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The key to a successful garden - variety!

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Garden Variety, hosted by Charity Nebbe

When you’re looking through catalogs or walking the aisles at the garden center, it’s easy to feel like a kid in a candy store. Every tomato sounds delicious, every pepper sounds tempting, every watermelon just might be your new favorite. Sometimes you need a friend with first hand knowledge to help you narrow down your options. In this episode, Charity talks with ISU Extension specialist Dan Fillius about his favorite varieties of fruits and veggies.

Guests:

  • Dan Fillius, commercial vegetables and specialty crops field specialist, ISU Extension and Outreach
Charity Nebbe is IPR's 'Talk of Iowa' host. She also hosts IPR's podcasts 'Garden Variety' and 'Unsettled'. Since 2010, Nebbe has interviewed, conversed with, and shared ideas from guests of all backgrounds and locations, and has helped listeners better understand, appreciate, and explore their state and the world around them. Nebbe has a bachelors degree from Iowa State University.
Aaron Steil is a Consumer Horticulture Specialist with ISU Extension and Outreach. Aaron contributes his expertise to the Garden Variety podcast and newsletter and to Talk of Iowa's Horticulture Day program.
Katherine Perkins is IPR's Executive Producer of Talk Shows and Program Director for News/Talk. Since 2014, Perkins has managed the broadcast schedule and sound of the news and information service of Iowa Public Radio, as well as has directed the long-term planning and oversight for IPR's talk shows, Talk of Iowa and River to River. Perkins has a masters degree from Sangamon State University (now the University of Illinois – Springfield).