Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is joined by QualityGreenSpecialist Nursery owner, @DanaVenrick, to discuss how Azomite‘s beneficial minerals help Florida sandy soils for better plant health. Teresa updates on having hope for growing citrus again in Florida despite citrus greening. Proper use of herbicides i...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins ia joined by Chris VanCleave, the Redneck Rosarian , to discuss rose care in summer and answers callers’ questions.  Other gardening questions and texts include flies in the landscape, replacing dirt from a removed oak tree area, do weeping willows grow in Florida, groundcovers f...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins discusses hot summer weather, rain storms, tropical vegetables to plant, and beneficial bugs. July is an optimal time to solarize your weedy garden bed. . Gardening calls and texts include watering an indoor kalanchoe, oleander caterpillars, milkweed bugs, and more. https://bi...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses summertime issues and what to do in your backyard. Garden questions and texts includes getting rid of snails, perennials under a pygmy date palm, fertilizing mangos and citrus, planting crocosmia and celery in containers, plumeria, book on bromeliads, spots in lawns,...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins provides advice on when and how much to water to prevent fungal diseases in summertime turf. Have you ever thought of growing crocosmias? They are beautiful and easy to grow in Florida!  Easy alternative to turf? Check out Southern Living's Pros and Cons of Clover Lawns. Garde...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert Teresa Watkins describes her recent Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour to America’s Garden Capital. The tour group visited Chanticleer Garden, Longwood Botanical Gardens, Winterthur Museum, Gardens, and Library, and Bartram’s Garden. Tour photographs will be uploaded to Better Lawns and Gard...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins returns back from Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour with much appreciation to Tom MacCubbin who filled in as host emeritus during her trip. Dana Venrick, owner of the native tree nursery Quality Green Specialists in Deland, reminds gardeners to watch for wilting in the summe...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Tom MacCubbin, Host Emeritus for 34 years fills in for Teresa Watkins who is touring Brandywine Valley gardens this week. Dirty Word of the Day is “mudding in.:”  Tom interviews Lance Walheim, horticulturist, farmer, and garden author on his move to a new zone, new garden climate in Portland, Oregon. Garde...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert and Better Lawns and Gardens Host Emeritus, Tom MacCubbin fills in for Teresa Watkins on her garden tour to the Brandywine Valley, America’s Garden Capital. Tom discusses the current incredibly hot temperatures, Father’s Day gifts, National Pollinator Week, and summer starting, with preparat...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert Teresa Watkins answers questions and provides advice on planting, pruning, growing vegetables, landscape design, and pest problems. Teresa interviews the delightful, down to earth, down home,  retired Extension Horticulture Specialist from the University of Tennessee. Carol Reese is a nationa...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins celebrates National Mosquito Control Week with Bill Stengel, National Sales Director for Summit Responsible Solutions, maker of organic Mosquito Bits and Dunks. Teresa provides the devastating results of Citrus Greening ,to Florida’s citrus industry.  Gardening calls and texts...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins, is thrilled to find a generous local group that brings plants to local community. Susan Roghair describes her gardening Facebook Group “Take A Plant, Leave A Plant, Tampa” and how she shares the love of gardening with others. Garden questions and texts include declin...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins prepares for the start of hurricane season with reminders on turning irrigation systems off, hurricane preparations, don’t forget your grill! Then Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists in Deland . provides information on how to take care of trees before and after a...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins, talks to garden authors, Kathy Jentz and Teresa Speight, about their best-selling garden book, The Urban Gardener: 101 Ways To Grow Food and Beauty in the City and Black Flora: Profiles of Inspiring Black Farmers + Florists. Dirty Word of the Day is “Plant Habit.” Ga...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins remembers the history of Memorial Day and responds to the overflow of text messages asking garden questions. Gardening calls and texts include strong winds during storm, thriving peppers and tomatoes in the heat, when to fertilize, twenty-year-old declining grapefruit tree, av...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins learns more about the art of Bonsai gardening with professional bonsai artist, Adam Lavigne. Dirty Word of the Day is “Bonsai.” Garden questions and texts include pepper and bean seeds, funny definition of bonsai, seed starter kits, pruning bird of paradise, blue Chin...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins chats with Leah Brooks, Tower Garden rep , about all the green vegetables you can grow in your garden during the Summer.  Teresa reminds everyone of the summertime fertilizer ban approaching on June 1st through September 30th. Gardening calls and texts include vegetable trelli...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins responds to audience gardening questions. Dirty Word of the Day is “Dioecious.” Garden questions and texts include watering new lawn, young bluebirds and hummingbirds in Tallahassee, half-dead bougainvillea, firebush issue, using Spanish moss as an orchid basket liner...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses planting legacy trees for upcoming holidays like Memorial Day and Father’s Day, Azomite, and edible fruit trees, with Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists nursery in downtown Deland. Gardening calls and texts include cutting a 4’ hedge, pineapple g...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins enjoys caller’s gardening with their Mother memories. Dirty Word of the Day is “Mother Plant.” Garden questions and texts include sago palm, how to separate a staghorn fern, leaf miner damage, watering aloe plants, Barbados cherry and Japanese boxwood salt tolerance,...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, It’s Mother’s Day weekend and Teresa and Lizzie share their Mother’s Day plans and memories. Callers and texters join in and tell of their first gardening memories with their Moms and grandmothers, including 100-year-old Marie in Lakeland. Teresa provides other celebratory days in May, like Cinco de Mayo wit...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins focuses on audience’s Spring gardening questions. Dirty Word of the Day is “Carnivorous.” Garden questions and texts include fertilizing St. Augustinegrass again, lemons and figs, amaryllis, keeping squirrels away from avocado trees, black bug identification, where to...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Celebrate International Carnivorous Plant Day on May 4th! Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses her week of carnivorous synchronicities with three different occasions! Viewing the Titan of all Titanum blooms, the malodorous Amorphophallus titanium at the Rollins College Greenhouse with an invitati...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Teresa and Garden Communicator Kim Halyak discuss the Cooper Young Garden Walk, in the Cooper Young District near Memphis, TN . Garden questions and texts include green bean seedlings, Drake elms, Japanese Blueberries, Redbud, Perfecto Mundo azaleas, sago and Asian cycad scale, holes in Gerbera daisy leave...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins has the latest information on fire ant control from @UGACAES, @UF, @UFAEC, @auburnu, @clemsonuniv, and @ncstate. Gardening calls and texts include society garlic and chives, watering new lawns, trees, apple trees, citrus greening updates, croton leaves losing their colo...