Better Lawns & Gardens
Florida's foremost gardening podcast by gardening expert and professional designer, Teresa Watkins!
Episodes
April 20, 2024 • 38 mins
HR2 Special Guest Kim Roman talks about
herbs for wellness, cooking & crafts in gardening to help people "Confidently Grow Their Own Food!" with her Square Foot Gardening Certified Instructor knowledge since 2010.
Teresa Watkins gives you the "Dirty Word of the Day" & how you can use it in conversations this week.
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April 20, 2024 • 40 mins
HR 1 Information on soil prep for native plants, favorite native plants for birds, flowers & pollinators all from Anita Camacho, President & Funder of Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation, Inc. & North American Butterfly Association - Tampa Bay chapter.
Teresa Watkins talks with listeners & answers their questions.
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April 13, 2024 • 36 mins
Special Guest Randy Schultz talks about adaptive gardening & gardening tools for Seniors.
Dirty Word of the Day.
Teresa Watkins talks about what colors work well together in your Cottage Gardening project.
Here in Hour 2
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April 13, 2024 • 40 mins
Listeners get their questions answered by Teresa Watkins about:
"What to fertilizer your pineapple plants with?"
"Christmas Cactus producing seed pods. What to do with the seeds?"
"Can you grow anything under an Oak Tree or in a shady area?"
All in Hour 1.
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April 6, 2024 • 40 mins
Hr- 2 Gary Bachman Extension/Research Professor covers his pepper seeds & urban farming movement and experiences the joy of homegrown produce with Gary Grows at Heritage Cottage.
Teresa Watkin's the Dirty Word of the Day.
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April 6, 2024 • 39 mins
Hr 1 - Dana Venrick from Quality Green Specialists gives ideas of what to plant in the shade.
Teresa’s What to Do in Your Garden Reminders April 2024.
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March 30, 2024 • 40 mins
Use Teresa Watkin's the Dirty Word of the Day.
April fool myths & Teresa answers listeners calls, text & emails on their concerns with their landscape & gardens.
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March 30, 2024 • 39 mins
Hr 1 - Florida-friendly landscape extension agent, Tina McIntyre. How much water do you need?
Teresa updates you on what to plant in your editable garden this week.
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March 23, 2024 • 40 mins
Teresa interviews award winning author and landscape designer Benjamin Vogt and the philosophy of No-Mow May. She talks to Listeners, answers their questions.
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March 23, 2024 • 40 mins
Teresa's warning about the annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ list released, HOWEVER she covers why she feels it is a mistake.
Special Guest Brooke Moffis Environmental Horticulture Extension Agent for Lake County talks about the event:
UF/IFAS Extension Lake County Master Gardener Volunteers with over 3,000 plants for sale to the public including Florida native species, butterfly and hummingbird attractants, edible plants, and many more.
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March 16, 2024 • 38 mins
Special Guest Kim Halyak talks about
The Experience Memphis Gardens 2024 City Wide Garden Walk. Teresa covers concerns & questions from Listeners.
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March 16, 2024 • 40 mins
Special Guest Katie Dubow President of Garden Media Group talks about Knock Out Roses turning 25 years old.
Teresa answers an email about what to put down to help detour nuisances in your garden & yard. Hear solutions to Listeners calls & texts too.
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March 9, 2024 • 39 mins
Special Guest Randy Schultz of Home, Garden and Homestead is your “Guide to Modern Living.”
Covering Listener questions on subject like: Royal Poinciana tree, Azaleas & Teresa cautions about using vinegar as an herbicide.
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March 9, 2024 • 37 mins
Special Guest Brooke Moffis Environmental Horticulture Extension Agent for Lake County.
Teresa covers what to grow in your garden to eat.
She talks to Listeners, answers their questions.
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March 4, 2024 • 40 mins
*Gene McAvoy among 2024 Florida Ag Hall of Fame inductees talks about us growing the wrong onions and which ones need to be planted in FL. He also covers Okra and now is the time to grow it.
*Teresa gives us our Dirty Word of the Day.
*What you can be doing in your yard in March.
*We chat with Listeners, cover their emails & texts.
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March 2, 2024 • 40 mins
Dana Venric our sponsor from Quality Green Specialist in Deland talks about his Olive Trees and now is the time to get them.
Teresa gives a list of what need to be planted this week. We chat with Listeners, cover their emails & texts.
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February 24, 2024 • 39 mins
Hr2 Special Guest - Felder Rushing, World-famous gardener. Rushing is a host, author, photographer & non-stuffy national board member of the American Horticultural Society.
Increase your vocabulary with Teresa's Dirty Word of the Day.
We are answering Listener's emails, texts & calls.
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February 24, 2024 • 39 mins
Hr 1 - List of Invasive Plant Species to remove.
What to plant in your garden this week. What needs fertilizing. Teresa explains why you have brown spots in your lawn. Did you know it could be insects & what to do to know.
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February 17, 2024 • 39 mins
Hr2 What herbs to plant & to do in your garden. Taking listener's calls, texts & emails.
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February 17, 2024 • 39 mins
Hr1 Special Guest Aaron Boyar about the Seminole County Garden Expo.
Teresa talks about bird migration & she asks the question "Did you know Pelicans migrate?"
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