Better Lawns & Gardens

Better Lawns & Gardens

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

Episodes

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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Need a Fathers Day (or any special day) gift ideas?

June 9, 2025 • 40 mins
Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses planting olive trees and the best trees to grow in Florida. Dana Venrick, guest, owner of Quality Green Specialist.  Teresa shares what to do in your landscape for June and answers your gardening questions. Teresa's Top Five Pieces of Garden Art. 
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Ha-Ha Landscapes

May 31, 2025 • 38 mins
Dirty Word of the Day: Ha-Ha Landscapes. Teresa answers you questions about: Pineapple plants lack of producing, fertilizing plumeria plant care, growing a Lila Avocado in a containers, why are there mushrooms in my new sod & how often to water it.
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Chelsea Flower Show experience & what you can grow.

May 31, 2025 • 36 mins
Teresa's Top Five Plants: Chelsea Flower Show Zone Envy. What to grow & can you use crabgrass pre- emergence?
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Tom MacCubbing chats with Bob Hotaling.

May 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Tom MacCubbing chats with Bob Hotaling University of Florida Master Gardener, Excellent gardener and good friend about getting seeds to germinate. The Dirty Word of the Day – Nematode. Tom answers your questions on boxwoods seem to do poorly in Central Florida what other alternative plants to use, pineapple guava problems, Italian Cyprus & how the best tomatoes have come out of my compost.
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Tom MacCubbin fills in to answers Listeners questions

May 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Tom MacCubbin fills in for Teresa & talks about how he's vegetable garden is going. He answers Listeners questions about; plants wilting after planting, planting a banana tree in a 3 ft deep pot & foxtail palm planted too close to the house. Find out Tom's Top Five Foliage plants for the Landscape.
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Dirty Word of the Day is Kalanchoe.

May 10, 2025 • 39 mins
Dirty Word of the Day is Kalanchoe. Teresa answers your questions about copper plant, pruning small young crepe myrtles, a traveling palm & hibiscus tree has aphids.
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How to know if you have webworms.

May 10, 2025 • 39 mins
Teresa's Top Five Perfumes with a floral smell. Dana Venrick from Quality Green Specialist educates us on the different varieties of Loquat trees. Teresa answers your questions about growing an arbequina olive tree, how to know if you have webworms & what to plant.
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Difference between fungal & bacterial diseases.

May 3, 2025 • 40 mins
Difference between fungal & bacterial diseases. The importance of cleaning & sterilizing your gardening tools in-between uses. What to do to help prevent it. Teresa's favorite roses to plant. Get your answers to your questions about growing grapes, can Coral Trees grow here, nematode problems, what does 14.14.14 on fertilizers means & Hollywood Hibiscus.
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