Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin. Segment 2 features Teresa and Tom’s landscape trends for 2024. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photographs and graphic: Teresa Watkins #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #no...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin. Today’s show reflects on the past year and looking ahead to the future. Today's show is uploaded to 4 separate segments  https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins  #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Merry Christmas!  Teresa shares care of indoor holiday plants. December 21st is Winter Solstice. Dirty Word of the Day is Vernalization. Garden questions include beetle identification, cherry tomatoes wilting, when does St. Augustinegrass need 1” of water, where to get large amounts of pepper to get rid of a...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Merry Christmas! Rainy forecast will provide double and triple the amount of normal December rainfall. Teresa recommends PBS 12 Days of Tudor Christmas and has seasonal fun with Christmas trivia. Teresa’s guest today is Leah Brooks, Tower Gardens rep and Santa’s helper. Teresa answers garden questions on wee...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Anneliese Valdes, Cobrahead Garden Tools, talks with Teresa about her family’s quality American-made garden tools for all year-round use. Teresa gives her top Ten Don’t Miss Christmas movies. Lance talks about the important steps before landscaping. Dirty Word of the Day is Haustorium. Garden questions inclu...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins gives a Christmas Garden Quiz, discusses trivia about the holiday plant, Mistletoe. Teresa interviews Deborah Green, president of the Orange Audubon Society, about the national Christmas Bird Count . Lizzie and Teresa wish everyone a Happy Hanukkah. Teresa answers garden...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by garden author Lance Walheim, on the updated 2nd edition of Landscaping for Dummies. Lance talks about the important steps before landscaping. Dirty Word of the Day is Apricity. Garden questions include how to get rid of basketgrass, Panama rose, citrus greening upd...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins provides Christmas tree trivia, what makes Christmas trees smell so good, and provides  her top five favorite live Christmas trees to plant. Teresa is joined by Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery to discuss native holly trees.  Garden topics include what to...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Is it a Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter Cactus? How do you tell? Teresa provides a great garden hack for identifying the different species and varieties of this holiday favorite plant. Randy Schultz, editor of Home, Garden, and Homestead , goes down Santa’s list of just the right garden gift for Christmas...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Thanksgiving is a popular time to start thinking about poinsettias. Carol Cloud Bailey, The Yard Doc in South Florida stops by to provide the finer points of poinsettia care. Garden topics include the rain deluge Florida received, fig bush updates, Vanda disease, diagnosing plant problems, cardboard palm yel...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa agrees with Eric Apen, owner of Apenberry’s Gardens philosophy of cool seasonal plants. Eric discusses his favorite winter flowers.  Proven Winners Petunias. Garden questions include plumeria, flowers to plant in front of a church, getting rid of asparagus ferns, sick Crown of Thorns, avocado tree pru...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Fall harvests, chestnuts roasting, pecan pies, sets the stage for planting native nut trees. Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nurser y talk about all the nut trees that grow in the Southeast and how to care for them.  Garden topics include vegetables and herbs for November, Royal...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins announces the Meet The Authors Party hosted by the National Garden Bureau on Thursday, November 9th. Natalie Carmolli, Proven Winners Color Choice introduces their Deer Proof Plant Program. Garden questions include how much to water Soursop, Lethal Bronzing of Sylvester Palm, fr...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Preparing for winter, Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses with Bill Stengel, Summit Responsible Solutions on the importance of using organic chemicals to eradicate ticks, mosquitos, and fungus gnats. Garden topics include landscaping for Chloe's garden, Daylight Savings Time, changing irrigation systems...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is intrigued by her guest, garden author and podcaster Steven Biggs, Food Garden Life who describes how to have a Fall Apple Taste-Testing Party. The Dirty Word of the Day are the secret plant ingredients for a Witches Brew. Garden questions include kinds of trees that provide s...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert Teresa Watkins chats about bats, Hunter’s Moon, and is joined by Jim Davis, UF/IFAS Extension County Directo r on how to have a bat-friendly landscape. Garden topics include ‘what to do in your landscape for November’,wilting heliconia, nicking calla lily seeds, declining Mandevilla, and more...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Teresa is joined by award-winning podcast “Cultivating Place” host and author, Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer describes her latest work, “What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds.” The book is a insightful, year-long journey exploring the outsize impact on one of nature's sma...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   From the most beloved and popular book series and movies, host Teresa Watkins interviews Jim Charlier, co-author of “Harry Potter Herbology Magic: Botanical Projects, Terrariums, and Gardens Inspired by the Wizardry World.”   DIY projects include beautiful Edwardian Terrariums, the Sorting Hat Hanging Bask...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins keeping with the theme of Halloween has the Dirty Word of the Day is Witches Broom. Teresa is joined by The Garden Media Group President, Katie Dubow to hear the Garden Trends Report 2024.   Garden questions include Planting wrong palm trees, how to cut back milkweed, cocktail tr...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Time to acclimate your fruit trees for the upcoming winter! Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery discuss essentials nutrients and minerals that help fruit trees handle the stress of wintertime freezes. Teresa announces a Garden Comm Virtual Conference for anyone who wo...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins Dirty Word of the Day is Psithurism. Teresa discusses the macronutrients and micronutrients of fertilizer, organic versus synthetic fertilizers. Garden questions include lowering the pH of soil, moving a Sunshine Ligustrum, milkweed, and plumeria, weed and feeds, Bahia grass, why...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Teresa wishes Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday to Tony and her granddaughter Katarina. New incredible amayrillis “Sunshine Superstar” from variety from Sunshine Farm & Gardens. With the new month of October, lots of Fall landscaping chores. Teresa answers garden questions, what to do with a county...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Randy Schultz, editor of Home Garden and Homestead. It’s mosquito season! Randy provides organic solutions that really work and the popular trend of raising chickens. Dirty Word of the Day is Autumn. Teresa discusses sharpening lawn mower blades, when to start fertil...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   With the cold front passing through, Teresa and Lizzie discuss their favorite season: Autumn. Teresa provides Fall trivia and how to plant your wildflower seeds. Garden questions include taking care of a new pitcher plant, benefits of hawks in the landscape, declining pineapple guava, rainfall amounts, fas...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins interviews Craig LeHoullier, The Tomato Man on his secrets for growing “Epic Tomatoes.”  Dirty Word of the Day is Amphigean. Teresa discusses “Can you have too many earth worms?” how long to keep black plastic on pots to sterilize them, using lake water for edibles and landscape,...