Better Lawns & Gardens
Florida's foremost gardening podcast by gardening expert and professional designer, Teresa Watkins!
Episodes
July 27, 2024 • 40 mins
Get your Dirty Word of the Day.
Teresa answers questions about Apple Cactus, crape myrtle tree, cat whiskers plants, lychee tree & more
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July 27, 2024 • 40 mins
What can you be planting this week?
Dana Venrick with Quality Green Specialists chats about blueberries.
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July 20, 2024 • 39 mins
Caladium expert Terri Bates, President of Bates Sons & Daughters Caladiums talks about how care for them are easier than you think. Her family started the Caladium Festival & the varieties offered here & no where else to purchase.
Teresa answer your questions on Laurel Pendulum, which broccoli grows here in Florida & little white bugs.
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July 20, 2024 • 40 mins
Did you know a lot of plants which grow there can grow here in Florida? Teresa is back with lots of information she learned on her 50 Shades of Green trip to Ireland.
What you can be planting & transplanting?
Are you mowing after it rains or mowing to create ruts?
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July 13, 2024 • 41 mins
Tom MacCubbin gives you his Dirty Word of the Day from his childhood.
Have you ever wondered what should gardeners be doing now to plan for a new garden? Calvin Gardner, University of Florida Orange County Extension Horticulturist breaks it down for you.
Listeners ask questions about native bromeliads bugs, Mulberry trees, Plumeria plants & more.
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July 13, 2024 • 37 mins
Dana Venrick Quality Green Specialists talks about Tropical fruits to include bananas you can grow that taste like vanilla ice-cream.
Tom MacCubbin answers question about tomatoes, sapote & palms.
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June 29, 2024 • 40 mins
Austin Tollman explains what to do when your trees get hit by lighting.
Teresa gives you the Dirty Word of the Day & answers listener's questions on Seminole Pumpkins, little white bugs on plants on Agastache & more.
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June 29, 2024 • 42 mins
Bill Stengel chats about Mosquito solutions.
Have you ever thought about growing blackberries on chain-link fence? Teresa asked Steven Biggs to explains how nice it is for you & your neighbors.
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June 15, 2024 • 38 mins
Dirty Word of the Day.
Teresa chats with listeners about papaya's with worms, transplanting an azalea & different types of tomatoes.
Randy Schultz on growling herbs to use in your bread making routine.
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June 15, 2024 • 40 mins
What to be planting right now that can handle the summer heat.
Dr. Gary Bachman answers the million dollar question , Are all plants intelligent?
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June 8, 2024 • 38 mins
Noisy mowers sounds could be a thing of the past. Teresa chats with Tony Smith, owner/operator of AutoLawn™ of Orlando about Robotic mowing.
Listeners chime in with their questions about; crape myrtle bark shedding, baby avocados growing & watering a Christmas Palm
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June 8, 2024 • 39 mins
A natural phenomenon that I've never seen before. Teresa asked for help from UF entomologists. It's very rare and only documented in Texas but it's happened in Florida.
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June 1, 2024 • 38 mins
Ever thought about propagating your favorite plants? Jim Davis explains how to properly propagate the plants. Jim Davis brings his years of experiences to include currently as the Sumter County Extension Director at UF/IFAS Extension.
Teresa chats with listeners about pest problems & using Neem oil, mango tree looks like it's rotting & soil solutions for tomatoes not producing like they should.
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June 1, 2024 • 40 mins
Is foliar feeding better than fertilizing with granules? Dana Venrick has your answer with his experience of being UF/IFAS Volusia County Extension Commercial Agent.
Teresa covers her "What To Do in Your Landscape in June".
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May 18, 2024 • 40 mins
Hr 2:
Leah Brooks, with the women's service organization the Village Improvement Association of Orange City, has a special announcement about the Albertus Cottage Planting Party June 29 @ 7:00 am - 11:00 am & how you can help out.
Why you should check the U.S. Growing Zone Finder before you buy a plant.
Teresa Watkins answers listener questions about Key Limes, Cherry Tomatoes & Azaleas.
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May 18, 2024 • 38 mins
Hr 1:
No Mow Month. Good or Bad? Kathy Jentz, award-winning garden author of The Urban Garden and Groundcover Revolution, tells us how to have less landscape maintenance, save water, and have beauty in your gardens.
Get your fall seeds now to have in hand before the stores remove the displays during the summer.
What to fertilize in so your garden is ready for the harvest.
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May 11, 2024 • 40 mins
Hr2: Grow & harvest fruit year round in Florida with Jeff Wasielewski.
Dirty Word of the Day.
Teresa Watkins covers questions from listeners about:
*Lychee Erinose Mites. What are they & how to get rid of them.
*Can you do cuttings on a Gardenia Bush?
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Hr1: National Public Gardens Week, showcasing Tres Fromme, public gardens landscape architect.
Teresa Watkins covers questions from listeners about:
*What variety of olive tree does well in Central Florida?
*What to plant in May for summer.
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May 4, 2024 • 40 mins
Hr2: Joyce Samsel created the Florida Monarch Research & Educational project. She weights in about the Florida Monarchs & how removing milkweed weed is a horrible idea.
Dirty Word of the Day.
Teresa Watkins finally figured out what happened to all her blueberries. She answers listener questions about rain lilies, bone and blood meal, how much water and fertilizer to get the loquat tree to produce fruit & more.
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May 4, 2024 • 41 mins
Hr1: It's World Gardening Naked Day.
Dana Venrick talks about the importance of fertilizing now before June bans.
Teresa Watkins breaks the news to Lizzie Steele about her picture of her pumpkin patch she is growing.
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