Better Lawns and Gardens
645 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago -Better Lawns and Gardens host, Teresa Watkins, provides weekly gardening advice, interviews garden celebrities, and answers your questions on turf, flowers, shrubs, and trees. Gardening information for gardeners who want to be sustainable and low maintenance! Topics and interviews include monthly gardening advice on Florida-friendly landscaping, water conservation, landscape design, themed gardens, new garden books, and colorful plants for sun or shade. Saturday mornings 7am - 9am EST. iHeart WFLA-AM 540 https://bit.ly/3594wWb
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S2 Ep154: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Charlotte Ekker Wiggins Beekeeping for Beginners March 19, 2022
March 20, 2022 01:22 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele warm up the morning with rainy weather, should you irrigate 2x a week, and #Caturday's St. Gertrude, the patron saint of gardeners and cats. St. Gertrude also celebrates the same holy day as St. Patrick. What to do in March in your landscape. Teresa is joined by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins,, author of "A Beekeeper's Diary, Self-Guide to Be...
S2 Ep153: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Leah Brooks Starting Your Spring Seeds March 12, 2022
March 12, 2022 20:30 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins chats with Leah Brooks, with Tower Garden on starting Spring seeds in rock wool, growing vegetables in a Tower Garden. Garden questions and texts include pruning guava trees, North Florida rain total reports, someone complaining about John Denver, woody periwinkles, pentas, and basil, fire ants, codling moths, cutting back liriope, and more. https://bit.ly/3c...
S2 Ep152: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Tom MacCubbin Doo You Need To Fertilize? March 12, 2022
March 12, 2022 19:57 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins asks Tom Maccubbin for a good substitution for granule fertilizer and discusses how to understand a soil analysis report. Lizzie encourages Shumar to ask his garden question. Garden questions and texts include recommendations for a reliable plant id app, do plants need covered this weekend, why isn't Shumar's lychee tree growing, is leaving oak leaves on turf o...
S2 Ep151: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Garden For Wildlife March 5, 2022
March 06, 2022 02:09 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Mary Phillips, Head of Garden for Wildlife, on the gardening campaign “Plant with a Purpose!” Garden questions and texts include using cat fur, coffee grounds, and teabags in compost, transplanting a 5’ tall pittosporum, Tabebuia that never flowers, topping oleanders, fertilizing shrubs, National Wildlife Federation certification, and more. https://...
S2 Ep151: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Florida Wildflower & Garden Festival March 5, 2022
March 06, 2022 01:52 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by show sponsor, Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland to showcase the popular Florida Wildflower and Garden Festival. Speakers include Teresa presents “Success with Wildflowers – Grow, Mow, and Bloom” and Tom MacCubbin will be speaking on “Garden Do’s and Don’ts.” Garden questions and texts include where to buy African violets, so...
S2 Ep150: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour Update February 26, 2022
February 27, 2022 23:20 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by two gardening experts, Sally Cunningham, author of “Buffalo Style Gardens” to discuss Teresa’s Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour, and Lance Walheim, author of the “Citrus” and “Growing Roses for Dummies” series. Garden questions and texts include cutting back hibiscus, is winter over?, freeze-damaged Hawaiian Ti and Siberian iris, Honeybell citrus...
S2 Ep150: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Glenna's Iron Board African Violets February 26, 2022
February 27, 2022 22:53 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses how growing and propagating African violets with Glenna Hancock, daughter of Walter “Buster” Hancock of the historic five-generation agricultural Hancock citrus groves. Glenna tells the simple method of propagating African violets. Garden questions and texts covered asking where to buy African violets, soil for growing vegetables in containers, cutting ...
S2 Ep149: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Southern Gardening All Year Round February 19, 2022
February 19, 2022 21:31 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses Southern Gardening in Florida and Mississippi Zones 8, 9, 10, 11. Dr. Gary Bachman, author of "Southern Gardening - All Year Round" in the house! Teresa gave a Florida memento to Gary, Lizzie, and Melissa, a rare Philodendron "Birkin" plant., which is so beautifully green, cream, yellow, and red striped, that it's was named after the ultimate and expen...
S2 Ep148: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Dear Zora Rae Chesny February 19, 2022
February 19, 2022 19:58 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is excited to have Dr. Gary Bachman, author of "Southern Gardening - All Year Round" in the house! Celebrating Black History Month, we interviewed Rae Chesny on her book, "Dear Zora" about local author and icon, Zora Neale Hurston. Garden questions and texts covered fertilizing pineapples, Sunshine ligustrums, viable vegetable seeds, are bottlebrush weepy or h...
S2 Ep147: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 National Garden Bureau 2022 Green Thumb Awards
February 12, 2022 21:41 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Valentine's Day weekend with Randy Schultz, editor of HomeGardenandHomestead, the best garden website in the Plant Kingdom. Teresa provides more Valentine's Day trivia which has Lizzie gagging. Randy announces the National Garden Bureau's 2022 Green Thumb Award winners. Garden questions and texts include: yellowing gardenias, variegated hibiscus reverting, herbs getting woody, dogs eating kumquats, freeze-damaged trees and parrot flowers, and more. https:...
S2 Ep146: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Dana Venrick Winter Citrus Care Feb 12, 2022
February 12, 2022 20:51 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host Teresa Watkins provides plenty of Valentine's Day trivia much to Lizzie's chagrin and announces the new restaurant River and Fort opening in St. Augustine. her son Derrick is the Chef. Check it out! Does your citrus look a little rough from the freeze? Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialist Nursery explains what to do to help your citrus recover. Dana also provides details on the Florida Wildf...
S2 Ep145: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 The Garden Tourist's Florida February 5, 2022
February 05, 2022 20:28 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Garden author and designer, Jana Milbocker is coming to Florida! Teresa and Jana discuss her newest book in The Garden Tourist series, The Garden Tourist's Florida: A Guide to 80 Tropical Gardens in the Sunshine State Check out Jana's list and her book signing dates! Garden questions and texts include will Thunbergia grandiflora die from freeze, trimming oak, Christmas cactus, what to do with plants that will be affected by bleach from new hardscape insta...
S2 Ep145: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 The Garden Tourist's Florida
February 05, 2022 20:28 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Garden author and designer, Jana Milbocker is coming to Florida! Teresa and Jana discuss her newest book in The Garden Tourist series, The Garden Tourist's Florida: A Guide to 80 Tropical Gardens in the Sunshine State Check out Jana's list and her book signing dates! Garden questions and texts include will Thunbergia grandiflora die from freeze, trimming oak, Christmas cactus, what to do with plants that will be affected by bleach from new hardscape insta...
S2 Ep145: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 February Landscaping Tina McIntyre February 5, 2022
February 05, 2022 20:15 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens, Florida's most popular gardening show with gardening expert Teresa Watkins. www.betterlawns.com Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins is joined by Tina McIntyre, Seminole County Florida-friendly Landscaping agent to discuss winter recovery and what to do in your yard for February. Lizzie has new show Connections with Melissa Foxx and others. Teresa provides Florida tre...
S2 Ep144: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Color of the Year: Very Peri January 29, 2022
January 30, 2022 02:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa discusses with @KipMcconnell all of the new shrubs and plants that can be used for @Pantone‘s Color of the Year 2022, ‘Very Peri.’ Learn about the Southern Living Plant Collection and the Sunset Collection. Garden questions and texts include coldest temperatures this winter, safflower seeds, lemon tree and gardenia protection, Asian seed catalog, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Asian Seed Catalog: Kitazawaseed https://kitazawaseed.com/ Gr...
S2 Ep143: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 National Seed Swap Day January 29, 2022
January 30, 2022 01:47 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – National Seed Swapping Day. Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins talks with Kathy Jentz, editor of Washington Gardener Magazine and founder of National Seed Swapping Day, on the benefits and fun of swapping seeds. Garden questions and texts include cold winter protection for landscape plants, foxtail ferns, plumeria, roses, poinsettia, squirrels and bird feeders, shrub identification, and much more...
S2 Ep142: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Winter Harvest with Tower Gardens January 22, 2022
January 23, 2022 01:10 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins is amazed at the winter harvest with Leah Brooks' Tower Gardens. Teresa discusses winter maintenance and varieties of winter vegetables and fruits you can grow with cooler temperatures. Garden questions and texts include eradicating coral ardesia, growing bonsai on a boat, how much water thyme needs, how to collect lettuce seeds after bolting, and more. ht...
S2 Ep141: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Arbor Day Quality Green Specialists January 22, 2022
January 23, 2022 00:52 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Celebrating Florida Arbor Day. Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins and Quality Green Specialists Nursery owner, Dave Venrick discuss the reasons and the best way to plant trees in January. Garden questions and texts include poinsettia care during a freeze, using coffee filters for pots, cutting back gingers, protecting orchids with frost blanket, oak tree id, northern trees in bloom in Tallahassee,...
S2 Ep140: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Cynthia Brian, Goddess Gardner, StarStyle January 8, 2022
January 09, 2022 20:17 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins talks with Cynthia Brian, actor, author, speaker, TV/Radio personality, lifestyle professional, spokesperson, coach, philanthropist, Goddess gardener about StarStyle, fulfilment, joy, rejuvenation, and growing your soul in the garden. Your garden questions and texts include growing hostas and hydrangeas, fireweed, ants in a water oak, worms, growth on a fig tree, insecticide for edibles, and more. https://bit.l...
S2 Ep140: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Cynthia Brian, Goddess Gardener, StarStyle January 8, 2022
January 09, 2022 20:17 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins talks with Cynthia Brian, actor, author, speaker, TV/Radio personality, lifestyle professional, spokesperson, coach, philanthropist, Goddess gardener about StarStyle, fulfilment, joy, rejuvenation, and growing your soul in the garden. Your garden questions and texts include growing hostas and hydrangeas, fireweed, ants in a water oak, worms, growth on a fig tree, insecticide for edibles, and more. https://bit.l...
S2 Ep140: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
January 09, 2022 20:03 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – First show of 2022. Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele discuss their holidays and Teresa's incredible visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum . It's also celebrate National Houseplant Day, January 10th, so Teresa highlights a few ways, courtesy of Apartment Therapy. Garden questions and texts include when to fertilize azaleas, getting rid of dollar weed, and what to do in the month of January in your backyard. ht...
S2 Ep139: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 New Year's Special January 1, 2022
January 09, 2022 18:48 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy New Year! Two Hour Special! Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins is joined by Tom MacCubbin, the original host emeritus of Better Lawns and Gardens, producer Lizzie Steele, and Homegardenhomestead 's Randy Schultz, to talk about their holidays, favorite new plants, most common garden questions asked, 2022 garden predictions, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins, Creative Commons Listen to Better Lawns and Gar...
S2 Ep139: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 New Year's Special January 1, 2022
January 09, 2022 18:42 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy New Year! Two Hour Special! Better Lawns and Gardens host Teresa Watkins is joined by Tom MacCubbin, the original host emeritus of Better Lawns and Gardens, producer Lizzie Steele, and "Gardening for Dummies" expert, Lance Walheim, to talk about their holidays, reminisce 2021 garden highlights, including Tom's retirement, everyone's 2022 New Year's goals. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins, Creative Commons Listen to Better...
S2 Ep138: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Audubon Christmas Bird Count with Sally Stein December 18, 2021
December 18, 2021 20:28 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Sally Stein, Director of Public Programs for Audubon.org on the Christmas Bird Count. Dirty Word of the Day describes colorful foliage leaves that aren't the flowers. Garden calls and texts include how to grow potatoes from their eyes, and pruning mulberry hedges, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Graphic and photograph credits: Teresa Watkins, Yel...
S2 Ep138: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Winter Annuals with Tom MacCubbin December 18, 2021
December 18, 2021 20:17 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Would you like to grow Northern annual flowers in your garden? Teresa Watkins, host of Better Lawns and Gardens discusses with Tom MacCubbin, Host emeritus, how to grow sweet alyssum, delphiniums, foxgloves, hollyhocks, pansies, and other beautiful Northern blooms in your tropical garden. Gardening calls and texts include getting a mango to bloom, proper soil conditions for herbs, pruning vibrunum hedges to prevent "bare-bottom syndrome," and more. bit.ly/...
S2 Ep137: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Winter Blooming Houseplants December 11, 2021
December 12, 2021 03:12 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden Expert, Teresa Watkins, interviews Houseplant Guru and award-winning garden author, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, on Winter-blooming houseplants. Dirty Word of the Day describes the perfect climate for fruit trees! Garden calls and texts include why perennial hibiscus is dying, or is it, citrus trees not blooming or fruiting, are poinsettias toxic to cats, is Para'kito safe for pets, Florida snow weed, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free ...
S2 Ep136: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Winter Protection For Fruit Trees December 11, 2021
December 12, 2021 02:37 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Gardening expert Teresa Watkins discusses the record high temperatures for December, Perfecto Mundo azaleas, Pantone's new color of the year for 2022. Producer Lizzie Steele admits she's almost ready for Christmas. Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists, advises on winter protection of fruit trees. Gardening calls and texts include Para'kito insect repellent, pruning hibiscus in winter, care of amaryllis, how to get poinsettias to survive in winte...
S2 Ep135: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Santa's Christmas GIft List for Gardeners December 4, 2021
December 06, 2021 00:31 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden Expert, Teresa Watkins, is joined by special guest and Santa Helper, Randy Schultz, President of Schultz Communications and editor of award-winning Home Garden and Homestead. Randy provides essential and practical gifts that every gardener can use. Dirty Word of the Day fits right into the holiday spirit with mistletoe! Garden calls and texts include why is porterweed leaves turning black, fertilizer, laying sod during winter, rye grass, orchid prote...
S2 Ep135: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Preparing Your Landscape for Winter December 4, 2021
December 06, 2021 00:01 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Florida will see a La Niña winter for a second year in a row in 2021-2022. What does that mean for your landscape? Garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses with Ed Thralls, horticultural expert, on preparing your landscape for winter freezes, and what to do after a freeze! Gardening questions and texts include: planting basil in the winter, pruning leggy hibiscus, watering spider plants, Perfecto Mundo azaleas, Azomite, freeze protection for Plumeria, mangro...
S2 Ep134: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Christmas Garden Book List September 20, 2021
November 20, 2021 20:13 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Happy Thanksgiving! Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is joined by award-winning author and podcaster, Carol Michel. Carol provides her Christmas book list for gardeners that have been good this year. Dirty word of the Day is Cornucopia. Garden calls and texts include suggestions for fruit trees for a Port Charlotte garden, tree mold, how to protect plants in winter, papaya tree, fig rust, how to get rid of air potato, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subsc...
S2 Ep134: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Christmas Garden Book List November 20, 2021
November 20, 2021 20:13 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Happy Thanksgiving! Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is joined by award-winning author and podcaster, Carol Michel. Carol provides her Christmas book list for gardeners that have been good this year. Dirty word of the Day is Cornucopia. Garden calls and texts include suggestions for fruit trees for a Port Charlotte garden, tree mold, how to protect plants in winter, papaya tree, fig rust, how to get rid of air potato, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subsc...
S2 Ep134: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - When Should You Use Neem Oil? November 20, 2021
November 20, 2021 20:06 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy Thanksgiving! Past Thanksgiving memories with Lizzie and Josh. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses when and how to use Neem oil in the garden with Dr. Matt Borden, Bartlett Tree Service. Garden questions and texts include powdery mildew, black spots on Duranta, plant disease, insect control, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Join Teresa on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour...
S2 Ep133: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Perfecto Mundo Azaleas November 13, 2021
November 13, 2021 20:25 - 53 minutes - 49.8 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is gobsmacked over the new Proven Winners Color Choice "Perfecto Mundo" reblooming double azaleas for Central Florida. Dr. Judson LeCompte, research/breeder for Spring Meadow Nursery discusses all the benefits including lacebug resistance and sun-tolerance of these lush, low-maintenance azaleas. Dirty word of the Day is Autotrophs. Garden calls and texts include tropical soda apple, what to use on persistant whiteflies in t...
S2 Ep132: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Garden Soil Mineral Amendments November 13, 2021
November 13, 2021 19:48 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins almost didn't make it to the show! Teresa and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, discuss the importance of adding minerals like Azomite to Garden questions and texts include whiteflies solution, tropical soda apple, replacement for dwarf oyster plant getting too much water, should carambola fruit be removed from young tree, leaves dying on a Peppermint peach tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscr...
131: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Raising Chickens with Leah Brooks November 6, 2021
November 07, 2021 00:56 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Tower Garden expert and Chicken Lady, Leah Brooks joins garden host, Teresa Watkins to discuss raising chickens. Lots of bad puns, more chicken trivia, weather and garden updates from North Florida. Dirty word of the Day is Cover Crop. Calls, texts, and emails include excess water use, cover crops, lack of rainfall, orchids in full sun, wildflower planting season, voodoo lilies, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening news...
S2 Ep131: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Raising Chickens with Leah Brooks November 6, 2021
November 07, 2021 00:56 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Tower Garden expert and Chicken Lady, Leah Brooks joins garden host, Teresa Watkins to discuss raising chickens. Lots of bad puns, more chicken trivia, weather and garden updates from North Florida. Dirty word of the Day is Cover Crop. Calls, texts, and emails include excess water use, cover crops, lack of rainfall, orchids in full sun, wildflower planting season, voodoo lilies, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening news...
S2 Ep131: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Time To Change Irrigation Tina McIntyre November 6, 2021
November 07, 2021 00:48 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by UF Seminole County Florida-Friendly Landscape Agent, Tina McIntyre. Tina answers questions on the need to change irrigation timers for Daylight Savings Time. Garden questions and texts include water conservation, chicken trivia, weather, all the rain, what to do in your landscape for November, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Graphic credits: T...
131: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Time To Change Irrigation Tina McIntyre November 6, 2021
November 07, 2021 00:48 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by UF Seminole County Florida-Friendly Landscape Agent, Tina McIntyre. Tina answers questions on the need to change irrigation timers for Daylight Savings Time. Garden questions and texts include water conservation, chicken trivia, weather, all the rain, what to do in your landscape for November, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Graphic credits: T...
130: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Halloween in the Garden October 30, 2021
October 30, 2021 18:07 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden expert, Teresa Watkins quotes Macbeth's couplet from the witches scene and is joined by Denise Schreiber, aka "Mrs. Know It All", to discuss Halloween traditions and herbs. President of the Nehrling Garden Society, Angela Withers, announces that the Nehrling Gardens have been awarded $1,000,000 from the West Orange Healthcare District. Dirty word of the Day is decomposition. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fille...
S2 Ep130: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Halloween in the Garden October 30, 2021
October 30, 2021 18:07 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden expert, Teresa Watkins quotes Macbeth's couplet from the witches scene and is joined by Denise Schreiber, aka "Mrs. Know It All", to discuss Halloween traditions and herbs. President of the Nehrling Garden Society, Angela Withers, announces that the Nehrling Gardens have been awarded $1,000,000 from the West Orange Healthcare District. Dirty word of the Day is decomposition. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fille...
129: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Shari Clark Bats Belfry October 30, 2021
October 30, 2021 17:43 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy Halloween! Teresa Watkins celebrates the Autumn holiday childhood memories of playing with bats with Shari Clark, President of the Florida Bat Conservancy. They discuss where to place bat houses and what to do to attract more bats to your landscape. Sweater weather arrives in Central Florida and Better Lawns and Gardens hits 15,000 podcast downloads! Garden questions and texts include plant suggestions for a shaded area, soda apple, white flies on to...
S2 Ep129: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Shari Clark Bats Belfry October 30, 2021
October 30, 2021 17:43 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy Halloween! Teresa Watkins celebrates the Autumn holiday childhood memories of playing with bats with Shari Clark, President of the Florida Bat Conservancy. They discuss where to place bat houses and what to do to attract more bats to your landscape. Sweater weather arrives in Central Florida and Better Lawns and Gardens hits 15,000 podcast downloads! Garden questions and texts include plant suggestions for a shaded area, soda apple, white flies on to...
S2 Ep128: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 How To Select A Citrus Tree October 23, 2021
October 24, 2021 00:48 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Host Teresa Watkins discusses resurgence of planting citrus with Lance Walheim, author of Citrus:: Complete Guide to Selecting & Growing More Than 100 Varieties for California, Arizona, the Gulf Coast, and Florida. Topics, calls, and texts, include Teresa's Dirty Word of the Day, moles vs voles, sterilizing weeds, topping avocado trees, orangewood tree, oak limbs falling, Italian cypress turning brown, replace with a Shumard, Nuttall, or Winged Elm? and mo...
128: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 How To Select A Citrus Tree October 23, 2021
October 24, 2021 00:48 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Host Teresa Watkins discusses resurgence of planting citrus with Lance Walheim, author of Citrus:: Complete Guide to Selecting & Growing More Than 100 Varieties for California, Arizona, the Gulf Coast, and Florida. Topics, calls, and texts, include Teresa's Dirty Word of the Day, moles vs voles, sterilizing weeds, topping avocado trees, orangewood tree, oak limbs falling, Italian cypress turning brown, replace with a Shumard, Nuttall, or Winged Elm? and mo...
S2 Ep128: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Aeroponic Gardening October 23, 2021
October 24, 2021 00:11 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins gets updates from Leah Brooks, Tower Garden rep, on her Fall garden and how to order a Tower Garden for Christmas. Topics, questions, and texts include muhly grass, black mulberry tree, bee removal, topping a papaya tree, adding grass clippings to compost, rainfall deficits, mushrooms in turf, bougainvillea transplant stress, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Leah Brooks, Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawn...
128: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Aeroponic Gardening October 23, 2021
October 24, 2021 00:11 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins gets updates from Leah Brooks, Tower Garden rep, on her Fall garden and how to order a Tower Garden for Christmas. Topics, questions, and texts include muhly grass, black mulberry tree, bee removal, topping a papaya tree, adding grass clippings to compost, rainfall deficits, mushrooms in turf, bougainvillea transplant stress, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Leah Brooks, Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawn...
S2 Ep127: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Tall Houseplants with The Houseplant Guru October 16, 2021
October 16, 2021 18:58 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Teresa Watkins, gets great indoor plant suggestions from The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf. Lisa provides recommendations on containers to use, care, and pruning tall houseplants. Garden calls and texts about mealy bugs on coconut palms, rhubarb, how long does it take a systemic to work, blackberry and raspberry varieties, cutting back a bougainvillea, do aphids sting, boxwood turning yellow, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Ter...
127: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Tall Houseplants with The Houseplant Guru October 16, 2021
October 16, 2021 18:58 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Teresa Watkins, gets great indoor plant suggestions from The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf. Lisa provides recommendations on containers to use, care, and pruning tall houseplants. Garden calls and texts about mealy bugs on coconut palms, rhubarb, how long does it take a systemic to work, blackberry and raspberry varieties, cutting back a bougainvillea, do aphids sting, boxwood turning yellow, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Ter...
S2 Ep127: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Fall Trees and Florida Apples October 16, 2021
October 16, 2021 18:51 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, discuss their favorite Autumn seasonal colorful trees. Celebrate National Apple Day, October 21st, by planting an apple tree! Dana provides apple varieties that do well in Florida. University of Florida Extension professor emeritus and Better Lawns and Gardens host emeritus Tom MacCubbin calls in to update on his Fall vegetables. Garden questions and texts include col...
127: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Fall Trees and Florida Apples October 16, 2021
October 16, 2021 18:51 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, discuss their favorite Autumn seasonal colorful trees. Celebrate National Apple Day, October 21st, by planting an apple tree! Dana provides apple varieties that do well in Florida. University of Florida Extension professor emeritus and Better Lawns and Gardens host emeritus Tom MacCubbin calls in to update on his Fall vegetables. Garden questions and texts include col...