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Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff

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Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff is a call-in gardening show airing each Thursday from noon to 1:00pm on KAMU-FM. Stephen, an extension specialist in horticulture at Texas A&M Agrilife, serves as your garden consultant, answering questions to help you grow a bountiful garden and beautiful landscape in the Brazos Valley. Stephen will give you time-saving tips, guide you to the best plants selections and provide proven pest management strategies including both conventional and organic techniques.

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KAMU Studios

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kamu.tamu.edu

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Garden Success – 1/9/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 09.01.2025

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses freeze preparation for plants, turk's cap, winter pruning advice, landscape edging, helping a banana survive a freeze, canna lilies, upcoming local events, when to prune oak trees, thornless blackberries, and planting bulb onions.

Garden Success – 1/2/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 02.01.2025

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses freeze preparation for plants, what to do with a poinsettia after the holiday season, preparing for a spring garden, upcoming local events, how to prepare a sample for the Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab, where to drop that sample off, when to plant a mix of wildflower seeds, and more.

Garden Success – 12/26/2024: A Conversation with Dr. Tim Hartmann 26.12.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff is joined by Dr. Tim Hartmann, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist with Texas A&M Agrilife. They discuss Tim's background, his specialty in the field of fruit, and Tim's current active research.

Garden Success – 12/19/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 19.12.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses how to protect plants from squirrels and freezing temperatures, planning for spring tomatoes, germinating seeds, and more.

Garden Success – 12/12/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 12.12.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses winterizing lawns, bradford pears, poinsettias, christmas cactus, chinese pistache, planting fruit trees, upcoming local events, and more.

Garden Success – 12/5/2024: A Conversation with Dr. Kevin Ong 05.12.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff is joined by Dr. Kevin Ong, Director of The Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory & Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology about his background, The Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, plant breeding programs at Texas A&M with a spotlight on potatoes, how to grow disease-free plants, turf fungus & other pathogens & tip...

Garden Success – 11/28/2024: A Conversation with Nick McKenna 28.11.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff is joined by Nick McKenna, Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Field at Texas A&M Athletics, and they discuss Nick's background, his time working at Virginia Tech, the scope of his responsibilities at Texas A&M, differences between a residential lawn and his sport fields, involvement with state and national organizations, standards and specifications of sports fie...

Garden Success – 11/21/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 21.11.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses night blooming cactus care tips, mulberry tree varieties for Brazos county, propagating peggy martin roses, nut sedge removal, covering materials for garden pathways, a listener's pictures of their successful datil pepper plants, and more.

Garden Success – 11/14/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 14.11.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses today's amazing weather, how to prune Aprium & Nectaplum, Crimson Bonfire, Fish Fertilizer, growing Broccoli & Cauliflower from seed, succulent plant suggestions, Asparagus, Crape Myrtles, transplanting a Live Oak tree, and more.

Garden Success – 11/7/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 07.11.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the return of rain to the Brazos Valley, ground cover plants in Aggie Park, Honey Crisp apples, best practices for planting fruit trees, woodpecker damage, and more.

Garden Success – 10/31/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 31.10.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses powdery mildew on tree leaves, transplanting cedar saplings, a live oak tree with bare limbs, upcoming local events, mealy bugs on hibiscus, burford hollies, and more.

Garden Success – 10/24/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 24.10.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses a gardenia with yellowing leaves, when to establish pampas grass, banana tree fruiting & other care tips, upcoming local events, meyer lemon and orange frost satsuma with insect leaf damage and yellowing leaves, recommended vining plants for a shaded arbor, and more.

Garden Success – 10/17/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 17.10.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses regulations surrounding importing seeds from overseas, broccoli plants, citrus quarantine restrictions, treating pests on iris, upcoming local events, weed control and removing unwanted trees in lawns, and more.

Garden Success – 10/10/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 10.10.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses gardenia leaves looking unwell, citrus leaf miners, spotting on peach leaves, figs, upcoming local events, cucumbers, spider mites, nut sedge, pruning vincas, when to prune roses, and more.

Garden Success – 10/3/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 03.10.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses red wasps, sap seeping out of a tree, upcoming local events, cat-safe houseplant suggestions, why painting tree wounds can be harmful, pecan season, and more.

Garden Success – 9/19/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 19.09.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Roundup-resistant weeds, establishing a fall garden, butterflies, deer repellant, crabgrass, turfgrass, upcoming local events, redbud trees, roses with fungal pathogens, and more.

Garden Success – 9/12/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 12.09.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the Waller salt mine, shrub identification, earth kind landscaping, a call about tomatoes with fungal pathogens, scarlet pea, a call about when to trim a live oak tree, broadleaf weed control, a rose with browning leaves, upcoming local events, a pest insect on a pumpkin plant, and more.

Garden Success – 9/5/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 05.09.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Frogfruit, a call about stopping a tallow stump from resprouting, crape myrtle bark scale, identifying an oak tree with pictures of leaves and acorns, info on the Brazos Valley Bee School, upcoming local events, rain & fungal pathogens, pruning roses, and more.

Garden Success – 8/29/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 29.08.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses raising vegetable plants from seed in-depth, upcoming local events, a listener question about oak tree viability, and more.

Garden Success – 8/22/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 22.08.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses listener questions about Miracle Gro application amounts, where to locate seed-free compost for their lawn, Cobalt St. Augustine turf, chinch bugs, gray leaf spot, the best times to water turf, upcoming local events, lichen, squash bugs, and more.

Garden Success – 8/15/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 15.08.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses galls on trees, oak wilt, pruning oak trees, cultivating palm trees, pruning roses, shasta daisies, upcoming local events, identifying an oak tree, crape myrtle bark scale, and more.

Garden Success – 8/8/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 08.08.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses working in his garden, preparing soil for planting, no-till & till soil prep methods, crop rotation, upcoming local events, pole beans, and more.

Garden Success – 8/1/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 01.08.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the recent Agrilife Extension conference, Jujube trees, fall garden plants, upcoming local events & programs, local parks, diagnosing a sample of yellowing turf, planting Cobalt St. Augustine plugs in an existing lawn, Yaupon trees possibly putting oak and other trees at risk in a yard, treating winter squash & pumpkins with powdery mildew on leaves, enviro...

Garden Success – 7/25/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 25.07.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses melons, a yellowing lawn, figs, upcoming events, lawn overwatering, jujube trees, replacing oak trees that have died, seed starting heat mats, and more.

Garden Success – 7/18/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff 18.07.2024

Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses different types of grasses, the Texas state grass, Texas Superstar plants, upcoming local events, listener questions about removing grass around an oak tree without harming the tree, when to pick a ripe watermelon, and more.

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