Listen to/download the audio:
http://www.archive.org/download/ES111207Hot/ES_111211_Gardens_24min.mp3
SHOW LINE UP - 24 minutes
1. "Guerrilla Gardening"
How to create an edible landscape on public and private lands. UK "Guerrilla of Love" Chris Tomlinson explains how he secretly plants food, perennials and trees, in waste lands, untended gardens, and even city streets. Fun interview on serious topic, as economy erodes. Try it where you live.
2. "Global Famine Starts in Texas"
Required listening for heat waves in Australia. Your garden may produce nothing.
From You tube, excellent rant and demonstration of Texas heat killing off ability of garden plants to set fruit. Above 85 degree F days, and without going below 68 F nights - no tomatoes, beans, mellons, nada. A portent of coming global famine as global warming develops, says this You tube poster "Humptydumptytribe".
full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEESU4k2dA
4. "Locavore: Winter Gardening in Canada"
Nuts and bolts of how to grow vegetables even in a Canadian winter, with no extra heating. Walter Garrison, host of "Locavore" on CFRU Guelph, Ontario interviews Martin Ronda in greenhouse of Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming. All possible in UK, right up to Scotland, as well as Scandinavia, Tasmania, NZ South Island.