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The Daily Gardener Podcast Album Cover with a pot of rosemary - the herb for remembrance - beckoning gardeners to remember to listen to the show. Updated September 2025.

Botanical History On This Day 1580 Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer, died, leaving behind his beloved Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Tusser’s timeworn advice is as vital as the scent of fresh earth—his verses invite all gardeners to reap wisdom and wit even as the centuries slip away. What secret did a poet-farmer…

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