PlanterTomato Vegetable Gardening Podcast

Making Pasta from Wheat Berries (Podcast)

How to grind wheat berries and make fresh whole wheat pasta.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Saturday, July 18, 2012:

Download PlanterTomato 8_18_2012 Making Pasta From Wheat Berries

 

Growing Wheat In Your Backyard Garden (Podcast)

In October of last year, I planted an heirloom wheat variety called Frassinetto.  In this podcast, I'll let you know the results of this experiment as well as explain how to thresh, winnow and store the grain.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Saturday, July 7, 2012.

PlanterTomato 7_7_2012 Growing Wheat In Your Backyard

Floriani Red Flint Corn (Podcast)

A rare red fling corn variety from Italy.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Friday, March 2, 2012: 

 

PlanterTomato 2_2_2012 Floriani Red Flint Corn

 

How To Choose Sweet Corn Varieties (Podcast)

In this posting, I'll describe the historical development of sweet corn and describe various the various categories that are available to home vegetable gardeners.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Sunday, February 26, 2012:

 

PlanterTomato 2_26_2012 Choosing Sweet Corn Varieties

 

Four Reasons Why You Can't Really Use Homegrown Ingredients to Make Beer (Podcast)

I've been experimenting with growing grain in my suburban backyard.  It's fun to think of growing grain and then converting it to beer. In this Podcast, I provide information about the ingredients in beer and the four reasons why growing your own ingredients isn't practical.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Sunday, December 18, 2011

PlanterTomato 12_18_2011 Growing Ingredients for Beer

 

Grinding Your Own Flint or Dent Corn (Podcast)

In this Podcast, I describe the steps you need to grind home grown flint or dent corn and how to calculate your yield in bushels per acre.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Sunday, November 6, 2011.

PlanterTomato 11_6_2011 Grinding Corn

 

Flint Corn & Grain Mills Used To Grind Corn, Wheat & Other Grains (Podcast)

In this podcast, I'll let you know a little about your options to grind flint corn and other grains into flour.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Sunday August 7, 2011:

PlanterTomato 8_7_2011 Grain Mills

Oatmeal from Groats (Podcast)

In April, I posted about my experience growing hulless oats.  I planted oats in a small area of my suburban garden to see if I could successfully overwinter them and also to get a feel for the process of growing grain in a backyard garden.  In this Podcast, I describe the process of harvesting, threshing and winnowing the grain.  I also share some a tip about how to cook it.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Monday, July 4, 2011:

PlanterTomato 7_4_2011 Harvesting Oats

Not All Corn Is Sweet Corn (Podcast)

Every year I grow sweet corn in my garden.  However, this year, I'm also growing a variety of corn that is not meant to be eaten fresh and is not sweet at all.  In this posting, I'll discuss different types of corn that can be grown in the home garden.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Sunday, June 19, 2011:

 

PlanterTomato6_19_2011 Flint Corn

 

Oats on the Way: An Experiment Growing Grain In Suburbia (Podcast)

In the fall of last year, I planted a small amount of oats as an experiment to see if I could overwinter them.  As the days have gotten longer, the oats are now shooting up.  In this Podcast, I'll let you know a little bit about timing a grain harvest.

PlanterTomato Podcast for Wednesday, April 27, 2011:

PlanterTomato_4_27_11 Oats In Suburbia