Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff

Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff

Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff is a call-in gardening show airing each Thursday from noon to 1:00pm on KAMU-FM. Stephen, an extension specialist in horticulture at Texas A&M Agrilife, serves as your garden consultant, answering questions to help you grow a bountiful garden and beautiful landscape in the Brazos Valley. Stephen will give you time-saving tips, guide you to the best plants selections and provide proven pest management strategies including both conventional and organic techniques.

Episodes

Garden Success – 6/26/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

June 26, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses recent rains in the Brazos Valley, splitting fruit as a result of the rains, Green Zebra tomatoes, Blue Belles, Caladiums, Zinnia flowers, upcoming local events, and tips to prepare for fall tomatoes.
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Garden Success – 6/19/2025: Q&A With Skip Richter

June 19, 2025 • 59 mins
Guest host Skip Richter discusses reasons to leave grass clippings on the lawn after mowing, turf pests and diseases, filling in bare spots in turf, upcoming local events, fertilizing shrubs, sooty mold on crape myrtle, cycle & soak watering method, hypoxylon canker in white oak trees, southern peas, and warm season greens and okra.
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Garden Success – 6/12/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

June 12, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the rains currently impacting the area, cucumbers & melons, indeterminate tomatoes, figs, peaches, jujube trees, garlic chives, and crape myrtle bark scale
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Garden Success – 6/5/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

June 5, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses his recent travel to Los Angeles & plants he saw while out there, tomatoes, upcoming local events, pruning, bee removal, volunteer plum trees, and fungal pathogens.
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Garden Success – 5/15/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff & Hannah Ayala

May 15, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff & Hannah Ayala, Head Diagnostician at the Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab discuss plant samples accepted by the lab, common diseases the lab sees on a regular basis, how to submit samples, a fungal infection on a caller's grapevine, upcoming local events, and why to not move citrus, but rather buy locally.
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Garden Success – 5/8/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

May 8, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses recent rains in the Brazos Valley, yucca, figs, black wooly caterpillars, oleander, cold-hardy citrus, raspberries, and upcoming local events.
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Garden Success – 5/1/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

May 1, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses blackberries, peaches, oak trees, how often to replace soil in container plants, magnolia, fungicides, curly dock, upcoming local events, crape myrtle bark scale, and roses.
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Garden Success – 4/24/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

April 24, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses water needs for home fruit trees, honeysuckle vine, oak tree flowering, upcoming local events, container bougainvillea plants, how often to replace potting soil, and edible flowers.
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Garden Success – 4/17/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

April 17, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses salvias, vertical gardening, vining plant identification, wisteria, mulch suggestion for a caller, upcoming local events, and timing oak tree trimming to minimize oak wilt disease.
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Garden Success – 4/10/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

April 10, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses bluebonnets, other contenders for the Texas state flower, fruit tree pests including plum curculio, effectiveness of organza bags on growing fruit, tomato fertilization, spring lawn fertilization schedule, upcoming local events, and texas sage.
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Garden Success – 4/3/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

April 3, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses garden herbs, wildflower viewing, upcoming local events, firecracker plant, the Leach Teaching Gardens on Texas A&M's campus, rusty black haw, and yaupon holly.
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Garden Success – 3/27/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

March 27, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses spring gardening tips, Texas' spring wildflowers, upcoming local events, and bamboo in home landscaping.
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Garden Success – 3/20/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff & Dr. Kevin Ong

March 20, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff & Dr. Kevin Ong discuss common plant diseases, protecting plants from high winds, a caller's meyer lemon that has stopped producing fruit, fast growing trees & bushes for privacy, upcoming local events, and info about the Texas Plant Diagnostic Lab.
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Garden Success – 3/13/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

March 13, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses transplanting trees and other plants, re-potting plants, fruit tree planting and fertilization, upcoming local events, identifying a wax myrtle, fast growing trees, next week's special guest, and fall aster.
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Garden Success – 3/6/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

March 6, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses tomatoes in-depth, upcoming local events, his favorite fig varieties, and when to prune peach trees.
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Garden Success – 2/27/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

February 27, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Texas A&M campus landscaping, native grasses, pre-emergent treatments for the lawn, transplanting vegetables into a bed that had been treated with a pre-emergent herbicide, upcoming local events, raised beds, soil testing, and organic herbicide.
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Garden Success – 2/20/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

February 20, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses palm tree biology and pruning advice, a follow-up on insect identification, upcoming local events, weed control in St. Augustine and Bermudagrass lawns, and reasons to go outside and enjoy nature.
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Garden Success – 2/13/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

February 13, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the return of winter temperatures to the Brazos Valley, identifying pests on a listener's indoor pepper plants as well as providing treatment solutions, info on a presentation on heirloom bulbs, pruning climbing roses and crape myrtles, types of garden mulch materials and colorants, upcoming local events, and plum trees.
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Garden Success – 2/6/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

February 6, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses home canning of citrus, upcoming local events, identifying a plant with heart-shaped leaves, where to have mulch material tested, care & watering of potted bougainvillea, and more.
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Garden Success – 1/30/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

January 30, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses how he protected his plants from the recent freeze, anna apples, success in keeping a meyer lemon alive through the freeze, upcoming local events, cosmos, cauliflower, when to plant potatoes, and more.
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