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 – 12/4/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

December 4, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses his recent reaction to the forecast cold weather, tomatoes in his home garden, cold-hardy citrus varieties, greenhouses, containerized plants, covering plants to protect from cold damage, whether it is effective or not to spray plants with water before freezing weather, and upcoming local events.
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Garden Success – 11/27/2025: A Conversation with Dr. Garrett Slater, Assistant Professor and Apiculture Extension Entomologist

November 27, 2025 • 58 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff and Dr. Garrett Slater discuss Dr. Slater's appointment and founding of the Texas Honeybee Research Lab, his education and history with beekeeping, different types of beekeepers, the pollen mapping project, Honeybee nutrition, the Texas Master Beekeeping Program, AgriLife education resources, migratory beekeepers, colony losses, future plans for the Honeybee Lab, Dr. Slater's impressions of Texas so far, and th...
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Garden Success – 11/20/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

November 20, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses next week's recorded program with Dr. Garrett Slater, mulch & compost, his backyard garden, comparing bulk compost to bagged, persimmons, southern magnolia, grasses, an oak tree with dying branches, and herbicides.
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Garden Success – 11/13/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

November 13, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the leaves changing color and falling from the trees, Bald Cypress, Fall Aster, watering a magnolia tree, upcoming local events, and fall garden plants.
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Garden Success – 11/6/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

November 6, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the fall pecan season, the state pecan show, Emerald Ash Borer, planting Burr Oak acorns, spots on Texas A&M's campus to gather oak acorns, Texas Arbor Day, ideal diversity of tree species in a landscape, Fig Rust, Leaf-Footed Bugs, and managing an evergreen in Brazos Valley winters.
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Garden Success – 10/30/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff & Dr. Stephanie Adams

October 30, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff & guest Dr. Stephanie Adams, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist discuss her professional background, Texas Arbor Day, Post Oak research, Junipers, types of tree roots, Oak Wilt research, Emerald Ash Borer, root collection, urban tree planting, a caller's question about ants in a tree, another question about viability of a Water Oak, and pecans.
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Garden Success – 10/23/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

October 23, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the Leach Teaching Gardens on the Texas A&M Campus, local parks and trails, Oak Lace bug, planting clover as a ground cover, upcoming local events, pecans, and fall weather.
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Garden Success – 10/16/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

October 16, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses supplemental landscape irrigation and water conservation, a Burr Oak with white spots on leaves, mushrooms and other fungus on trees, Cleveland Pear, upcoming local events, and Mesquite tree removal techniques.
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Garden Success – 10/9/2025: All About Trees

October 9, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses cultivating trees, benefits of having trees in a landscape, the best time to plant a tree, soil testing, and identifying planting locations.
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Garden Success – 10/2/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

October 2, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Montezuma & Bald Cypress, grassburs in a lawn, an oak tree with white on the bark, upcoming local events, Callery Pear, Mexican Plum, and take-all root rot.
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Garden Success – 9/25/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

September 25, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Asparagus in depth, a St. Augustine lawn with a possible fungal pathogen, upcoming local events, and roses.
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Garden Success – 9/18/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

September 18, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Obedient Plant, St Augustine grass encroaching on a Bermuda lawn, Blue Mistflower, upcoming local events, gardening tips for the end of September, Asparagus, and Broccoli.
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Garden Success – 9/11/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

September 11, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses sweet potatoes, turk's cap, a volunteer mulberry tree, butterflies, upcoming local events, Go-N-Grow gardens & College Station water rebates, mealy bugs, washing black mold off of plants, winterizing lawns and container plants, and sourcing valencia peanuts.
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Garden Success – 9/4/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

September 4, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses a listener's email about a tree having leaves with necrosis & a possible pathogen, transplanting container trees, Moringa tree suggested planting method & leaf harvest time, Indian Hawthorn, upcoming local events, pollinator-friendly plants, and native plants for landscaping.
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Garden Success – 8/28/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

August 28, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses figs, how fall is like a second spring, soil testing, raised beds, plants that can be planted in a fall garden, pecans, and upcoming local events.
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Garden Success – 8/21/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

August 21, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Asiatic Jasmine, mushrooms growing alongside a tree, identifying a listener's variety of Southern Magnolia, an upcoming honeybee webinar, pruning roses, horticultural oils, an oak tree with decay, and an update on the harvest from his home garden including bell peppers and sweet potatoes.
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Garden Success – 8/14/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

August 14, 2025 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses jujube trees, asian jasmine, a post oak tree shedding bark, lightning damage to trees, cinch bugs, bee hotels, chinese pistache, water conservation, upcoming local events, changes to local farmers' markets.
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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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