Better Lawns and Gardens

Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins. Florida’s most popular garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers your gardening questions on Better Lawns and Gardens. Listen every Saturday from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando, iHeart radio, and wherever you listen to podcasts. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, The...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Dirty Word of the Day is Bare-bottom Syndrome. Producer Lizzie Steele discusses her peppers and the large pots they need. Garden expert, Teresa helps Jerry learn how to propagate Gloriosa lilies by stem cutting. Gardening questions and topics include what vegetables to plant in March, squirrel issues,...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   First of March! Spring is nearly here and gardening in is the air! Teresa opens with espying a beautiful Saucer Magnolia which should be struggling in Central Florida but it’s a healthy, bountifully blooming native tree. Comfortable but cooler weather predictions this week. Great gardening week to plan...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers caller’s gardening questions every Saturday. Dirty Word of the Day is Blind bulbs. Gardening questions and topics include, chill hours, getting a mulberry to fruit, grapefruit white flecks, time to fertilizer, watering citrus trees, leaf miner, what are net mums, y...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Groundhog Day weather! It’s cold again. Teresa discusses with Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, the benefits of winter chill hours in producing a good fruit harvest. Dana discusses the importance of fertilizing with micronutrients. Teresa’s Top Five favorite plants with yellow f...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Garden expert, Teresa Watkins gives her tips on creating a night garden and what plants have heart-shaped leaves. Dirty Word of the Day is Cordate. Gardening questions and topics camellias, fertilizer, more avocado questions, fruitful mango trees, does mulch attract termites, foundation plants need to b...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Another Polar Vortex on the way! Garden expert Teresa and Lizzie discuss the upcoming gardening weather, protecting the turkeys, and what to do in your landscape. Teresa’s Top Five are ground cover plants that can be planted on septic tanks and in drain fields. Garden topics and questions include refresh...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by her good friend, Dr. Gary Bachman, Heritage Cottage Urban Nano Farm grower discuss Gary’s organic and unusual tomato and pepper seed varieties for sale. Use DISCOUNT sales code TERESA for 25% off anything at Gary-Grows.com . Dirty Word of the Day is Parthenocarp...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. What a difference two weeks makes for Florida landsdcapes! Teresa speaks with David White about the Greater Orlando Orchid Society’ s Show on Valentine’s Day weekend. Teresa provides the meaning behind Valentine flowers and Teresa’s Top Five fragrant roses. Garden topics and questions include spider mite...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  What does warmer temperatures mean for weeds in your landscape? Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses how to use preemergents to prevent weeds. Dirty Word of the Day is a bonus of four dirty definitions of types of herbicides. Gardening questions and topics include preemergent, can Siberian iris be pru...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solution s Studios.  Will Punxatawny Phil see his shadow on Groundhog Day? Garden expert Teresa Watkins provides background information on Punxsutawney Phil’s heritage and his job. Weather for next 10 days is looking great for gardening! Will there be six more weeks of winter? Teresa makes a prediction. Teresa’s Top Five s...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers winter gardening questions. Dirty Word of the Day is Apical Meristem. Gardening questions and topics include planting tomato, pepper, and eggplant seeds, should I prune, will the snow and freeze kill sandspurs, when to handwater young trees, do oak leaves make good m...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  What? Another One? Record-setting Polar Blast #3. Let it snow, let it snow. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses what will happen in the landscape with Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery owner. Teresa’s Top Five Most Resilient Plants! Garden topics and questions include callers’ experienc...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the S ummit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Diane Blazek, All-American Selections and National Garden Bureau’s Executive Director to announce the Professional’s and People’s Choices for the 2025 Green Thumb Awards. Dirty Word of the Day is “Cut and Come Again.” Gardening questions include getting tomatoe...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the S ummit Responsible Solutions Studios. What? Another Polar Blast on its way for the garden week.  Garden expert Teresa Watkins answers winter garden questions and what to do in the vegetable garden. Teresa’s Top Five beautiful annuals and perennials with blue flowers. Garden topics and questions include what to do about the pH in vegetable b...

This is the Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins. Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin joins Teresa to discuss the latest herbicide update on Roundup and the available herbicides to use on artillery fern and other weeds. Garden questions include yellowing foliage on hibiscus, herbicides, repositioning...

This is the Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins. Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, explains the Dirty Word of the Day. Kathy Jentz, award-winning garden author and creator of the National Seed Swap Day, January 25th explains how to attend and organize seed swap events in your neighborhood or or...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,  Happy New Year! Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers winter garden questions and tells what to do in the month of January in the garden. Dirty Word of the Day is Ornamental Plant. Gardening questions include using bark in raised beds, avocado trees and freezing, collard greens: seeds or transplants; sa...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Happy New Year! Polar Blast on its way for an extended stay. Garden expert Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie discuss freeze protection for garden plants, bananas, tropicals. Teresa provides what to plant in January and what to do in your garden. Teresa’s Top Five Landscape Practices to get your New Yea...

Happy New Year's Special with hosts Teresa Watkins, Tom MacCubbin, and Producer Lizzie Steele. Garden topics include: Happy New Year greetings, "Weather Tis' Nobler", changes in 2024, best garden moments.   Check out all the wonderful gardens for 2025's Art in Bloom Garden Tours Sign up for Teresa’s monthly gardening newsletter, “In Your Backyard” where you can read Teresa’s what to do in your lan...

Happy New Year's Special with hosts Teresa Watkins, Tom MacCubbin, and Producer Lizzie Steele. Garden topics include New Year's greetings, getting the landscape through winter and into New Year, Dirty Words of 2024, Tom's, Lizzie's, and Teresa's personal garden moments, the 'apple doesn't fall far from the tree' is an unexpected family discovery, and garden goals for 2025.  Gratitude for all of ou...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists, to discuss poinsettias, how to plant shrubs and trees in December. Dirty Word of the Day is Chill Hours. Gardening questions include how to calculate chill hours in your region, growing...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  It’s the Winter Solstice. Garden expert Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Christmas cookies, December’s cold temperatures, and is there anything you need to do in your garden right now. Teresa’s Top Five plants that hide utilities, a/c units. Garden topics and questions include scratched up Meyer lemon...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins chats with Katie Dubow, President of the Garden Media Group about their 2025 Garden Trends report. The Dirty Word of the Day. Garden topics include using peanut shells on top of compost; sooty mold on gardenias, mulching in the garden, and more to-do's in the landscape. http...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele discuss watering the garden: how much is needed, upcoming weather. How to get rid of mistletoe. Beneficial to wildlife? What to do in your garden this month.  Teresa’s Top Five Herbs to grow year-round. Garden topics and questions include recycling...