Better Lawns & Gardens

Better Lawns & Gardens

Florida's foremost gardening podcast by gardening expert and professional designer, Teresa Watkins!

Episodes

It's the law to have a rain sensor on your irrigation system.

September 13, 2025 • 42 mins
Dirty Word of the Day: Nastic movements. What to do in your landscape for September. FL state bird may be changed to the American Flamingo in 2026. Teresa answers your questions about amaryllis, summer squash infested with whiteflies, bromeliad & oak trees. Did you know its the law to have a working rain sensor on your irrigation system? Teresa gives advice on how to check them.
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Lawn Prawns?

September 13, 2025 • 38 mins
What to plant in your garden. Teresa's Top Five Recourses of correct gardening information to use. What in the world is Lawn Shrimp & do you have them?
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Special Guest: Expert Roi Levin Environmental Pest & Lawn Services, Inc.

September 6, 2025 • 43 mins
Dirty Word of the Day: Fens vs Bogs Problem with Chinch bugs & other problems? Special Guest & Expert, Roi Levin VP of Environmental Pest & Lawn Services, Inc has your answers. Teresa answers your about transplanting Asiatic jasmine, using weed killer now is BAD & sod.
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Teresa's Top 5 Plants while in Scotland.

September 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Teresa's Top 5 Plants while in Scotland. What to plant, update on a crushed Bougainvillea & what soil to be using.
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Krista Devor Young Retailer Award Finalist chats with Tom MacCubbin.

August 16, 2025 • 42 mins
Krista Devor Young Retailer Award Finalist chats with Tom MacCubbin. Tom gives us his Dirty Word of the Day – Perennial. He answers your questions on Grapefruit & banana tress, what to use on grass & chinch bug problems.
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Weeds are nuts!

August 16, 2025 • 39 mins
Time to start the garden. Where to plant & try to find an inexpensive form of organic matter like compost, composted manure, peat moss, grass clippings & leaves. Tom’s Top Five Perennials to plant for summer through fall color. Weeds are nuts!!!
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Tom MacCubbin & Gary Bachman discussed growing micro greens.

August 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Tom MacCubbin & Gary Bachman discussed growing micro greens. Your question about pomegranate trees, pomegranate, weeds in St. Augustine grass, Pineapple guava 10yrs old not producing & Transplant amaryllis.
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Tom MacCubbin & Dr. Gary R. Bachman take over the show.

August 9, 2025 • 40 mins
Dr. Gary R. Bachman, CPH visits & discusses EarthBox Gardening & how successful it is. Tom MacCubbin gives you his Top Five to Grow.
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What you can be planting in you garden for the fall harvest.

August 2, 2025 • 41 mins
Dirty Word of the Day: Guttation. What you can be planting in you garden for the fall harvest. Indoor plants & what to do to take care of them. Can you grow an Onion from parts of an onion?
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Ways to help your landscape beat the heat.

August 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Teresa's Top Five: Ways to help your landscape beat the heat. Dana Venrick from Quality Green Specialist. What can you be doing in your yard. Time to cut back, prune & transplant these plants. However, learn the ones you don't want to touch righ now because of the heat.
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Special Guest Ellen Zachos, about publishing her eleventh book.

July 19, 2025 • 36 mins
Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, interviews award-winning author and garden communicator, the effervescent Ellen Zachos, about publishing her eleventh garden book, "Mythic Plants: Poisons and Potions from the Garden of the Gods."
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Fungal issues?

July 14, 2025 • 40 mins
Garden expert, Teresa Watkins asks Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions the best organic products for summer pest control. Teresa answers garden questions on what to do in the landscape for July and more.
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Caladium types, the festival & What to plant in July.

July 14, 2025 • 39 mins
Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, is joined by Clay Wallace, head grower at Classic Caladiums, the world's largest caladium grower to discuss the popular tropical plant. The largest Caladium Festival, Car and Bike Show, will be in Lake Placid, FL July 25 - 27, 2025.
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Armadillo problems & a health warning for you about touching them.

June 28, 2025 • 39 mins
Dirty Word of the Day is Acaulescent. What plants to use in a Rain Garden? Teresa has a list of plants to use in a Rain Garden, just email her & request the list. Teresa.Watkins@Live.com What you can plant this month. Armadillo problems & a health warning for you about touching them.
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Growing mangos on a porch.

June 28, 2025 • 39 mins
What should you be planting right now? Teresa's Top Five Red White & Blue plant. Tomato planting questions, growing mangos on a screened in porch, azaleas & more.
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Tom chats with Austin Tollman, a Certified Arborist

June 21, 2025 • 43 mins
Tom MacCubin has a Dirty Word of the Day. Austin Tollman, a Certified Arborist with Word of Mouth Tree Service chats about tree branches hanging over roofs & how to distinguish tween heat stress and drought. Tom takes your calls about nutsedge , what is eating your green beans & a vine with potatoes growing on it.
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Tom MacCubbin gives us lawn care tips

June 21, 2025 • 40 mins
Tom MacCubbin gives us lawn care tips to keep it looking sharp & clean during the summer. Pruning time for azaleas & gardenias is over. Tom's Top Ten favor summer flower.
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Fun things to do with Sugar Cane.

June 16, 2025 • 39 mins
Garden expert, Teresa Watkins has a new Dirty Word of the Day, answers your summer garden questions, tells you how you can use your edible home-grown sugar cane and how to grow plumeria. 
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Mosquito problems on vacation?

June 16, 2025 • 40 mins
Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Heather Stickney, Summit Responsible Solutions, for tips on having a pest-free, no mosquito summer! Teresa's Top Five and answers gardening questions and tells you what to do in your landscape in June.
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What is your favorite fragrant roses?

June 9, 2025 • 39 mins
It's National Rose Month and Teresa tells you her favorite roses! Weather and what to do in your landscape in June. Teresa answers your garden questions. Sign up for Teresa's Newsletter: "In Your Backyard" at www.she-consulting.com
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