Trail Mix: Hazelnut's Botanical Blue-Balling

Jonathan and Jeannette speed-date Italian and English garden designs. We uncover their green flags, red flags, and all the control freakery hidden behind the hedges. We decide which garden we'd swipe right on and what design principles we’ll steal for our own gardens, and what can stay across the pond. But first, our garden status updates where Jonathan gardens for his ex and asks if using bloodmeal puts his vegetarianism at risk. Jeannette swears off seeds for good and updates us on the fates of the woodchucks that dared to mess with her grandmom. We also get some more tea on the community garden committee and the rampant rhubaphobic persecution Jonathan is dealing with. Follow us on Instagram @plant.sluts.pod TikTok @plant.sluts YouTube @PlantSlutsPod Music used with permission from Epidemic Sound (www.epidemicsound.com) If you’re reading this far, you’re a real one. Please subscribe, comment and send this episode to a fellow slut!

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In this bonus episode, we continue our conversation from Plants, Pain, and Prozac and get into gardening with ADHD. We look at how the ADHD brain functions and why this can be a help and hinderance once we get outdoors. Check us out on all our platforms for some bonus Try Weed videos! Instagram: @plant.sluts.pod TikTok: @plant.sluts YouTube: @PlantSlutsPod If you've read this far, we'd love a rating & quick review. Help this messy garden grow! Find out more at https://plant-sluts.pinecast.co

In this episode Jonathan and Jeannette talk about gardening with chronic pain, stress and depression. After the trauma dump it gets optimistic with some tips on how to make it less painful and we go over studies that suggest it may even be helping our terrible moods. But first they share their garden status updates (complaints), Jeannette proposes a new segment and Jonathan spills the tea on the new Community Garden gestapo.  Sources: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9389296/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3372556/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-13885-5 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9564959/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-13885-5 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/06/18/1182961315/back-pain-gardening-relief-safe Find out more at https://plant-sluts.pinecast.co

Is planting by the moon backed by science, or just a superstition that appeals to the chronically online green witch? Jonathan and Jeannette also dive deep into biodynamic farming and discover what signs our favorite plants are. But first we give you an update on our thriving (sarcasm) gardens and Jonathan tries hosta shoots! Will they make his pee smell? Jonathan also shares garden tea with two stories on how openly racist this community can be (TW: mentions of racism and sexual assault). For best results, please listen to this episode during the waning crescent moon, thanks. Please subscribe, follow, and rate wherever you listen! Share with your most superstitious friends! Also, we had some technical difficulties that caused the audio to be of lesser quality than what you've come to expect from Plant Sluts, North America’s #1 gardening podcast. We have corrected the issue for future episodes. Sources: https://www.npr.org/2012/03/02/147810046/decoding-the-allure-of-the-almanac https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10004791/ https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/garden-scoop/2022-04-16-lunar-influence-gardening https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10004791/ Find out more at https://plant-sluts.pinecast.co

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/JqhkIucMroQ Jeannette has finally made it to Montreal! To celebrate the reunion, we took the cameras out to the greenhouse for a very special, very chaotic mini-episode. We hit up the Boutique at the world-famous Montreal Botanical Garden and brought back a haul of bizarre, fancy, and fascinating botanical delicacies to taste test on camera. We are talking sweet Tulip Jelly, briny Fiddleheads, raw Spruce Tips, and we washed it all down with Forest Amaretto mixed with Spruce-flavored Soda. Some were absolutely delicious, and some... well, you'll just have to watch our faces. Grab a snack, pull up a chair, and join us under the glass! 🔔 Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share this with your favorite plant enabler! Find out more at https://plant-sluts.pinecast.co

Jeannette visits Jonathan in Montreal and they get their fill on leafy greens in their winter coats. Jeannette commits the ultimate faux pas while not understanding what that means since she doesn't speak French. Another round of F*ck, Marry, Kill (nut edition)! We get into hazelnuts and the plant's ultimate reproductive power play, while discovering their global impact and why one chocolate spread controls the world’s hazelnuts. We also look into why Oregon calls it their state nut and what they used to call their state nut. Finally, the sluts learn about Celtic Tree Astrology and why Jeannette will probably never be happy. ** Sources https://oregonhazelnuts.org/about/ https://www.tytyga.com/History-of-the-Filbert-(Hazelnut)-Tree-a/383.htm https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/oregon/2023/11/24/why-does-the-oregon-state-nut-have-two-different-names/71596462007/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/16/347749070/thanks-to-nutella-the-world-needs-more-hazelnut https://thedruidsgarden.com/2021/03/07/sacred-trees-in-the-americas-american-hazel-corylus-americana-magic-ecology-and-sacred-uses/ Find your Celtic Tree Sign: https://www.treecouncil.ie/celtic-tree-astrology https://tree2mydoor.com/pages/information-trees-celtic-tree-calendar ** Find out more at https://plant-sluts.pinecast.co

We continue digging into our bag of trail mix and explore the world of the flexisexual apricot. But first Jonathan and Jeannette update us on their gardens and share their stone fruit “zodiac” placements. We go over the cyanide wellness craze apricots were at the pit of in the 70s and find a surprising US Marine apricot superstition.

After complaining about kids these days, Jonathan and Jeannette dive into the history of the cacao plant and how that became the chocolate we consume nonstop today. We answer questions like "How many cacao pods did it cost to hire a sex worker in the Aztec empire?" and "Is white chocolate actually chocolate?" We also discover the tiny, nasty pollinator that is responsible for every yummy chocolate treat you chew. And we find out if your fancy, overpriced chocolate is really anything special. Sources: https://www.vosgeschocolate.com/blogs/vosges-haut-chocolat-blog/chocolate-gifts-for-every-star-sign-a-zodiac-gift-guide https://worldwidechocolate.com/magazine/what-type-of-chocolate-matches-your-zodiac-sign/ https://www.chocolatescorecard.com/ Find out more at https://plant-sluts.pinecast.co

Peanut sex gets wild in this episode! First, we try a new segment to find our sun-moon-rising Plant Placements and Jeannette tries more yard debris with Nipplewort! Will her nipples ever recover? Jonathan finds Montreal's peanut connection and Jeannette dives into the history of peanuts as a crop in the US. Jonathan also gives us the truth about these "nitrogen fixing" plants and whether we need to rotate our humble hobbyist garden beds. Absurd amount of singing in this one. Let us know your Trail Mix Plant Placement on instagram: @plant.sluts.pod Don't forget to follow & subscribe so you never miss an episode.https://www.instagram.com/plant.sluts.pod Sources: https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/folklorearchive/tag/peanuts/ https://hancockpeanuts.com/what-do-peanuts-symbolize/ https://nationalpeanutboard.org/ https://civileats.com/2022/04/12/slaves-for-peanuts-tells-the-tragic-story-behind-americas-favorite-snack/ https://www.ontario.ca/page/commercial-peanut-production-ontario Find out more at https://plant-sluts.pinecast.co