The Garden Show

Dan opens up the lines to help callers with issues in their lawns and beds such as what products can help green up those brown spots you see in your yards, and dealing with invading vines is a tricky thing to manage so what is the best way to approach them.

This hour, Dan opens up covering coverings for our plants during the winter season and the best type of lights to hang up and string along our plants, before diving back into the phone lines to the latest from a community garden event upcoming in Folsom, bamboo leaving behind traces of its growth, separating Amarillo's to allow for better growth, and propagation of cuttings, what should you know?

Dan goes back to the phone lines hearing from Frank from the Community Garden over in Folsom on their gardening efforts and their upcoming Camelia Festival and helping a caller with hibiscus blooming after the winter following a mealy bug infestation.

Dan opens up the second hour discussing the type of material and other rules of thumb when covering your plants for the winter and when putting on Christmas decorations, what type of string lights are best for our plants during the holidays?

This hour, Dan opens up the show discussing how we can continue to take precautions for our plants in getting them either ready outside for winters freezing temps OR moving them inside to stay warm and cozy like us before going to the phone lines to help WWL callers with their questions such as what fungus could be making brown spots in your lawn and what can help beat that out, how you can handle...

Dan dives into how you can be using the time now to prepare your plants for the cold weather that has already been knocking on our door as winter arrives, so what exactly should you be doing for prep?

On today's show, Dan dives into how he is winterizing his home and garden before opening up the phone lines to help you prepare your beds, plants, trees, etc. as well as answering your questions covering topics such as Drift rose bush trimming, Monkeypod trees and their chances of growth in our area, freeze protection for Bougainvilleas, the best time of the year for planting Mirlitons, how you ca...

This hour, Dan dives back into the lines to hear from callers on topics ranging from Star Fruit tree production as a tropical plant in Louisiana's climate, Stag Horn ferns ability or lack thereof to withstand cold weather, the damage that an Oak tree can take before keeling over, what time of the year is best for planting Mirlitons, and more!

Dan head back to the phone lines to help WWL callers figure out how and when to plant Mirlitons, a moral issue involving Sassafras plants, and how can you kill a Hawthorn shrub?

Dan opens up the 2nd hour diving into if Star fruit can grow and produce fruit in our climate, winterizing Stag Horn ferns, and how much damage can generally be done to an Oak tree before killing the tree?

This hour, Dan opens up as always talking about what he is up to and noticing in his yard and bed as well as others in our neck of the woods as we settle into winter freezes and get prepped for the holiday season before going to the phone lines to help WWL listeners with questions about topics ranging from freeze protection for Bougainvilleas, the viability of Monkeypod trees in our climate, trimm...

Dan dives into the phone lines to discuss winter and freeze protection for Bougainvilleas, if Monkey pod seeds can survive in our environment, and what is the best way to trim back drift roses?

Dan opens up the show discussing the steps he's taken as he prepares for winter weather!

On today's show, Dan Gill discusses some things he has noticed in his yard and others as we finally getting that frosty weather we've been hoping and the latest iteration of the LSU Ag Center's calendar that promotes tips on good planting techniques and advice and showcased pictures of lawns and homes across Louisiana before opening up the lines to help you with your issues ranging from satsuma tr...

This hour, Dan dives into the phone lines with WWL listeners covering subjects such as an artificial light system set up around Christmas Cacti, the expectations we should have for our pecan trees pecan production, protecting a Turk's Cap plant, if cross-pollination is something you should be doing for citrus trees, what "winterizing" a hibiscus looks like, and much more!

Dan dives into a how you can force a plumaria to bloom, how cirtus tree cross-pollination isn't a thing, the most important, how you can winterizing hibiscus plants and what sort of lights you can hang on your hibiscuses.

Dan opens up the second hour helping WWL callers with issues such as setting up an artificial light system surrounding a few Christmas Catci, how long should should we expect pecan trees to grow before producing pecans, and a question about when a Turk's Cap plant blooms and how you can protect it during the winter?

This hour, Dan opens up previewing the many changes we are seeing in our yards, lawns, and beds with winter knocking on the door and Dan goes over another edition of the prestigious LSU Ag Center calendar that showcases nice tips for gardening and landscaping as well as pictures of yards and garden beds across Louisiana, and from WWL callers we dive into topics such as satsuma trees and the fruit...

Dan opens up the lines helping WWL listeners with questions regarding satsuma trees and the fruit within them and if you are looking to transplant any warm weather plants and trees, now is absolutely NOT the time to be moving those into your yards and beds.

Dan opens up the show discussing the cold weather that we've been previewing for some time now and how it has finally arrived so what can you do to make sure your plants are ready for wind chill and frost, and the LSU Ag Center has put out yet another fantastic calendar showcasing wonderful tips and pictures of gardens and plants around homes and business throughout Louisiana!

Dan Gill opens up this quick Saturday power hour with a quick discussion on the weather as it may finally be the cold weather we've heard so much about and some new trends regarding falling leaves in your yard before opening up the phone lines to cover when you should be moving satsuma trees, camellias, the tell-all sign for picking fruit off of your citrus trees, and more!

Dan dives into the lines to hear from WWL callers about if you should wait to transplant a satsuma tree to this Spring, and when you should be picking lemons off the tree.

Dan discuss how the Winter weather is finally arriving as October and most of early November have been unusually hot but alas, we are getting cooler and some new trends he is seeing regarding leaf pickup and the benefits that leaves have in using them for our gardens and beds after they've fallen.

On today's shows, Dan discusses how vital it is to start preparing now for the colder weather that will be coming sometime soon as our tropical plants can be susceptible to freeze when temps get low before diving into the phone lines to help WWL callers with issues such as protecting the head of a cauliflower after it blooms, a community garden effort going on around Folsom, and some general rules...

Dan opens up the 2nd hour with a little bit of a botany lesson about where a plant absorbs the sun the most, some general advice for fertilizing blueberry plants as well as not freaking out when your plants start looking rough with colder weather on the horizon, before closing things out going over the pros and cons of dealing with a satsuma tree that is bearing too much fruit weighing down the li...