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 – 8/7/2025: A Conversation with Dr. Juliana Rangel, Associate Professor of Apiculture in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M

August 7, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff and Dr. Juliana Rangel, Associate Professor of Apiculture in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University discuss Dr. Rangel's history and duties with Texas A&M Entomology, education and research projects including how bees select between pollens, regulations regarding bees, foraging behavior, use of pollen by other pollinators, tips for making home landscapes attractive and beneficial for pol...
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Garden Success – 7/31/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

July 31, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses salvia plants, canna lilies, bougainvillea, soil testing for PH, killing grass under trees without harming the trees, asparagus, pruning roses, cedar elms, and upcoming local events.
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Garden Success – 7/24/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

July 24, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses salvia plants, bell peppers grown in containers, citrus, a lawn with both St. Augustine and Bermuda grasses competing, upcoming local events, a tree in decline, mulberry trees, live oaks, and propagating plant cuttings.
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Garden Success – 7/17/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

July 17, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses his recent fig event, transplanting crape myrtles & figs, jalapeno and other peppers, upcoming local events, cantaloupe, sourcing worms, and planting ornamentals around a tree.
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Garden Success – 7/10/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

July 10, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses St Augustine, Bermuda, and Zoysia grasses, Figs, Japanese Maples, Turks Cap, caring for Crape Myrtles, general tips for July gardening, and a Sycamore sapling with brown leaves.
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Garden Success – 7/3/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

July 3, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the morning rains, a vinca plant with fungal pathogens, cultivating cantaloupes and musk melons, tomatoes, sago palms, barrier plants, okra plants getting chewed on by animals, and upcoming local events.
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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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