April 16th: What to Plant Now / Spring Bulbs (Dahlias and Gladiolas)

Hello and welcome to the very first Pacific Northwest Gardening Podcast!
I am a vegetable and flower gardener based in Tacoma, Washington in hardiness zone 8b. Each week, we will talk about what "should" be going on in the garden (what to plant, harvest, transplant) and what is *actually* going on in the garden (all the unexpected things that happen while gardening). Finally, we close with a section called The Dirt which covers a brief research topic.
This week's podcast covers:
What to do in mid-April in a Maritime Northwest garden: planting out leafy greens like kale, lettuce, and spinach, peas, and cold-weather root vegetables, what to start indoors (cucumbers and squash), and what not to buy (direct sow greens, don't buy and transplant!)
What is going on in the garden: checking in on overwintered dahlia tubers from last year, re-seeding some failed peas, planting some turnip seed from Italy, and looking into hollyhock rust.
Finally, The Dirt covers the difference between all the "bulbs" we see: irises (rhizomes), daffodils and tulips (bulbs), crocosmia (corms), and dahlias (tubers).
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