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 — Soil Science, Rice & Water: A Conversation with Dr. Jake Mowrer

July 9, 2026 • 59 mins
This week on Garden Success, host Stephen Brueggerhoff sits down with Dr. Jake Mowrer, the newly appointed director of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension's Soil, Water and Forage Testing Laboratory, for a deep dive into everything happening beneath our feet. Jake shares how he stepped into the lab director role after 11 years as a soil fertility and water resource management professor (and 15 years in Extension work in Georgia bef...
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Garden Success – 7/2/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

July 2, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses BV Water Smart, upcoming local events, wild grapevine varieties, a leaning oak tree, weed control, Canna Leaf-roller, a preview of next week's guest, and rosemary plants.
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Garden Success – 6/25/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

June 25, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the warm weather, future show guests, pollinator week 2026, native grapevines, ornamental purselane, upcoming local events, and beetle damage to a tree.
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Garden Success – 6/18/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

June 18, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the recent rains and heat, takeaways from last week's tomato tasting event, tomatoes in depth, cold-hardy citrus, use cases for liquid humic acid, delayed pruning of crape myrtles, upcoming local events, and purselane plant.
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Garden Success – 6/11/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

June 11, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses figs, an upcoming tomato tasting event, tomato varieties, a listener with a white webbing substance on leaves, how to keep birds away from tomato plants, thrips damage, okra plants, upcoming local events, and lace bugs on Lantana.
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Garden Success – 6/4/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

June 4, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses tomato season, stink bugs & leaf-footed bugs, invasive Lantana, Heart-leaf Skullcap, and vines.
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Garden Success – 5/28/2026: A Conversation with Paul Winski

May 28, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff & Paul Winski, Extension Program Specialist with Texas A&M AgriLife discuss Paul's horticultural background, his current research plots, an upcoming field day, and current trials across the state of Texas.
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Garden Success – 5/21/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

May 21, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Gladiolus, spent blossoms on a caller's Lantana, Plumbago, Retama, upcoming local events, and Figs.
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Garden Success – 5/14/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

May 14, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses a caller's aphid problem, using soil-less media for container plants, potted plant fertilizing, tomatoes, upcoming local events, and avocado trees.
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Garden Success – 5/7/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

May 7, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the mild spring weather, hummingbirds, how chill hours have affected fruit tree production, upcoming local events, and a caller's question about milkweed varieties.
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Garden Success – 4/30/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

April 30, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses wildflower season, quarantine requirements for certain import-restricted plants, chinch bugs in lawn, identifying pest grubs, cold-tolerance of figs, and upcoming local events.
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Garden Success – 4/23/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

April 23, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the recent rains, root washing of containerized trees, Palo Verde, Figs, and Swiss Chard.
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Garden Success – 4/16/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

April 16, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses his recent appearance at KAMU's Earth Day event, Snake Plant, identification of Wild Carrot for a listener, using herbicides in a St. Augustine lawn, pruning Crape Myrtle, Philodendron, and upcoming local events.
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Garden Success – 4/9/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

April 9, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Texas Mountain Laurel pruning, listener plant identification, suggestions for perennials that bloom in shade, butterfly weed, upcoming local events, prescribed burns, and increasing biodiversity in the landscape.
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Garden Success – 4/2/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

April 2, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses today's rain, truffles, tallow trees, Louisiana Iris, upcoming local events, a caller's tomato that's smaller than expected, and Knockout Roses.
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Garden Success – 3/26/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

March 26, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the lack of rain in the forecast, BV Water Smart, tips on resetting a lawn, paper wasps, lawn fertilization, using extra-strength vinegar as an herbicide, redbuds, pet-safe lawn weed treatment, root washing, upcoming local events, hollies, and barometer bush.
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Garden Success – 3/19/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

March 19, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses how his tomatoes and potatoes fared in the recent frost, how to tell if a caller's Vitex plant survived the frost, a caller asking if Rhubarb can be grown in the Brazos Valley, a tomato plant with yellowing leaves, where to find local gardening interest groups, potential ground cover for an area with direct sun, upcoming local events, and Chili Pequin plants.
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Garden Success – 3/12/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

March 12, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses tomatoes, likelihood of a late frost, tips for pruning ornamental trees, whether it is too late to plant broccoli, mustard or lettuce, flowering basil, upcoming local events, bridal wreath, where to find research-based information, shade-tolerant grasses, cultivating corn, and privacy hedge plants.
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Garden Success – 3/5/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

March 5, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses forecasted rain, his tomato plants, Leaf-Footed bugs, wildflowers, Mexican Plum, Lawn pre-emergent herbicide, BV Water Smart, an update to last week's caller asking about privacy plants, and upcoming local events.
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Garden Success – 2/26/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff

February 26, 2026 • 59 mins
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the current drought, salvias, ornamental plant suggestions for a caller, pruning roses, fig trees, green beans, suggestions for a caller wanting privacy landscaping, and upcoming local events.
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