- 7:59Speaker 2: look at some of the plants again, the fern. My
- 8:02Speaker 2: good friend of mine, Dominique. She loves plants, and one
- 8:06Speaker 2: of the things that she had was like the English
- 8:08Speaker 2: ivy type of thing and I'm like, you know those
- 8:10Speaker 2: are kutsu, Like that's those are weeds. She's like, shut up,
- 8:14Speaker 2: I like it. But she's really great about keeping plants
- 8:17Speaker 2: alive and does really well with that. So she had
- 8:19Speaker 2: bought us a fern when I moved to my apartment.
- 8:23Speaker 2: That thing died so quick, and she was like, these
- 8:27Speaker 2: are so easy, and I'm like, I feel like you're
- 8:29Speaker 2: setting me up.
- 8:30Speaker 3: Mm hmmm for failure. Yeah. Yeah, and my poor mom.
- 8:37Speaker 3: She even planted it. She did the whole thing. I
- 8:39Speaker 3: literally just had to hang it up. And I even
- 8:43Speaker 3: bought a light, like a light because I was worried
- 8:45Speaker 3: it wasn't getting enough light.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Yeah, nope, died anyway.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Was sending our money and trying to get this done,
- 8:53Speaker 2: and then it does it, and then I'm like, oh no,
- 9:06Speaker 2: but I'm very possessive of our garden, even though it's
- 9:09Speaker 2: like again my partner's and i's garden. But I'm like,
- 9:11Speaker 2: stop talking that, I'll do it. Quit talking to it
- 9:14Speaker 2: is mine. Like I'm very possessive and making sure the succeeds.
- 9:18Speaker 2: But then that also means if it fails, it is
- 9:21Speaker 2: solely on me, and I'm gonna be very upset about that.
- 9:23Speaker 2: But our garden again, the tomato bushes are our tomato
- 9:27Speaker 2: is getting really big, so I know we're doing something right,
- 9:30Speaker 2: and there's several tomato plants on there. However, again old
- 9:34Speaker 2: host of the show, Caroline and her partner, they are
- 9:37Speaker 2: garden fiends, like we've talked about them before and we
- 9:40Speaker 2: just recently went over there to celebrate with them. And
- 9:45Speaker 2: he had a giant, giant box of tomatoes. I'm not
- 9:48Speaker 2: just sut there to stare at them. I thought about
- 9:52Speaker 2: stealing some. He actually, and then he had like all
- 9:54Speaker 2: these peppers, banana peppers and jalapanio peppers and habernaro peppers,
- 9:58Speaker 2: and I was just like, I have four peppers, four
- 10:02Speaker 2: peppers coming.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, it looks great. I got to see that.
- 10:09Speaker 2: I was very proud of my very tiny garden, which
- 10:13Speaker 2: would not make a salad, but you know what it
- 10:15Speaker 2: is like again my part of sisters here. And I
- 10:18Speaker 2: was like, here's one tomato for you. You can experience our garden.
- 10:21Speaker 2: I think I gave you one tomato, right.
- 10:23Speaker 1: I don't think I got a tomato.
- 10:25Speaker 2: Like oh, because there wasn't they were ripe, right, Okay,
- 10:30Speaker 2: I'll save you one.
- 10:31Speaker 1: I'll save I just friend of the show.
- 10:34Speaker 3: I have two katies in my life, but one of them,
- 10:37Speaker 3: both of whom I think have been on the show.
- 10:39Speaker 1: One of them.
- 10:39Speaker 3: Anyway, she her parents scrow tomatoes and she had like
- 10:43Speaker 3: this huge surplus, and she sent a text out to
- 10:45Speaker 3: our group and was like, does anybody want fresh tomatoes?
- 10:47Speaker 3: And I don't think it's been a long time since
- 10:49Speaker 3: I've seen all of us respond so quickly yes, yes.
- 10:53Speaker 2: Yes, And you know what I was thinking about, because
- 10:55Speaker 2: I was like, I said, these gardens are making me
- 10:58Speaker 2: very happy. We have been currently watching Top Chef older
- 11:02Speaker 2: episodes and they never had one in Atlanta. They've gone
- 11:07Speaker 2: everywhere but Atlanta, and they've never had one anywhere in Georgia. No,
- 11:11Speaker 2: Savannah know nothing. And I'm like, I'm very offended by
- 11:15Speaker 2: this because if nothing else, we have a pretty big
- 11:17Speaker 2: influx of like different cultures. Like one of the things
- 11:22Speaker 2: about my partner's sister being here, we've been taking her everywhere.
- 11:24Speaker 2: She's like, this is what I wouldn't have. And she's
- 11:26Speaker 2: from Charleston, Like she lives in Charleston, and so like
- 11:30Speaker 2: Charleston is a great has some good food as well,
- 11:33Speaker 2: but like they don't have a diversity that we have.
- 11:37Speaker 2: And so I'm really literally a little bit offended by
- 11:40Speaker 2: the fact that they've never even talked about. There's a
- 11:43Speaker 2: rumor and I think, does Tom Calichio still have a
- 11:47Speaker 2: show with iHeart?
- 11:50Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know.
- 11:51Speaker 2: I don't know if he does. I know Padma was
- 11:54Speaker 2: on a few episodes, and we love some Padma. We'd
- 11:57Speaker 2: be me. I love, I love Padma. But I actually
- 12:00Speaker 2: really love Kristin Keish, who's the new host. I love
- 12:03Speaker 2: her as well. Anyway, all that to say is Tom
- 12:07Speaker 2: Colicchio his restaurant Craft did not survive here. But I
- 12:13Speaker 2: think there were some like back and forth with like
- 12:15Speaker 2: the owners of the building and like they could never
- 12:18Speaker 2: negotiate it out. But I honestly don't think it did
- 12:21Speaker 2: well here either. In general. Do you remember did you
- 12:24Speaker 2: ever go to Craft? It's been like fifteen years ago
- 12:27Speaker 2: they closed, so it's been a minute, so Craft and
- 12:30Speaker 2: Craft Bar and so there's a rumor that he's bitter
- 12:34Speaker 2: and will not come to Atlanta because of that. But
- 12:37Speaker 2: I know he's been in Atlanta because I remember they
- 12:39Speaker 2: were taping some episodes with him.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Interesting.
- 12:46Speaker 2: Interesting, I'm a little but I'm a bit better because
- 12:49Speaker 2: they've been to Tennessee, they've been to uh again, they've
- 12:53Speaker 2: been to Charleston, and they're going to film now in Greenville,
- 12:55Speaker 2: South Carolina and Charlotte. I'm like, what, so, I'm very
- 13:00Speaker 2: offended by this.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Like yeah, snubbing.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Yeah, Alanta's got food, and we've got good like tomatoes
- 13:08Speaker 2: and pecans and peanuts and peaches. I mean what you mean?
- 13:13Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we do have a lot of really good food.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Very lucky, yes, exactly, like whenever I go to different places,
- 13:21Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, Like, of course I'm going to
- 13:23Speaker 2: New York and doing these things and it's amazing. We
- 13:25Speaker 2: went to Seattle has some good food. Uh, but like, yeah,
- 13:30Speaker 2: Alanta has the like the diversity, and I'm miss specific
- 13:33Speaker 2: types of food from here. I mean we just and
- 13:35Speaker 2: I just had am casse. I told you about that here,
- 13:38Speaker 2: one of our Michelin starred ones. It was very good.
- 13:42Speaker 1: Yeah mm hmmm. We love some.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Anyway. Anyway, That's that is my complaint right here, is
- 13:52Speaker 2: that top chef is snubbing us, and I'm I'm offended, okay,
- 13:57Speaker 2: offended because my gardens that we can grow food.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Here and lovely food.
- 14:04Speaker 3: The tomatoes my friend gave me I made we made
- 14:08Speaker 3: a caprize salad and it was the best. But then
- 14:11Speaker 3: I was the ones that I had left over, I
- 14:13Speaker 3: made like a fresh tomato marinera and it was oh,
- 14:18Speaker 3: and I sprung for like the higher quality pasta, like
- 14:21Speaker 3: the higher I was like, if I've got this fresh tomatoes,
- 14:24Speaker 3: I really want this to shine. I want this whole
- 14:26Speaker 3: dish to be like more than I would normally get.
- 14:29Speaker 1: And it was.
- 14:30Speaker 2: So can you please include me in this list of
- 14:34Speaker 2: who wants tomatoes? Cause I do please, because yes, I
- 14:38Speaker 2: am a sucker for a good southern as hell the
- 14:41Speaker 2: Southern asel just white bread, soft white bread tomato and
- 14:46Speaker 2: cracked pepper sandwich in the story. If you're real Southern,
- 14:50Speaker 2: you put me on it. But that's disgusting and I
- 14:52Speaker 2: would never Yeah, no, I'm just saying, but oh my god,
- 14:57Speaker 2: I craved those. I missed those.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
- 15:02Speaker 2: I hope I can do that with my tomato, simple,
- 15:05Speaker 2: I think so.
- 15:07Speaker 1: I think.
- 15:07Speaker 2: I at least I got one that's turning nicely orange.
- 15:09Speaker 2: No bug like holes in there, which is one of
- 15:12Speaker 2: the problems. No splitting yet. Mm hmm. I got my
- 15:15Speaker 2: fingers crossed, y'all.
- 15:17Speaker 3: Yes, I've got my fingers crossed for you too, because
- 15:20Speaker 3: that's it's so lovely, so fresh tomato, especially one for
- 15:23Speaker 3: you from your own garden.
- 15:25Speaker 2: I grew that. Mm hmm, that's what I'm gonna say.
- 15:28Speaker 2: If I take pictures and cry about it and then
- 15:30Speaker 2: eat it and then eat it and cry some more.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Of course, sounds perfect.
- 15:39Speaker 2: Perfect uh. And Christina, our producer, was like, hey, we
- 15:42Speaker 2: need to do a happy hour. You each you make
- 15:45Speaker 2: cocktails with those that I'm like, I have sage pineapple sage,
- 15:49Speaker 2: which would be an amazing cocktail. I've got lemon balm,
- 15:51Speaker 2: which I don't know if that's not gonna be amazing
- 15:53Speaker 2: cocktail or whatever. Have Basil Jolipano. Let us do this.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think that could be fun. I think
- 15:59Speaker 1: that be a really fine We're.
- 16:01Speaker 2: Gonna do it. Maybe we should do it with Christina,
- 16:06Speaker 2: God forbid in the studio.
- 16:11Speaker 1: We have to put on real clothes.
- 16:13Speaker 2: No I can't just I can't put it through the
- 16:17Speaker 2: internets my garden.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Just get a box and mail wrap them in surunda.
- 16:25Speaker 2: This is this is not working.
- 16:27Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll figure it.
- 16:30Speaker 2: We'll figure out. We'll figure it out. So if you
- 16:32Speaker 2: have a garden listeners, I think I've already asked, but like,
- 16:35Speaker 2: give me advice. Is why why is my tomato splitting?
- 16:38Speaker 2: We I think it's overwatering.
- 16:41Speaker 3: Yeah, and what else should Samantha grow? I've over on
- 16:48Speaker 3: the other show. I do say I've learned a lot
- 16:50Speaker 3: of things. I was like, oh, really just have to
- 16:51Speaker 3: cut off the top of a pineapple? Okay mm hmm.
- 16:54Speaker 1: So yeah, let us know and we'll get Samantha's garden going.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Let's go part Ted Yes, talk the way party.
- 17:03Speaker 3: Any tips at all would be very much appreciated. Or
- 17:06Speaker 3: if you just want to talk about your garden also
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