Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert, gets advice on creating beautiful Fall container gardens from the Hoosier Gardener, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp.   Teresa has a special announcement on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour in June 2022 of an additional day at the Philadelphia Flower Show!   Gardening questions and texts include grapefruit tree, Cattleya orchids, lubber...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins congratulates Ed Thralls, Extension agent emeritus, on his retirement this week. Ed provides his Fall gardening advice and tips on how to grow pumpkins in Florida. Gardening questions and texts include pony tail and Washingtonia palms, droopy crotons, herbs for Thanksgiving, what to do in the landscape for October, planting macho ferns...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert, is joined by Sally Cunningham, award winning garden author, garden columnist, feature writer: Buffalo News, Buffalo Spree Magazine, and tour Director, and national Director of the GardenComm organization , get excited talking about their garden tour June 13- 17, 2021 to the Brandywine Valley. Come with us!  Find out more details here...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert, Teresa Watkins chats with Dr. Jaret Daniels, curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History and professor of Entomology at the University of Florida about his " hairy bee research". You can upload your photographs of native plasterer bees to iNaturalist. Sad to announce that Jim Thomas, a great environmental leader for Florida passed this week. To...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 –  Teresa Watkins, garden expert , is thrilled to have award-winning author, Carol J. Michel, to talk about her latest book, Digging and Delighted . In honor of Carol's new book, there is a an appropriate "Dirty Word of the Day." Teresa found a new rare indoor houseplant, Ficus triangularis which she found at her favorite local nursery, Apenberry's Gardens . You can...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 –  Better Lawns and Gardens wins t he Best of Maitland 2021 in the Agriculture category!   Yay, Tom MacCubbin and me!  Gardening horticulturist and landscape designer Teresa Watkins chats with Tina McIntyre, Seminole County Extension's Florida-friendly Landscape agen t on mulching basics, benefits, and myths.  Teresa has found an exciting new downtown Orlando plant...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 –  Teresa Watkins, garden expert is joined by renowned landscape authority, Lance Walheim  on Fall lawn fertilization. New "Dirty Word of the Day." Gardening questions and texts include turf issues, "not good at lawn care", Florida snow, torpedograss; aphids on milkweed, plumbago growing too big, stink weed removal, tropical sod webworm, and more.    https://bit.ly/...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 –  Teresa Watkins recollects the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001.  South Florida's Yard-Doc, Carol Bailey shares her years of experience vegetable gardening by the sea.  Producer Lizzie Steele provides background information on her past life in landscape maintenance. Gardening questions and texts include crape myrtles and bougainvilleas. checking indoor patio...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Still getting her roots situated, girl power with Melissa Fox, and Lizzie Steele, Better Lawns and Gardens' new producer, Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, celebrates Labor Day with fruit tree planting tips from Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland, Florida . New "Dirty Word of the Day." Gardening...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 –  Happy Labor Day weekend! Teresa Watkins, gardening expert discusses health and time-saving labor tips for gardeners with Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension Horticultural Agent.  Gardening questions and texts include updates on doveweed and pigeon pea, starting a Fall garden, lubber grasshoppers, deadheading pentas, why is my plant dying (?), crape myrtles not bl...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, reflects back on growing up near Cypress Gardens and Slocum Water Gardens with Kathy Jentz, editor and publisher of the award-winning Washington Gardener Magazine, based in Washington, DC. She is also the host of the popular GardenDC Podcast.  Her mission is to turn black thumbs green. A life-l...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, finds out what Leah Brooks, gardener extraordinaire, mom, Tower Garden rep, and experienced community and school gardener. Leah has helped over a thousand families start, maintain, and expand backyard, patio, basement, and kitchen gardens.  Teresa and Leah discuss how easy to grow Fall vegetabl...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, is joined by The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf on caring for houseplants indoors and outdoors during the summer. Caller and text questions include boxwoods turning yellow, should I remove Australian pine tree, pruning poinsettias, honey bee infestation, fire ants, gardenia variety with the largest bloom, more on moles, con...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 -  Celebrate National Dog Day on August 26th by adopting a wonderful dog at your local animal shelter. Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, is joined by Cherie Velez to discuss a solution for dogs that will only go on grass .  Also, new development on  reducing irrigation to help reduce the need for liquid oxygen . This will help provide more resources to help COVID-19...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, discusses citrus greening with options to grow citrus in containers with garden author Lance Walheim .  "Dirty Word of The Day" is cotyledon. Caller and text questions include taking care of torpedo grass, weeds, lawn issues, zoysiagrass, crape myrtle flowers falling off in rain and crape myrtle that won't bloom, rotating butternut...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, is joined by Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension Residential Horticultural agent.  Ed and Teresa discuss taking care of and how to thin your seedlings and best management practices of Florida Fall vegetable gardens. Teresa provides landscape preparation for Tropical Storm Fred. Caller and text questions included flora rosa (?),taki...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2  , Teresa Watkins, discusses seeds with Randy Schultz, editor of Home Garden and Homestead about selecting and planting seeds for your Fall garden. Along the same line, Denise Schreiber, Mrs. Know It All , gardening and tree expert, plants seeds of information that the GardenComm's 2021 national virtual conference happens August 11 - 14th, 2021. Opened to all garden...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1  New host, Teresa Watkins, interviews Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists about all the many fruit trees that can be grown in Florida, including apples, peaches, pears, and more.  Caller questions included sunflowers, growing crispy lettuce, declining ligustrum tree, chinch bugs in turf, using Milorganite on lawns, how to fertilize Little Gem magnolia, azaleas w...

BetterLawnsandGardens Hour 2 – Tom and Joani MacCubbin’s last show, with Tom and Teresa Watkins’ garden memories, favorite gardening questions and garden calls, texts, and questions from all of the fans. Next week, Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins answering your Florida gardening questions.  https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Sa...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 and 2 – After 33 years, Tom and Joani MacCubbin’s talk with Teresa Watkins’ about their good times, great memories, favorite gardening questions, and calls, texts, and questions from all of BLG's fans. Next week, Better Lawns and Gardens continues with gardening expert Teresa Watkins answering your Florida gardening questions.  https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: ...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening expert Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin are joined by former Scotts MiracleGro gardening expert and author, Ashton Ritchie to reminisce about the good ol' Extension days.  Calls, gardening questions, texts, include ashoka, mast  trees,  Mexican ruellia not blooming, thornless blackberries, solarizing with plastic, pineapples, something's eating orange b...

Better Lawns and Gardens, Florida's most popular gardening show with gardening experts, Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins. www.betterlawns.com Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening expert Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin start a foggy morning off with Ed Thralls retiring,  Calls, gardening questions, texts, include Tom and Teresa's favorite household plants, jade plants, starting seeds, time...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening expert Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin continue the conversation on favorite trees with sponsor Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialist . Teresa talks about the beautiful 1908 New England 45-room mansion with a 33-acre botanical garden, Blithewold Gardens and Arboretum , which features the largest growing Redwood on the East Coast, Bosquet garden, 50, 0...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening expert Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins ask Bob Hotaling, Seminole County Master Gardener for an update on his summer garden. Teresa talks about the largest Sequoia on the East Coast at Blithewold Mansion, Gardens, and Arboretum ,  Joani talks about Stinkhorns. Lots of gardening calls, questions, texts, include getting rid of artillery weed and torpedo...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening expert Tom MacCubbin ask Thomas Payne, P and L Landscaping, to talk about their favorite trees, calls and gardening questions, texts, and more.  https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, " A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit:  Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am...