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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening expert Tom MacCubbin is joined by Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension agent to get an update on what's going on in the summer garden, how to take care of Christmas-blooming plants in July, 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 Cre...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined by Lance Walheim , BioAdvanced spokesman for an update on citrus and their favorite citrus to grow. Garden topics, questions, and texts include torpedo grass, passion vine, sunflowers, mango trees, citrus greening, moving pineapples, and more.  https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, " A Gardener's...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined by long time BLG listener and gardener extraordinaire, Jim Allison. Big news today as Tom announces his and Joani's retirement as Better Lawns and Garden hosts. Garden topics, questions, and texts include Fourth of July flower combinations for the garden, summer gardening, fruit and vegetable harvests,...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin talk about their tomato and pepper harvests and the end of tomato season. Garden topics, questions, and texts include lychee pruning, bees, Teresa's foundation and hedge suggestions, crapemyrtle, centipede lawn, getting bougainvillea to bloom,  peeling bark on elm tree normal? raccoons eating pineapples, crabgras...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins discuss seasonal turf and landscape issues with Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension agent.  Garden topics, questions, and texts include night-blooming plants, Black Kow manure,  slime mold, seeding turf lawns, Yellow Poinciana, insecticides, and more.  https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, " A Gardener's Co...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins wish Lance Walheim, garden author and BioAdvanced spokesman, a happy Father’s Day. Lance advises how to take care of mealy bugs and chinch bugs. Garden topics, questions, and texts include bark peeling on crapemyrtles, strawberries, figs, planting sweet potatoes, marigolds, muscadine grapes, lemon and lime citrus...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins discuss beautiful crapemyrtles and delicious mangoes with Dan Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists. Garden topics, questions, and texts include persimmons, leafminers, crapemyrtles not blooming, lawn fungicides, mushrooms, tropical cuttings, how long does it take pineapples to ripen, which is more frost-to...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin prepare to battle mosquitos with the help of Randy Schultz, Home Garden and Homestead . Garden topics, questions, and texts include, Queen palms, St. Augustine Lawns, Bermudagrass, wilting purple Crotons; Floratam, invasive wood ferns, getting rid of fleas in the lawn, Bolivian sunflowers, powdery mildew in crape...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined by Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension agent on summertime heat and how it is affecting our landscapes.  Garden topics, questions, and texts include dog-friendly cities, moonflowers, frogs and toads, palm trees, armadillos, how to tell when a pineapple is ripe, strangler fig, avocado, corn problems, an...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin discuss the meaning of drought-tolerance and how to achieve it in the landscape.  Garden topics, questions, and texts include, gardenias turning yellow, bahiagrass seed, firespike, Hercules Club, getting rid of torpedo grass and colocasia, and more.  https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, " A Gardener's Comp...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins find out from Tina McIntyre how to create an inviting landscape for birds and wildlife. Garden topics, questions, and texts include sunflowers, getting rid of sedge, split-leaf philodendrons, can you mow lawns when wet, sweet potatoes, vinegar appropriate to use in garden, leaf-foot bugs, sago and scale, and more...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin honor Memorial Day with a discussion on poppies, Memorial Day roses, and red, white, and blue perennial combinations for containers in Zone 8 - 12. Garden topics, questions, and texts include, Bahiagrass or Bermuda seed, sedge herbicide, wetting agents, oak leaves mulch, powdery mildew on Angel Trumpets, possums...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins discuss what's going on in the hot, summer Florida landscapes with Thom Payne, P and L Landscaping.  Garden topics, questions, and texts include, using Atrazine on St. Augustine for dollarweed, fertilizer bans, keep or get rid of an avocado tree, Sandhill cranes,  powdery mildew on crape myrtle, how to get rid of...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins celebrate World Bee Day talking about native bees.. Garden topics, questions, and texts include Cassia, potatoes, Cherokee tomatoes, milkweed bugs, and more. 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 Gard...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins receive an update from Ed Thralls on summer gardening crops that can take the heat and solarization.  Garden topics, questions, and texts include corn, container gardening, lubber grasshoppers, tomato varieties, Mysore raspberries, pruning blueberries, and more. Teresa's third book, " A Gardener's Compendium Volu...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins discuss the latest insect prevention gear, the Walking Pod Mesh Guard Teresa shows off her vegetable harvest of tomatoes and peppers, gets help for her leaf miner pests, and delights in her latest new plant, the White Chiffon Rose of Sharon from Proven Winners . Garden topics, questions, and texts include, rain l...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins converse with Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists on the many varieties of fruit trees that can be grown in Zones 8 – 12.  Garden topics, questions, and texts include, Powdery mildew on crape myrtle, citrus tree suckering, squirrel issues, roses, impatiens, pink grapefruit not growing or fruiting, how to get...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Celebrating 33 years today of Tom and Joani MacCubbin hosting Better Lawns and Gardens! Tom and Teresa discuss last minute Mother's Day gifts from Hallmark.   Teresa's favorite is the Plant Lady tea towel . Teresa discusses Garden Media Group' s "What's Hot in 2021" - Mini-Gardens:  C-Bites , f olding gardening watering can and silicon buckets.   Small Encore Aza...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins with Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension agent, discuss variety and care of unusual fruit, like chayote, calabaza, that can be grown in Florida. Garden topics, questions, and texts, include, weeds around azaleas and Royal Poinciana, citrus, the size of ponytail palms, fertilizing hibiscus, cucumber decline, colla...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined by Lance Walheim, to discuss rose care in Florida. Garden questions include citrus tree problems, pinecone gingers, tomato plants, purple martin houses, Eastern redbud, Honeybell tangerine and citrus greening, spinach varieties, loquat varieties, orchids, and more. Photo Credit: HomegrownIowan    Liste...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined byJohn Roberts, Seminole County Extension agent and Forester for #ArborDay and tree care. Garden topics, questions, and texts, include,  favorite trees, dead ligustrum branches, fertilizers for avocadoes and bromeliads, is rhubarb a vegetable or a fruit, and more. "Vegetables are a culinary term, not a...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 –  Gardening experts, Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin interview Brad Jones, co-founder of the Edible Education Experience  and the Emeril Lagasse Foundation Kitchen House and Culinary Garden in College Park, Florida.  Gardening questions and texts, include self-pollinating gardens, Knock-out and Drift roses, soil amendments, mosquitos, mango and avocadoes, Yesterd...

http://www.betterlawns.com Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined by Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension agent to discuss spring lawn care. Tom and Teresa discuss garden trends, gardenias, their favorite flowers for heat and  A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 release. Gardening questions include poinsettias, desert rose, Christmas cactus, cu...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 –  Gardening experts, Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin interview Tina McIntyre for the Water Wise Seminole week-long events to celebrate Earth Day, Joani educates on opossums, gardening questions, texts, include camellia leaves yellowing, passion fruit not producing, propagating azaleas, pruning a large gardenia, asparagus fern declining, deer tongue in yard, small...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined by Sharon Fisher, spokesperson for the Apopka Art and Foliage Festival.   Tom and Teresa discuss Brood X, Earth Day. Gardening questions include cutting tree roots, Meyers lemon tree, getting rid of clover, Flame grapefruit, mulch around trees, torpedo grass, and more. Photo Credit:  Apopka Art & F...