Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Anneliese Valdes, who shares her family owned Cobrahead weeder and cultivator tools. The Dirty Word of the Day is Frost Blanket. Garden topics include chrysanthemums suffering; vegetables to grow in December; can I plant wildflower seeds now, can saffron be grow...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins and Lizzie discuss the coldest first week of December in nearly 50 years. Lizzie reveals Gerald the Turkey’s fate and makes everyone hungry with her holiday waffle bar. Listeners tell how cold it got during the freeze. What to do in Your Garden in December. Teresa’s Top Five...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, a special Christmas interview with Garden expert, Teresa Watkins and Indy Gardener, Carol Michel. Carol offers her list of special garden books for Santa to leave underneath the Christmas trees for all gardeners who love to have a cup of tea and read a new garden book.  https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Look for Bet...

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, 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,...

Fall break for iHeart staff - 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 is joined by Quality Green Specialists’ owner Dana Venrick on the perfect time of the year to plant trees in Florida.  Dana provides trees that have great Fall color and how to plant...

Better Lawns and Garden s Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions S tudios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Santa’s helper, Randy Schultz, Home Garden and Homestead editor with his Best Gardening Gifts For the Holidays. The Dirty Word of the Day is Hand Pollination. Garden topics include rooting hormone discussion, can you use pre-emergent right now; and more. https...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. First day of Sweater Weather! Cold front brings cooler temperatures and beautiful gardening weather for Florida. Last full supermoon of the year – the Beaver Moon. Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins provides the updated @UF IFAS Assessment of Non-Native Plants in Florida’s Natural Areas for possible f...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers garden questions and provides what to grow in your landscape for November. The Dirty Word of the Day is Vermiculite. Garden topics include transplanting split leaf philodendron, saving plumeria seeds, moving a croton, citrus leaf miner; reducing size of Giant Bird of...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Oranges, tangerines, and grapefruit, oh my! Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins interviews @UF /IFAS Lake County Extension ’s new Residential Horticultural agent, Maria Bautista.  Maria advises on how to select a citrus tree and care for it. Lizzie receives a Plant Delights Nursery’s  Zephyranthes rain...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Jenks Farmer, garden disruptor, 10th generation South Carolina farmer, rare crinum grower, and plant collector. Check out Jenks Farmer’s online plant catalogue . The Dirty Word of the Day is Mast. Garden topics include cutting back Barbados Cherry tree, difference...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins talks to Dana Venrick. Quality Green Specialist Nursery, on catching up on fertilizing turf, fruit trees, and shrubs to prepare them for winter.  Lizzie has turkey updates and her chocolate peppers are growing strong! Teresa’s Top Five Ornamental Grasses. Garden topi...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins The Dirty Word of the Day is Skeletonizer. Garden topics include growing geraniums, grafting an avocado tree, lemon tree not doing well, beautiful Bat flowers, oak tree planted too high, Redbud not blooming, citrus tree leaves curling. do I need to use a root stimulator wi...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins enjoys having UT Horticulture Specialist, Carol Reese in the studio! Carol discusses farming, country wisdom, and her life on her farm. Teresa’s Top Five scary homeowner landscape practices. Lizzie is looking for names for her Bourbon Reds (turkeys). Halloween is aro...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins finds out the extent of Hurricane Milton’s devastation to the state’s trees. Austin Tollman, co-owner of Word of Mouth Tree Services tells what you need to do with your trees and palms for the best survival rates. Teresa has found two new exciting bromeliad Neoregelia vari...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden espert and host Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie discuss Hurricane Milton’s damage in the landscape. Teresa answers garden questions from the storm hiatus the last 13 days. Cold front brings in welcomed cooler temperatures. What vegetables to plant in October in North, Central and South Florida....

First aired Oct 15, 2024. Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert and host Teresa Watkins and Dr. Gary Bachman, host of Southern Gardening TV and author of Southern Gardening All Year Round , discuss being the keynote speaker at the UF/IFAS Florida Master Gardener 39th State Conference in Orlando. Teresa and Gary chat about tools for...

First aired October 15, 2022.  Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   garden expert and host Teresa Watkins is joined in the studio by  Dr. Gary Bachman, host of Southern Gardening TV and author of Southern Gardening All Year Round , discussing landscaping in hurricane-prone states and growing over 1000 pounds of tomatoes at his Heritage Cottag...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins introduces new spokesperson for Summit Responsible Solutions National Sales Marketing Director, Heather Stickney. Heather provides details on preventing the mosquito explosion which happens after hurricane flooding. The Dirty Word of the Day is waterlogging. Garden topics...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.  Tragic devastation in the Southeast with Hurricane Helene. Flooding, wind damage in Florida’s Big Bend and on the west coast. Teresa goes through with Dana Venrick what damages are going to be seen in Florida landscapes. And Hurricane Milton on its way across Florida next week. Lizzie, Teresa, and Dana...

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 gr...

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 ponytail 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 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers gardening questions. Dirty Word of the Day is Leaf Peeping. What herbs to plant and landscape chores for September. Garden topics include how to get hydrangeas to grow, basil pests, pesticide memories of tobacco hornworm and boll weevils, hibiscus mealy bugs, non-f...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Autumn Equinox arrives. Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is glad Fall is in the air. Teresa provides her favorite herbs and flowers with fragrance and color that herald in the Autumn season. Lizzie talks about her gardening adventures. Teresa’s provides her Top Five No-Stress Bulbs For Florida. Sig...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers your gardening questions. Have you ever seen square waves? Check out Better Lawns and Gardens Facebook page. Dirty Word of the Day is Rosehip. What to plant and do in your landscape for September. Garden topics include azaleas located in shade, black spot on roses,...