Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins advises what to do and not to do in your landscape in September. The rainfall deluge in the last two weeks hits record highs while love  bugs are back for a little while. Did you know there are two species of love bugs in the United States? Teresa’s provides her Top...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins describes her trip to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, private gardens, and nurseries. New Zone Envy plants that Teresa is going to trial. Dirty Word of the Day is Lignin. What to plant and do in your landscape for September. Garden topics include Peace Lily f...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is on a garden high after attending the GardenComm Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI. The rainfall totals are incredible. With the rain, comes mushrooms. Are they good or bad for your landscape, Teresa discusses the reasons and benefits of mushrooms. Teresa’s To...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers landscape questions from callers, texts, and emails. Teresa provides some last week of August chores you can do in your landscape. The Dirty Word of the Day is Humate. Garden topics include what’s wrong with my hydrangea, avocados, figs, how to get rid of sandspurs...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins is joined by Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialist Nursery to discuss the need for soil amendments and what soil amendments to add for a healthy harvest. Teresa adds a new segment to her first hour: Teresa’s Top Five! Each week, Teresa will give her top fi...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins receives an email on the frustrations of having nematodes in the vegetable bed. Teresa provides the steps to getting rid of nematodes. Teresa provides what to do in August with your fruit trees. The Dirty Word of the Day is Enation. Garden topics include avocado tree not f...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host and garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses how native ecosystems are being cleared for development, the preservation of beneficial natives for wildlife and pollinators, that create more ecosystems. Teresa also found an unexpected rare pteridophyte plant called the Whisk Fern in a client´s garden. G...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers questions on issues in the landscape. The Dirty Word of the Day is Thatch. Garden topics include how to prune crapemyrtles, declining bottlebrush, lemon bacopa, herbicides for sandspurs, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Sign up for Teresa’s monthly gardening newslet...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Bill Stengel, with Summit Responsible Solutions, joins garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins to chat about World Mosquito Day. Bill talks about Summit’s new Green Armor Insect Repellent that can be sprayed on clothing, tents, furniture, hiking gear, and more. Summit’s spray protects from chiggers, mites...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   It’s time to plant your Fall vegetable garden. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins talks about whether to plant seeds or transplants, watering seeds, which vegetables are salt-tolerant, and making your own soil for planting seeds. The Dirty Word of the Day is Pteridomania. Garden topics include potato bags,...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Tropical depression, Debby will bring 3” – 12+” of rain this weekend, garden expert, Teresa Watkins calls for alertness and being prepared. Teresa discusses her newfound appreciation for naturalizing sustainable landscapes by allowing native weeds and wildflowers to grow; not in an unbalanced or neglecte...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is feeling the heat with lots of summer gardening questions. The Dirty Word of the Day is Stumpery. Garden topics include a stressed out Australian tree fern, gladiolas; no dragonfruit, pruning a lychee tree; is purslane edible? Black pine tree beetles;  planting clover; c...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. It’s National Blueberry Month! Garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses growing blueberries with Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery owner.  Lizzie loves her marigolds and hibiscus, but bemoans the monsoon rains that are saturating her landscape. Garden topics and questions include Cat whisker...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins celebrates the colorful tropical plant, caladiums by interviewing the President of Bates Sons & Daughters caldium grower, Terri Bates. Terri previews the upcoming Caladium Festival July 26th , 27th , and 28th , Garden topics include broccoli and parsley varieties, stub...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is back from leading Art in Bloom “50 Shades of Green garden tour. Teresa discusses the inspirational gardens she visited and new insights on Ireland’s sunset at 11pm at night, Irish weeds, meadows, and wildflowers. Teresa spoke to the Glenties Garden Club, “Early Bloomers”...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin interviews Calvin Gardener, Urban Horticulture Extension Agent at UF/IFAS Extension Orange County on preparing your Fall vegetable gardening. The Dirty Word of the Day is Manure. Gardening questions include citrus tree, mangoes and papaya pest problems, gardening as you get...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Tom MacCubbin, host emeritus fills in for Teresa Watkins, who is on Art in Bloom Garden Tours “50 Shades of Green garden tour. Tom reflects on his past Ireland tours, and interviews Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, about summer tropical fruit trees, like Blue Java bananas that ta...

Happy Memorial Day weekend! 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, Garden expert Teresa Watkins ia joined by Chris Van Cleave, the Redneck Rosarian , to discuss rose care in summer and answers callers’ questions.  Other gardening questions and texts include flies in the landscape,...

Happy Memorial Day weekend! Enjoy the Best of Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins.  Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Dr. Bryan Unruh, UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center.   Dr. Unruh announces a new and easier soil test kit for homeowners. Dr. Unruh provides benefits of soil...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   garden expert Teresa Watkins prepares for summer storms with National Lightning Safety Awareness week by talking with Austin Tollman, Word of Mouth Certified Arborist. Austin talks about what happens to trees when they are hit by lightning, can palms be struck by lightning, and what homeowners should d...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses the new mosquito research with Bill Stengel, Vice President of Summit Responsible Solutions. If only the female mosquito bites, what role do male mosquitos have? Steven Biggs, award-winning host of Food Garden Life News , joins for a great solution to hiding that ug...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Happy Father’s Day to all of our listeners! Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins shares the Dirty Word of the Day is Solstice. To provide ideas for gardening projects for Dads and Grandparents with their families, Randy Schultz, editor of Home Garden and Homestead, joins Teresa to discuss a great gar...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Praying for rain with this winter’s drought, Florida is flooding after receiving 4 trillion gallons of rain. Garden expert and landscape designer, Teresa Watkins is joined by her dear friend, Dr. Gary Bachman to discuss plant intelligence, specifically potatoes. Can vegetables be smart? Gary also offers...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios,   Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins shares the Dirty Word of the Day is Efflorescence. Teresa is joined by Tony Smith, CEO of Autolawn of Orlando to Garden and talks about the future of lawn mowing with Earth-friendly robotic lawn mowers.  Gardening questions include crape myrtle’s bark peeling, rep...

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert and landscape designer, Teresa Watkins discusses the identification of the rare social spider phenomenon she recently discovered in her client’s landscape. Appreciation goes out to Dr. Matt Borden , Dr. Lance Osborne , and Dr. Lyle Buss for their assistance in the identification. Severe dro...